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The first r^art, the Atlantic Ilonthly for Ar-ril I'' "9. — n ■ ^ . . _ - on the dbath apr: eared in The second nart, "^•'idsunrner en^a.ged in writing a trilo,;;T "Death in April," a-oreared in Land," 'las lust appeared in "^nr^land in the Universal Revip; , accom- panied by a' beautiful full pa ;e engraving of llatthev; Arnold. The third part, "Autumn '>uard," is not vet finished. i'''Ir. Car-nan '-.as lately been aP'->ointed to the staff of the l-ew York Independent , as editor in char;;;e of the department that deals x>rith contri -juted articles. We extend our hearty con'^-ratulatlons on his success in obtaining so i-nnortant a position on a Periodical so widely circulated as the Independent . University Monthly Volume 9, Pa :;e 73 March, 1890 K^'i i*^' ^»*'. R.K.' ^'j »fn I ■ N»' .\:f I -> cLcA^ ; (X i-k-=' I /^ /i^-y/, //. ^Itlo OJ^^ A C*,/t^^Za^ ^ ^ "^■^"V^xyy ^^^ ^**<«^l ««i*««iK' ■/*-.i»».;^.,.--i,'/iKri. 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« / --;/ X ff \ •-• «■ . ( \ rxs^ y 'T ..,.,,..f'< ,r,'ri»-'' » ■ > .■^»«itStf./i"',^iii»4iiMM^i«ij*,, V -,eiS»<*- I t f ^a^ f^^/' ; l:^TcL^ ^ Cy^ ""^^^C^^: n^^J^oi.'yu^^tj:^^ Xa^^ D I Cu^7 kj/u Y .' iyUtU^^^^ruT^ y ^a--?^ u ?dri fi ti i ¥ 7 A /^ / /^^. ^^tiyuyL''^yt^^ c^Ctot^ ^ cX^Ci /d (ZC/lt lo ~^/te Jt^^^fyvooc M i : I ■4 r 4 liDcTa A. 7^ • *«, 1«*,V ■■ -^p*'^~ . ^. . • .1 r DEATH IN APRIL, '• Til Ijw iiiicis wh',;: ■ th.' ^un aiiil nmon ai'i"" inutt,' Tluc atquc vale. ..^ HMpn* JL-..-. i'-^ i i \ ''T^rt^'^fmih^.imuif^'^,-^^ DEATH IN APRIL. Motlier England, bow thy reverend head This April morning. Over Northlands wan Midspring comes back to freshen thoe once more, With tlaisies on the niovinds of thy loved dead, Like Chaucer's boneiliction from the dawn, Or his, ah, me ! who down thy forest floor Went yestereven. Now In vain thou art regirdled as alone Of all the elder lands or younger thou With hawthorn spray canst be, — that weariless Eternal charm of thine, thou home of blown Seafarers in the storm through dark and stress. 1 mm ii' . aKiiiMniMiaiin«iii|^ t: i II. 'Tis Spring once more upon the Cumner hills, And tlie shy Cumner vales are sweet with raiii With blossom and with sun. The burden of time By eerie woodland messenj^ers fulfils Our unremembered treasuries of pain With long lost tales of unforgotten prime ; The stir of winds asleep Amidst of orchards through unlanguid hours Allures us to explore the vernal deep And unhorizoned hush wherein we wend, Yet always some elusive weird there lowers llauntino' its utt evmos t cloud walls uiikenned \l \l \ \ ' III. There skirt the dim outroads of April's verge — Memorial of an elder age — gray wraiths Which went nowhither when the world was young, Grim ghosts which haunt the marges of the surge Of latest silence. Beaming sunshine bathes The wanderers of life, and still among 'Jhe corners of the dawn Lurk these dark exiles of the nether sea, Unbanished, uni'ecalled from ages gone. Disowned ideals, deeds, or Furies blind. Or murdered selves, — I know not what they be, Yet are they terrible though death be kind. ;.i9Kf, IV. Coiiipanioned by tho myriad hosts of eld, Wf journey to a laii(i beyond the sweep Of kno\vled<,fe to deteniiine; tented where Tlie storied heroes watch aforetime held, We hold encaiiipiiient for a ni<,'ht and sleep Into the ilawn ; till, restless, here and there A sleeper having' dreamed Of music and the chihlliood sound of birds And the clear run of river heads which gleamed Along' his hither coming through the gloom, Rouses from his late slumber, and upgirds liim to look forth where the gold shadows loom. V. Ah, Cuniner, Cumner, where is morning now i A nightwatch did lie bide with thee, but who Uath ids clear prime ! Perchance the great dead Names, Wide bruited, shall restore thee him, if thou His captive flight with ransom flowers pursue And gleaming swallows down the glittering Thames Where the long sea-winds go. In vain, in vain ! To the hid wells of tears In their grim waste thou canst not jonrney so, Nor make leap up the old desire outworn, For C'or^'don is dead these thousand years. Dear Corydon who died this April morn. €• 4 a I 'i; ' VI. O inotlier April, niothor of all flreaniH, Chilli of reineiiihranco, inotl'.er of regret, Inlieritor of silent 3 ami desire, Wlin (lost revisit now forsaken streams. Canst tliou, tlieir spirit, evermore forget How one sweet touch of immemorial tire Erewhile did use to Hush The music of their wells, as sunset light Is laid athwart the springtime with keen hush '' Being so gracious ami so loveil, hast thou In all thy realm no shelter from the night Wliere Corydon niav keen — with Thvrsis now ? VII. Hiist thou some far se(|uest ering retreat We can Vjut measure by the pause and swing Of old returning seasons filled with change ? When far from this world, whither do thy feet Lead thee upon the margins of the Spring ? Through what calm lulls of weather dost thou range In smiling reverie, B(.'tween the crisp of dawn and noon's white glare ? Beyond the borders of the wintry sea. Remembering those who loved thy garment's hem As children love the oxeyes, dost thou there Reserve a shadow of content for them ? 1 1 VIII. Belike some tender little ^n-ave-eyed boy ()t' mild regard and wistfid plaintive moodH, P'ondling nt' earth, dailini,' of (iod, too shy For fellowship with comrades, tinds employ In undiscoverable solitudes Of childhood, when the ^ravtd paths are dry And the still noons grow lonj(. In the old garden's nook of quiet sun, Where hrownies, eltin-things, and sun-motes throng, He builds a hut of the hall-brown tir boughs — Whose winter banking for the llowers is done — And there all day his royal fairy house 1 :e IX. He keeps, with entertainment of such guests As no man may bring home ; he peoples it As never Homer peopled Troy with kings. In the wide morning his unnamed behests Strange forestei's obey, while he doth sit And murmur what his sparrow playmate sings From the dark cedar hedge. Twin tiny exiles from the vast outland, They know the secret unrecorded pledge Whereby the children of the dawn are told. The toiling small red ants are his own band Of servitors ; his minstrels from of old — r ^ 1 ■■( ii % \\ \ X. Liuht-liearted pillagers of golden shrines — The bees were, in the willows ; row on row Are his the4alLwhito lilacs in the sun ; And his the stainle.ss roof-work of the pines. He in that wiile unhaste heats to and fro, Borne far a-wind as a poiseil bird might run, ( )r as a sunbiu'nt shard Might gleam, washed over by the glimmering sea: A mother hand hath still his doom in guard : The sparrow cadence and the lilac's prime Go build the soul up of a man to be, While vet he kens them not, nor self, nor time. XI. O mother April, mother of all dreams. In thy far dwelling keepest thou for him Such hospitable bounty i Hast thou there A welcome of seclusion and .sweet streams Of sheer blue waters at whose running brim, Under the gold of that enchanted air. Thy frail windllowers are spread ? T'vown with thy smile the end of his rare quest. And cherish on thy knees that holiest head ; Sweet mother, comfort his dear spirit now With perfect calm, with long abiding rest. And that love thou canst tend him — only thou 1 XII. April, tiKither of all tlie dapplerl hours, Ilostorer of lest days for whom we lony, liiinyur of sociltime — of the flowers and birds, Sower of Hmmty — of the LikIh and sliowers, Exalter of dumb heart" to the brink of sonjj, Ilevealer of blind Winter's runic words ! Relief from losin;,' strife To him thou givest and to us regret. Wilt thou recjuioken e- 3r there to lite Our dreams which troop across the burning hills V Or on Hinna primal bleak wimllands forget Thy yearning children by their woodland rills / XIII. We muse and muse and never ijuite forego The sure belief in thj one homo at last. The years may drive us \\ith dull toil and blind, Till age Vn-ing down a covering like .snow Of many winters, yet the pausing blast Hath rifts of quiet, and the frozen wind Zones of remindful peace ; Then, while some pale green twilight fables to gold, There comes a change — and we have found release In the old M'ay at thy returning hands. Forever in thy care we grow not old. No barrows of the dead are in th^ lands. cT' A ) .7 j:jaz T \ ^ 1 XIV. (> Ajiril, mother ol' dosire iiinl Juiit-, Great Angel of the sunshine ami the rain, Thon, only thou canst evoiiiiore reilceni The world from bitter death, or ijuito retune The mornini,' with low houihI wherein all pain Bears part with incommunicalile dream Ami lispinj^ undersonjf, Ahove th3- woodbanks of anemone. A spirit jjoes before thee, and we long In tears to follow where thy wimlways roam- Depart and traverse liack the toiling sea, Nor weary any more in alien home. XV. With what high favor hast thou rarely given A .springtime death as thy bestowal of bliss ; On Av(jn once thy tending hands laid by The puppet robes, the curtained .seenes were riven, And the great prompter smiled at thy long kiss And Corydon'.s own master sleeps a-nigh The stream of llotha's well, Where thou didst bury him thy deare.st child ; In one aweet year the Blessed Damozel BehoMs thee bring her lover, hjved by thee, Outworn for rest, whom iio bright shore beguiled, I'o voyage out acrcss the gray North Sea, — — ^-rniimai- m~ k^ am in — XVI. Aii'l sluwly Assabct takt'.s on her cliarm, Since him sho iriost ilid lovo thou hast withilrawii Boyoiid the woli-.sprinL,'s cil' luTpctual ilay. And now 'tis Lah'hani : I'l'oMi all noisi; and harm, Hlilhe and boy hearted, whither is lie '^oni', (Like tliein who fare in peace — knowiii},' thy sway Is ov(u' carls and kin^^s, He was too j,'reat to cease to he a child, Too wise to be content with childish thin;,'s) HavinL,' lieard swinL,'-to the twin-leaved doors of ^doom Pillared with autumn dust from out the wild And carved upon with Reauty and P'oUKDOOM ( iven, kiss ; led, XVII. Awhile within tlie luarini; iron house He toiled to thrill the bitter dark with cheer ; But ever the earlier prime wrapped his white soul In sure and flawless welfare of repose, Kept like a rare (ireek son^' through many a year With Chian terebinth — an illumined scroll No injury can deface. And men will toss his name from sea to sea Alonti' the wintry dusk a little space, Till thou return with Hii,dit of swallow and sun T(j weavi; for us the rain's hoar traci-ry, With blossom and dream unravelled and undone. ■ ■*!,» r I XVIII. W« joy in thy brief tarryin;,', and beyond— The vanislu'd road's ond lies eiigull'ed in snow Far on tlio mountains of a ^^^im now morn. Cravin',' t\w light, yut of the dark mori! fond, Abliorriiij,' and dcsirin;^' do we go, — A criiNi! of tears, and lovo with leven of .scorn. Mingled for Journuy fare, — While in the vi.sion of a harvest land We see thy river wintorm Have set their bar, For time shall crush Spring balm t'ur Inni, Stark on his bier Past fault or harm, ir "-"WM. ,.r"' X _^5mqs|^ n i Who once, as flush Oi di'enin might skim The dusk, afar III sleep shall hear Thy song's cool ru^lt With calm rebrim Tlie world, and scar Tlie izloom with cheer. ¥' h i ! I i Then, Heartsease, hush : It' sense j^tow dim, Desire shall steer TTs home '^roiu far ' 7 E TENEBRIS, ( 'all to me, thvush, When nij^dit grows dim, When dreams unt'orm, And ileath is far. When hoar dews flush The dawn's rathe brim Wake me to lieai Thy wild wood charn,, — As a lone rush Astir in the slim White stream where «heer Blue morninirs are. m n n lti D ia