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On such a night as this it were a sin
To leave the blind alone。

THE REVELLERS

Greatly we fear lest he; still resolute;
Have wandered to the fields for poisoned fruit。

THE BEGGAR

See here upon this stone 。 。 。
He is all frozen 。 。 。 take him to a bed
And warm his hands。

THE REVELLERS

   O sorrow; he is dead!



GRAVIS DULCIS IMMUTABILIS



Come; let me kiss your wistful face
Where Sorrow curves her bow of pain;
And live sweet days and bitter days
With you; or wanting you again。

I dread your perishable gold:
Come near me now; the years are few。
Alas; when you and I are old
I shall not want to look at you:

And yet come in。  I shall not dare
To gaze upon your countenance;
But I shall huddle in my chair;
Turn to the fire my fireless glance;

And listen; while that slow and grave
Immutable sweet voice of yours
Rises and falls; as falls a wave
In summer on forgotten shores。



PILLAGE



They will trample our gardens to mire; they will bury our city in fire;
Our women await their desire; our children the clang of the chain。
Our grave…eyed judges and lords they will bind by the neck with cords;
And harry with whips and swords till they perish of shame or pain;
And the great lapis lazuli dome where the gods of our race had a home
Will break like a wave from the foam; and shred into fiery rain。

No more on the long summer days shall we walk in the meadow…sweet ways
With the teachers of music and phrase; and the masters of dance and
design。
No more when the trumpeter calls shall we feast in the white…light halls;
For stayed are the soft footfalls of the moon…browed bearers of wine;
And lost are the statues of Kings and of Gods with great glorious wings;
And an empire of beautiful things; and the lips of the love who was mine。

We have vanished; but not into night; though our manhood we sold to
delight;
Neglecting the chances of fight; unfit for the spear and the bow。
We are dead; but our living was great:  we are dumb; but a song of our
State
Will roam in the desert and wait; with its burden of long; long ago;
Till a scholar from sea…bright lands unearth from the years and the sands
Some image with beautiful hands; and know what we want him to know。



THE BALLAD OF ZACHO
(a Greek Legend。)



Zacho the King rode out of old
   (And truth is what I tell)
With saddle and spurs and a rein of gold
   To find the door of Hell。

And round around him surged the dead
   With soft and lustrous eyes。
〃Why came you here; old friend?〃 they said:
   〃Unwise 。 。 。 unwise 。 。 。 unwise!

〃You should have left to the prince your son
   Spurs and saddle and rein:
Your bright and morning days are done;
   You ride not out again。〃

〃I came to greet my friends who fell
   Sword…scattered from my side;
And when I've drunk the wine of Hell
   I'll out again and ride!〃

But Charon rose and caught his hair
   In fingers sharp and long。
〃Loose me; old ferryman:  play fair:
   Try if my arm be strong。〃

Thrice drave he hard on Charon's breast;
   And struck him thrice to ground;
Till stranger ghosts came out o' the west
   And sat like stars around。

And thrice old Charon rose up high
   And seized him as before。
〃Loose me! a broken man am I;
   And fight with you no more。''

〃Zacho; arise; my home is near;
   I pray you walk with me:
I've hung my tent so full of fear
   You well may shake to see。

〃Home to my home come they who fight;
   Who fight but not to win:
Without; my tent is black as night;
   And red as fire within。

〃Though winds blow cold and I grow old;
   My tent is fast and fair:
The pegs are dead men's stout right arms;
   The cords; their golden hair。〃



PAVLOVNA IN LONDON



I listened to the hunger…hearted clown;
   Sadder than he:  I heard a woman sing; …
A tall dark woman in a scarlet gown …
   And saw those golden toys the jugglers fling。
I found a tawdry room and there sat I;
   There angled for each murmur soft and strange;
      The pavement…cries from darkness and below:
I watched the drinkers laugh; the lovers sigh;
   And thought how little all the world would change
      If clowns were audience; and we the Show。

What starry music are they playing now?
   What dancing in this dreary theatre?
Who is she with the moon upon her brow;
   And who the fire…foot god that follows her? …
Follows among those unbelieved…in trees
   Back…shadowing in their parody of light
      Across the little cardboard balustrade;
And we; like that poor Faun who pipes and flees;
   Adore their beauty; hate it for too bright;
     And tremble; half in rapture; half afraid。

Play on; O furtive and heartbroken Faun!
   What is your thin dull pipe for such as they?
I know you blinded by the least white dawn;
   And dare you face their quick and quivering Day?
Dare you; like us; weak but undaunted men;
   Reliant on some deathless spark in you
      Turn your dull eyes to what the gods desire;
Touch the light finger of your goddess; then
   After a second's flash of gold and blue;
      Drunken with that divinity; expire?

O dance; Diana; dance; Endymion;
   Till calm ancestral shadows lay their hands
Gently across mine eyes:  in days long gone
   Have I not danced with gods in garden lands?
I too a wild unsighted atom borne
   Deep in the heart of some heroic boy
      Span in the dance ten thousand years ago;
And while his young eyes glittered in the morn
   Something of me felt something of his joy;
      And longed to rule a body; and to know。

Singer long dead and sweeter…lipped than I;
   In whose proud line the soul…dark phrases burn;
Would you could praise their passionate symmetry;
   Who loved the colder shapes; the Attic urn。
But your far song; my faint one; what are they;
   And what their dance and faery thoughts and ours;
      Or night abloom with splendid stars and pale?
'Tis an old story that sweet flowers decay;
   And dreams; the noblest; die as soon as flowers;
      And dancers; all the world of them; must fail。



THE SENTIMENTALIST



There lies a photograph of you
   Deep in a box of broken things。
This was the face I loved and knew
   Five years ago; when life had wings;

Five years ago; when through a town
   Of bright and soft and shadowy bowers
We walked and talked and trailed our gown
   Regardless of the cinctured hours。

The precepts that we held I kept;
   Proudly my ways with you I went:
We lived our dreams while others slept;
   And did not shrink from sentiment。

Now I go East and you stay West
   And when between us Europe lies
I shall forget what I loved best
   Away from lips and hands and eyes。

But we were Gods then:  we were they
   Who laughed at fools; believed in friends;
And drank to all that golden day
   Before us; which this poem ends。



DON JUAN IN HELL
(from Baudelaire。)



The night Don Juan came to pay his fees
   To Charon; by the caverned water's shore;
A beggar; proud…eyed as Antisthenes;
   Stretched out his knotted fingers on the oar。

Mournful; with drooping breasts and robes unsewn
   The shapes of women swayed in ebon skies;
Trailing behind him with a restless moan
   Like cattle herded for a sacrifice。

Here; grinning for his wage; stood Sganarelle;
   And here Don Luis pointed; bent and dim;
To show the dead who lined the holes of Hell;
   This was that impious son who mocked at him。

The hollow…eyed; the chaste Elvira came;
   Trembling and veiled; to view her traitor spouse。
Was it one last bright smile she thought to claim;
   Such as made sweet the morning of his vows?

A great stone man rose like a tower on board;
   Stood at the helm and cleft the flood profound:
But the calm hero; leaning on his sword;
   Gazed back; and would not offer one look round。



THE BALLAD OF ISKANDER



Aflatun and Aristu and King Iskander
Are Plato; Aristotle; Alexander。

Sultan Iskander sat him down
On his golden throne; in his golden crown;
And shouted; 〃Wine and flute…girls three;
And the Captain; ho! of my ships at sea。〃

He drank his bowl of wine; he kept
The flute…girls dancing till they wept;
Praised and kissed their painted lips;
And turned to the Captain of All his Ships

And cried; 〃O Lord of my Ships that go
From the Persian Gulf to the Pits of Snow;
Inquire for men unknown to man!〃
Said Sultan Iskander of Yoonistan。

〃Daroosh is dead; and I am King
Of Everywhere and Everything:
Yet leagues and leagues away for sure
The lion…hearted dream of war。

〃Admiral; I command you sail!
Take you a ship of silver mail;
And fifty sailors; young and bold;
And stack provision deep in the hold;

〃And seek out twenty men that know
All babel tongues which flaunt and flow;
And stay!  Impress those learned two;
Old Aflatun; and Aristu。

〃And set your prow South…western ways
A thousand bright and dimpling days;
And find me lion…hearted Lords
With breasts to feed Our rusting swords。〃

The Captain of the Ships bowed low。
〃Sir;〃 he replied; 〃I will do so。〃
And down he rode to the harbour mouth;
To choose a boat to carry him South。

And he launched a ship of silver mail;
With fifty lads to hoist the sail;
And twenty wiseall tongues they knew;
And Aflatun; and Aristu。

There had not dawned the second day
But the glittering galleon sailed away;
And through the night like one great bell
The marshalled armies sang farewell。

In twenty days the silver ship
Had passed the Isle of Serendip;
And made the flat Araunian coasts
Inhabited; at noon; by Ghosts。

In thirty days the ship was far
Beyond the land of Calcobar;
Where men drink Dead Men's Blood for wine;
And dye their beards alizarine。

But on the hundredth day there came
Storm with his windy wings aflame;
And drave them out to that Lone Sea
Whose shores are near Eternity。

* * *

For seven years and seven years
Sailed those forgotten mariners;
Nor could they spy on either hand
The faintest level of good red land。

Bird or fish they saw not one;
There swam no ship beside their own;
And day…night long the lilied Deep
Lay round them; with its flowers asleep。

The beams began to warp and crack;
The silver plates turned filthy black;
And drooping down on the c
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