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H'. /. . t'<>r>tl>-i. /jiC^^€fyi^ // , ^(a^-<^ m I, S O N (i - W A V E S BY THlRc)NI {garden fair - Calm soul, unkindled by the si^'ht Celestial sweetness swift outstrips Dimly beheld, thou excellent Doubt flies before the truth that's quired Fair as the light on fire-tipt hills - Far off" and veiled it seems to me Far up the brook, beyond the lin Filled oft with {X)rtenls, oft withdrawn Frail Lucia of a mutual love Fresh sprig of greenest southernwood Green tracery of fern to rust '3 '7 23 59 24 55 3i 46 53 93 36 61 57 28 58 34 7« 25 87 49 74 vu Contents Song-Waves— ( Continued). Hail, Mary, honored of the race - Her steps fall sweet as summer rain Hope's clear blue eye is open wide How swift soft-feathered Time sails on I dreamed I drew my parting breath I feel the season's dreamy call If mighty angels fair and tall I keep one picture in my heart - Immortal Love, immortal ruth - Impressions vast and vague flow in I see that power is not in art I would enshrine in silvern sor i; - Like oxeye daisies of the field Look now ! The crested waters sleep Love bows herself in holy prayer Love's inspirations of the lyre Man's highest word, as God's above Men plow and sow while moves the sun My quickened sense can only plod Never before has my ear heard - O glorious light ! Thy limpid wave O June has lit her splendid lamp O patriot, ruler, leader great O soul that art essential change - Over the brow of lofty scar - Philosophy doth dig and draw Pure lily, open on the breast Revolving without rest and goal - viii Page 86 60 82 71 80 50 38 52 94 19 83 91 70 45 90 44 27 72 56 8s 32 88 17 69 65 30 31 Contents Song-Waves — ( Continued). Says one who with the sad condoles - Spirit of song, life's golden ray - Sunshine, O soul, is not a mood - Superbest power with sweetness wed - Sure in this realm of Sense and Time - Sweetheart, I dedicate to thee - Pa(;e 76 18 47 22 54 16 The bird of needle beak, and breast - The flecks of gold that glorify The full ripe year, these maple hills - The ideal is a lifting sky The infinite in grand repose The mirrored silence of this pool The scarlet arch of evening fills - The sovereign law of human life The spirit firm and swelling soul - The sweep, O heart, of Love's account The sword and spear and savage knife The " trees of God," the prophet said The world's a train at speeding rate - There are no solitudes to view - There ever wakes an evil wraith - This golden-browed September land - This tiny life, with exquisite wings Thus wrought the Seen- Unseen the spell 'Tis fit the bloodroot in white hood Two lives made one, 'he man and wife Unnumbered traits shine in thy face - Unveiled as kinsman, Love did seek - Vast promise is the sea, and vast ix 29 41 79 42 66 68 63 92 43 21 89 40 81 n 51 64 IS 20 67 62 84 35 Contents Song- Waves— ( Co«//««^,/). We talked of bird and flower and tree What nature mirrors and reveals - What though the s, -shell cheats the ear Who loveth not the e..n tree fair With lathe of viewless hyaline - The Whitethroat .... Summer - . . . _ Glory-Roses - . . . . The Wind ..... The Crystal Spring .... Ay Me !--... The Years The Note of Nature .... At the P'ord .... Repose .... Pace 75 26 59 95 97 100 103 104 III 112 114 117 120 Pace 73 75 26 59 95 97 100 103 104 III 112 114 117 120 ra navra iv avrcp Gwiartpiev. (In Him all things hold together.) XII TO EMELINE. WOULD enshrine in silvern song The charm that bore our souls along, As in the sun-flushed days of summer We felt the pulsings of nature's throng ; When flecks of foam of flying spray Smote white the red sun's torrid ray, Or vvimpling fogs toyed with the mountain,- Aerial spirits of dew at play ; When hovering stars, poised in the blue, Came down and ever closer drew ; Or, in the autumn air astringent, Glimmered the pearls of the moonlit dew. 13 j1 ii! 1 : ■ i ill To Emeline We talked of bird and flower and tree, Of God and man and destiny. The years are wise though days be foolish, We said, as swung to its goal the sea. Our spirits knew keen fellowship Of light and shadow, heart and lip ; The veil of Maya grew transparent. And hidden things came within our grip. !! t And then we sang : " In Arcady All hearts are born, thus happy-free, Till film of sin shuts out the Vision That is, and was, and that is to be." 14 To Emeline Thus wrought the Seen- Unseen the spell To which our spirits rose and fell. As drops of dew throb with the ocean, We felt ourselves of His tidal swell. " Nature's enchantment is of Love,— Goodness, and truth, and beauty wove ; In Him all things do hold together, And onward, upward to Him they move." And as we spake the full moon came, A splendid globe in silver flame, P>om out the dusky waste of waters. Reposeful sped by His mighty name. 15 Ill I To Emeline Sweetheart, I dedicate to thee These Song- Waves from life's voiceful sea. They ebb and flow with swift occasion, Bearing rich freight, and perhaps debris. i ii Each murmuring low its song apart May hint a symphony of art, Since under all, within, and over. Is diapason of Love's great heart. It For thee, as on the bridal day, (Sweet our November as the May ! ) Are joined in one our high communings ; So take them, dear, as thine own, I pray. Toronto, 1900. 16 SONG-WAVES. SOUL, that art essential change, Bickering beams, a flutter strange, Lightning of thought and gust of passion, A silver thread in this mountain range ; The waters of thy shimmering rill, More real are they than granite hill ; Thy tremulous waves of mystic feeling Nourish a life of enduring will. The sun and moon from spacious height. And stars, may crumble into night ; Why shouldst thou cease to move forever, A living glow of eternal light ? 17 Ci 1,1 Sons^ - Waves I :\ 1 I PIRIT of Song, life's golden ray That burneth in this house of clay, Despite the stress of blast and tempest To quench the flickering light and play ; Rapture of seraphs bright thou art. Yet kindlest in the human heart The fluid soul's upbreathed emotion, Whose light shines clear as a star apart,- A fairer light of sweeter fame Than science knows to praise or blame, Wherein the soul has open vision. And feels the glow of His holy flame. i8 Son^- Waves MPRESSIONS vast and vague flow in From Somewhat that to me is kin. Shall I assemble them all careless In the mind's garret or waste dust-bin ? Nay. In solution in the soul's Own hot equators, frosty poles, I'll more and more their import cherish, Their deeps on deeps to my shelving shoals. O heart, with tentacles in sea, Like oral-disked anemone. Taste thou the wine of shoreless oceans. And feed on food that was meant for thee ! )J; I » 19 M 1 i t| il Song- Waves IS fit the bloodroot in white hood Should brave the parting winter's mood, — Come, thou, pale violet, streaked, sweet-scented, Beside the runs of this tempered wood. f ' \i I hunger for thy gentle face. Sweetest of all the wildwood race ! O flower, at once ideal and essence, Why stayest thou from thy wonted place ? Thou art not dead ? Nay, when death crept Upon thy form, thy full life leapt Defiance at the harsh destroyer, And slept as seed ! Thou hast overslept. 20 Song. JVai'fs HK sweep, O heart, of Love's account I Hearken: " I am of life ,he |.o„nt ; All arc within My deeps of Keing, The toiling city, the sea, the mount ' "Vea, when thou cleav'st the pillared tree Raisest the stone, I am with thee ; Darkness and light, flux and becoming Sisnal My presence, and ceaselessly " Regard Me not as though afar ; Ope thine heart's eyes, and. lo. My Star Burns 'neath Time's vesture, true Shekinah Centre and Soul of the things that are" ' 21 Song- Waves iti th UPERBEST power with sweetness wed The inner eye doth overspread, And vasts of nature blend as beauty Suffused with awe at the Fountain Head. The stream of power that floweth here I see in pageant of the year, Aye shimmering as hght and shadow— A wonderment on the verge of fear ! The world's not dead but animate, And gives as free to mean as crreat ; Wealth of true power is not a kingdom Of time and place, but the soul's estate. 22 Nw/ Song- Waves BOVE the scarred cliff's iron brow There speeds the fruitful crooked plow ; While on the soft west wind come odors Of plumy pine and of balsam bough. Tir Here at the base another sight - It ceaseth not by day nor night— Ormudz and Ahriman contending, Destroyer dari: and White Soul of light ! Bared by life's ever beating brine, The rocky bases that define Of good and ill the place of meeting, Be bugle-call to this heart rf mine ! \ i 23 I ^r TO Song- Waves w Q FTER the winds there is surcease ; Take courage, heart, and be at peace ; The printless beach, all combed and shining. In beauty lies with its windrow fleece. Impetuous as a torren speed White horses raced this watery mead, With manes of chrysoprase aflowino- Each neighing loud to its neighbour steed. The wastes that finger pebbly shores, Unplowed by ship nor cut by oars, His music wake as sweet as attar, And flash in light as the heavenly floors. 24 I wl ^ Song- Waves ining, 5^ ILLED oft with portents, oft withdrawn, My inward skies, from earliest dawn To this full hour, have borne their witness Of one who out of the darkness shone. The soul is dowered with awful things. Mystic as sound of unseen wings, The sense of God, of Law, of Duty, Of Life, and Destiny. Signet rings Flash on these fingers of one hand— The Hand of God ! The mean, the grand, Tremble beneath the fearsome covert Till lurid sky with the Rainbow's spanned. 25 t J !»! Song- Waves itJ HO loveth not the elm tree fair, A fountain green in summer air, Whose tremulous spray cools the faint meadow, And croons to all of a careless care ? !,(( It shades the city's paven way, Where redbreast knows the white moon's ray; It sentinels the moss-grown homestead, And waits the men of a coming day. Its curving lines that fill the sight, Like mellow meteor's path of light. Or orbed spring of walls of azure. My spirit greet from the infinite. 26 eadovv. ^\ Song- Waves ffi EN plow and sow while moves the sun Away, away from work begun ; Ofttimes they've heard *' Seedtime and harvest Are sure "-the word of the Sovereign One. We link our deeds with law supreme, In field and flood, in wood and stream ; We test Omnipotence by labor, And reap rewards of no idle dream. Obedience is the astringent wine That's quaffed by strenuous souls and fine, Of cloudy doubt the heavenly solvent. The Christ's elixir of life divine. W !l ih I .1 »h ii' 27 ! V *•' *: ^ Song- Waves © OUBT flies before the truth that's quired When earth in h'ving green 's attired, As ghosts before the daystar's rising,— The grass is ever God finger-spired. When h'fe is low my awe-stirred soul No vision has of nature's whole ; It would unsheathe a weapon naked And cut the bands of divine control. The Nazarene knows no decrease,— He shed His beams on Rome and Greece ! O radiant is His word : Consider The springing grass, and have rest and peace ! 28 i !■ 1 I Song- Waves 'HE bird of needle beak, and breast Of orange flame, doth weave its nest At tip of branch, a cradle swinging To all the airs of the south and west. II' Who schooled thy needle to begin Its forth and back and out and in, Till plaited cot, a gourd-like pendant, Shall temper winds to thy first of kin ? Thy sun-bright mate, his joy to prove. Flutes sweet his ardors from above. O golden robin, skyey-nested. Thou rockest safe in the arms of Love. ,1^ 29 I I t:'. A?«^- Waves F URE lily, open on the breast Of toiling waters' much unrest, Thy simple soul mounts up in worship Like ecstasy of a spirit blest ! Thy wealth of ivory and gold, All that thou hast, thou dost unfold ! Fixed in the unseen thy life breathes upward A heavenly essence from out earth's mould. Now comes the chill and dusk of night, — Folds up thy precious gold and white ! Thy casket sinks within veiled bosom. To ope the richer in morrow's light. 30 Song- IVaves ward K EVOLVING without rest and goal Thewayoflifeofbuddincrsoul, From seed to leaf and stalk, I see ft From leaf to bloom and from bloom to' whole. About the Daystar, God-indwelt, It turneth to His influence felt, Till, dusk beam-smitten into daylight, It in the palpitant heavens doth melt'!' 1 Lift, lift, ye gates of endless noons. That entrance yield on God's own boons Of liberty as law in fruitage. And timeless months of transcendent Junes ! I ' 31 li. «' Song- Waves JUNE has lit her splendid lamp In the broad meadow lush and damp, Where loves the brook in loops to loiter, And tufted vernal to pitch its camp ! Last night she veiled the starlit sky, And walked beside the brook so shy ; She took from out her beating bosom A lighted orchis — and passed on high. '( At dawn July came o'er the hills — O light of eye and deep heart-thrills, As she beheld the glowing orchis Whose splendor now all the meadow fills 32 J (' Song- JVaves (3 QUIET breath distils in calm, And fill, the fields with honcyld balm • It cools the rose's cheek, and rolleth ' Indropsofdewonthepoppyspa,n,_ Each crystal globe filled full of fire, And flashing like a color pyre. All heavened beneath the eye of morning , To sate the hunger of day's desire. O Breath divine, that form and hue. And ecstasy of light and blue. Gave to Orion and the Pleilds, Thou hast begotten the orbs of dlw. 33 I! f f' I: :) I •■ II SoN^i:;- IVaves ¥ 'AR-OFF and veiled it seems to me, The face of yester dreamy sea, That breathed s(j soft its shining waters Pungent with odors of rosemary. No sculptured arabesque to-day, But unhewn strength in mighty play, That heaves the ship on bursting billow And smites the cliff in its ancient way ! Beneath its silken vestments beat A lion heart of jungle heat ; Its couchant soul delights in battle To fell the rock and to whelm the fleet. 34 '^^^^ Sotig. leaves I ^ AST promise fs the sea. and vast 't-spafn. Its secret IS held fast ^ Now hope's .vKle .pen eye and sunny. And nou' a weeping and uaih-ng past (I have a grievance unredrest That stings my heart and rends my breas,- J crhaps // gathers in its bosom I he sorrows wild of the worlrP • Liie uorlcj s opprest ?) Defc 'ormity or pain unstrings The music of the soul of things - Ah suns burn bright in eyeVof panther, And hghtnings leap in the eagle's win gs I i 35 !il' Song- Waves e ALM soul, unkindled by the sight Of open heavens at noon of night, Thou'lt dread the fires of day of judgment When roll the skies as a parchment slight. He waits not for that upward gaze — The world is full of judgment days ; And every night the page is written, " An atheist," or " Behold he prays ! " Ah, me ! These lights so manifold, So silvern new, so golden old. Do witness swift, like fires of vengeance. Against indifferent hearts and cold. Song. JVaves HERE are no solitudes to view, The whole world lies in drop of dew ; From where it hangs all space is open ; It neighbors stars of the crystal blue. This open vision has my soul Athrill with silent organ-roll Of immanence divine, and feels it Upgathcr all in harmonious whole,- if: Deep waves of God's vast music clear, That pulse one choral atmosphere Of Love's concordant purposes, and Fore-score tKe song of His golden year. 37 Song- Waves F mighty angels fair and tall, (Each robed as priestly seneschal, On altar-suns burn incense daily, As wheel the systems to Love's sweet call, A I Earth's sun is sure an altar-rose. Abloom from dawn to day's bright close. The mighty angel stoops above it With pulsing wings, as it golden glows. ,■ ti' To fan the incense-v^aves through space. When buds the light or folds its grace. He lifts erect his glorious stature, Kindling the sky from his ruddy face. % H 38 Song- Waves CROSS the hills the cattle call, 'As black the boding shadows fall ; Zigzag the lightning writes its message That's thundered forth from the mountain wall. r- / From out the overhanging frown The loosened rain comes rattling down ! The swallow's gone, the daisy cowers- But joy to fields in their tan and brown ! The burnished cypher of the sky Now lets the loud-tongued thunder die. Nature's delight, a timeless rapture. Glows in her face and rekindled eye. :iii 39 HE "trees of God," the prophet said, Great trees, with sap, and laurelled head ; Ay, trees of God ! all strength, all beauty, Wove by invisible Hand and thread, — With anchors flexed as lissome withe ; With boles like mighty monolith ; These arms of brawn, outstretched in power To brave the storms that would test their pith ! Lords of the scene in blasts and calms. The breath of life within their palms. They rhythmic sway in choral murmur While seas and suns chant their rolling psalms. 40 Song- IVaves HE flecks of gold that glorify the forest floors to loving eye, Withdraw from me,-a splendor h'ngers On trees of God, in their crowns on high. iver »ith ! And as the arch with stars is sprent, I hear balm-dew from firmament Drip richly from their whispering leafage To soothe the fields to a sweet content. ns. In bloom of dark they softly stir, Till arrowy dawn the shadow-blur Dispels-God's tingling kiss of morning On oak and maple and pine and fir. 41 Song-lVaves * \ : i Stj ^) HE ideal is a lifting sky Wherein my soul may upward fly ; It moveth as I onward journey, Solace of heart and the light of eye. ,1! spirit to spirit ! Thus is wrought All that uplifts the world of thought Or wings the soul with aspiration, By which the life to its height is brought. Great souls the mount of vision trod. While plumy fire their sandals shod ; They saw the unseen and eternal. O life is life when 'tis seen in God ! 1< Song- Waves HE spirit firm and swelling soul Are heart of noble self-control, Sources of power transmuting danger To clarion-call to the man as whole. 'Tis courage helms the bark that's tost By wild typhoon, or swept by frost, While sailing life's surprising ocean,- Strike sail to fear and the bark is lost. fill 'll / O muse, thou sing'st no siren strain To him who plows this heaven-domed main ! Thy starry eyes look down all-wistful On souls that toy with a tangled skein. V ! 43 I* >•*> Song- Waves fjl AN'S highest word, as God's above, The golden word of words, is love ; Its whisper is the soul's one rapture, Its voice the voice of the brooding dove. ( Immortal rose of joy elate. Thy perfume's waft by palace gate Or hovel door, in cloud or sunshine. That breath of Eden which all hearts wait. Ensouled in clay man's glory is, Yet love dilates this soul of his Till chrysalis of earth be shattered, And comes the answer to Psyche's quiz. 44 .! >4 »^«