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The following diagrams illustrate the method: Les cartes ou les planches trop grandes pour dtre reproduites en un seul clich6 sont film6es d partir de Tangle sup6rieure gauche, de gauche d droite et de haut en bas. en prenant le nombre d'images n^cessaire. Le diagramme suivant illustre la mdthode : 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 / VERSICVLI liV ARNOLD HAULTAIN. TOIIONMO J aw T T \ v: VI] I X XI XII xr XA :v: VI II u I. Before DaWN, Sonnet 5 IT. True Worship. Sonnet 6 TTL On Reading Keats's "Fancy." Sonnet 7 TV, To THE Plenilune. Sonnet 8 V. Innocence. Sonnet 9 Vr. At Dusk. Sonnet 10 YTT. The Nymphs' Grotto. Sonnet (Translation).. 11 A^Iir. Beauty 12 IX. A Face 16 X. A Ballad of Red, White, and Blue 18 XT. To William Morris 22 XTI. AjrXA WN EIJENAI 24 i XTTT. The Latmian 26 XtV. In Memory of Charles Pelham Mulvaney, M.A., M.D 27 XV. After Day is Over 2(S |XVI. Night at Sea. Translation 29 V^II. Epithalamion 30 ^'IIT. Flow, Brooklet, Flow 31 XIX. At Coney Island 32 BEFORE DAWN. 'hk ni^lit-breeze chill blew cold across the mere, The sullen mist, slow-creeping up the dale, Enshrouded all the laud with clammy veil, 'he clmds stood still, the trees bent low with tear. Lt last, far in the eastern heavens drear, A little stranger ray, trembling and pale, Afeared lest he to find his way should fail, rook courage on the dismal scene to peer. |he trees look up, the grasses tip-toe rear Their tiny heads, the clouds mount up and scale 16 topmost sky to gain an outlook clear; The waves awake, aroused by rising gale, The mist shrinks back, and all combine to hail he dauntless little harbinger of cheer. TRUE WORSHIP. Bend down tl.ine head, stoop down to .ne, n.y love. To me, thy loved one, kneeling at thy tV.'t ; Show me by outward gracious symbol sweet, That thou, my loved one, though so far above My utmost thought, art yet within my reach, Within my love. Alas 1 thou canst not see How utterly beyond all thought to me Thou seem'st. But yet I ask thee thus to teach Thy loved one, for because my love for thee Exceeds all thought, thus do I dare to pray That thou would'st stoop to me, wouldst take my part. That by this precious sign I so may be Emboldened to believe I may some day Be, through thine aid, made worthy of tl.ine heart. 6 ON READING KEATS'S "FANCY." All Keats ! 'tis hard for me— so far away From all I love and lotig to see again — To " let the fancy nmm " and not complain That my commands, ala.s ! she'll ne'er obey. No boist'rous ocean toweivd from shore to shore Between you and your own Hweet English home;: You knew all flowers, long winter lost, would come- As fresh and lovely, sinilin^- as before. No primrose here ; no whitening hawthorn trees Vie with soft scent of violets unseen That shyly steals through hedge of moss- banked lane. Xo daisies gleam ; . . . . Ay nie, the thought of these These meekest " beauties " of my island green Brings sadness, since I seek for them in vain. 'J'O THE PLENILUNE. . I pity thee thy ^rrief when far above Thy paling brilliancy thy meekest maid Unwittingly shall shine. 8oon must thou fade, Cold, silent Queen ; too soon for frirrhted Love To lose all fear of thine austerity. But if excessive beauty thou should'st screen Beneath diaphanous veils of softest .sheen, What will Love say of thy humility ? Then love grown soft because a .single ray Is hidden from his gaze will soon forgive Thy haughty; mien, delighted thou .should'st deign To stoop to him. " 'Tis only " Love will say, "That she may cheer the pi^'e, wan stars and give Them rest e'er they shall wait on her again." 8 INNOCENCE. JNot on the crowded plain she grew, tliis Hower, This lily-stem as yet not burst in l.looni, Where hot and heavy-scented vapours fume. lAnd crush of many toiling feet o'erpower JAnd all too ruthlessly besmirch the few, The fairest; but this lily-stem in peace, 111 deepest (juiet glade of forest trees Shelten-d, bloomed. Of love, of hate, 'tis true, She heard; but the polluting breeze, thai brought To her so innocent ear these sounds, was reft. In thut pure forest glade, of all that sought To mar her thoughtless purity, and left No sight, no sound, no slightest tainting air, Vo speck to strike her fleckless sepals there! 9 AT DUSK. So noiseless! nestling in the slunib'rous couch My willing hands had placed, rtclining-wi^e My lady lay and looked into my eyes. 'Twas sweet, though, in the shmie, nor sight, nor touch Revealed a charm ; save when, soft as u dove, She moved, her tender neeii and crlea ..ino- brow By gentlest turn regretfully would siiow She might, yet might not, understand my love. Sweet? Yea. For memory, my love, can keep In mind thine every, treihulous, changing tint On softest cheek ; can trace Cfich var\ ing curve! Of loveliest lip, perchance with bli.ss more d.ep Than if they flashed upon me without stint, Full seen at sunniest noon without reserve. 10 THE NYMPHS' GROTTO* Beside the Euxine sea, beneath a hill, There is a dell ; here grows a laurel staid ; And, clingin;^ to its boughs, a laughing maid With timid foot plays with the waters chill. Her comrades gay, at conchal trumpet's sound, Dive 'neath the dancing wave; the foamy brim Shows here a body white, and there a limb, Here shining hair, there rose of bosom round. A glecsouieness divine fills all the wood. — But see ! two eyes through sombre shadows gleam ; The Satyr's laugh breaks in upon their play. The nymphs, they flee !— So when, of sinister brood, A raven swart croaks o'er the snowy stream Of Caystrus, he frights the swans away. ♦ Translated from M. .roso-Maria de Heredia's " Sonnet Antique." in the Revue o'ts Deux Moude^, May 15, 1890. 11 BEAUTY. ^kinov iih ahbr,'., Z'^m ^\>ox o>aiv ro luninir hair To the tips of her fingers sweet; Tender and staid As God i)h'r made — For God's own service meet. 8 All nature smiled, And, like a child, She smiled, not knowing why ; She ordy felt Her heart could melt At the beauty of earth and sky. 9 8he gazed at that sky In its purity, At the rose, at the tulip red; They seemed to her To bring God near. And she bowed in prayer her head, 20 t. 10 And prayed in thought For liim who fought M.iny a mile away, Her brother hold— yhe had been told Ho fell in the dreadful fray. 11 But y ester niffht She heard of the tial-t In which her soldier fell : How hft had fared, How he had dared Death, tliere was none to telL 12 Her heart was rent. But a message sent I-rom the battlefield came to-day. He lived, to tell. Whs strong, was well, Would return to her .o.ne day. 21 TO WILLIAM M0RRI8. Wlierefore, Morris, paint for us The glorious gods, the fairness of fair maids, And godlike men, And all tho hues of regions meet for these ? There are beauties dim the eye that looks on them; There are deeds th.it wither all the stren^^th Craves opportunity of doing ; There are thoughts that pale Who strive to conquer tlieir unutterableness; ' And there are those Who in their grasp of all these thino-s .S3ar, ah ! so far beyond the hope of those That faintly try to seize the light Which floods the sun lit dome of Beauty's sphere. —I sometimes wish the king of birds Were merely mythical ; that we might never see The eye that gazes on the ancient sun. Not as here, where all the race Of ordinary mortals has beclouded it. But clear, and as when men did worship. 22 laidg, Jse? :s on them; igbh Surely, surely, such a singer sweet, That can so utterly entrance himself And us, can pour such opiate calm On all life's questioning restlessness. Has drained, ere childhood's mirth had died. From Hebe's ever-youthful hand a cup, Such perhaps as that in which the laughter-lovinc queen " Would pledge the grave Apollo. less: 5e sphere. ver see 23 AJ}'AA7V\ 111 J i:\Al* Far in the purple air, Among the mountains proud, Like a child's low-whispered prayer, When angry dangers crowd, Innocently fair, Floated a fairy cloud ; 2. Reflecting the colours gay Thrown hy the sun above, : Blue and silver and grey. Like a fearles>, trusting dove, A messenger sent to say There lived an all-seeing Love. ■' Love's messenger," cried I, " And canst thou really teach - Plato, Pho'do, So r. 24 That there is tranquillity For me, for thee, for each ? Nothing, will I not try That will help me Love to reach." 4. Silently sank the sun ; Vanished that cloud in gloom. " Is there no answer ? None ? " All was silent as the tomb. 'Silently .sank the sun. Ah, God, what a hopeless doom ! 25 THE LATMIAN. Asleep on Latinos' top thou liest, Dreaming the daylight hour, away, Till Cynthia's lips again thee wake, Ah, happy, happy Carian Prince. Thou know'st not toil, thou know'st not pain; Earthly cares disturb thee not ; Selene's kiss alone thee wakes ; Who would not thus forever sleep ? Ahove— no searching garish sun ; Around— no prying eyes of men ; Beneath-no footworn, dusty path. Above-the still and silent st.rs; Around-the tired and sighing boughs : Beneath-the scented sleeping grass. No fears perturb thee, no regrets : Cynthia loves thee—that is "all Thou knowest or hast need to know. All happy, happy Carian Prince, Who would not thus for ever sleep, For ever and for ever thus ? 26 TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES PELHAM MULVANEY, M.A., M.D. But few days since and I was at thy house- No spacious mansion, yet methought it held— Like to our perishable tenement— A lofty and immortal habitant. Thou hadst completed half a century, Yet kindly looked on those whose term of life Was scarce half thine ; and all unconsciously By these thy kindly looks and cheering words Made them to hope they might in some small way By thought or act show they had been with thee If somewhere still thou livest-as in truth In many many mournful hearts thou dost- Ah 1 help us so to live that those we leave May wish to show that they have been with us 27 AFTER DAY IS OVER. After (Jay is over, ^ut ere the night be-ins, When, the sunset glory A gentler colour wins— When the winds of summer, O'er-heated, dusty-browed, Stay their haste and loiter Where fruits and fl.wers crowd- Wlien the waves of ocean, Wild, aimless, wind-impelled, With the resting breezes Their restlessness have quelled— VVhen the city's turri.oil The evening b.ll ha. stayed, And folk, weary, care-worn, 'ibeir daily dole have paid- Then 'tis sweet to linger Where evening shadows fall, Side by side and silent Ere black night hide it all. 28 NIGHT AT SEA* How vast the ocean lies about us twain : Our barque a wandering weed anion, the waves. The night-wind wan blows cold across the sea, The waters tremble, as tremble our hearts. Like sea-birds brooding on their nests afloat The billows rock us exiles of the deep. Betwixt the height and depth of sea and sky The night encloses us,-but not our hearts. The boundless blue unrobs itself above, Nor sees our little ship with swaying sails • And yet the worhls of love in this bl.ck speck Give forth more light than all that sky of stars Ah ! hold me close and tell n.e ms your lips Breathe forth my nau.e. your arms enlock with mine How 'tis our st.r-like hearts can be so great, Bliss so unbounded in so small a space/ ^^:'^^^';^'"'''' "'^^— ^'^ — i" '1- ..... ... .,,.., d9 EPITHALAMION. At last thou'rt mine, my very own, my blushing bride, Who wert so many months in only name my own. At last thy sweet, sweet lips are mine to kiss as oft As thou and I can choose ; thy warm soft arms to twine About my neck in fearless undisturbed joy. Ah ! love, my love, what thingr can separate us now Nor day nor night; for ever and forever mine. —What? J^ook'st thou sad? what thought is this which e'en For one short moment dims thy eye ? Thou whisperest "Death"? Ah ! no. Pray death may be but as some short adi^u, Such as we have to one another often said. 30 FLOW, BROOKLET. FLOW. A SONG FOR CHILDREN. Flow, brooklet, flow, Huste you below, Plenty of work awaits you and your rills : You must not play All the long day, Leaping and loitering here on the hills. Sweet it may be, Purling so free, Here where the roses and violets bloom ; But you must go Where, down below, Many a plain lies in flowerless gloom. Waiting for you Much there's to do- Meadows and gardens to keep fresh and green ; Mill-wheels to wind, Barley to grind, Cities and hamlets to make sweet and clean. Haste, then, below, Gather and grow. You were not niade but for play and for dreams Mill-wheels are wound. Barley is ground. Only by brooks that have grown into streams. 31 AT CONEY ISLAND. V •■'■ Sing on, great sea, sing on thy cosmic s-on*,^, Which thou hast sung from all eternity, So solemn, slow, and most majesticall. Thine own insistent, slow, susurrant sont/. Thou washest England, sea; a link thou art Between sweet England and her lonely son. Sing on ; the earth these men may mar, the sea They cannot mar. Thou art not always calm ;* But is thy blackest night, rent by thy most Tempestuous hurricane to be compared T-) storms that toss the heart and soul ? — Enough Th .u !^ingest on ; grant me so too to sin<'. 32 }a ugh