IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I 1.25 ^ 1^ III 2.2 Hf 1^ 12.0 1.4 1^ 1.6 Pm V2 ^>. Hiotographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 \ 4 \ ^^' ^>" .| i >. ..A- (;#!>$;:>;,', ^^v-^i.ilril'^X'^ ' ^ Cptt0^!n40 ^ *: ,/..pfl? LP Pij0537 T34G4- r^ (■ '^ ttjRONT0 : l»Hiiteil by Tt^ Bry«il| Preset and to be s^ld at James Bain'a Stord, on Kins: St«, at Tyrtrell'at ailil ai;Wni. Briggi* Book Hoiiic^ Anno Domini MOCCCXC^^ y. :-j( ■• » ,. ^.. .M'- '■ i '"' • ' ' < ''<". ! ^ ' "' • ■■ '", , ■ -•' ■ ■i:- ' • ^.m r>.- '~"^'.' J ■ -) ■ > : •■•-»■. ■ •.■ J . .. 1 % 't'i v." ' '-^ *- v- ;^-.% "S'^^ '. t' '■< ':^'.n ! 1 ', ■■' I (^ €^ri0fma0 .•*^ ,.*'> Can^icfe, pints' *S)f by the actors in a mystery i And stones hurled down from overhead. The gates were broken down that night, For we had fought as Danes can fight. ,. A Cry ,. A cry swept through the city then The which my heart shrinks to recount; In Saint Augustine's Church our men Dashed down Alphege before tlie fount, And in the rage of death the Danes Fast bound him with the altar chains. We killed the warriors on the stair, And caught their torches burning bright— The temple, in a smoky glare, Lay wrapped in roaring flames all night. And through the town rose awful shrieks, And women prayed with whitened cheeks. Alphege we sle • wit reckless haflO; And blood and gold 'lilled in the street; He did not curse us, but ih« h^d Soon wrought ns ruin more complete- broken, but not by man undone, A tew came back, and 1 iini one. Our Danish bands, ten thousand deep Returned not to the ocean shore ; Our ships are sunk, our warriors sleep In Kentish meado.v^s evermore; But some shall tell what Go.1 has done, A few came back, and I am one. >m Cry The Last »-Hii— ...'■■■ Shaper of breathing lives, and Lord of all above, Thy name I learned beside my mother's knee ; She drew me to her arms, and said that Thou wert Love- Oh art Thou Love to me ! , I cannot rear my thoughts amid the golden spheres, Where roll the stars about Thy throne on high. But here in lowly wise I call on Thee with tears, And teel Thy presence nigh. Childlike to Tbee I looked when came the night of fear. On Thee I laid my sorrows of the day ; The whole earth spake of One who seemed to be so near, It was not hard to pray. The bo ted doors that lock the corridors of Time, And bar the av/ful avenues of Space, My soul at last shall pass, and then, Oh dream sublime I I shall gaze on Thy face. A Night ® (&i5^< Q^fooming Ceireue. At Coahuila, Mexico. ^e — i» :^ f The desert stoic, silent of its power, Looms with bare cactus fronds, a form austere ; Its blossoms dream their beauty all the year, Both through the still heats and the sandy shower. But once each year, and at the midnight hour, The censer leaves shake loose their rich perfume, And paling petals, full of golden bloom. With majesty unfold into a flower. Even so have hearts, with vacillation sweet, Thrilled into momentary love, as when Stars briefly gleam, without a cloud between; Even so have dark souls, murdered by defeat. Glowed with pure prayer, who never spake again. Flowers of the desert midnight ! Who hath seen ? Night A Ballad ■M'TK«7^ ^>. I (^ (gafta'b for ^aini feucia'e ©ag/ The twinkling: i ipples of the summer sea Beneath the crimson sun la> all unrolled, And from their rondure odorous Sicily Lifted her crown of gold. The laurel branches and the sycamore Pel fumed the soft air with their dreamy tinct, And starry cassia buds drooped lightly o'er, Ensphered and indistinct. In night's cool purple Lucia came forth With shining eyes and sweet unsmiling mouth, And while the soft airs sought the silent north. Her eyes turned ever south. A vestal, vowed to heaven's bright cynosure. Her soul and body were diversely given ; The last a lover claimed, though no less pure. The first she pledged to heaven. But when her lover called her, passionate hearted, She sought again the treasure of her troth, And told him all; whereon his love departed. And hatred came, and wrath. And this he told, and this accused her of, That, being a Christian, she had been forsworn But love of Christ suppressed all human love. And even conquered scorn. A Victim '^t A victim, given to Cyprian votarici To pine for long and live the life of loath, The worid seemed wanton, and her life its prize, And Lucia hated both. But when they came to lead her to her prison, They could not move her, made immovable. About the praying virgin had arisen A weird and subtle spell. They tried to drag her with an oxen yoke ; In fury poured the boiling oil above her; The cords that would have forced her strained and broke, The oil marred no part of her. Then through her bosom, dreading what had been. They dashed a sharp sword, and her bosom bled ; And veiling her soft eyes as death crept in. She raised her lovely head. An Empire's fall, the maiden prophesied, And Romans trembled at the words she said; Then growing still, death made her heaven's bride. For she was dead. Written on 1 10 TJJriffen on a (j)age of (Jpofgeucfe. The soft regret. The beauty on the cheek Of Syrinx, in the vale of Arlcady ; Pan's mellow pipe beneath the myrtle tree. When love in lyric numbers learned to speak : The calm sublime. Below Hymettus peak The marble stage and choral melody, Borne through Athenian gardens towards the sea ; The purity of the divinely Greek : Such hymns of matin, through long garish years Rolled with auroral light, and after long, Pealed back the vespers night may not retrench. Attuning to the music of the spheres, Sweet Truth awoke, and the old world's aftersong Swelled with the sad perfection of the French. €feo Clearing Por Cfeating 0ovt sea; ears ch. ;ong 'Tis sweet to linger on the quay While the black ships put out to sea With ensigns to the wind; And sweet to hear the brazen bell, And minified voices of farewell, Ere all is left behind. Alone and silently I gazed As the great anchors were upraised And sails lashed to the spars; Alone saw England's sinking shore, ' As westward bound we smoothly bore Between the sea and stars. Ah, mighty splendor unsurpassed— Yet sight of land is sweet at last, And sweet at early morn To wake, and from the crowded deck Behold the proud walls of Quebec, And land where I was born. Death is such putting cait to sea, Death such a clearing port; may we When clangs the harbour bell. Though long upon the ocean tossed. Be not on sandy barrens lost, But reach the Citadel I 'A ig Fori The Funeral I(i t^t Sunemf of $o^n Weefeg. "^ A stir of footsteps in the morning darlc Was heard, and redly glared a smoking torch ; The city still slept on, but on the silence, hark ! Faint strains of music from the chapel porch. Still hung the night gloom over London spires, The mists of Marcii lay cold in City Road, While stole a melody of slowly singing choirs, Down through the darkened aisles where Death abode. Then came the preacher's measured monotone, The sad, sweet hymn of mourning at the bier, And solemn Litanies for one forever gone ; The man's mute sorrow, and the woman's tear. No hearse and no escutcheon honoured him ; Six poor men, only, bore him to the ^rave With heavy steps, and slow, while every eye grew dim With tears, for tears were all that he would have. Six poor men bore his coffin to the tomb, Who the awlul thunderbolts of Truth had hurled, Catching that light serene, still shining in the gloom; Ten thousand shout his warning to the world. " So passed a great soul to its lasting sleep; So, at life's limit, all shall separate, Till rolls the trumpet blast, resounding down the deep, And every sepulchre unseals its gale. \ I Vermilion \ Ch; :! :h. IS, s, eath le, ier, tear. I w dim have. lurled, loom ; •Id. 1 n the Vermilion (Permifton Q^ag. In the remote and solitary west There rolls forever in the wildtrness A bay of marginal gold ; and when at dawn The Morning lifts her beamy coronal Above the eastern woods, the glistering waves Melt to rose colour, and at Eventide, When the sun's slowly sloping car descends Into the violet vapours of the west, The shining waters swim in crimson light: Map-makers call it the Vermilion Bay. " From the brown se:ge and lilies on the shore Loose flights of waterfowl sometimes start up And swiftly slant their course above the pines. With sharp discordant screams, and flapping wings, While silent bitterns on the weedy bar Wade with slow splashing feet. Sometimes the deer Come fearlessly to drink at break of day, Brushing the bright dews from the embroidered ferns, And with their delicate antlers tearing loose The hanging foliage of the forest boughs. From solitude to solitude the birds Parley in Ariel's golden melodies. And day-winds, garmented in summer smells, With tremulous whispers crisp the shining pools, Or loiter in a blissful bower of leaves. And where -^_., .^.,^Vi« ^^s^ 3B m And where the moss spreads richly on the ground By mouldering- trunks of great trees, dead and bare, And cloistered violets in hollows dank Fill with soft blue the grasses faintly .^unned ; The Past, with lettered scrip of silver rime, Conies back and breathes her fables in my ear. • For in this place, in unrecorded days, The desperate Algonquins closed in v/ar ; Here fell their flinty arrows, here, perhaps. Beneath the golden autumn's scarlet dies Coy meetings of primeval Pastoral ; When in the grove of spruce and juniper A dusky virgin listened by the re^^ds, Await'ng the familiar paddle stroke. And the canoe, that on the waters calni Unrolled a trail of silver, and tiie tread Of moccasins, when the soft harvest moon Floated amid her shining mists asleep, With one white arm across her pillow bent, And golden locks upon her rosy cheek — Titania in a bed of cygnet down. Or, peradventure, on these banks encamped Some of those bands that searched the farther west For China and the realms of Prester John, Verendrye, or LaSalle, or Frontenac; In those old days of famine and romance, Ere wartime, when the Bourbon Fleurs de Lys Unfolded o'er the cannon at Quebec. Or somewhat > ■ <■ cZtir ^^ i««ap T'T^S^ oLind bare. ! i • 1^ V ( vest Or somewhat later, when the Jesuit, BlazinjT a trail in unfamiliar woods, Brought to the west the Roman Breviary. Or when the missionary* by the rocks A century after, moored his lone canoe, And looked out in the golden afternoon, And saw the silent prairies sweeping far Westward, and from the old Portage du Chien, Footsore and famished, brought the Bible first: And in the wigwams by the river stayed, Thereafter called Negick, among the tribes. The ottw^r, for no red man swam so well. Witch of the Past, in forests sibylline, How are thy scrolls of wisdom scattered now ! The breathless hopes and plans imperial- England and France— democracy and Rome— While the fond deities of nature wrap About each vestige their thick raimenting, And the mild races of the forest flowers Forever at the freshening of May Spring into colour, swinging censers sweet, And dropping starry dust, and the dim rocks And fuming brooks, and purple shining lakes, During eternal amid fading things. Are monumental to their memory. ^Thomas Hurlburt MTiewhat An Eastern )f4>MMp« wimmmk mmmmmtif M _ .^jw i . i^ i iwwiii— ti 9 MM '6 I' 1 ($n <^6fem &ec(enb. Where halts the desert caravan There came a worn and thirsty man, Who at a running fountain's brink In silent prayer stooped to drink. And restful was it there to wait An hour beneath the palm and date. But when the earthen cup he raised, So bitter was the water's taste That, scarcely moistening his lip, He let the jar of water slip ; And to those ears that hear on high Cried, " Water, Heaven, or I die ! " Whereon a spirit voice replied, " Oh, cast the drinking cup aside. For it is moulded of the clay Of one long dead and lost to- day : Of one whose sin is writ in Heaven ; A sin forever unforgiven." With locked hands drinking from the pool, The water then seemed sweet and cool ; And thus refreshed, with bended head. The traveller reverently said, *' My life from such sin, Allah, bless, As lives eternal bitterness ! '* Will 'o the I '^ ^, T^ m^m^m ^^ ^^ ^T™iJ7Mt^] ^ Night's caravan swept through the azure gate That eastward stands eternally ajar, And far from ways of men a traveller, In wildernesses black, was wandering late. Perhaps to pray he paused, perhaps to wait The fortunate coming of the northern star. Or lady moon, when, weirdly from afar. The will o' the wisp allured him to his fate. So error forever at our gate encamps. The sky was ever full of evil lamps. And life of ill philosophies and creeds. Ye who find life a losing of the way In patience wait uritil the break of day, Though long in coming, for it truly leads. tf , A Flock mm I w^m to a Sfoc6 of ^eoguffe. h Welcome us without ado, Dear paj;es, sent with good intent From yonder fog-wrapped continent, To meet us on the highway blue, With those proprieties of phrase That serve for goodwill nowadays, And greeting to our *ihip and crew. How often with the voyage bored, Impatient for my land affairs, Of Kipling tired and passengers. When even whist I half abhorred, I've seen your wings in mid ca eer At last, and known the land wa j near, And back to spirits was restored. Out sentries of the shore. But when We cleared the Mersey, flocks like you Followed as boys a bridal do For a long day at sea, and then, When landward the last gull had flown, West for a week we sailed alone Till we approached the coast again. So coast to coast on Fate's black chart ! For I must moralize, you see— And the gulls are gone that followed me When I slipped my moorings to depart. Soon a landward gun will sound (as now), And Death's dark gulls about my bow Scream while the night falls on my heart. I <\ t. ■r '. .V5/' ^>^f^ ''^ ■ %'■.,* I >i :^^: F'iV-: /j:-#^.:' .(':'■;• ^^m. .ji.^y^, :f j^' ■,:/. ytr-, •'>■,•> V-- ->*■',' «'» 'i. > ■'^. , A' /'. "^ ;','/.-.', ' 1 ' ■' ' , ,■''* I* .' .' ■■'-■■,. /'^ -."*•■■■ . , '■ * 'All, ■ ''i>*^ ■ if J-k; ■r ., ^.j^:.' ■'■r\f.\u. H :/-; > ■ i BBWP T4 M il l f I M| V^ J..^,,^ r > ^\; , ' \ ;■ '-s. 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