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I^e* Tork 1*609 ;3A •■^S (716) 482 - 0300 - Phone ^^ (716; 288 - f!989 - Fax ^ FLOWl.RS OF THK WIND FLOWERS OF THE WIND BY G. MURRAY ATKIN MITCHKLL KENNERI.KY NEW YORK MCMXIX I J 47!)! t or'VKKJir r i^k^ nv MiriMtLL KtNNtRLEY * ■-* • - ■■'V' ^'^ W.r"..^/ 'i '""" ' T/ * TO r. ./. ;/. i k e^^teggt'-egf '.♦J,"'Ii^P'J >.ma'-y^*; Above the pale moon, clad in cloudy draperies, Drifts and moves. The sounds of day have cc;ised. Draw close to me And let us sit tof^ether nuietly jii-t I and thee. The' tu ilit:lit stirs one Stran^elx. I'aint hopes that dare not show themselves h\ day I'.imr^e then. .\nd moods oft feared, return. ( ii\c me your hand. I, iff leads through lonels ua>s, hut I have all Since 1 have thee. Lo\e holds tliee lightly, But fate has not a jireater prize in all her store 'I\) ;iive man. than this understandinhed-for happiness, Muttcrinj;, unseen, forever, Heyond our human reach. Leaving us still longing, Here in the dark. "i outh has no doubts, conquers in ignorance. In ignorance she breasts the hill And takes the lonely height. To lay her life at last Upon the grass. But age has doubts. She knows the wasting m(xjn, The careless world. And guards her love Lest it should ache in vain. And will not breathe her heart Upon the wind. 'ies. I fear age— Your scarf, dear, for the wind, 1 or age, 1 think, can boast no stars. Come. We will go within. .And shelter by the fire, Hi'huid closed dtKjrs. il 1 1 :^i i'm'^smi SONGS I —B^i^gmmmmmmmm m-n \r^ ^>s I CHAXSOS DK LA HE TN the still old .ijrt- of life, With its f\en mnnotonr, With its trt'cdoni from all strife, Drt-am wt- alone. Lindfiis iiru" thr avenue, Footsteps sound there and echo. Vanished footsteps that we knew Once lonj^ ajro. See the fires burning low. Idle lies the wrinkled hand. Much that >ve had longed to know. We understand. In the even of the heart, Quiet to the young we seem. We have played the active part, Now we may dream. 15 THE MOONLIGHT SONG S ^^^"^ "T'o'iIiKlit. char and white Clc«ely the H„rld is enfoldmK Slender trees sway in the breeze. Kustlmg and muttering, QuiverinK, Huttering. Wind K„es by. lull and sigh Stirring the leaves of the laurel trees Weal or w<^, which d,>es it blow Through the night, on the breeze ihrough the leaves of the trees' 1 6 sriS#' ■ii sr^m^- v^ t:: w-^wi^m «■ »^ .1 SOSG OF Ul E T 0\K, said the little yirl. Life, said he. Above the surm- ;irid swirl, Sail with me. Come where the mscs j^row. Laiijih when tlie wild winds blow. ( ) I let us conn- ami ;;o, Kndles.sly. (jone is the little glr\. (jone is he. (lone i> the c^e^ted swirl, Calm the sea. Sleep springs at end of day. Rest lurks f(jr ^rave and f^ay. There comes to each, they say, Death set free. !* 17 ; = -^^-';- // SOSa Of DKATIi 'T'lIK moanmn wind drives on the drifting; ^tuiw AnotluT soul is sutniiKtnrd liciu'c t«» tro, Id Ic.'ivc till- tilings tint lie had i.(»iiu' to know. Life w.is Ills l(,\c, with Ion;: hours to bf f,\M\ \\v li\fil in thcin. The world was wtiat he had. Tliis world, witli all its trca-iircs ^ood and had. Hf hears no more the waves hreak on the sands. lie feels no more the clasp of jovinj; hands. No more, for him, the flowers of earth ■. fair i.inds. The snou drifts on across the wintry sky. Another >oul has Ii\ed, hut now must die. And nc)W his sword ha>- tailcn — let it lie. iP !Y.,,i%»f^^^=..,J7^; : ■ ^^:4<- :;f1^:^^-^^ i^,^ :;*f^ " Tin: SONG or ruh r.issi<)\ i i.onER ' ) T ()\K is the mi>t that H«>;its nwr thr sfu. Lite IN the wimi tliat will blnvv it to inc. ( ) when, or wlicri' * What do 1 cart-' I,ci\f is the S4ing tliat I >in^j. Sunn birds of lovf on tin- .jrffn iraty bouKh. Sinir to thr flower', that are blossoming now. I.ove cinne^ apace. Sniih's in my face. Heaven is fallen by me. Passion's a flame tliat is sprung from the sun, Wearing the heart that the conciuest be won. Hunger and thirst, Human accursed. That is the spell th..t I cast. Quilt and white creeps the moon o'er the sky. Feed it and fan it, or passion will die. Love blown away, Passion may stay, Sad bv the thnjb ot the sea. 19 I rir.Vl-' .m^mm^ -^j^M^-y^^a.^-..^ .^'ir^ST. wM' THE BALLAD OF THE BARGE A17HKN ><)U hear the creaking timber and the strain- in;: of the barf:c, When 'ihf mate has cut her nnxtrings and she's off at l^•n^th at lar^e, Then the ballad ot her nio'.inj: and the burden of her sonfi, Break and fail upon the ijuiet a- ^he moves and strains alonjj;. She has blown her siren ulii-tle. Hauled the anchor that she cast. She has finished n<)\v with loading, with her trip to make at last, But the son^i Iier beams are -inpin^ as she rides upon the stream. Is a soni: that lias a burden like a ballad in a dream. "I'is the burden ot a billow that the wind lia, lashed to foam, But the barbie was built for ijuiet and from quiet dare not roam. She is made for iiuiet waters and to venture is not free, But ahidden with her hawsers is a lon^inp for the sea. She has blown her siren whistle, drawn the anchor that she cast. She has finished now witli li'adln^' with her trip to make at last. 20 t-^jf^'Ay^, ,•^.^ T THE BALLAD i)l THE BARGE 21 n- 4tit the soil}: her beams ar- creaking as she glides so quietly, at ik a ballad with a burden and a longing for the sea. w POTPOURRI THE irniTE BIRDS OF ENNUI r\ V'KR tlie edge of the dawn, Under the palms from the sea, Sad by fatality drawn, Come the white birds of ennui. See them in plumage of white. Strut on the green of the sward, 'i'hey who have left all delight, Bringing their weary award. See. the birds of lost pleasure, Dull with the chill from the sea, Wander heavy with leisure, And colorless with ennui. ^5 THE SPRING HIND "\17'HA'r doe?, the wind say, As it blows above the town, Damp with the rain of April Drivinp over the down. Free, neath the open sky. Tlie hij^h blue skv (»f heavni. What does the wind say on its way? "Life," calls the sprinn wind. "Come forth. Old winter is dead. And the summer suns are loosed." Then up from earth's brown bed Smiled the hidmp flowers Glad to the spring and the call Of the blowinji wind, soft and kind. 26 ikOijtk^ w^ immB^s^m^, ^mim M' AUTUMN /^UR leaves are faded. And our little day has died. And far away the -.unimer dawn >o fair. The sun is shaded And the birch leaves dried Are falling in the frosty autumn air. The grain is drying. And our harvest day is done. And the young lite is going from the old. The birds are Hying Following the sun, But the birch trees are tremulous and cold. »7 BEYOSD IS there laughter showin:;, And bnnvn leivcs tall and turn in the air, Pausi- with a tliought and stay your t:oinu, Have a care. Lon^ the way and it lias no turnin<:. Brown leaves will lie where the brown leaves fail, Faithful the heart to early yeariun;;, After all. Linger then though the t^rey ^;row diininer, And dead leaves float on a rising stream, Linger on to the last rare glimmer Of love's dream. 30 THY IKIF.SD A ^()LL spake: "Thr sun has lost its fc\fr, Ami there is (me between me and the winiJ.' And it a>ked, "Can t^li^ be U)vc tliat tempers '10 mv lite the extremes of joy and pain?" And one answered: "L<>, I will he with thee While our two li\es last, ^'et call me not love, For I ask nothinj:. Call me, but — thy friend." 3» . I / THE EMPTY NEST /^VER thr way. on the branches bare, Swa>ini4 and swin^inK. a nest is there, Built in the spring, By birds that sing. O empty nest in the autumn air. Where are the builders, that built so fair? They have sung their song and flown away. The notes were sweet, yet they might not stay. Over so s(X)n, Their honeymoon. Swaying and swinging the nest is there, That sheltered a p.ixsing bridal pair. ',2 M TOUT P.1SSE COME day, when the crr«t of li^r we have passrd by And \\r have breasted the IiikIi hill of fame, J(iy will be ours. 'Iluis spak- my sou! ; and then love came And both her hands were full of Howers. Hut I — I heeded n(»t her si^h : Saw not her parted lips, but went forth and on To win the world and come t penser. If the clouds Hide the moon's Silver beams: Or a shade Creep like death On your dream, II ne taut pas penser. If the stars Have gone black To your eyes, And your heart Soon may break, You surmise, II ne faut pas penser. 35 MEMORIES IT was only a cloud that the wind had blown Acr(»ss the summer «ky. And yet because of a love once known, Of a fleeting joy that is lonj^ since flown, It Uxiked like an angel's wing on high Trailing so light on the grey, blue sky. It was only the perfume of wet pine trees Moist with the dripping rain. But it waked in my heart old ecstasies As it came to me on a northern breeze, Thrilling anew some forgotten strain. Some wonder chord of a lost refrain. O the shimmering webs of a far-off mist Blown to the open sea. Why do they bring hac^ a night mo<;n kissed: The love we had and the life we missed ; Dusk and the night wind will take from me The clouds that drift and tell of thee. 36 THE GREY kyOLF J SAW a little attic rwnn, Papered and clean and bare, Where hope so gaily sewed in ghxim, Talcing no thought, no care. That all the time outside the door An old grey wolf sat there. I saw hope's lover hasten home To rest at eventide. And far — in fancy — did they roam, Because their dream was wide. The>' did not heed that by the door, 'I'he grey wolf sat outside. O you, who struggle with life to-day, With the wolf outside your door, Take hope in your heart and be glad and gay, For where the wolf is. he may always stay, Just outside as before. ^ 37 LOVE THROUGH THE RAIN i^ LICK. Like a biitteriiy on tlie clover, Will-o'-the-wisp tf> tlie dark frnin the day, Brush of a wing and then it is over And gone. Away. Soft. So is love with her swet-t mouth smiling, Haunting your dreamint^ the restless nii;ht through, Leaving your heart with all her beguiling. Heavy in you. Gone. As a dream goes before your knowing, With a poignant rapture akin to pain. Cnmc in the wind, with the wind's swift going, Love through the rain. 38 LES AMES PERDU ES 'JpHE world was mine," the Saviour said, "All that thou scest here was mine, And yet I had no restinp place, Or where to lay my head. "I made and held the stars on hiph, The sun and moon have worshipped me, Yet I, God of horizons far, Came down to earth to die. "And you who live on earth a day. Mortal born like wind and flowers. Spend here your one hour seeking What I have waved away." 39 THE LOVE or YOUTH Y^^TH set a flower in a golden bowl, For its petals to bloom and open w ide, But like spirit d(H>med, or a liungr\' soul, It faded and drooped until it died. Then youth wept. And the bowl grew old with years. And the golden bowl brimmed o'er with tears. When up from the tears grew a flower r^-d, "I am love," it said. "And I am not dead. Wherever it is that I find a need, I grow and I grow, like a wild, wild weed." And age smiled. And her heart grew young again, For tl-e joy that was ctHnL* from her old dull pain. ¥> LOST DREAMS ^n\ dreams of youth, companions who start with u> on h'fe's way, Grow weary with its roiighners. one by one they fall away, And the frail conip;.ny faJr^ and is fewer and less Ray. Life bears us on its mighty current to the highest peak K(,r us. But uhen ue pass, and cross the Rubicon to seek Above the \ale of earth, heaven's meaning: then we may see Revealed within the warp and woof of ,>ur wrought tap- estry, The hidden secret of it^ finished fair emblazonrie. <:om of sadness Dim OUT last hour with lonflmt-ss, or despair, Lft mnnory recall a ray of ^I'ldncss lit our trembling lip> and courage keep it there. Since love must die, let us not cloud its glow-ing With presiiges no fair future it may know, Rather enhance his melancholy goinji With forfiotten riches that he once could show. Wild winjrs beat slow, but when they turn a-hominK, Strong' souls will ever love the unventured sky, Wild hearts will stray and find their love through roara- In the night wind pausing ere they .=ay Good-bye. 43 /■///•: J LYLXG (7.//././O.V.V J LA^' upon till- earth and saw I Uv Wyinii K.illnins in the sLy. I lav and (Jrcainc.i that in si,wv >hip S.iiicil \()ii and I, Wrapped in the eluuds. fhe passin- i-l.,ijd.-.. 'ihat dritti-d h> . 1 Ik V were the iiiist>. the rising mists, 'ihat hut s(i hitely fell as rain. Drawn upwards troni the earth hack to ( Kid's house aj^ain. ] saw the sun enlold and lure I hem in his train. And then a veil o'erspread the sky To hide all timid souls Irorri si^ht: Reluctant ones, who venture forth, liut dread their flight. I saw the net that draws the dead Into tile ni^ht. And as in sleep at ni;zht I dream 1 he {galleon clouds are drifting by. I know ahove our little life 'ihat you and I Some day will rise heu^nd '.urvKcs Hiy;h as the sky. 44 v«»^ FARh.n r.LL 0^\f<'-: tluT u,-II. The day is here at last. Ihatrach m..sf j-„ his way. alore. apart. Our iutlr tal.-„t h.vr .s t,.ld and past. Af' ^'.. Ih,- ^^^t,•rday that bound niv heart I o yours ,s ^one. I.,p.s u.ll not wann at u.Il. We do hut j.,urn(T to another place T" live atrain. Our dream gcn^ with us still. hach hears m memory the other's face All this I kn.m- And yet there lie. a chill l''.'t u,ll not lift, or rise from off my soul. 45 SILHOUETTES PEPPIXA pEPPINA wears a dress of Kold tonight. Above the rising smoke of cigarette, Biyond the flicker of the pale footlight, I see Peppina poise and pirofctte. Powdered and rouged, with cherr>- lips divine, Dancing in quite the maddest, wildest way, Hut neath her eyes there lies a wear>- line! And I— I know Peppina is not gay. Ah! dance, Peppina, poise and pirouette And please and captivate the watching throng, i hat in their admiraticxi you forget A life like yoursr— may never last too long. 49 FLEUR DE LYS gOMETIMES between the darkness and the dawn, There shines one pale, reluctant, silver star, Until by vanished moonlight it is drawn To follow where the other planets are. Sometimes acrass the sleep of poppies red A gentle presence comes and goes near me. And on my life a luminance is shed, A softness from the soul of Fleur de Lys. For I'leur de Lys is more than women are. Her feet in Lotus leaves she stands and cicems To linger near us like the morning star And bring us peace and tenderness and dreams. O in night's fields the fitful poppies fiame, And through their sleep a softness comes to me. When the west wind is whispering her name, The sweet and gentle name of Fleur de Lys. 5" AT THE CUE nurAL J'l' was long ajio on the boulevard In a cafe called Duval. I hat you held your court, where the tables are In the middle, upper salle. O Marie Louise you had gold for hair. With the blue of heaven for eyes, And a row of pearls for teeth, my dear. And the world to make you wise. For y(.urs was the beauty of earth. Marie, "Vour courtiers were commercants. There was old Bessier and young Pellagie, And then there was Dudevant. The tide Howed by on the gay boulevard And paused and cnt red and then — Your courtiers became as ail courtiers are A rabble of hungry men. Anc* ;onie of them called you a good waitress, Or a rose from Normandie, And some of them called you Imperatrice, But one there called you Marie. The tide Hows by on the gay boulevard, But no one there now can tell, Where Marie Louise and ht courtiers are The waitress who loved too well. 5» l''.w^l^ mms^^s^ FLOiVERS 53 i^^-iMiMil f^i^4^«:Ii!4/ THE GARDEN OF LILIES OEYOND the realm of our clear consciousness, There is a dimmer parden of the soul, Where lilies lean upon the balustrade And on the marble steps red roses roll. In its enclosure where great silence is, When echo dies beyond the distant sky, And wavering sound will faint and enter not — Wan souls emerge and dream and then pass by. In the dim garden of the infinite, Shy souls hold commune in the misty night, But at the dawn of day to commonplace, Back to their human form take instant flight. The lilies lean upon the marble stair. There is no wind to stir the quiet sky. And there the souls of women young and fair Emerge and drift and dream and then pass by. .S5 lU..jSII;'i^^'^:.mt-4f^ ^"ir^ « POPPIES /^ H ! sniiK' want rosemary And ( of the ninht lie low. And the leafy p:lth^ of the forest .ire Hathed in a shining' g\o\\- I said, "Kre shadows take you, Or the overblown roses fall, loosen thy bonds and away with me, Come to my need and call." 1 dreamed my love went with me Through the shade of the night's dark air, But the tilow of the moondrift was lost then In the fall of her hair. 58 Mr& j^^ ai feiis.' sfe r