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Lord; who am I that I should know 

 Lord; God; be merciful to me!







  VI





O Whiteness; whiter than the fleece

 Of new…washed sheep on April sod!

O Breath of Life; O Prince of Peace;

 O Lamb of God; O Lamb of God!









Easter







The air is like a butterfly

 With frail blue wings。

The happy earth looks at the sky

 And sings。









Mount Houvenkopf







Serene he stands; with mist serenely crowned;

 And draws a cloak of trees about his breast。

 The thunder roars but cannot break his rest

And from his rugged face the tempests bound。

He does not heed the angry lightning's wound;

 The raging blizzard is his harmless guest;

 And human life is but a passing jest

To him who sees Time spin the years around。



But fragile souls; in skyey reaches find

 High vantage…points and view him from afar。

How low he seems to the ascended mind;

 How brief he seems where all things endless are;

This little playmate of the mighty wind

 This young companion of an ancient star。









The House with Nobody in It







Whenever I walk to Suffern along the Erie track

I go by a poor old farmhouse with its shingles broken and black。

I suppose I've passed it a hundred times; but I always stop for a minute

And look at the house; the tragic house; the house with nobody in it。



I never have seen a haunted house; but I hear there are such things;

That they hold the talk of spirits; their mirth and sorrowings。

I know this house isn't haunted; and I wish it were; I do;

For it wouldn't be so lonely if it had a ghost or two。



This house on the road to Suffern needs a dozen panes of glass;

And somebody ought to weed the walk and take a scythe to the grass。

It needs new paint and shingles; and the vines should be trimmed and tied;

But what it needs the most of all is some people living inside。



If I had a lot of money and all my debts were paid

I'd put a gang of men to work with brush and saw and spade。

I'd buy that place and fix it up the way it used to be

And I'd find some people who wanted a home and give it to them free。



Now; a new house standing empty; with staring window and door;

Looks idle; perhaps; and foolish; like a hat on its block in the store。

But there's nothing mournful about it; it cannot be sad and lone

For the lack of something within it that it has never known。



But a house that has done what a house should do;

  a house that has sheltered life;

That has put its loving wooden arms around a man and his wife;

A house that has echoed a baby's laugh and held up his stumbling feet;

Is the saddest sight; when it's left alone; that ever your eyes could meet。



So whenever I go to Suffern along the Erie track

I never go by the empty house without stopping and looking back;

Yet it hurts me to look at the crumbling roof and the shutters fallen apart;

For I can't help thinking the poor old house is a house with a broken heart。









Dave Lilly







There's a brook on the side of Greylock that used to be full of trout;

But there's nothing there now but minnows; they say it is all fished out。

I fished there many a Summer day some twenty years ago;

And I never quit without getting a mess of a dozen or so。



There was a man; Dave Lilly; who lived on the North Adams road;

And he spent all his time fishing; while his neighbors reaped and sowed。

He was the luckiest fisherman in the Berkshire hills; I think。

And when he didn't go fishing he'd sit in the tavern and drink。



Well; Dave is dead and buried and nobody cares very much;

They have no use in Greylock for drunkards and loafers and such。

But I always liked Dave Lilly; he was pleasant as you could wish;

He was shiftless and good…for…nothing; but he certainly could fish。



The other night I was walking up the hill from Williamstown

And I came to the brook I mentioned;

  and I stopped on the bridge and sat down。

I looked at the blackened water with its little flecks of white

And I heard it ripple and whisper in the still of the Summer night。



And after I'd been there a minute it seemed to me I could feel

The presence of someone near me; and I heard the hum of a reel。

And the water was churned and broken; and something was brought to land

By a twist and flirt of a shadowy rod in a deft and shadowy hand。



I scrambled down to the brookside and hunted all about;

There wasn't a sign of a fisherman; there wasn't a sign of a trout。

But I heard somebody chuckle behind the hollow oak

And I got a whiff of tobacco like Lilly used to smoke。



It's fifteen years; they tell me; since anyone fished that brook;

And there's nothing in it but minnows that nibble the bait off your hook。

But before the sun has risen and after the moon has set

I know that it's full of ghostly trout for Lilly's ghost to get。



I guess I'll go to the tavern and get a bottle of rye

And leave it down by the hollow oak; where Lilly's ghost went by。

I meant to go up on the hillside and try to find his grave

And put some flowers on it  but this will be better for Dave。









Alarm Clocks







When Dawn strides out to wake a dewy farm

 Across green fields and yellow hills of hay

 The little twittering birds laugh in his way

And poise triumphant on his shining arm。

He bears a sword of flame but not to harm

 The wakened life that feels his quickening sway

 And barnyard voices shrilling 〃It is day!〃

Take by his grace a new and alien charm。



But in the city; like a wounded thing

 That limps to cover from the angry chase;

He steals down streets where sickly arc…lights sing;

 And wanly mock his young and shameful face;

And tiny gongs with cruel fervor ring

 In many a high and dreary sleeping place。









Waverley



1814…1914







When; on a novel's newly printed page

 We find a maudlin eulogy of sin;

 And read of ways that harlots wander in;

And of sick souls that writhe in helpless rage;

Or when Romance; bespectacled and sage;

 Taps on her desk and bids the class begin

 To con the problems that have always been

Perplexed mankind's unhappy heritage;



Then in what robes of honor habited

 The laureled wizard of the North appears!

Who raised Prince Charlie's cohorts from the dead;

 Made Rose's mirth and Flora's noble tears;

And formed that shining legion at whose head

 Rides Waverley; triumphant o'er the years!









'End of Trees and Other Poems。'













The following biographical information is taken from the 1917 edition

of Jessie B。 Rittenhouse's anthology of Modern Verse。





Kilmer; Joyce。  Born at New Brunswick; New Jersey; December 6; 1886;

and graduated at Columbia University in 1908。  After a short period

of teaching he became associated with Funk and Wagnalls Company;

where he remained from 1909 to 1912; when he assumed the position

of literary editor of 〃The Churchman〃。  In 1913 Mr。 Kilmer became

a member of the staff of the 〃New York Times〃; a position which

he still occupies。  His volumes of poetry are:  〃A Summer of Love〃; 1911;

and 〃Trees; and Other Poems〃; 1914。





Kilmer died in France in 1918; and also published another volume;

〃Main Street and Other Poems〃; 1917; as well as individual poems;

essays; etc。













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