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The murmur of a doubtful wail

Of voices loved so long ago。



We scarce had care to die or live;

We had no honey cake to give;

No wine of sacrifice to shed;

There lies no new path over sea;

And now we know how faint they be;

The feasts and voices of the dead。



Ah; flowers and dance! ah; sun and snow!

Glad life; sad life we did forego

To dream of quietness and rest;

Ah; would the fleet sweet roses here

Poured light and perfume through the drear

Pale year; and wan land of the west。



Sad youth; that let the spring go by

Because the spring is swift to fly;

Sad youth; that feared to mourn or love;

Behold how sadder far is this;

To know that rest is nowise bliss;

And darkness is the end thereof。









VERSES









MARTIAL IN TOWN。







Last night; within the stifling train;

Lit by the foggy lamp o'erhead;

Sick of the sad Last News; I read

Verse of that joyous child of Spain;



Who dwelt when Rome was waxing cold;

Within the Roman din and smoke。

And like my heart to me they spoke;

These accents of his heart of old:…



〃Brother; had we but time to live;

And fleet the careless hours together;

With all that leisure has to give

Of perfect life and peaceful weather;



〃The Rich Man's halls; the anxious faces;

The weary Forum; courts; and cases

Should know us not; but quiet nooks;

But summer shade by field and well;

But county rides; and talk of books;

At home; with these; we fain would dwell!



〃Now neither lives; but day by day

Sees the suns wasting in the west;

And feels their flight; and doth delay

To lead the life he loveth best。〃



So from thy city prison broke;

Martial; thy wail for life misspent;

And so; through London's noise and smoke

My heart replies to the lament。



For dear as Tagus with his gold;

And swifter Salo; were to thee;

So dear to me the woods that fold

The streams that circle Fernielea!







APRIL ON TWEED。







As birds are fain to build their nest

The first soft sunny day;

So longing wakens in my breast

A month before the May;

When now the wind is from the West;

And Winter melts away。



The snow lies yet on Eildon Hill;

But soft the breezes blow。

If melting snows the waters fill;

We nothing heed the snow;

But we must up and take our will; …

A fishing will we go!



Below the branches brown and bare;

Beneath the primrose lea;

The trout lies waiting for his fare;

A hungry trout is he;

He's hooked; and springs and splashes there

Like salmon from the sea!



Oh; April tide's a pleasant tide;

However times may fall;

And sweet to welcome Spring; the Bride;

You hear the mavis call;

But all adown the water…side

The Spring's most fair of all。







TIRED OF TOWNS。







'When we spoke to her of the New Jerusalem; she said she would

rather go to a country place in Heaven。'



Letters from the Black Country。





I'm weary of towns; it seems a'most a pity

We didn't stop down i' the country and clem;

And you say that I'm bound for another city;

For the streets o' the New Jerusalem。



And the streets are never like Sheffield; here;

Nor the smoke don't cling like a smut to THEM;

But the water o' life flows cool and clear

Through the streets o' the New Jerusalem。



And the houses; you say; are of jasper cut;

And the gates are gaudy wi' gold and gem;

But there's times I could wish as the gates was shut …

The gates o' the New Jerusalem。




For I come from a country that's over…built

Wi' streets that stifle; and walls that hem;

And the gorse on a common's worth all the gilt

And the gold of your New Jerusalem。



And I hope that they'll bring me; in Paradise;

To green lanes leafy wi' bough and stem …

To a country place in the land o' the skies;

And not to the New Jerusalem。







SCYTHE SONG。







Mowers; weary and brown; and blithe;

What is the word methinks ye know;

Endless over…word that the Scythe

Sings to the blades of the grass below?

Scythes that swing in the grass and clover;

Something; still; they say as they pass;

What is the word that; over and over;

Sings the Scythe to the flowers and grass?



HUSH; AH HUSH; the Scythes are saying;

HUSH; AND HEED NOT; AND FALL ASLEEP;

HUSH; they say to the grasses swaying;

HUSH; they sing to the clover deep!

HUSH … 'tis the lullaby Time is singing …

HUSH; AND HEED NOT; FOR ALL THINGS PASS;

HUSH; AH HUSH! and the Scythes are swinging

Over the clover; over the grass!







PEN AND INK。







Ye wanderers that were my sires;

Who read men's fortunes in the hand;

Who voyaged with your smithy fires

From waste to waste across the land;

Why did you leave for garth and town

Your life by heath and river's brink;

Why lay your gipsy freedom down

And doom your child to Pen and Ink?



You wearied of the wild…wood meal

That crowned; or failed to crown; the day;

Too honest or too tame to steal

You broke into the beaten way;

Plied loom or awl like other men;

And learned to love the guineas' chink …

Oh; recreant sires; who doomed me then

To earn so few … with Pen and Ink!



Where it hath fallen the tree must lie。

'Tis over late for ME to roam;

Yet the caged bird who hears the cry

Of his wild fellows fleeting home;

May feel no sharper pang than mine;

Who seem to hear; whene'er I think;

Spate in the stream; and wind in pine;

Call me to quit dull Pen and Ink。



For then the spirit wandering;

That slept within the blood; awakes;

For then the summer and the spring

I fain would meet by streams and lakes;

But ah; my Birthright long is sold;

But custom chains me; link on link;

And I must get me; as of old;

Back to my tools; to Pen and Ink。







A DREAM。







Why will you haunt my sleep?

You know it may not be;

The grave is wide and deep;

That sunders you and me;

In bitter dreams we reap

The sorrow we have sown;

And I would I were asleep;

Forgotten and alone!



We knew and did not know;

We saw and did not see;

The nets that long ago

Fate wove for you and me;

The cruel nets that keep

The birds that sob and moan;

And I would we were asleep;

Forgotten and alone!







THE SINGING ROSE。







'La Rose qui chante et l'herbe qui egare。'





White Rose on the grey garden wall;

Where now no night…wind whispereth;

Call to the far…off flowers; and call

With murmured breath and musical

Till all the Roses hear; and all

Sing to my Love what the White Rose saith。



White Rose on the grey garden wall

That long ago we sung!

Again you come at Summer's call; …

Again beneath my windows all

With trellised flowers is hung;

With clusters of the roses white

Like fragrant stars in a green night。



Once more I hear the sister towers

Each unto each reply;

The bloom is on those limes of ours;

The weak wind shakes the bloom in showers;

Snow from a cloudless sky;

There is no change this happy day

Within the College Gardens grey!



St。 Mary's; Merton; Magdalen … still

Their sweet bells chime and swing;

The old years answer them; and thrill

A wintry heart against its will

With memories of the Spring …

That Spring we sought the gardens through

For flowers which ne'er in gardens grew!



For we; beside our nurse's knee;

In fairy tales had heard

Of that strange Rose which blossoms free

On boughs of an enchanted tree;

And sings like any bird!

And of the weed beside the way

That leadeth lovers' steps astray!



In vain we sought the Singing Rose

Whereof old legends tell;

Alas; we found it not mid those

Within the grey old College close;

That budded; flowered; and fell; …

We found that herb called 'Wandering'

And meet no more; no more in Spring!



Yes; unawares the unhappy grass

That leadeth steps astray;

We trod; and so it came to pass

That never more we twain; alas;

Shall walk the self…same way。

And each must deem; though neither knows;

That NEITHER found the Singing Rose!







A REVIEW IN RHYME。







A little of Horace; a little of Prior;

A sketch of a Milkmaid; a lay of the Squire …

These; these are 'on draught' 'At the Sign of the Lyre!'



A child in Blue Ribbons that sings to herself;

A talk of the Books on the Sheraton shelf;

A sword of the Stuarts; a wig of the Guelph;



A LAI; a PANTOUM; a BALLADE; a RONDEAU;

A pastel by Greuze; and a sketch by Moreau;

And the chimes of the rhymes that sing sweet as they go;



A fan; and a folio; a ringlet; a glove;

'Neath a dance by Laguerre on the ceiling above;

And a dream of the days when the bard was in love;



A scent of dead roses; a glance at a pun;

A toss of old powder; a glint of the sun;

They meet in the volume that Dobson has done!



If there's more that the heart of a man can desire;

He may search; in his Swinburne; for fury and fire;

If he's wise … he'll alight 'At the Sign of the Lyre!'







COLINETTE。







For a sketch by Mr。 G。 Leslie; R。A。





France your country; as we know;

Room enough for guessing yet;

What lips now or long ago;

Kissed and named you … Colinette。

In what fields from sea to sea;

By what stream your home was set;

Loire or Seine was glad of thee;

Marne or Rhone; O Colinette?



Did you stand with maidens ten;

Fairer maids were never seen;

When the young king and his men

Passed among the orchards green?

Nay; old ballads have a note

Mournful; we would fain forget;

No such sad old air should float

Round your young brows; Colinette。



Say; did Ronsard sing to you;

Shepherdess; to lull his pain;

When the court went wandering through

Rose pleasances of Touraine?

Ronsard and his famous Rose

Long are dust the breezes fret;

You; within the garden close;

You are blooming; Colinette。



Have I seen you proud and gay;

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