/^./ya M/T t^/lJJ/JC^ ! Cornell University Library I PR5233.R14V7 ' The viol of love; poems, by Char.^^^^^^^ 3 1924 013 540 426 The original of tliis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924013540426 THE VIOL OF LOVE AND OTHER POEMS i895 H F VIOL OF LOVE POEMS BY CHARLES NEWTONROBINSON LONDON : JOHN LANE : BODLEY HEAD BOSTON ; LAMSON WOLFFE AND CO. K CONTENTS THE VIOL OF LOVE THE SONGS TO THE VIOL, LOVE CHALLENGED, LOVE IN THE CLOUDS, CECILY, .... LOVE IN DREAMS, . love's MESSENGERS, MY LADY'S PORTRAIT, . CASTALYS, NOCTIS SUSURRUS, SUMMER NIGHT-SCENTS, THE BROOK, . AD UXOREM, . RONDEL, . LOVE UNUTTERED, THE FANE OF LOVE, THE VIOL TO THE SONGS, PAGE 5 lo 12 13 14 17 19 21 22 24 25 26 27 29 CONTENTS VARIOUS POEMS THE FALSE DREAM, DULCIBEL, NIGHT FEARS, FORGET-ME-NOT, . GENITUS AND ANIMA, TRANSLATIONS PAGE 33 37 39 40 41 HOR. CARM. I. 5, . . ... 47 (' Quis multa gracilis tefuer in rasa ') A MODERN PARAPHRASE OF THE SAME . 48 HOR. CARM. I. 9, . . . . . 49 ( ' Vides ut alta stet nive candidum Soracte') HOR. CARM. HI. 13, . . . 51 ( ' Ofons Bandwsia, iplendidior vitro ') VILLON'S BALLADE, . . 52 des Dames du Temps jadis RONDEL, by Charles d'Orl^ans, . . -54 ( ' Le temps a laissd son manteau ') THE SIGNS OF LOVE, .... .55 (' Dis-moi, mon coear, mon ccenr en flammes I') THE VIOL OF LOVE Of this edition only 350 copies have been printed The Viol of Love ( Viola d'Amore) is an instrument said to derive its beautiful name from the ' sympathetic ' strings, usually seven in number, with which it is fitted below the finger-board. These are never touched by hand or bow, but vibrate of themselves, with a rain of concords and harmonies, in response to the notes which are sounded by the player. THE SONGS TO THE VIOL Songs, like dreaming chrysalids, When the fateful heart-fire bids, At the bursting of the rose, Loose their prisoned embryos 1 Large in passionate surprise Flame the splendour-weaving eyes 1 Wide in sun-warm rapture spread. Moisture-welded wings unwed, Ardent in the noon to dare Pulsings of the vagrant air, And eager to be full unfurled For the exploring of the world ! Thou, sweet music's last adept ! Viol, whom Love's bow hath swept ! Viol, whom no meaner hand Ever lifted, ever spanned ! Songs new-born, to thee we come, In our first flight, faltering, dumb ; Yet Love's children ! Let our wings Only lightly brush thy strings, Wake the chords, and we shall hear Music mute for loveless ear, And drink of that sole fount, in truth. Pregnant of eternal youth ; Yet, adolescent in an hour, Keep for ever childhood's flower ! LOVE CHALLENGED Look thou on me not lightly, Love ! Forewarn but once, with herald eyes ; Then take all vantages of war, — Trick, stratagem, surprise ! For so do I contemn and hate The loveless ranks that I am in ; As lief would I desert as fight. And liefer lose than win ! I court an ambush, crave a hurt. And beg no other, meeter doom. Than donning fetters, Love ! of thine ! Quick ! find me prison-room ! LOVE IN THE CLOUDS All fairest things have joy in loneliness ; For they are timid that are pure in heart, Of taint or malison of spirits vile. So the pure cloud shuns the befouled earth, Soaring, and shedding from far beneficent rain. And she, for whom not earthly is my love. Moves among men alone. She suffers not Into her soul's bright mirror depths to peer ; But concentrating all the sun of joy, Reflects it in such dazzling purity That all the world would gaze ; but cannot bear The glory long, and so pass out of ken, Happy, and full of hope, yet self-ashamed, — So lit up is their own unworthiness — And cherishing still the memory of that light. Look heavenward for more. O happy soul ! She gives ; but not receives, — like some clear spring. Leaping unhindered from a cavern's mouth, High on the footless mountain, pouring down From inner clefts, mysterious as life. Water of life for all the dwellers on plains below ! Climb not ! — the sunlit, perilous mountain crag, Serene and sheer — to men that crawl the earth, , Vouchsafes no footing, and the tenuous air Caressing that unsullied, secular snow, Ye cannot breathe! — Let the presumptuous wish Die : and with wonder and love and delight, Rest ye content ! For as surely as dusk follows day. Climbing to seek the lost source of that marvel- lous fount. Your souls within you will perish ! O dwell ye contented With glory and beauty above you — and what leapeth down Of the life-giving stream to the poor and low habitations of men ! CECILY If at the sudden sight of thee Joy pulses through my brain, Not love is this ; but I foresee, — Fair rose, to bloom so fain ! — The peerless woman thou wilt be. One day, my sweet girl Cecily ! I gaze beyond thy semblance now. And in that wide-expanding brow, With arched eyes of soft blue-gray — Like the tender dawn of day, — Trusting eyes, that dare be seen, Telling pure thoughts, — nothing mean ; And in thy bearing, firm and mild, I see the woman through the child. Like a perfect image, wrought Only in the sculptor's thought ; Like a new song, under breath, A poet-lover sings ; Like a late-born butterfly, Sunning her moist wings ; Like a young moon lit anew ; Like a glad dream, coming true ; — All delights too fresh to cloy !— Like all these art thou, my joy ! LOVE IN DREAMS {Amoris Imago) 'TiS but in dreams that I have met my love, And where she walks I know not, on this earth ; Whose child she is, or what her day of birth ; And yet what know I not, that love can move? Uncalled she came, at dead of morning night. In such apparel as might angels wear ; Brown-eyed as breaking dawn ; with golden hair, As gilds a cloud the first faint shoot of light ! I lay entranced, as if my lips were dumb. My brain, my sense, for very joy adaze ! Awhile she bent on me her ardent gaze. Then said, 'Thy soul called mine, and so I come ! ' 13 LOVE'S MESSENGERS Wind, happy river ! to the sea, Whereby she dwells who loves not me, And waft her from this inner moat The spoils that on thy waters float. My messengers to be ! Thrice happy river 1 wind among Spring-kissed arbours, green and young, And waft my love all gentle things That Love has caught on giddy wings. And on thy mercy flung ! Ay, waft her all thou makest prize Of birds and bees and butterflies 1 And waft her branches new in bud, Thou reivest from thy banks in flood. When rain bedims the skies ! Wind, happy river ! to the sea. And bear these messengers for me. But if no kind reply come back Ere swallows take their southern track. Myself thy spoil will be ! 14 MY LADY'S PORTRAIT My lady walks in gladsomeness, Like springtide of the year ! Her presence, like rich music, draws, Through stillness, gently near. And like an all-revealing book, Her sundered lashes loose her look ! Those eyes are like none other lights That glow in heaven on starry nights. True twins in every intent. As would my heart and hers were bent ! And lustrous each, and brown and large, — A fair, yet disconcerting targe For every shaft that mine can fling With strong desire to fleet its wing. And straight its arrowy barb to steer, Dipped in no venom save a tear ; Which draws its cunning to annoy, From sheer excessiveness of joy ! 15 Her cheeks no less are shields to turn The weapon of my lips — a kiss ! So bafflingly they blush and burn, To make the rude assaulter miss, Till she may rout him with her eyes' Revolt, repulse, regret, surprise ! Her hair is of the tawny shade, That on the firwood boles hath played, And fretted with the gleams that note The furtive squirrel's dainty coat. It shimmers like a diadem Above her vaulted brow ! Her neck is like the lucent stem Whence lily-petals flow ; And 'mid the glory of her face. The sweet lips dance and rest, in grace. Her slender hands are supple-strong To rein the horse, or link the song To mazy music manifold The sullen keys would fain withhold : — To soothe, to flatter, to caress Her chosen one in dear duress ! i6 And as in metal mirrors dim, Or in a streamlet's current slim, Faint semblances of beauty swim. So let my verse, with reverent art. Veil, not reveal, her wondrous heart !. Her voice is like the lilt of streams, — Light, subtly-varied, low. Her mind is like the orange-flower, That blooms the whole j'ear through ! Her moods their magic borrow From changes of the sea ! Her love is like the morrow ! — What morrow comes for me? 17 CASTALYS Castalys ! my Castalys ! What faileth us of human bliss ? For as the scholar of the sky, Waking in a world asleep, Sees a new star blaze and die. Alone for him, in heaven's blue deep ; So, in a flash from eye to eye. Alone for me did Love betray, His hidden birth, his bidden stay ! Oh, take the swallow-winged reply, Nothing earthly as a kiss ! Voice thou needest not, nor I, For spirit-commune, Castalys ! Grace yet thy garden, Lily-maid ! More fair and pure than song can tell ! And now, in glory yet arrayed, My moment's love ! — farewell ! The sons of men have not a spell To look on angels, unafraid ! i8 And I have plucked the yellow Rose ! See ! upon my palm she glows ! And her petals, on my breast, In the grave shall still be pressed, Queenly to their last repose ! Farewell ! for evermore farewell ! Lest she, discrownM, fade and die. Long ere her time ! Lest from thy face the glory fly, As on the stroke of Summer's knell, Swifter than sound forsakes the bell, The withering bloom deserts the lime ! Farewell again ! oh, fare thee well ! When autumn wind and rain shall flout thee. When baser souls belaud or scout thee. Safe girded in Love's armour dwell ! For w^o can cheat thy heart of this ? Farewell ! — for evermore farewell ! — Yet remember ! — Castalys ! 19 NOCTIS SUSURRUS Rest awhile, and hear me, sweet ! Here are none to lurk and spy, Close the branches round us meet. Vainly through the blackness pry Myriad, myriad starry eyes ! We are sheltered from surprise : Owl and moth alone may see What shall pass 'twixt thee and me ! It is dark, — and yet not dark ! Light is in those eyes of thine ! Still, so still the night is, — hark ! • — I can hear thy heart, and mine ! Kiss me, sweet ! and closer press ! Give me back my lips' caress ! If my timid tongue be still, Think no ill, sweet ! — think no ill I Is it time ? Oh, is it time ! Have I served thee long enough ? Will my venture seem a crime ? Dare I ever risk rebuff? No, I dare not, though I long, Love himself has tied my tongue ! Lest I lose thee, love ! for life, I fear to whisper, ' Be my wife ! ' Ah ! but thou hast overheard ! Else what means this tell-tale thrill ? Did I breathe a spoken word ? Night so treacherously still ! Forgive me, sweet ! — forgive ? — forget ! If I am overbold ; — but yet — Press closer, sweet ! — when all is told. Am I ? am I — overbold ? 21 SUMMER NIGHT-SCENTS Drink in the fragrant air of night ! Isolta ! strange and dear ! With every fickle sigh that blows And filters through the hawthorn snows. O cling, O cling more near ! For sheer delight, for sheer delight, Drink in with me the air of night ! Since if perchance there be Some woes of mine that shun thine ear, My joys are all for thee ! THE BROOK Still tranced in beauty lingers day : O leave that thralling book ! And thread with me the meadow-way. Sweet wife, along the brook ! Twin rivulets are mingled here. Like our inwoven lives ; And in one channel, swift and clear. The broader current strives. Isolta ! look ! The strenuous brook, Hurrying over stony shallows, 'Mid the meadowsweet and mallows, Filtering through the serried rushes, Now from rock to rock it gushes, Now in eddying pools it hushes. Where the grayling dart and shine, Branch and rootlet softly brushes. Where the brambles droop and twine ; 23 Then through silent, sunHt reaches, Where the waterHly swings. Where the swallow dips her wings, Flows the brook to lonely beaches : — There its golden sand it flings ! 24 AD UXOREM Sweet fellow-voyager with me, Through life's unlit, uncharted sea ! My gentle queen ! to whom I own The fealty of love alone ! Two golden years are gone to-day, Since first I gloried in your sway, And sealed my homage with a vow ; — Years once of hope ; of memory now !- But happier far, in retrospect. Than even sanguine Hope had recked, Peering with her lovelit eyes Through the future's darkling skies ! 25 RONDEL I LISTENED for the footstep light — With all my heart aglow — Of one in bridal vesture bright, This day three years ago ; When round the village church lay white The January snow : — I listened for the footstep light, With all my heart aglow ! To-day is done the fateful fight Against a fever foe ; The sickroom door sets free to-night One lost and won, and lo ! I listen for the footstep light. With all my heart aglow ! 26 LOVE UN UTTERED My life reveals my love : Thereof my soul is proud ! My life reveals my love, Yet vaunts it not aloud ! For one alone there lives, My heart's interpreter : The silence of my soul Is musical to her ! 27 \ THE FANE OF LOVE Tenderly, tenderly, heart's delight ! Look back with me on the past ! Had we forgotten that age could smite Us too, — at last ? It weaves the greys in my brown hair's maze ; It will mar your jessamine cheek ; While the hours come and go like driven snow, And a month flits by as a week ! Were we lavish of time in our careless youth ? Did we play too free with life ? Tenderly yet, in a spirit of ruth, Look backward ! O my wife ! 28 We have builded a fane for Love's glory and pain, Wrought with unconscious arts : The glittering spire, in the clouds ever higher, Is founded far down in our hearts : And hoarded within are relics rare : — Sweet memories none but we can share ! Each chapel and bay of the murmurant aisles Hath an altar at which we adore ; 'Mid souls of dead love-words, and kisses, and smiles, That were born on our lips of yore ; And none but ourselves ever searches or delves For the treasures that lie there in store ! 29 THE VIOL TO THE SONGS Go ! fenced alone in beauty From dull or churlish ears ; Elusive, all-invading, As thistledown, — or tears ! Go forth and sing, my songs ! To you the world belongs : Go, sing at many gates ! Dread no scorn and heed no hates ! Where no hearts throb, no eyes glisten. Fearless venture, sing and roam ! For surely they who love will listen. And give my errant songs a home ! Travellers aye, and wanderers, Ether-borne as gossamers, Or gale-blown butterflies : Fare to North and fare to South, Over seas and under skies ! Range to East and range to West ! Here and there some gentle mouth 30 Will breathe you on a wider quest ! Fly with joy then, fly apace ! Here and there some lonely breast, — Like a ship far out at sea — Will take my songs an hour to rest ! — — If any find no shelter-place, Let these return to me ! Gifts will I give to them, fairer by far Than aught but the light of Love's own star ; And send them abroad again, tenderer-sweet Than honey yet unstolen of the bee, On opalescent wings, more fleet Than very Love's own firequick feet, To sail o'er land and sea ; And sing to the loved one. As bee doth to clover : Tell to the lone one News of the rover : Hymn to the glad heart High gratulation : Seal for the sad heart Lost love's consecration ! VARIOUS POEMS 33 THE FALSE DREAM Down sailed a Dream, at dead of night, As I lay unaware : And lulled me with caresses light As whisper-winnowed air, And locked the windows of my sight. And chained my ears, and charmed my fears With fables debonair ! Wide roved her plumes with power and grace : ' And art thou mine ? ' said she, ' Lie, body, in thy resting-place ! Arouse thee, soul, and see my face ! My fellow-farer be ! Since to the very verge of Space My wings are thine, thy will is mine : Arise ! and wend with me ! ' 34 My soul arose and blent with her, And left my body sleeping, With blanched brow, mute lips astir. And wild eyes, wet with weeping. So fitfully, in sooth, its breath Outsighed, that I aver. In anguish-doubt, ' Can this be death ? And what of coming harm ? ' I strove to wrestle with my Dream ; Yet could not breathe, nor move, nor scream ; For she, with soft, insistent arm. And ebon locks' long, coiling tress, Enwound me in forgetfulness. Lo ! light as lifts a flying feather, Uprose the Dream and I, together ! Into the heavenly dome we soared. Anon beneath us rough seas roared, Anon we cleft the silent night. O'er vale and plain and mountain-height. Where sleep the Himalayan snows Through ages of unmarred repose. Quick as flame we shore the vast. Cloud nor bird could wing so fast ! As a cry of delight — as a wail of affright — We came, and we tarried : and passed, 35 Then to the stellar interspaces We bent our unastonied faces. I recked no more than a babe at birth ! We sped so high, we lost the Earth, 'Mid hosts of unfamiliar stars Now blazing red, now glowing green, Or cinder-black, with gaping scars ; And some with necklaced moons were seen, And others like the orb of Mars, Impearled with continents and seas. With burning tropics, poles that freeze ; Yet wheresoe'er our flight could range. Naught seemed new, and nothing strange ! ' Whither ? ' I heard the Dream-one cry. And she looked at me askance : ' Whither wilt now thy quest advance ? Put faith in me, — for better or worse, — No riddle for thee hath the universe ! Misdoubt me : — in mid-air I die ! For an I have not thy love and thy trust, I am not so much as a mote of dust ; As the wafting of a furtive kiss ; The warning of an adder's hiss ; Or the wing-beat of an ephemeris ! ' 36 ' Ha ! ' questioned I, ' who taught thee^this ? Who spake to thee of trust and love ? Thou that hast neither woe nor bliss, In hell beneath, or heaven above ; Who knew no birth on human earth. Whose past and future the present is ! ' She frowned on me with a startled stare. As, blasted by some killing scare. Might swoon a frail, mad bride : Then flung me from her frozen side, And like a flake of drifting snow. Sidling gently, to and fro, I sank with my despair below ! Yet far beneath me, faster far Than headlong dive of plummet lead, Like the glittering wrack of a shooting star, The Dream to nether chaos fled ! And when my soul, with glad surprise. Awoke in its body's pained, wet eyes. It knew not the sacred, secret things That men from heaven sunder ; But around us flitted, on tireless wings. The joys of hope, and the charms of wonder ! 37 DULCIBEL When Love, regardless in his pride Of all the glowing world beside, Drew bow on Dulcibel, His generous hand restrained the string, For fear to hurt so fair a thing. And short his arrow fell. But not a chance away to throw. He made a present of his bow. With arrows by the armful, To her ; yet warily forbore To grant a neverfailing store, Lest woman wax too harmful. So, in her season, Dulcibel Waged open war and ambushed well, While darts were hers in plenty : And though my lady's aim was not So sure as Cupid's, yet she shot Male victims nine-and-twenty. 38 The first on whom she tried her bow By great good luck was I, and so I live to fight again ! She smote my head, but missed my heart, — A fortnight healed the trivial smart — 'Tis seven years since then. 39 NIGHT FEARS The way is lonely, the woods are mirk ! Low rides the lady moon. The chequered windows round the kirk Behind me dwindle, waning dim ; By drowsy gushes from afar I hear the crazy organ croon. And through the door that glows ajar Faintly sob the evening hymn ! — The way is lonely, the woods are mirk ! Is that a mist ? is that a mere, Which like a lake of smoke spreads here ? A marshy mist, meseems ; for list ! — Unhuman, plaintive, drear ; — The marsh birds mutter, the marsh kine moan. And all around the plashy ground, From lampless homesteads, far and near. By turns the watchdogs howl, not bark. Am I alone ? — I am not alone ! — Who treads behind me, in the dark ? The summer night, the summer night Is big with horror, strains with fright ! 40 FORGET-ME-NOT (A mad lover's song) I PLANTED in the wilderness The winged seed of Love ; I prayed the sun, the rain, the air Might bless it from above ! And when the seed had lain a month Below the sheltering sod, One tiny blade clove out its way To glint in the light of God. And in another month it grew To bear a flower of heaven's blue, Men call ' Forget-me-not ' ! Then came an evil-liver by ; On her he cast his treacherous eye With passion's lightning shot ! He lured, he stole, he marred my pet ; Mine own in dear remembrance yet. Although she sleeps in shame ! For him, — his days are death, and worse !- I set on him so dire a curse It sears his heart like flame ! 41 GENITUS AND ANIMA GENITUS O LIGHTNlNG-HELMfeD legions wonderful, In stark array so countlessly deployed ! O constellate magnificence of heaven ! Sheer revelation of night's lucent veil, Which blinding day withholds from thwarted eyes ! Insatiate, astonished, wide with awe, Do mine drink in your rays majestical, And yield as homage deep responsive joy ! O midnight air, that softly roaming down Hill-seated clover-lawns, with odorous kiss, Enthralls me, loitering on the sea-cliff's marge ! O roar of breaker after breaker, spent In ragged froth ! O rhythmic heave and rumour ! And whatsoever seld-recurring noise Of beetle's wing, bat's lip, or owlet's throat, Or quavering bleat, or tinkle from the fold. Chimes in with measured sway and plash of oars. 42 And resonant human voices, meaningful ! sight ! O scent ! O sounds too sweet for words ! In what an ecstasy ye robe my brain ! Art listening ? Anima ! ANIMA My brother, ay ! 1 listen, and I listen, and I listen. O tell me more, and then yet more and more Tidings of that most wondrous outer world, So dark, so mystical, so dear to me ; To you so bright, so fair, so terrible ! breathe me yet more priceless messages, My brother ! Still forget not, I am blind ; See only through your eyes, hear through your ears ; And mute am I, save through your mouth alone. 1 charge you, do my bidding, on your love ! Since though my perfect beauty dwells unseen, Yet I was nurtured in your tender arms ; And have I not requited all your care ? And am I not your thought, your memory Of all things beautiful — ^your prophetess. And wellspring of all bright imaginings ? And, most of all, with single heart your friend ? O Genitus ! beloved brother ! speak 43 Again, again ! Observe, enjoy, and live ! Go, glean me wonders and delights of sense. And I will ponder all, and recombine, To light and gladden you in darkest hours ! GENITUS Ay ! peerless Anima ! my sister soul ! I will obey, and so deserve the boon. In thee I live, since never till thou camest Was insight mine of intellectual joy. For, so men tell me, I the first was born ; And if I aught remember of the days Ere thou didst half reveal thyself to me, (One heaven-shadowing summer afternoon. The height and zenith of a glorious year,) My life was nothing but vague wonderment, Pale pleasures, trivial sorrows, fruitless pains. ANIMA No, brother ! I and you in age are twin ; But I went mute and sightless and unseen. Beside you, till that memorable hour, (Forgotten, so I thought,) when suddenly. Of my soft arms and breathing once aware. Your brain divined the marrow of my dreams. You called, I woke, and bade my sleep farewell ! TRANSLATIONS 47 HOR. CARM. I. s (' Quis multa gracilis ie puer in rosa ') What handsome boy, besprayed with liquid odours, Pyrrha, now courts thee in some pleasant grot, 'Mid many a rose ? For whom, with simple grace Is twined thy golden hair ? How oft, alas ! Will he bemoan bad faith and gods estranged. And innocently wonder at the seas Rough with a darkling storm ; who still confiding. Enjoys thy golden calm, and puts his trust In thee, imagined always kind and true : So little dreams he of the treacherous blast ! Ah ! wretched those, for whom thou glitterest yet. Untried ! But as for me, the sacred fane Shows by the votive picture on the wall That I have hung my dripping garments there An offering to the ocean's mighty god ! 48 HOR. CARM. I. s (A Modem Paraphrase) L ! the wan, the golden-tressed ! ,t bright boy are you waiting, dressed lingly, in your simple best ? :e a witch in her cave, you sit ilded midnight, rosy-lit ; lares for souls of men you knit. • shall wonder, the boy shall rue ;, that ever he deemed you true ! 49 HOR. CARM. I. 9 (' Vides ut aha stet nive candidum Soracte ') Look ! deep in snows, all white and hoar Soracte looms : the woods, astrain. Their load no longer can sustain. And, locked in ice, rills leap no more. Pile up the hearth ! dispel the cold With log on log ; and, Thaliarch, tip The Sabine jar, and ease its lip Freely of wine four winters old ! In all else trust the gods' goodwill ! When once they strew the winds to sleep, From warring with the angry deep. Cypress and ancient ash are still. 5° Be coy of guessing what will chance To-morrow ; and account as gain Each morrow Fate allows 1 disdain No light flirtation, lad ! nor dance, While youth is quit of sad grey hairs ! Oft, at the hour of given plight, For tender whisperings by night, Tryst in the fields, the city squares ! To inner nooks bright laughs pursue. The hidden damsel that betray ; Some token from her neck to fray. Or finger bent on foiling you ! 51 HOR. CARM. III. 13 (' O fans Bandusice, splendidior vitro ') Fount of Bandusia, more clear than glass ! Of dulcet wine and blossoms take thy due ! To-morrow do I vow to thee a kid ; Whose forehead, swelling into horns — his first — Portends him love and battles, both in vain ; For this last scion of the wanton herd Shall tinge thy cool banks with his purple blood ! The blazing Dogstar, in his fellest hour, Can harm not thee. A pleasant coolness yet Is thine for oxen weary from the plough, And loitering flocks. Full soon shalt thou be known As of the company of honoured springs. When I shall celebrate the ilex-tree Which overhangs the hollow crag whence down Thy babbling waters leap ! 52 VILLON'S BALLADE des Dames du Temps jadis Tell me where, in what realm is Flora, that fair Roman dame ? Archipiada too ? — Thais ? Her cousin-german, so runs fame. Cries Echo, when I noise each name Across the river, — o'er the mere : — {Her beauty's not of human frame !) ' Ay ! where are the snows of last year V Where is the most wise Helois, For whom hath monk and eunuch been Pierre Esbaillard at Saint Denys ? (By love he gat this trial, I ween.) And yet again, — where dwells the queen Who doomed that Buridan should wear A sack, and so be flung to Seine ? ' Ay ! where are the snows of last year ? ' S3 Queen Blanche, as pure as lily is, Who sang with voice of siren-strain ? Berthe of the large foot ? Bi^trys ? Allys ? Harembourges, who dompted Maine ? Or Joan the good maid of Lorraine, The English burned at Rouen here ? Where are they ? Virgin sovereign ! ' Ay ! where are the snows of last year ? ' ENVOI Prince ! — of the weeks, the years, in vain You ask, ' Where are they ? ' — in your ear There shall but haunt you this refrain : — ' Ay ! where are the snows of last year ? ' 54 RONDEL OF CHARLES D'ORLEANS (iSTH CENTURY) (' Le temps a laisse son manteau ') The season lays aside its gear Of wind and wet and winter-chill, And decks itself with broidered frill Of sunshine gleaming bright and clear ! And not a beast or bird is here But cries or sings in jargon shrill ; The season lays aside its gear Of wind and wet and winter-chill ! And now in gay attire appear The fount, the rivulet and rill ; For gold and silver drops they 'stil, And all things wear an altered cheer. The season lays aside its gear Of wind and wet and winter-chill ! 55 THE SIGNS OF LOVE (' Dis-moi, mon cceur, mon cceur enflammes ! ') Tell me, my heart ! my burning heart ! What is Love, that name of joy ? ' Oh, it means two souls and but one thought I Two hearts that beat as one I ' Tell me from whence thou camest, Love ? ' I am here, since here I was! Can it ever be that thou shalt die ? ' No ! never ! if Love be Love ! ' Tell me the sign of Love the true ! ' When he breathes in another's breast.' And the mark of Love that will never fail ? ' ' Tis loving alone — afar.' 56 Whisper me how Love's riches grow ! ' By a gift at every step ! 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