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A RHYME OF THE ROADS



PEARL…SLASHED and purple and crimson and

    fringed with gray mist of the hills;

The pennons of morning advance to the music of

    rock…fretted rills;

The dumb forest quickens to song; and the little

    gusts shout as they fling

A floor…cloth of orchard bloom down for the flash…

    ing; quick feet of the Spring。



To the road; gipsy…heart; thou and I!  'Tis the

    mad piper; Spring; who is leading;

'Tis the pulse of his piping that throbs through


    the brain; irresistibly pleading;

Full…blossomed; deep…bosomed; fain woman; light…

    footed; lute…throated and fleet;

We have drunk of the wine of this Wanderer's song;

    let us follow his feet!



Like raveled red girdles flung down by some

    hoidenish goddess in mirth

The tangled roads reach from rim unto utter…

    most rim of the earth

We will weave of these strands a strong net; we

    will snare the bright wings of delight;

We will make of these strings a sweet lute that

    will shame the low wind…harps of night。



The clamor of tongues and the clangor of trades

    in the peevish packed street;

The arrogant; jangling Nothings; with iterant; dis…

    sonant beat;

The clattering; senseless endeavor with dross of

    mere gold for its goal;

These have sickened the senses and wearied the

    brain and straitened the soul。



〃Come forth and be cleansed of the folly of strife

    for things worthless of strife;

Come forth and gain life and grasp God by fore…

    going gains worthless of life〃



It was thus spake the wizard wildwood; low…

    voiced to the hearkening heart;

It was thus sang the jovial hills; and the harper

    sun bore part。



O woman; whose blood as my blood with the fire

    of the Spring is aflame;

We did well; when the red roads called; that we

    heeded the call and came

Came forth to the sweet wise silence where soul

    may speak sooth unto soul;

Vine…wreathed and vagabond Love; with the goal

    of Nowhere for our goal!



What planet…crowned Dusk that wanders the

    steeps of our firmament there

Hath gems that may match with the dew…opals

    meshed in thine opulent hair?

What wind…witch that skims the curled billows

    with feet they are fain to caress

Hath sandals so wing'd as thine art with a god…

    like carelessness?



And dare we not dream this is heaven?to wan…

    der thus on; ever on。

Through the hush…heavy valleys of space; up the

    flushing red slopes of the dawn?

For none that seeks rest shall find rest till he

    ceaseth his striving for rest;

And the gain of the quest is the joy of the road

    that allures to the quest。





THE LAND OF YESTERDAY



AND I would seek the country town

Amid green meadows nestled down

If I could only find the way

Back to the Land of Yesterday!



How I would thrust the miles aside;

  Rush up the quiet lane; and then;

Just where her roses laughed in pride;

  Find her among the flowers again。

I'd slip in silently and wait

Until she saw me by the gate;

And then 。 。 。 read through a blur of tears

Quick pardon for the selfish years。



This time; this time; I would not wait

For that brief wire that said; Too late!

If I could only find the way

Into the Land of Yesterday。



I wonder if her roses yet

  Lift up their heads and laugh with pride;

And if her phlox and mignonette

  Have heart to blossom by their side;

I wonder if the dear old lane

Still chirps with robins after rain;

And if the birds and banded bees

Still rob her early cherry…trees。 。 。 。



I wonder; if I went there now;

How everything would seem; and how

But no! not now; there is no way

Back to the Land of Yesterday。





OCTOBER



CEASE to call him sad and sober;

Merriest of months; October!

Patron of the bursting bins;

Reveler in wayside inns;

I can nowhere find a trace

Of the pensive in his face;

There is mingled wit and folly;

But the madcap lacks the grace

Of a thoughtful melancholy。

Spendthrift of the seasons' gold;

How he flings and scatters out

Treasure filched from summer…time!

Never ruffling squire of old

Better loved a tavern bout

When Prince Hal was in his prime。

Doublet slashed with gold and green;

Cloak of crimson; changeful sheen;

Of the dews that gem his breast;

Frosty lace about his throat;



Scarlet plumes that flaunt and float

Backward in a gay unrest

Where's another gallant drest

With such tricksy gaiety;

Such unlessoned vanity?

With his amber afternoons

And his pendant poets' moons

With his twilights dashed with rose

From the red…lipped afterglows

With his vocal airs at dawn

Breathing hints of Helicon

Bacchanalian bees that sip

Where his cider…presses drip

With the winding of the horn

Where his huntsmen meet the morn

With his every piping breeze

Shaking from familiar trees

Apples of Hesperides

With the chuckle; chirp; and trill

Of his jolly brooks that spill

Mirth in tangled madrigals

Down pebble…dappled waterfalls

(Brooks that laugh and make escape

Through wild arbors where the grape



Purples with a promise of

Racy vintage rare as love)

With his merry; wanton air;

Mirth and vanity and folly

Why should he be made to bear

Burden of some melancholy

Song that swoons and sinks with care?

Cease to call him sad or sober;

He's a jolly dog; October!





CHANT OF THE CHANGING HOURS



THE Hours passed by; a fleet; confused crowd;

  With wafture of blown garments bright as fire;

Light; light of foot and laughing; morning…browed;

  And where they trod the jonquil and the briar

Thrilled into jocund life; the dreaming dells

Waked to a morrice chime of jostled bells;

They danced! they danced! to piping such as

      flings

The garnered music of a million Springs

  Into one single; keener ecstasy;

One paused and shouted to my questionings:

  〃Lo; I am Youth; I bid thee follow me!〃



The Hours passed by; they paced; great lords and

      proud;

  Crowned on with sunlight; robed in rich attire;

Before their conquering word the brute deed

      bowed;

  And Ariel fancies served their large desire;



They spake; and roused the mused soul that dwells

In dust; or; smiling; shaped new heavens and

      hells;

Dethroned old gods and made blind beggars kings:

〃And what art thou;〃 I cried to one; 〃that brings

  His mistress; for a brooch; the Galaxy?〃

〃I am the plumed Thought that soars and sings:

  Lo; I am Song; I bid thee follow me!〃



The Hours passed by; with veiled eyes endowed

  Of dream; and parted lips that scarce suspire;

To breathing dusk and arrowy moonlight vowed;

  South wind and shadowy grove and murmuring

      lyre;

Swaying they moved; as drows'd of wizard spells

Or tranc'd with sight of recent miracles;

And yet they trembled; down their folded wings

Quivered the hint of sweet withholden things;

  Ah; bitter…sweet in their intensity!

One paused and said unto my wonderings:

  〃Lo; I am Love; I bid thee follow me!〃



The Hours passed by; through huddled cities loud

  With witless hate and stale with stinking mire:



So cowled monks might march with bier and shroud

  Down streets plague…spotted toward some cleans…

      ing pyre;

Yet; lo! strange lilies bloomed in lightless cells;

And passionate spirits burst their clayey shells

And sang the stricken hope that bleeds and

      clings:

Earth's bruised heart beat in the throbbing strings;

  And joy still struggled through the threnody!

One stern Hour said unto my marvelings:

  〃Lo; I am Life; I bid thee follow me!〃



The Hours passed by; the stumbling hours and

      cowed;

  Uncertain; prone to tears and childish ire;

The wavering hours that drift like any cloud

  At whim of winds or fortunate or dire;

The feeble shapes that any chance expells;

Their wisdom useless; lacking the blood that swells

The tensed vein: the hot; swift tide that stings

With life。  Ah; wise! but naked to the slings

  Of fate; and plagued of youthful memory!

A cracked voice broke upon my pityings:

  〃Lo; I am Age; I bid thee follow me!〃



Ah; Youth! we dallied by the babbling wells

Where April all her lyric secret tells;

Ah; Song! we sped our bold imaginings

As far as yon red planet's triple rings;

  O Life!  O Love!  I followed; followed thee!

There waits one word to end my journeyings:

  〃Lo; I am Death; I bid thee follow me!〃









DREAMS AND DUST









SELVES



My dust in ruined Babylon

  Is blown along the level plain;

And songs of mine at dawn have soared

  Above the blue Sicilian main。



We are ourselves; and not ourselves 。 。 。

  For ever thwarting pride and will

Some forebear's passion leaps from death

  To claim a vital license still。



Ancestral lusts that slew and died;

  Resurgent; swell each living vein;

Old doubts and faiths; new panoplied;

  Dispute the mastery of the brain。



The love of liberty that flames

  From written rune and stricken reed

Shook the hot hearts of swordsmen sires

  At Marathon and Runnymede。



What are these things we call our 〃selves〃? 。 。 。

  Have I not shouted; sobbed; and died

In the bright surf of spears that broke

  Where Greece rolled back the Persian tide?



Are we who breathe more quick than they

  Whose bones are dust within the tomb?

Nay; as I write; what gray old ghosts

  Murmur and mock me from the gloom。 。 。 。



They call 。 。 。 across strange seas they call;

  Strange seas; and haunted coasts of time。 。 。 。

They startle me with wordless songs

  To which the Sphinx hath known the rhyme。



Our hearts swell big with dead men's hates;

  Our eyes sting hot with dead men's tears;

We are ourselves; but not ourselves;

  Born heirs; but serfs; to all the years!



I rode with Nimrod 。 。 。 strove at
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