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'Ml ■■■?■; =^iS i?J ■,iliL\M ¥,&«• THE SONG OF CLIMBING. Dim questionings of Fate and Time Beset our souls on every side; Clouds thicken round the path we climb, But strive we to the height sublime, Or perish if the worst betide. What worse could happen than to lie Here in the valley leisurely, To watch the clouds go drifting by, And feel our powers grow faint and die To one tame weak monotony. To see our Mountain's shining gold Gleam far above us height on height, And know the comrades loved of old I^ean from it vainly to behold Our upward strife, our deeds of might. Nay, face the terrors of the way. The rock-pierced torrent's angry roar, Grim walls that blind the eyes of day, Sharp swift descents for feet that stray, And awesome birds that swoop and soar. Ah, better steadfast-eyed to scale The awful hill-side hand in hand, For never yet without avail Did one true striving soul assail The barriers of the Mountain Land. Rouse we our spirits o the race. Friends! Brothers! From the walls above l^ans many an unforgotten face Still wearing through its new-bom grace The old sweet look of human love. 2 There, watching hy tlie open door Shine Cuthbert's heavenly eyes of blue, There Muriel leans to meet once more The earth-born loves she hungered for, To clasp our hands and lead us through. There all our lost ones wait, and there The Height, The Dream of our desire. Supreme Fulfilment, Answered Prayer, From lip to lip the watch-word beai. The cry of Home! Through flood and firel SONGBIRDS. Ah, in the summer, the blythe golden summer, Songs to my heart came as birds to a tree, Piping and shrilling, each jubilant comer Full of song-secrets, of bird-ecstasy. Now in December, the cold white December, Few come and sad ones, to sing through the snow, WakiuiT my lieart but to bid it remenil>er That childhood has gone, as the sweet sum- mers go. 3 ALICE KIRBY. Slip softly, Naehwaak water, Where thrushes sing and soar. Slim alders bend to view thee, Glad brooks come hurrying to thee, But brown-eyed Alice Kirby Shall come to thee no more. Still shine as in a mirror Green pictures of the shore, Where soft thy wave caresses The willow dips her tresses, Bnt dream -eyed Alice Kirby By thee shall rove no more. Above thj^ sheltering forests Their song the rain-birds pour, Among the under-tangle The drowsy cow -bells jangle, But soft-eyed Alice Kirby Shall wander there no more. Lurk still among the bushes The fernfc* she hunted for, Blue-\^ch and pigeon-berry Make all the stream-side merry, But Alice — Alice Kirby, Shall gather them no more. Slip softly, Nashwaak water, Unruffled as beforie, Thy woods know naught of sorrow, No moan thy songsters borrow — But ah, for Alice Kirby, Who comes to thee no morel PENELOPE. The darting needles flash and fly; The web flows downward to her knee. Kings, Princes, thronging round her, cry: '0 love and youth so soon go hy; The morning's dew by noon is dry; Then choose among us now' Penelope!" She shows no sign of her heart's pain, Her lips smile still in feigned glee; Only her blue eyes veiled disdain Shows how they ill may hope to gain What she will keep: they cry in vain: "O choose among us now, Penelope!" Tlie wondrou6 web more lovely grows: "She weaves the blueness of her eye, She weaves "they cry "her cheeks' soft rose, The golden of her hair here flows. The warmth of her lips' crimson glows, In living colours that shall never die!" The days goon, and every day, Though well she works and faithfully The slanting sunbeams seem|^lay On the same length of colours gay, And still the eager suitors pray: "0 choose among us now, Penelope!" Ah, faithful heart! Through stormy seas His bark will cleave its way to thee, His years of toil seem hours ot ease. If at the end of all he sees Thee faithful in the midst of these Who cry: "0 haste! choose, Peneloi^e!" BY THE CAMP FIRE. Uii ier the moon tlie world lay still, Flooded with silver, arched with blue. Between the river and the hill Gold sparkles from our bonflre flew. Darkly the steep hill rose behind; In front we heard the river croon Its song of loving to the wind, Under the moon. Out of the night a schooner sailed With wide wings gleaming through the dark; The crew unseen with shouts we hail^^d, Then hushed our merriment to hark The answering peals of laughter low, While slowly on her wings of white We Siiw the speutrdl sclxxHier go Out of the night. Around the fire we sat an 1 sang. Singing the river drifted past; The spruce woods and the meadows rang With coUegensongs, until at last Stilled by the star sweet depth of sky With voice^jlpwered and hearts raised higher. We sang of love that cannot die Around the fire. Forever friends, whose hearts have met Among the hills and on the plain! Tliough long years part us. why regret If some day we may meet again? If some day, by a fairer stream. Where on© grand Love-Song never ends, We meet where lights celestial gleam. Forever Friends! a Miss TABITHA HELPFUL. The day iaover; falls once more The blessed dark, the sucred night, That all d^iv, striving in the light. My weary heart has hungered for. Now, Soul, thou Shalt unbar the door, Sst free the memories guarded tliere, And love it as vou loved of vore — His curly hair, his curly hair. I am tired — a little; all day long 1 have been where men were faint for bread, Have nursed and checked them, taught and fed. Roused their dull spirits with a song Of hope, where cfime and sorrow throng: But day being over and its care. My thoughts, set free, to love belong; I touch again his curly kair. How they who daily see^me go (Trey robed, with basket on my arm, Not dreading sight or sound of harm (Because, thank God, the poor fitlk know And seem to love me in their wre,) Who deem my every thought a prayer, Would gape, to hear me mourning so His curly hair, his curly hair. "So prim, so distant, so demure; — My fellow -boarders count me. Yet Not stiff exactly; we regret Shft will not mix with us: are sure She has no vexing thoughts to lure Her soul, no eartlily boiid^ to tear.—" Love, Love — how lon^ must 1 endure Ere I shall stroke his curly hair! »So numy years — yes, thirty years— The jrrasH has grown above his jrrave: Iroui eye-lids drt)oi)ed 1 see it wave And turn with every \\hu\ tha^ veers; Ah,vrreen as if it drank my tears. What careless feet may tread it there. Hush, hu.sh. The day of meeting nears My hands shall smcK)th iiis curly hair. Y(;^8. it is long! But everj* day i find some dark that I can light, Some falt«)ring wanderei in the night I That I can lielp to find the way; And looking upward who shall stray? Who l(x>ks but backwunls must despair. Yet ah, this evening I can say, Can think of. just — bis curly hair. Strange, that tonight I cannot see Aught but youth's distant Fairyland! Tomorrow's work must yet I'e planed, [And none must guess how bitterly ^1 wept. — what? Morning — can it be? Such daylight! Who are these— they wear [White robes, white garlands heavenly — Save one — Love! Love — his curly hair! \ WELCOME. Black-birds in the budding boughs Glad we hear your rondelay; Mellow notes From tiny throats Tell that spring has come this way Black-birds in the budding boughs, Glad we hear your rondelay. Alder-catkins silver-fair Waving in a fragrant cloud Dim and sweet, VVe gaily greet You and yours, a fairy crowd. Alder-catkins silver-fair, Waving in a fragrant cloud. Daffodils in yellow clad, You we hail right heartily, For your gold Gay blossoms hold Nectar for the early bee. Daffodils in yellow clad. You we hail right heartily. Black-birds, Catkins, Daffodils, Welcome each and every comer. Days are fair And all the air Holds a promise of the summer. Black-birds, Catkins, Daffodils, Welcome, each and every comerl 9 his way. ighs, V. wd. 1 8, . , comer. imtner. •y corner! A LIGHT WITHDRAWN. into his life a presence smiled, As in ii dark and lonely room Haunted by strange wind-whispars wild, Blaze of a hearth-fire breaks the gloom Edgcng the black with golden bloom: Into his life her presence smiled. As in grey woods the leafage springs. Lighting the long deserted trees Witii tender greenness April brings, So from her heart to his came ease And hopes he had never dared to seize. As in grey woods the leafage springs. Set to the musie of a word, Suddenly all his life rang clear, Longed-for of old but lately heard Sweet as the waking of the year; Wonderful stories thrilled his ear, Set to the music of a word. Seeo in the light of this dear love Earth seemed so little. Heaven so sure: Tenderest skies that bent above Sent him never a ray more pure; Easy were all things to endure Seen in the light of this dear love. Into the darkness fled the flame. Cold, forsaken, the hearthstone lay, Thickly trooping fhe shadows came, Blown on their v/ild unresting way Fleeing before the feet of day: Into the darkness fled the flame. 10 ! I Out of his life her i)resence stole iJear ing his fairest dreams of l)liss, Rending his heart to wake his soul, Ijeaving him who liad thought to miss Never on earth her smile, her kiss; Out of his life her presence stole. Led to the Heavens by a smile Dropped iiim at parting, strangely sweet, Fixing his hope the weary wnile On the bourne unseen where their souls should meet, Tn the Homeward pathway he set his feet; I^d to the Heavens bv a smile. THE AUTUMN QUEST. Where are the sounds of summer? Twitter of birds at dawn. Dip of the slim brown paddle, breaking the mirrored shade Of boughs in the ami)er water that parts the Nashwaak glade, Ripple of leaves in the wind, flurry of feet on the lawn; Where are the sounds of summer? Ah, thev are hushed and gone. AVhere are the sights of summer? Fields that were all ablaze With the ruddy flush of the clover and the lilies, speckled gold. 11 Valleys liushed with the siinlijrht fiill as their arms could hold, 'ellow-hiids' wings a-glitter over the dusty ways: Where are the sights of summer? Vainly we ask and gaze. hVhere are the friends of summer? Gone with the song and hloom. They luive drifted down irom the drowsy streams and rivers of ease, To strive for a distant port over the trouhled seas: [Faintly their voices rdach us through severing mist and gloom; [Like blossoms and birds, our friendships have met their Autumn doom. Nay, seart'liing lieartl Though never the same sweet flowers reflame, Nor the same bird-voices wake us when other dawns come round, Safe in our souls forever shall the summer loves be found, And some day surely our lives the old friends shall reclaim, ^let at the perfect source whence love and summer came! 12 A SECRET SONG r (J Snow-bird I Snow-bird! Welcome thy note when maple honjrhs are bare; Thy merry twitter, thy emphatic call, Like silver trumpets pierce the freezing air, What time the radiant flakes beu'in to fall, We know thy secret. When the day grows dim, Far from the homes that thou hast cheered so long, Thy chirping changes to a twilight liymni O snow-bird,8now-bird, wherefore hide thy song? O Snow-bird! Snow-bird! Is it a song of sorrow none may know, An acking memory? Nay, too glad the note! TJut(-uched by knowledge of our human woe, Clearly the crystal flutings fall and float. We hear thy tender ecstasy and cry: "Lend us thy gladness that can brave the chill!" Under the splendors of the winter sky, snow-bird, snow-Mrd, carol to us still. BERCEUSE. All pain, all sorrow, seem to fall Behind us infinitely far, What time the sleepy robins call At Twilight,s dusky bar. Lay down your head upon my l)reast, rosy nephew golden-curled; Boys, birds, and flowers hush to rest, So weary grows the world. 13 (s slowly us tiie )ranc;hes wave, Singinj;;, I rt)ck you to and Iro; |() tune be glad, if words are grave tiie i)a'>y will not know. ""ar off and faint the (?hirpi;igs Siiiind, Pale lights gleam out through dark'ning ' lue. ^(ift arms of silence fold us round As mine are folding you. Jniall voice that twitters like the birds, Gray eyes that hold the light oTdtars, ?oo sleepy we for tune or words; Let down the Dreamland bars! REVEILLE IThe chill faint breath of morning stirs the trees The shivering sp.irrows wake disconsolate. Lowing for human (.'are the cattle wait, JAnd looking to the East the watcher sees [The chill faint '>reath of morning stir the trees. Behold the rising splendor in the Kast. Now molten light where iron darkness lay Heralds the (tonquest, hails the victor, Day; So may the Christ-Child's glory be increased, So rose his radiance from a darkened I'.ast. As breaks the etherial goll acr,)ss the crest Of yonder hills and turns the trees to flame, liOW we adore that Light fn^m whence it came. Star of our souls, Thy praises be confest. As breaks the light across the mountain's crest- 14 THANKSGIVING. When beechen leaves are brown And bar-berries bright as coral, Let us forget the frown Of fate, and the longed-for laurel. Come where the maples burn In crimson and golden glory That Earth may hold in her urn The ashes of summer's story. Faithless the birds depart With musical chirp and twitter, And nature folds to her heart Alike the sweet and bitter. Then sing in Autumn's praise, Nor shrink from the colder comer; The joy of these shining days is deep as the bliss of summer; Winter in graves of snow May bury, but hide them never. For safe in our hearts sha?l glow The light thev have brought forever. The woods, the hills, rejoice, Each leaf a mute thanksgiving; We sing with grateful voice The pure delight of living! 15 INDIAN SUMMER. to drift, we two together, You Slid I, my friend, forever. Through this deep blue hazy weather, Dreaming naught of fates that sever. Past the shining pebbly beaches. Past the wooded steep incline, Down the river's silverv reaches Rimmed with moss and trailing vine. Past the banks where children clamber. Under skys of misty blue, Over shallow floods of amber That the golden sand looks through. O to drift, we two together. You and I, my Friend, forever, Through this deep blue hazy weather, Dreaming naught of fates tiiat sever! How Nature Comforted The Poet. "Nature, I come to thee for rest, For covert cool from thought aud strife, rock me on thy ample breast. For I have loved thee all my life! Then Nature hushed me in her arms, Anb softly she began to sing A legend of her woodland charms, A lullaby, a soothing thing. 16 She sang: My beech-leaves fluttering down Beneath these blue September skies, Are darkly soft, are softly brown, — l:)Ut not so brown as some-one's eyes." She sang: "This brook that ripples clear Where bending willow boughs rejoice, Is very sweet, bu^, not so dear And not so sweet as some-one's voice." And thus she sang till evening dews, And then at last she sang no more; I said: "If this is all your news, 1 knew it all too well before!" — o o; '-^ t^^XE^<^o"- M K down ikies, >» eyes lear ejoice, voice. >? are; ^O" ■