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The sands slide; nor abide



(As I ride; as I ride)



O'er each visioned homicide



That came vaunting (has he lied?)



To reside…where he died;



As I ride; as I ride。







IV。







As I ride; as I ride;



Ne'er has spur my swift horse plied;



Yet his hide; streaked and pied;



As I ride; as I ride;



Shows where sweat has sprung and dried;



…Zebra…footed; ostrich…thighed…



How has vied stride with stride



As I ride; as I ride!







V。







As I ride; as I ride;



Could I loose what Fate has tied;



Ere I pried; she should hide



(As I ride; as I ride)



All that's meant me…satisfied



When the Prophet and the Bride



Stop veins I'd have subside



As I ride; as I ride!















NATIONALITY IN DRINKS。







I。







My heart sank with our Claret…flask;



  Just now; beneath the heavy sedges



That serve this Pond's black face for mask



  And still at yonder broken edges



O' the hole; where up the bubbles glisten;



After my heart I look and listen。







II。







Our laughing little flask; compelled



  Thro' depth to depth more bleak and shady;



As when; both arms beside her held;



  Feet straightened out; some gay French lady



Is caught up from life's light and motion;



And dropped into death's silent ocean!















Up jumped Tokay on our table;



Like a pygmy castle…warder;



Dwarfish to see; but stout and able;



Arms and accoutrements all in order;



And fierce he looked North; then; wheeling South;



Blew with his bugle a challenge to Drouth;



Cocked his flap…hat with the tosspot…feather;



Twisted his thumb in his red moustache;



Jingled his huge brass spurs together;



Tightened his waist with its Buda sash;



And then; with an impudence nought could abash;



Shrugged his hump…shoulder; to tell the beholder;



For twenty such knaves he should laugh but the bolder:



And so; with his sword…hilt gallantly jutting;



And dexter…hand on his haunch abutting;



Went the little man; Sir Ausbruch; strutting!















Here's to Nelson's memory!



'Tis the second time that I; at sea;



Right off Cape Trafalgar here;



Have drunk it deep in British Beer。  



Nelson for ever…any time



Am I his to command in prose or rhyme!



Give me of Nelson only a touch;



And I save it; be it little or much:



Here's one our Captain gives; and so



Down at the word; by George; shall it go!



He says that at Greenwich they point the beholder



To Nelson's coat; ‘‘still with tar on the shoulder:



‘‘For he used to lean with one shoulder digging;



‘‘Jigging; as it were; and zig…zag…zigging



‘‘Up against the mizen…rigging!''















GARDEN FANCIES。







  I。 THE FLOWER'S NAME







Here's the garden she walked across;



  Arm in my arm; such a short while since:



Hark; now I push its wicket; the moss



  Hinders the hinges and makes them wince!



She must have reached this shrub ere she turned;



  As back with that murmur the wicket swung;



For she laid the poor snail; my chance foot spurned;



  To feed and forget it the leaves among。







II。







Down this side ofthe gravel…walk



  She went while her rope's edge brushed the box:



And here she paused in her gracious talk



  To point me a moth on the milk…white phlox。



Roses; ranged in valiant row;



  I will never think that she passed you by!



She loves you noble roses; I know;



  But yonder; see; where the rock…plants lie!







III。







This flower she stopped at; finger on lip;



  Stooped over; in doubt; as settling its claim;



Till she gave me; with pride to make no slip;



  Its soft meandering Spanish name:



What a name! Was it love or praise?



  Speech half…asleep or song half…awake?



I must learn Spanish; one of these days;



  Only for that slow sweet name's sake。







IV。







Roses; if I live and do well;



  I may bring her; one of these days;



To fix you fast with as fine a spell;



  Fit you each with his Spanish phrase;



But do not detain me now; for she lingers



  There; like sunshine over the ground;



And ever I see her soft white fingers



  Searching after the bud she found。







V。







Flower; you Spaniard; look  that   you   grow not;



  Stay as you are and be loved for ever!



Bud; if I kiss you 'tis that you blow not:



  Mind; the shut pink mouth opens never!



For while it pouts; her fingers wrestle;



  Twinkling the audacious leaves between;



Till round they turn and down they nestle…



  Is not the dear mark still to be seen?







VI。







Where I find her not; beauties vanish;



  Whither I follow ber; beauties flee;



Is there no method to tell her in Spanish



  June's twice June since she  breathed  it  with me?



Come; bud; show me the least of her traces;



  Treasure my lady's lightest footfall!



…Ah; you may flout and turn up your faces…



  Roses; you are not so fair after all!











  II。 SIBRANDUS SCHAFNABURGENSIS。







Plague take all your pedants; say I!



  He who wrote what I hold in my hand;



Centuries back was so good as to die;



  Leaving this rubbish to cumber the land;



This; that was a book in its time;



  Printed on paper and bound in leather;



Last month in the white of a matin…prime



  Just when the birds sang all together。







II。







Into the garden I brought it to read;



  And under the arbute and laurustine



Read it; so help me grace in my need;



  From title…page to closing line。



Chapter on chapter did I count;



  As a curious traveller counts Stonehenge;



Added up the mortal amount;



  And then proceeded to my revenge。







III。







Yonder's a plum…tree with a crevice



  An owl would build in; were he but sage;



For a lap of moss; like a fine pont…levis



  In a castle of the Middle Age;



Joins to a lip of gum; pure amber;



  When he'd be private; there might he spend



Hours alone in his lady's chamber:



  Into this crevice I dropped our friend。  







IV。







Splash; went he; as under he ducked;



  …At the bottom; I knew; rain…drippings stagnate:



Next; a handful of blossoms I plucked



  To bury him with; my bookshelf's magnate;



Then I went in…doors; brought out a loaf;



  Half a cheese; and a bottle of Chablis;



Lay on the grass and forgot the oaf



  Over a jolly chapter of Rabelais。







V。







Now; this morning; betwixt the moss



  And gum that locked our friend in limbo;



A spider had spun his web across;



  And sat in the midst with arms akimbo:



So; I took pity; for learning's sake;



  And; _de profundis; accentibus ltis;



Cantate!_ quoth I; as I got a rake;



  And up I fished his delectable treatise。







VI。







Here you have it; dry in the sun;



  With all the binding all of a blister;



And great blue spots where the ink has run;



  And reddish streaks that wink and glister



O'er the page so beautifully yellow:



  Oh; well have the droppings played their tricks!



Did he guess how toadstools grow; this fellow?



  Here's one stuck in his chapter six!







VII。







How did he like it when the live creatures



  Tickled and toused and browsed him all over;



And worm; slug; eft; with serious features;



  Came in; each one; for his right of trover? 



…When the water…beetle with great blind deaf face



  Made of her eggs the stately deposit;



And the newt borrowed just so much of the preface



  As tiled in the top of his black wife's closet?







VIII。







All that life and fun and romping;



  All that frisking and twisting and coupling;



While slowly our poor friend's leaves were swamping



  And clasps were cracking and covers suppling!



As if you bad carried sour John Knox



  To the play…house at Paris; Vienna or Munich;



Fastened him into a front…row box;



  And danced off the ballet with trousers and tunic。







IX。







Come; old martyr! What; torment enough is it?



  Back to my room shall you take your sweet self。



Good…bye; mother…beetle; husband…eft; _sufficit!_



  See the snug niche I have made on my shelf!



A。's book shall prop you up; B。's shall cover you;



  Here's C。 to be grave with; or D。 to be gay;



And with E。 on each side; and F。 right over you;



  Dry…rot at ease till the Judgment…day!



















SOLILOQUY OF THE SPANISH CLOISTER。







I。







Gr…r…r…there go; my heart's abhorrence!



  Water your damned flower…pots; do!



If hate killed men; Brother Lawrence;



  God's blood; would not mine kill you!



What? your myrtle…bush wants trimming?



  Oh; that rose has prior claims…



Needs its leaden vase filled brimming?



  Hell dry you up with its flames!







II。







At the meal we sit together:



  _Salve tibi!_ I must hear



Wise talk of the kind of weather;



  Sort of season; time of year:



_Not a plenteous cork…crop: scarcely



  Dare we hope oak…galls; I doubt:



What's the Latin name for ‘‘parsley''?_



  What's the Greek name for Swine's Snout?







III。







Whew! We'll have our platter burnished;



  Laid with care on our own shelf!



With a fire…new spoon 
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