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At the lectern there
The selfsame words
As the lesson decreed;
To the gathered few
From the hamlets near …
Folk of flocks and herds
Sitting half aswoon;
Who listened thereto
As women and men
Not overmuch
Concerned at such …
So; like them then;
I did not see
What drought might be
With me; with her;
As the Kalendar
Moved on; and Time
Devoured our prime。

III

But now; at last;
When our glory has passed;
And there is no smile
From her in the aisle;
But where it once shone
A marble; men say;
With her name thereon
Is discerned to…day;
And spiritless
In the wilderness
I shrink from sight
And desire the night;
(Though; as in old wise;
I might still arise;
Go forth; and stand
And prophesy in the land);
I feel the shake
Of wind and earthquake;
And consuming fire
Nigher and nigher;
And the voice catch clear;
〃What doest thou here?〃

The Spectator 1916。  During the War。



ON A MIDSUMMER EVE



I idly cut a parsley stalk;
And blew therein towards the moon;
I had not thought what ghosts would walk
With shivering footsteps to my tune。

I went; and knelt; and scooped my hand
As if to drink; into the brook;
And a faint figure seemed to stand
Above me; with the bygone look。

I lipped rough rhymes of chance; not choice;
I thought not what my words might be;
There came into my ear a voice
That turned a tenderer verse for me。



TIMING HER
(Written to an old folk…tune)



Lalage's coming:
Where is she now; O?
Turning to bow; O;
And smile; is she;
Just at parting;
Parting; parting;
As she is starting
To come to me?

Where is she now; O;
Now; and now; O;
Shadowing a bough; O;
Of hedge or tree
As she is rushing;
Rushing; rushing;
Gossamers brushing
To come to me?

Lalage's coming;
Where is she now; O;
Climbing the brow; O;
Of hills I see?
Yes; she is nearing;
Nearing; nearing;
Weather unfearing
To come to me。

Near is she now; O;
Now; and now; O;
Milk the rich cow; O;
Forward the tea;
Shake the down bed for her;
Linen sheets spread for her;
Drape round the head for her
Coming to me。

Lalage's coming;
She's nearer now; O;
End anyhow; O;
To…day's husbandry!
Would a gilt chair were mine;
Slippers of vair were mine;
Brushes for hair were mine
Of ivory!

What will she think; O;
She who's so comely;
Viewing how homely
A sort are we!
Nothing resplendent;
No prompt attendant;
Not one dependent
Pertaining to me!

Lalage's coming;
Where is she now; O?
Fain I'd avow; O;
Full honestly
Nought here's enough for her;
All is too rough for her;
Even my love for her
Poor in degree。

She's nearer now; O;
Still nearer now; O;
She 'tis; I vow; O;
Passing the lea。
Rush down to meet her there;
Call out and greet her there;
Never a sweeter there
Crossed to me!

Lalage's come; aye;
Come is she now; O! 。 。 。
Does Heaven allow; O;
A meeting to be?
Yes; she is here now;
Here now; here now;
Nothing to fear now;
Here's Lalage!



BEFORE KNOWLEDGE



When I walked roseless tracks and wide;
Ere dawned your date for meeting me;
O why did you not cry Halloo
Across the stretch between; and say:

〃We move; while years as yet divide;
On closing lines whichthough it be
You know me not nor I know you …
Will intersect and join some day!〃

   Then well I had borne
   Each scraping thorn;
   But the winters froze;
   And grew no rose;
   No bridge bestrode
   The gap at all;
   No shape you showed;
   And I heard no call!



THE BLINDED BIRD



So zestfully canst thou sing?
And all this indignity;
With God's consent; on thee!
Blinded ere yet a…wing
By the red…hot needle thou;
I stand and wonder how
So zestfully thou canst sing!

Resenting not such wrong;
Thy grievous pain forgot;
Eternal dark thy lot;
Groping thy whole life long;
After that stab of fire;
Enjailed in pitiless wire;
Resenting not such wrong!

Who hath charity?  This bird。
Who suffereth long and is kind;
Is not provoked; though blind
And alive ensepulchred?
Who hopeth; endureth all things?
Who thinketh no evil; but sings?
Who is divine?  This bird。



〃THE WIND BLEW WORDS〃



The wind blew words along the skies;
   And these it blew to me
Through the wide dusk:  〃Lift up your eyes;
   Behold this troubled tree;
Complaining as it sways and plies;
   It is a limb of thee。

〃Yea; too; the creatures sheltering round …
   Dumb figures; wild and tame;
Yea; too; thy fellows who abound …
   Either of speech the same
Or far and strangeblack; dwarfed; and browned;
   They are stuff of thy own frame。〃

I moved on in a surging awe
   Of inarticulateness
At the pathetic Me I saw
   In all his huge distress;
Making self…slaughter of the law
   To kill; break; or suppress。



THE FADED FACE



How was this I did not see
Such a look as here was shown
Ere its womanhood had blown
Past its first felicity? …
That I did not know you young;
   Faded Face;
      Know you young!

Why did Time so ill bestead
That I heard no voice of yours
Hail from out the curved contours
Of those lips when rosy red;
Weeted not the songs they sung;
   Faded Face;
      Songs they sung!

By these blanchings; blooms of old;
And the relics of your voice …
Leavings rare of rich and choice
From your early tone and mould …
Let me mourn;aye; sorrow…wrung;
   Faded Face;
      Sorrow…wrung!



THE RIDDLE



I

Stretching eyes west
Over the sea;
Wind foul or fair;
Always stood she
Prospect…impressed;
Solely out there
Did her gaze rest;
Never elsewhere
Seemed charm to be。

II

Always eyes east
Ponders she now …
As in devotion …
Hills of blank brow
Where no waves plough。
Never the least
Room for emotion
Drawn from the ocean
Does she allow。



THE DUEL



      〃I am here to time; you see;
The glade is well…screenedeh?against alarm;
   Fit place to vindicate by my arm
   The honour of my spotless wife;
   Who scorns your libel upon her life
      In boasting intimacy!

      〃'All hush…offerings you'll spurn;
My husband。  Two must come; one only go;'
   She said。  'That he'll be you I know;
   To faith like ours Heaven will be just;
   And I shall abide in fullest trust
      Your speedy glad return。'〃

   〃Good。  Here am also I;
And we'll proceed without more waste of words
   To warm your cockpit。  Of the swords
   Take you your choice。  I shall thereby
   Feel that on me no blame can lie;
      Whatever Fate accords。〃

   So stripped they there; and fought;
And the swords clicked and scraped; and the onsets sped;
   Till the husband fell; and his shirt was red
   With streams from his heart's hot cistern。  Nought
   Could save him now; and the other; wrought
      Maybe to pity; said:

   〃Why did you urge on this?
Your wife assured you; and 't had better been
   That you had let things pass; serene
   In confidence of long…tried bliss;
   Holding there could be nought amiss
      In what my words might mean。〃

   Then; seeing nor ruth nor rage
Could move his foeman morenow Death's deaf thrall …
   He wiped his steel; and; with a call
   Like turtledove to dove; swift broke
   Into the copse; where under an oak
      His horse cropt; held by a page。

   〃All's over; Sweet;〃 he cried
To the wife; thus guised; for the young page was she。
   〃'Tis as we hoped and said 't would be。
   He never guessed 。 。 。 We mount and ride
   To where our love can reign uneyed。
      He's clay; and we are free。〃



AT MAYFAIR LODGINGS



How could I be aware;
The opposite window eyeing
As I lay listless there;
That through its blinds was dying
One I had rated rare
Before I had set me sighing
For another more fair?

Had the house…front been glass;
My vision unobscuring;
Could aught have come to pass
More happiness…insuring
To her; loved as a lass
When spouseless; all…alluring?
I reckon not; alas!

So; the square window stood;
Steadily night…long shining
In my close neighbourhood;
Who looked forth undivining
That soon would go for good
One there in pain reclining;
Unpardoned; unadieu'd。

Silently screened from view
Her tragedy was ending
That need not have come due
Had she been less unbending。
How near; near were we two
At that last vital rending; …
And neither of us knew!



TO MY FATHER'S VIOLIN



   Does he want you down there
   In the Nether Glooms where
The hours may be a dragging load upon him;
   As he hears the axle grind
      Round and round
   Of the great world; in the blind
      Still profound
Of the night…time?  He might liven at the sound
Of your string; revealing you had not forgone him。

   In the gallery west the nave;
   But a few yards from his grave;
Did you; tucked beneath his chin; to his bowing
   Guide the homely harmony
      Of the quire
   Who for long years strenuously …
      Son and sire …
Caught the strains that at his fingering low or higher
From your four thin threads and eff…holes came outflowing。

   And; too; what merry tunes
   He would bow at nights or noons
That chanced to find him bent to lute a measure;
   When he made you speak his heart
      As in dream;
   Without book or music…chart;
      On some theme
Elusive as a jack…o'…lanthorn's gleam;
And the psalm of duty shelved for trill of pleasure。

   Well; you can not; alas;
   The barrier overpass
That screens him in those Mournful Meads hereunder;
   Where no fiddling can be heard
      In the glades
   Of silentness; no bird
      Thrills the shades;
Where no viol is touched for songs or serenades;
No bowing wakes a congregation's wonder。

   He must do without you now;
   Stir you no more anyhow
To yearning concords taught you in your glory;
   While; your strings a tangled wreck;
      Once smart drawn;
   Ten worm…wounds in your neck;
      Purflings wan
With dust…hoar; here alone I sadly con
Your present dumbness; shape your olden story。

1916。



THE STATUE OF LIBERTY



   This statue of Liberty; busy man;
      Here erect in the city square;
I have watched while your scrubbings; this early morning;
         Strangely wistful;
         And half tristful;
      Have turned her from foul to fair;

   With your bucket of water; and mop; and brush;
      Bri
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