} INTERLUDES 9PM ■'■.:"■' ''■'. : . .."■■•'■■%• 1*3 '•''■..•:.■■■■• 'i -■•'•■■■-•■ . ■■"'■■'• '■•:.-• -'■■ ■'".'• ■ ' S '..'' ■'■••■ \ v.. . "i" ''■■■••'•■ f s ' • SSS? THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES INTERLUDES AND UNDERTONES. BALI.ANTYNE. HANSON AND CO. UUINBUKoH AND LONDON Interludes and Undertones OR mUSIC AT TWILIGHT BY CHARLES MACKAY AUTHOR OF "VOICES FROM THE CROWD," " EGERIA," "A MAK's HEART,' " LEGENDS OF THE ISLES," ETC. ETC. ETC. " Qiiisquis amat, nulla est conditione senex" PONTANI IS ilontion CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY 1884 [AH 1 ights reserved} PREFACE. HPHOUGH prefaces are nearly obsolete, from having degenerated into form without spirit, and into attempts to say something where nothing is required, I nevertheless think it necessary to affix a preface to this little volume by way of explanation. It is a collection of the last leaves that have grown on a literary tree which has been blossoming for forty years. If the tree were once gay with the flowers of Spring, it is possible that amid the yellowing foliage of its Autumn there may yet be found some flowers of fancy as well as some fruits of riper ex- perience that may suit the tastes of the newer genera- tion that has arisen since the author's earlier time. Laughter and tears, like flowers and fruit, are the produce of one stem ; and if, when we survey society, we either laugh or weep, should the laughter dwindle to a smile or the tear refuse to flow because a sigh may be sufficient, we may be sure that both the smile and the sigh have the same origin in human sympathy. It is in this spirit that the author offers the following verses to the old friends who may remember his earlier efforts, and to the ■ vi Preface. new friends whom it is possible he may acquire. Even in an age when Science, with its marvellous discoveries and no less marvellous applications, in- vades the monopoly once enjoyed by imagination, there is still room for poetry if it be worthy of the name and have a meaning clearly expressed in appropriate language, and can make good its claim to be something better than mere verse. To the class of readers who admire without understanding, and who unconsciously allow themselves to think that whatever is beyond the reach of their intellect must be magnificent, the author makes no appeal. He considers that it is the duty, and that it should be the pleasure of every writer, to express himself clearly, and if he cannot do so, that he should throw aside his useless pen as an admission that he has mistaken his vocation. Lyrical and all other poetry should avoid misty verbiage, confused thought, and pithless metaphysical subtleties, and should, as Milton says, be "simple, sensuous, and passionate/' and, above all things, intelligible to the heart and understanding of the uneducated as well as of the refined. To the rule of Milton the author has endeavoured to conform his verse, not without the hope that it might thereby become poetry as dis- tinguished from mere verse, even to the busv and prosaic-minded people of the closing decades of the nineteenth century. CONTENTS. PREFACE . I. UNWRITTEN BOOKS . II. GONE , III. POOR LIZZIE . IV. THE HARP UNSTRUNG V. CLOUDS VI. GREAT AND SMALL . VII. FOR EVER VIII. A WORM IN THE SUNSHINE IX. FOUNDERED . X. THE DREADFUL MINUTES XI. HEAVEN AND HELL . XII. THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES XIII. MAN OVERBOARD XIV. AN ADIEU XV. LIVING MEN . XVI. EUTHANASIA . XVII. IN THE CENTRE XVIII. TO NELLIE . XIX. BEAUTY AND GRIEF . XX. A QUESTION AND A REPLY XXI. MY FELLOW-CREATURES XXII. OUTSIDE AND IN XXIII. THE POET CAGE V 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ii 12 13 14 15 17 IS 19 20 21 =4 25 27 28 29 VI 1 1 Contents. XXIV. THE ETERNAL PENDULUM . XXV. YESTERDAY . XXVI. WEAPONS XXVII. A GREAT WARRIOR . XXVIII. DIAMOND SCRATCHES XXIX. COMPETITIVE CRAM XXX. BOOKS XXXI. MIDGES IN THE SUNSHINE XXXII. FANCIES XXXIII. PRICES . XXXIV. SMALL, BUT GREAT XXXV. GIFTS XXXVI. DEFIANT AND SELF-RELIANT XXXVII. VANITY OF VANITIES XXXVIII. IN THE LIBRARY . XXXIX. THE DEVIL AND I . XL. THE TWO SLEEPS XLI. THE MILESTONES XLII. GHOSTS XLIII. THE GREATEST OF LUXURIES XLIV. GOD GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEI XLV. OWNERSHIP . XLVI. OCCULT SYMPATHIES XLVII. THE PHILOSOPHIC SMOKER XLVIII. FRIENDS XLIX. THE DEBTOR AND CREDITOR AN WHO PAYS L. THE DEMI-SEMI LUNATIC . LI. A BURIAL-PLACE LII. THE QUID PRO QUO LIU. BEAUTIFUL OLD AGE LIV. NUT-CRACKING D THE FRIEND PAGE 30 31 32 33 34 36 37 39 40 4i 42 43 45 47 49 5° 5i 52 53 54 55 56 58 60 61 63 64 65 66 67 Contents. IX LV. PROGRESS ..... LVI. CYNICAL ODE TO AN ULTRA-CYNICAL PUBLIC LVII. IN A DROP OF WATER LVI 1 1. SEVEN .... LIX. IN THE STRAND AFTER LONG ABSENCE — 1S75 LX. HARMONIES .... LXI. THE VERY LAST SMOKE LXII. A LOVE EXTR'AVAGANZA LXIII. VERY VIRTUOUS AND RESPECTABLE LXIV. MY WIFE'S PORTRAIT LXV. THE ACTOR .... LXVL QUITS .... LXVII. THREE FASHIONABLE SISTERS LXVIII. SILENTLY AND SLOWLY LXIX. "SANS SOUCl" VILLA LXX. BROKEN .... LXXI. LOST REVERENCE . LXXII. SHADOWS IN THE STREETS LXXIII. TO MY DAUGHTER SINGING LXXIV. PEBBLES .... LXXV. PEARLS BEFORE A HOG LXXVI. THE REASON WHY . LXXVII. CANDID FRIENDS . LXXVIII. A GREAT DOCTOR . LXXIX. GOOD OUT OF EVIL LXXX. IN THE WILD WOOD LXXXI. CARELESS — NOT VACANT-MINDED LXXXII. POPULARITY : A DIALOGUE LXXXIII. IN THE VILLA LXXXIV. A TRIAD OF LOVE LYRICS : — I. THE GENTLE TYRANT II. FAIR AND CRUEL III. .... PAGE 69 70 72 73 75 79 80 82 83 84 85 86 S7 89 90 9i 92 93 95 96 97 98 100 101 102 103 104 105 107 109 no no Contents. LXXXV. A SECTARIAN PHILOSOPHER LXXXVI. THE OLD PHILOSOPHER . LXXXVIL THE WIND AND THE WIRES LXXXVIII. THE LONG, LONG, LONG AGO LXXXIX. AN OLD FRIEND XC. THE HAMMER XCI. WILD SUPPOSITIONS XCII. THE BRAVE STRUGGLE XCIII. NEVER GROW OLD . XCIV. A ROYAL GRIEVANCE XCV. NO ! NOT FOR GOLD ! XCVI. ALL FOR MYSELF . XCVII. EHEU ! MISERRIMI ! XCVIII. HAMLET XCIX. CHILDLESS . C. ON THE BATTLEFIELD CI. HENRY DE BOURBON (DIED 1883 CII. THE OLD POET'S LAST RESOURC1' CIII. TRUE RICHES CIV. EUTHANASIA CV. OLD EIGHTY-EIGHT CVI. WORK CVII. THOU ART NOT FAIR CVIII. VERSE AND POETRY CIX. PARDON CX. THE DAISY CHORUS CXI. A BACHELOR'S MONO-RHYME CXII. KISSING THE THIMBLE CXIII. DOGS CXIV. UNDER THE OLD OAK TREE CXV. CXVI. MY OWN JEWELS PACK III 112 "3 116 117 118 119 121 122 123 125 127 I2S 129 I30 133 135 *3 6 137 1 38 139 140 141 142 143 144 146 14S 149 150 152 513 Contents. XI CXVII. IN A WARM BATH CXVIII. TOBACCO CXIX. UNAPPRECIATED CXX. ONCE ON A TIME CXXI. NO ENEMIES CXXII. EDUCATION CXXIII. TO A VERY HARD SECTARIAN CXXIV. A GRAVE . CXXV. THE HIGHEST PLACE CXXVI. A SONG WITHOUT AN "s" CXXVII. CRITIQUES OR CRITICS : — I. GREAT AUTHORITIES II. PLAGIARISM . III. KNOWLEDGE • . IV. A VERY DIFFERENT THING V. THE ICONOCLASTS . VI. HOMER AND SHAKSPEARE CXXVIII. THE GOURD AND THE PALM CXXIX. TO ONE WHO BOASTED THAT HE WORLD "... CXXX. A DREAM OF DEATH CXXXI. MILTON IN THE PORCH CXXXII. A DREAM OF MY POEMS KNEW THE PAGE 154 155 156 157 158 »S9 160 161 162 i^3 164 165 166 166 167 167 170 171 173 175 177 UNWRITTEN BOOKS. QLORIOUS are the books With joy and wifdom fraught, Unwritten, — not unread In the library of thought ; The ripples of the river That fparkle to the fun, And whifper to the woodlands, Rejoicing as they run : — The foam-creft of the billows That furge againft the fhore, The deep pfalm of the foreft When the wild winds rave and roar The crimfoning gold of funfet Before the weft grows dark, And in the mellow morning The anthems of the lark : — The palaces of Cloudland Illumined by the moon, In the fulnefs of her fplendour In the balmy month of J une : — A Unwritten Books. The deep dark blue of midnight To our poor human eyes, Revealing while concealing The wonders of the ikies : — And nobleft book of all To read, — if read we can. In words of blazing luftre, The deftinies of man, Marching from good to better In God's eternal plan ! II. GONE ! " Z^IONE is the frefhnefs of my youthful prime ; Gone the illusions of a later time; Gone is the thought that wealth is worth its coft. Or aught I hold ib good as what I've loft ; Gone are the beauty and the namelefs grace That once I worfhipped in dear Nature's face; Gone is the mighty mufic that of yore Swept through the woods or rolled upon the more ; Gone the defire of glory in men's breath To waft my name beyond the deeps of Death ; Gone is the hope that in the darker! Day Saw bright To-morrow with empurpling ray; Gone, gone — all gone, on which my heart was caft ; Gone, gone for ever, to the awful Past; — All gone — but Love ! " Oh, coward to repine ! Thou haft all elfe, if Love indeed be thine ! III. POOR LIZZIE! (An Unromantic Romance.) \70U fwear I loved you dearly once — Perhaps ! my pretty Lizzie ; But then was then — and now is now : fm bufy — very bufy ! You'd like to have a thoufand pounds ! Good girl, your brain is dizzy ! But mine is calm, and knows the world : I'm bufy — very bufy! You'll try your rights ! you'll go to law ! Your lawyer's clever ! Is he ? Well ! give the man my belt, refpe&s, I'm bufy — very bufy ! IV. THE HARP UNSTRUNG. ^NCE to the touch of a gentle hand It made fweet mufic in the land, The tunes leaped out of its quivering firings And the harmonies fanned them like angel wings, Till they glowed and glittered like fire-flies bright Sparkling with melody and light. But the hand lies cold beneath the fod, And the beautiful fpirit dwells with God, And the chords are broken and thrill no more With the mufic, the life and the love of yore; Silent unlefs when the winds go by, And wake them to a fob, or figh ! V. CLOUDS. AJOBODY looks at the clouds With a love that equals mine. I know them in their beauty, In the Morn or Even mine. I know them and poffefs them, My Caflles in the air, My Palaces, Cathedrals, And Hanging Gardens fair. Sometimes I think, ftar-gazing, That many a monarch proud, Has far lefs joy in his Halls of ftone Than I in my Halls of Cloud. VI. GREAT AND SMALL. '"THERE is nor great nor fmall in nature's plan, Bulk is but fancy in the mind of man) A raindrop is as wondrous as a ftar,* Near is not neareft, further!: is not far ; And funs and planets in the vaft ferene Are but as midges in the fummer fheen, Born in their feafon, and that live and die Creatures of Time, loft in Eternity. U? VII. FOR EVER! " T70 R ever ! yes, for ever ! " Said the foapfud bubbles, glancing And fparkling and rejoicing In the funny fummer air. " For ever ! yes, for ever ! " Said the noontide midges, dancing In the {belter where the breezes Could not catch them unaware. " For ever ! yes, for ever ! " Said the poet to his poems ; " So bright ye are, and lovely, Like the gems in Hiftory's hair ! " But, alas ! the Evening came, And the bubbles and the midge's And the poems, all had vaniflied ! Where, oh where ? oh, tell me where ? VIII. .4 WORM IN THE SUNSHIXE. TDOOR fellow-mortal ! creeping Over the dewy grais, I fee thee in the funihine And fpare thee as I pafs, — I arrogate above thee No maftery of man, I have no right to harm thee, And will not, if I can. Thou liveft, Fate permitting, Thy ihort predefined hour, What more do mighty monarchs In plenitude of power ? They work their good or evil, They run the race allowed, Then pafs away, unfceptred, Into the common crowd ! Perchance fome hungry darling, In eager morning flight, May feize thee for its breakfaft, Making its Might its Right. io A Worm in the Sun Piine. Perchance, at Time appointed, Ruin, with fiery breath, May grip me in its clutches, Lefs merciful than Death ! Yet, comrade, fmall and humble, Until the end arrive, We lliare the fame fad fecret That fhadows all alive. We are ; — but why we know not ; And neither thou nor I Can folve the eternal riddle; — There's fun/hine in the fky! IX. FOUNDERED. T_TOW many a glorious morning have I feen Darken ere noon in fearfulleft eclipfe ! How many a fea, pellucid and ferene, Have I known treacherous to deep-laden (hips. Alas ! alas ! how many a gallant foul — Artift, romancer, fcholar, bard, divine, Poor wherries in the wild Atlantic roll — Have I feen founder in the pitilefs brine ! X. THE DREADFUL MINUTES. ^THE dreadful, dreadful minutes! Silent and fure and flow; They mafter and quench and overwhelm Alike our joy and woe. They conquer beauty, youth, and ftrength, And grind in their cruel mill Glory and Fame and Power and Wealth, Alike the good and ill. The dreadful, dreadful minutes ! They drip and drift and pals, And fhear the generations As a mower fhears the grafs. Till nought remains of Caefar Except a floating breath, A lie on the page of Hiftory, A drop in the fea of Death ! XI. HEAVEN AND HELL. T S Heaven a place, or ftate of mind ? Let old experience tell ! Love carries Heaven where'er it goes, And Hatred carries Hell. XII. THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES. T F we can fend a meffage round the earth, And conquer Time, as meafured by the fun, Without obftruction from its rolling girth, Shall we deny to Heaven what man has done ; Shall we deny that Star may ling with Star In chant fublime, unheard of mortal ears? And with our petty thoughts of near or far Prefume to talk of diftance in the fpheres ? Doubt it no more, ye earth-imprifoned fouls ! All Heaven is filled with fympathies divine, And orb with orb rejoices or condoles, And rlafh electric mufic as they fhine. v XIII. MAN OVERBOARD. THE FIRST MATE. 1VJ OT alone in the norm lurk the danger and the forrow. One evening years ago, doing duty on the deck, I heard a tailor fhout, "Man overboard! " and looking Over the calm Atlantic, faw him floating like a fpeck ! We could not Hop the engines, going thirteen knots an hour, Or throw him out a life-buoy, fo rapidly we fped ; But I caught, like a thought, his face to Heaven upturn- ing. And prayed for his foul as we left him with the dead. THE PASSENGER. Not alone in the fea do the men go down in billows — I have feen fuch things on land, 'mid the humble and the proud, — Men of mark and men of none, and Leviathans of commerce Go down in calmeft weather, 'mid the deep unpitying crowd. [6 Man Overboard/ A fplutter and a plaih, and a fliort expiring ftruggle, A.S the great big Ship of Life roars and fleams and rufhes by : Man overboard? What matters ? The paddles roll tor ever, — Tis the hand of Fate hath done it ! Let him die ! XIV. AN ADIEU. /""* OOD night, fweet Sorrow, Until to-morrow, And then we fhall dwell together again ; I've known thee long, Like a mournful fong, Till thou'ft grown a part Of my innermoft heart, And a nettling bird on my pillow of pain. Sweet little Sorrow, Come back to-morrow, I've learned to love thee — remain, remain ! B XV. LIVING MEN. ' SEE the true men of to-day — The great, the brave heroic fouls — Not as they pafs me in the way Amid the common human fhoals ; — But with the eyes of future Time, Their halos fixed, their wreaths empearl'd, Sages, and wits, and bards fublime — The benefa&ors of the world. XVI. EUTHANASIA.' "DOOR and mean are our thoughts of Death, The world's a wheel in a rut ; And men frill think as their fathers thought, With fcarcely an "if" or a "but." To me, kind Death feems a lady fair, A teeming mother, well wed, Whofe children inherit another world — The new-born, beautiful dead. Born with a glory unperceived By us on the gloomy fhore, Children that fport in their Father's light, And know their Mother no more ! XVII. 7A T THE CENTRE. V^HAT do I care for opinions That darken the light of my reafon, — Or argue me down with falfe logic, Or tell me that truth is untruthful ? I judge for myfelf and my confcience, And ftand in the Centre of Circles, Untempted to ftray upon tangents, Serenely contemplating all things, Above me, around me, beneath me! And if I go wrong, I go wrong without guile, And if I go right, I am right for awhile ; Until I difcover, as furely I muft, That foul cannot foar for mortality's duft. XVIII. TO NELLIE. A VALENTINE FROM NEW ORLEANS. gEAUTIFUL day, O beautiful clay ! There's not a cloud on the rim of Heaven, Except to the weftward, far away, Three little iilands, rent and riven, Three little iiles of fleecy white Bathing themfelves in the rofy light. And the wind blows balmy from the fouth As it had kiffed the fummer's mouth, And told to all, the gracelefs rover, How fweet, how gracious was its lover. II. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful day ! Bright as our bonnie Englilh May; Yet lacking fomething — hard to tell — I know not what — but feel it well, Prelent, though ineffable. Is it that here condemned to roam, I figh for the colder ikies of home ? 22 To AW//V. Perhaps 5 yet I am grateful itill For the privilege to breathe at will This buxom and rejoicing air That bathes the bright world everywhere ; To fee the palms and orange growing, And Nature all her boons beitowing. ill. Ah, no ! not all ! 'tis fair to fee ; Yet fomething fails ; what can it be That I, not difficult to pleafe In the beauty of the grafs and trees, Have found a void, ye lovely hours, In the fair fplendour of the bowers ? IV. Unfatisried ! unfatisfied ! I mils the white amid the green ; I mifs the flowers — the dailies pied, And cowilips peering up between ; I mifs the long of the trilling lark — Soaring, foaring, and ringing ever, From the dawning till the dark, The long unborn of an endeavour, But gulhing from his happy voice As freely as from morning fun, The light that bids the world rejoice In the new gladfomenefs begun. v. All thefe I mifs this pleafant day ; All thefe and fomething more divine — Thy fmile, dear Nellie, far away, To Nellie. 23 Thy hand, fweetheart, to clafp in mine; The voice oft heard from lips of thine, That breathes the words 'tis joy to hear Even in remembrance. Wanting thefe I blefs the fkies fo balmy clear, The health and gladnefs on the breeze ; But mifs my joy beyond the fea, And pine for England and for thee. XIX. BEALTY AND GRIEF. "THERE'S fomething beautiful in fadnefs, A fomething fad in all that's fair, To trace, why this fhould be, is madnefs, And leads the mind we know not where. Yet when we think on thefe affinities, Beauty and grief become divinities. XX. A QUESTION AND A REPLY. THE YOUNG MAN TO THE OLD. CAY, whither art thou going, Thy hands upon thy breaft, Thy face toward the funlight Fan: fading in the weft ? THE OLD MAN TO THE YOUNG. 1 am going, flowly going, Undifmayed and undiftrelfed, To the laft eftate that's left me, To the laft, may be, the beft ! To the regions of Oblivion, To the chambers of the bleft, " Where the wicked ceafe from troubling, And the weary are at reft ! " THE YOUNG MAN S REPLY. God have thee in His keeping ! 'Tis His, not our beheft ! But is this all we come to After our toil and queft ? 26 A Queftion and a Rep///. Is nothing we afpire to, O'erburdened and oppreffed, Ever to recompenle us — Nothing but Peace and Reft ? XXI. MY FELLOW-CREATURES. ~\JOX5 love your fellow-creatures ? So do I, — But underneath the wide paternal iky Are there no fellow-creatures in your ken That you can love, except your fellow-men ? Are not the grafs, the flowers, the trees, the birds, The faithful hearts, true-hearted without words, Your fellows alio, howibever fmall ? He's the beft lover who can love them all. XXII. OUTSIDE AND IN. QUIETLY browfe the meek-eyed cattle, ^ Quietly nibble the timid fheep, And the wind among the beechen branches Seems as 'twould cradle the rooks to fleep. The fmoke curls blue from the kitchen chimney, The manor houfe glints white in the fun ; Peace dwelleth here, and the evening glory Of a life — well ending — well begun. Thou foolifh rhymer ! Pafs the threfhold ! The matter lits in his old arm-chair, And two ftrong keepers watch befide him, Left he lhould flay himfelf unaware. He raves, he whines, he groans, he whimpers ; His wife and children have fled, forlorn ; And could he know the doom he fufters, He'd curie the day that he was born. XXIII. THE POET. " \yHO is this ? "' laid the Moon To the rolling Sea, "That wanders lb gladly, or madly, or fadly, Looking at thee and me ? " Said the Sea to the Moon, " 'Tis right you mould know it, This wife good man Is a wit and a poet ; But he earns not, and cannot, His daily bread, So he'll die By-and-by, And they'll raife a big monument Over his head ! " Said the bonnie round Moon to the beautiful Sea, " What fools the men of your Earth muft be ! " •*z&®®? XXIV. THE ETERNAL PENDULUM. CWING on, old pendulum of the world, For ever and tor ever, Keeping the time of funs and ftar.s, The march that endeth never ! Your monotone fpeaks joy and grief, And failure and endeavour; Swing on, old pendulum, to and fro, For ever and for ever ! Long as you fwing mall earth be glad, And men be partly good and bad ; Long as you fwing ihall Wrong come Right, As fure as Morning follows Night ; The days go wrong — the ages never — Swing on, old pendulum — fwing for ever! XXV YESTERDAY. V^HAT makes the king unhappy ? His queen is young and fair, His children climb around him With waving yellow hair. His realm is broad and peaceful, He fears no foreign foe; And health to his veins comes leaping In all the winds that blow. What makes the king unhappy ? Alas ! a little thing, That money cannot purchafe, Or fleets and armies bring. And yefterday he had it, With yefterday it went, And yefterday it perifhed, With all the king's content. For this he fits lamenting, And fighs, "Alack ! alack ! I'd give one half my kingdom, Could Yesterday come back! " XXVI. WEAPONS. "DOTH fwords and guns are ftrong, no doubt, And lb are tongue and pen, And fo are fheaves of good bank notes, To fway the fouls of men. But guns and fwords, and piles of gold, Though mighty in their fphere, Are fometimes feebler than a fmile, And poorer than a tear. XXVII. A GREAT WARRIOR. T AM a warrior, ftout and flrong, I've fought the cold world, hard and long, I've fought it for a crull of bread, And for a place to lay my head. I've fought it for my name and pride, Back to the wall, with both hands tied : I've felt its foot upon my brain, And ftruggled, and got up again ! And fo I will, if fo I muft, Until this dull returns to duft. Meanwhile the battle rages on, Let me die fighting, and begone ! XXVIII. DIAMOND SCRATCHES. TITIVE years ago, in this cofy Inn, We palled a pleaiant day, Four merry friends, who ate and drank, And were blithe as birds in May. We Scratched our names on the window pane ; There they ftand in the iheen, And prove to me, if to nobody elfe, What fools we mutt have been. One of them borrowed my cafh (a dove That never returned to the ark) ; The fecond was jealous of my fame, And ftabbed it in the dark ! The third made love to a bonnie wee maid Dearer to me than life, Wooed her and won her behind my baek, And made her his wretched wife. And here I fit in the cofy Inn, While the bright wood-fplinters blaze, And drink my pint of claret alone, And think of the bygone days, Diamond Scratches. 35 And wonder which of my three falfe friends I hate or defpife the moft ; — Surely not him who borrowed my cam ? 'Tis gone — 'tis a bodilels ghoft ! Surely not him who Hole my wife ? That was not my wife, God wot ! But might have been, to my dire diftrefs, Had ihe fallen to my lot ! I think I hate with the deadlier! hate The fellow who flurred my name — Shaking my hand, eating my bread, And murdering my Fame ! XXIX. COMPETITIVE CRAM. I - COULD not tell the cutler's name Who fold the blade that murdered Caefar, Or fix the hour when Egypt's queen Firft thought that Antony might pleafe her. I could not fay how many teeth King Rufus had when Tyrrell mot him ; Or, after haplefs Wolfey's death, How foon or late King Hal forgot him. I could not tell how many miles Within a fcore rolled Thames or Tiber, Or count the centuries of a tree By clofe infpeclion of its fibre. So I was plucked, and loft my chance, And plodding Cram paifed proudly o'er me. Who cares for Cram ? I've Common Senfe, And Health, and all the world before me ! XXX. BOOKS. "D LESSIXGS on books ! that ever fhow What ancient wits and fages taught, And pour in bounteous overflow The ever living ftream of thought ! B Idlings on books ! while they are ours, And fouls are reached through ears and eyes, We're equals of th' immortal powers, We're partners in the earth and Ikies ! XXXI. MIDGES IN THE SUNSHINE. T F I could fee with a midge's eye, Or think with a midge's brain, I wonder what I'd fay of the world, With all its joy and pain ? Would my feven brief hours of mortal life Seem long as feven ty years, As I danced in the flickering funfhine Amid my tiny peers? Should I feel the llighteft hope or care For the midges yet to be ; Or think I died before my time, If I died at half-paft three, Inftead of living till let of fun On the breath of the fummer wind ; Or deem that the world was made for me And all my little kind ? Perhaps if I did, I'd know as much Of Nature's mighty plan, And what it meant for good or ill, As that larger midge, a man ! XXXII. FANCIES. " YK7'HENCE come your beautiful fancies? From the earth or the heavens above? " ' From neither ! " the poet replied, " they ftream From the eyes of the woman I love ! There are far more thoughts in her funny glance, Than ftars in the midnight fkies ! " " You're a fool ! " faid his friend. " Perhaps I am What's the good of being wife ? I would not change this folly of mine, No, not for an Empire's prize ! " XXXIII. PRICES. "DEEF and bacon, bread and beer, Raiment, lodging, fire, All things that men moft ibrely need And painfully defire, Mount up in price, from day to day, Higher and ever higher. Alas, for the honeft worker With nought to fell but brain ! Who wears it out by over-toil His poor dry bread to gain! Work doefn't follow the price of beef ; And if the wretch complain, Men anfwer, " Nobody wants your work, Beggar ! you've lived in vain ! " XXXiV. SMALL, BUT GREAT. '"THE fun can mirror his glorious face In the dewdrop on the fod, And the humbleit human heart reflect: The light and love of God. XXXV. GIFTS. \70U fay I throw my gifts to the unworthy : So doth the Lord of Love who rules on high ; So doth the liberal Sun to all things earthy, To hill or plain, to palace or to fty. Who fells his gifts for gratitude expetted Is but a bargaining huckfter at the beft ; — The Sun afks nothing for his rays reflected ; I afk for nothing — prithee let me reft ! XXXVI. DEFIANT AND SELF-RELIANT. IV/TY back is to the wall, And my face is to my foes, That furge and gather round me Like waves when winter blows. The ghofts of bygone errors, The faults of former years, That fling my veins like arrows And pierce my heart like fpears. But let them do their utmoft, For thefe I can endure, And meet and overcome them, By fuffering made pure. Againft all other foemen I'll fight with fiery breath, And if, all done, I'm vanquished, Go glorioufly to death. My back is to the wall, And my face is to my foes, I've lived a life of combat, And borne what no one knows. 44 Defiant and Self-Reliant. But in this mortal ftruggle I (land — poor ipeck of dull, Defiant — felf-reliant To die— if die I mufl ! XXXVII. VANITY OF VANITIES. " What is it to be wife? 'Tis but to know how little can be known." Pope. A POOR, poor fellow, a very good fellow, Went maundering by the fea, Gazing at times to the ftarry heaven. At times to the wild waves free. And faid to himfelf, wife-looking, " I'd know the eternal plan ; I'd folve the riddle of fortune, The meaning of God and man." And a voice came out of the darknefs, Out, perchance, from his foul — " Thou fool ! wouldft ladle the ocean Into the rim of a bowl ? Wouldft make thine eye the circle Of all that the worlds contain, Or gather the ftars in a chalice No bigger than thy brain ? " 46 Vanity of Vanities. Out of the dark came brightnefs, And a fecond voice replied — " Forgive me, oh, forgive me, My arrogance and pride ! Wildom is born of folly, And folly from wifdom grows; And he is wifer than wifdom Who knows how little he knows ! " XXXVIII. IN THE LIBRARY. T SPEND my days among the immortal dead, For ever young, — for ever frem and free ; I walk with Shakfpeare's light upon my head, Or fit with Byron by the ftormy fea ; I fee with Homer's eyes the days of old, Or trace with Gibbon's lightning-feathered pen An Empire's fall ; and wonder, as I'm told, If mightier Britain, lacking mighty men, Shall link like Rome into the depths forlorn And leave no Empire to her after-born, Becaufe her manhood rotted to decay; And hghing, hope, " Far diftant be the day ! " The frivolous living talk not with my foul, I weary of their fenfelefs jell and jeer, And ftrive to keep within a calm control My fcorn and forrow for the infincere ; And if I fail a while, I ftrive to dip My fpirit in the Ocean of old Time, My happy Books, — where, failing like a iliip, I vilit, conquering, every lhore and clime ! 4 8 In the Library. I'm lonely in the crowd ; amid my tomes I have the choice of rich anceftral homes, Where I can dwell with an exultant mind Pleaied with myfelf, at peace with all mankind. XXXIX. THE DEVIL AND I. '"THE devil ? Yes ! I have often feen him, Chanceful ever in form and face ; Once in the ihape of a lump of money, Once like a maid in her youthful grace. Once like a life-long hope accomplished, Once in the lhape of a thought inftilled, Once in the guife of my heart's ambition, Once like a promife of joy fulfilled ! Never he comes as a roaring lion. No ! He is always calm and bland, Courteous, witty, and pleafant fpoken As the braveft gentleman in the land. Tis a cheating game that we play together ; But he's not lb clever as men opine ! / know that his lordlhip's dice are loaded — He does not know that I've loaded mine ! D XL. THE TWO SLEEPS. TIT AC H night we feek a temporary death, And are unhappy if it fails to come, And morning dawns with life in every breath, And the tongue fpeaks that for a while was dumb j And when the longer Death, which none efcape, Conquers our leventy years, or leis or more, Is it not Sleep that takes another ihape ? And lhall we not awaken as before ? XL1. THE MILESTONES. gEVENTY mileftones on the road, The road on which we travel, Sometimes through the bog and mire, Sometimes o'er the gravel. Sometimes o'er the velvet grafs, Or through the foreft alleys, Sometimes o'er the mountain tops, Or through the pleafant valleys. Sometimes through the garden walks. Light of heart and cheerv, Sometimes o'er the jagged ftones With bleeding feet and weary. All my mileftones lie behind, Nearly all I reckon, And I can fee grim Death before That feems to nod and beckon. Let him beckon ! let him nod ! My knees are fupple-jointed, He cannot flop me if he would Before the hour appointed. XLII. GHOSTS. r^ HOSTS often come to my window, And knock at my chamber door. They fit by my fide at dinner, Or walk with me on the fhore. I know their villainous faces, As they giggle, and fneer, and jar ; They will not be gone, fo I'll count them, And tell them what they are ! Ghofts of ambition buried, Ghofts of a love grown cold, Ghofts of a fortune fquandered, Ghofts of a tale that's told, Ghofts of a traitorous friendfhip, And of follies nine times nine! Come, wizard, come and lay them In the deep Red Sea of wine ; Or, if wine be out of fafhion, Bury them in the brine! XLIII. THE GREATEST OF LUXURIES. CAID the great Dives (millionaire), " Good Fortune never flies me, One only luxury in the world She churlifhly denies me. I could indulge it if I would, While ftill among the living, But if I did, 'twould break my heart— The luxury of giving ! " " Alas ! poor foul ! " faid Lazarus, With fcorn in every feature, "I'd not exchange my lot for yours — You miferable creature ! " X L I V GOD GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP. f STRIVE with aching heart and head, All the long day and half the night, For paltry recompenfe of bread, And win it in the world's defpite ; It gives me life, and little more ; Yet why complain ? One blefling cheap Is fuperadded to my (tore — God giveth His beloved Jleep. And am I one of thele ? Why not ? Our pains and pleafures intertwine- After the fight that muft be fought There comes a truce with peace divine. 'Tis wife to ftruggle and endure j After all forrow great and deep, The recompenfe is fweet and fure — God giveth His beloved Jleep. -Stf&XSffcj^ XLV. OWNERSHIP. I" AM the owner of Beauty ! In every curve and line, — I claim it ; I pofTefs it By right of a power divine ! I'm not the lord of the vineyard, But I drink the noble wine; I draw no rent from the acres, But the lovely landfcape's mine Volumes and pictures and ftatues, In rich men's palaces mine ; I can neither buy nor fell them, But they're mine in the fpirit — mine . XLVI. OCCULT SYMPATHIES. THE FIRST IDEA. T F Nature knew my lbrrow, Would the borrow My lad long ? Or if lhe knew my pleasures, Would her meafures Lilt along ? Not at all ! Oh, not at all ! Nature is no man's thrall, The bird fings in the air, And knows not of our care. The wind amid the trees Makes its own melodies. What fignifies to thefe our happinefs or woe ? Let the hoarfe billows roar ! Let the wild breezes blow ! THE SECOND IDEA. Not so, grave moralifer, Be thou wifer, And fo learn, That we ourfelves to Nature Give the feature And the plan. Occult Sympathies. 57 She pranks her in our guile, And lives but in our eyes. If you and I are glad, The bells ring merry mad ; If we are grieved at heart, The flues their gloom impart. And winds among the trees, and waves upon the iliore, Sound fadlv. ever fadlv — fadlv evermore ! X L V IJ . THE PHILOSOPHIC SMOKER. BY ONE WHO DOES NOT SMOKE. COMETIMES the big world vexes me. Sometimes dull care perplexes me : Sometimes on the fea of life Such florms around me clufter, And roar and rave and bluiler, I feem to fink in the ftrife. No matter ! There's always truce In the heat of the wildeft war : At leaft I dream or think fo, Smoking my firlt cigar. Sometimes when nothing ails me, Except that the red gold fails me, I envy the rich in their pride ; Though their only obvious merit Is the gold that they inherit And couldn't earn if they tried ; But quietly after dinner I banilh fuch thoughts afar, What do I care for Fortune Smoking my fecond cigar ? The Philofophic Smoker. 59 Sometimes, in the heartlefs city, I think it a fhame and pity That cam and virtue are one ; That to iwindle for millings feems awful, While to plunder for millions is lawful, If only fuccefsfully done. But why ihould I mend its morals, Or call the world to my bar ? I've dined, and I wifh to be quiet — I'll fmoke my laft cigar ! XLVIII. FRIENDS. IN DEEP WATER. "P AIR-WEATHER friends, that fought me oner, I fail to reach the more ; Thick darknefs ihrouds the face of heaven, And angry tempefts roar. Idle is all your good advice : I want a rope — a hand — A heart — a will — a little fkill To draw me to the land. THE I- AIR- WEATHER FRIENDS. Rope, did you fay ? we have no rope ; We drove you not to fea ; You've drifted blindly out of depth : Drift back again, fay we! «M§53©.* S XLIX. THE DEBTOR AND CREDITOR AND THE FRIEND WHO PAYS. THE CREDITOR. yOU owe me full a thoufand pound. THE DEBTOR. I owe, but cannot pay. THE CREDITOR. Then you mult go to prifon ftrong. THE DEBTOR. Well, if I mult — I may. THE FRIEND WHO PAYS. " Hold off your hand, hard-hearted wretch ! This man is not for thee ! His age is threefcore years and ten. And he's in debt to me.' " He owes you money — me his life. Come, aged friend ! " he faith ; 62 The Debtor and Creditor. " Come to my quiet prifon-houle, Come to the peace of Death. " This huckfter acts from bafe revenue, And I for love divine ! " The old man lighed and breathed his laft, " Death ! only friend ! I'm thine ! " THE DEMI-SEMI LUNATIC. gAID Fate to the Fated, " Unravel my fkein." Said the Fated to Fate, "'Twere eternally vain." Said Body to Soul, 'We are myfteries twain." " Wherein do we differ ? " Said Pleafure to Pain ; "Are not living and dying Mere links in a chain ? And is not the antidote Part of the bane? " Unriddle my riddle, O fphinx of the plain ! It weighs on my fpirit, It addles my brain. LI. A BURIAL-PLACE. DURY me not, bury me not, Under the greenwood tree ; Bury me not in the earth at all, Bury me in the tea. What do I care for a monument ? What for a lying fcroll ? What for a record of this or that ; I am a living foul ? And if the fpirit ihould haunt The place where the body lies, Then mine ihall float on the flying wind Betwixt the waves and ikies. Spite, nor malice, nor fcorn, Shall defecrate the fpot, And the whirling breeze ihall fing the dirge Of one remembered not. LII. THE QUID PRO QUO. HEARD you aik in a whifper light, Who that ugly old woman might be ? Turning your eyes (they are not very bright) With a leer and a fneer at me. Good fir ! this ugly old woman Was once a pretty girl ; 'Twas about the time your whifkers grew, And your beard began to curl. I was the handibmer of the two, Though fooner laid on the fhelf. Good fir ! ere you mock at others, 'Twould be well to look at yourfelf ! An ugly old woman ! you faid, fir ? A hideous old man ! fay I. Padded, bewigged, without a tooth ; Neither fit to live, nor die ! E LIU. BEAUTIFUL OLD AGE. T-TOW to be beautiful when old I can tell you, maiden fair — Not by lotions, dyes, and pigments, Not by waflies for your hair. While you're young be pure and gentle, Keep your paflions well controlled, Walk, and work, and do your duty, You'll be handfome when you're old. Snow-white locks are fair as golden, The gray is lovely as the brown, And age's fmile is far more pleafant Than youthful beauty's fcornful frown. Tis the foul that lhapes the features, Fires the eye, makes fweet the voice ; Sweet fixteen, be thefe your maxims, When you're lixty you'll rejoice. LIV. NUT-CRACKING. WHEN I could crack a nut With the molars in my jaws, With teeth all white and fteadfaft, And innocent of flaws, I laughed at angry Fortune, Made light of coming forrow, Was happy all the day, And carelefs of the morrow. I trufted men and women, And women molt, maybe ! — Oh, pleafant was that fpring-time To my teeth and me ! But now, when teeth are fhaky, And going one by one', I find, like Ifrael's monarch, Small good beneath the fun. I cannot crack a nut, I cannot find a truth In man or lovely woman, Like thofe I found in youth. 68 Nut-Cracking. Put back, O cruel Fortune, Thy fword into its flieath, Let me believe in ibmething, And contradict my teeth ! LV. PROGRESS. AA/'E travel fafter than we did A hundred years ago, And fend by wire and not by poll Our meflages of woe: Or elfe the price of flocks and ihares And wool and calico. We conquer Time, make light of Space, And every palling day Snatch fome new force from Nature's hand, And teach it to obey. But are we happier than our fires, Or brave and good as they ? Speak up, old Hiftory ! tell the truth ! Give us the yea — or nay ! LVI. CYNICAL ODE TO AN ULTRA CYNICAL PUBLIC. \70U prefer a buffoon to a fcholar, A harlequin to a teacher, A jelter to a ftatefman, An Anonyma flaring on horfeback To a modeft and fpotlefs woman — Brute of a public ' You think that to fneer fhows wifdom, That a gibe outvalues a realbn. That flang, fuch as thieves delight in, Is fit for the lips of the gentle, And rather a grace than a blemiih, Thick-headed public ! You think that if merit's exalted 'Tis excellent fport to decry it, And trail its good name in the gutter ; And that cynics, white-gloved and cravatted. Are the cream and quinteffence of all things, Afs of a public ! Cynical Ode to an Ultra Cynical Public. I i You think that fuccefs muft be merit, That honour and virtue and courage Are all very well in their places, But that money's a thoufand times better ; Deteftable, ftupid, degraded Pig of a public ! L V 1 1 . IN A DROP OF WATER. KNEW a mighty emperor, He lived in a drop of water ; I faw him through a microfcope, A very king of Slaughter ! " I'm monarch of the world !" he laid, " Some love and fome abhor me, But everywhere my will is law, And myriads fall before me." No doubt his " majefty " was great, While ran his little minute, And might have been for longer time, And done fome mifchief in it. Had I not come and fwept him up, To him, and his, a myftery, And made an end of his little big world, And his mighty little hiftory ! c^S LVIII. SEVEN. i. CEVEN freih acorns on the lea, Browned by fumraer's fiery glow, Newly fallen from the tree, Fit to plant, and apt to grow ; But fix of feven fiiall rot and die, And never flourifh to the Iky, Or feel the breezes as they blow, Choofe the fix — fele6t the one — Fool ! you cannot ! Fate muft run ! II. Seven lharp daggers, newly made, Each the other's counterpart, Each the fame in iheath and blade, Point and edge and workman's art ; And yet by Deftiny's command, One fiiall fill a murderer's hand, And ftab a true man to the heart ! Choofe the one — rejecf the reft — Fool ! you cannot ! Fate knows belt ! 74 Seven. m. Seven young maidens at the ball, Radiant as the new May morn, Blithe and joyous, one and all, With lips of love, or eyes of icorn ; Yet four of feven, when wedded wives, Shall make their hufbands curfe their lives, And rue the hour that they were born. Show the four — feleft the three — Fool ! you may not ! Live and see ! LIX. IN THE STRAND AFTER LONG ABSENCE— 1875. 1. pROM Charing Crofs to Temple Bar, Again I pace the well-known way ; All things that were, and things that are, Arife before me as I ft ray : True, there are changes in the ftreet — Time will demolilh brick and ftone, But frill, unlefs my fenfes cheat, 'Tis the fame Strand I've ever known. 11. 'Tis forty years fince firft I flood, A boy with meditative flare, And gazed in melancholy mood At Percy's Lion from the Square. Still on the houfe-top, tail erecl:, It ftands unharmed by lapfe of Time, While I look on and fcarce fufpeft That I'm no longer in my prime. -6 In the Strand after Long Abfence. in. I mils old Warren's blacking ihop — Where has the eternal Warren trone ? O Purr's rlourilh in perennial crop, But none puffs Warren — no, not one. Times change. And though the public (till Is gulled by puffers as before, It takes its ointment and its pill And ufes blacking as of yore. IV. Yes ! Warren's gone — but neighbour Coutts Still opes and fhuts his dingy hall, And feems to flourifh, Items and roots, And Hands, whoever elfe may fall. Once, as I palled, a foolifh lad, I thought a cheque my foul would blefs, Ten pounds a fortune, five not bad — Five hundred now would pleafe me lets. And Weifs, the cutler, lives he yet ? I know not, memory chills and fades ; But one thing I lhall ne'er forget, That knife with thrice a hundred blades. There in the window, Hill it Hands, Cheap, I'd have thought it, I avow, If purchafed by a baron's lands — I'd not give ninepence for it now. In the Strand after Long Ahfence. 7 7 VI. And lower down, a little fpace, That pickle fliop I knew fo well, That filled the circumjacent place With pungent, yet moll fragrant fmell. It ftill drives on the ancient trade, But Burgefs ? Let me not be told — I never knew him, I'm afraid — But if he lives, he's wondrous old ! VII. Here ftand, and threaten long to ftand, The two obftrucf ions of the town, St. Clement's and St. Mary Strand, Why don't they fell, and pull them down, And build them rearward, not too near ? Time gallops, but Reform is flow, Or Demolition's fatal fheer Would have fwept o'er them long ago. VIII. But who comes here ? an ancient Jew, A dealer in rejected wares, And old, old garments good as new, Or better as he oft declares. In times gone by, I've met him oft, And watched him in his daily walk, Enticing, prying, fpeaking foft, And winning cuftora by his talk. In the Strand after Long Abjence. IX. Joyous he was, and fair to fee, Oiled, prim, and neat, and jewelled much ; And now he mult be feventy-three, Or feventy — and he needs a crutch. Good orac'ious t am I then lb old As to remember this old muff? My blood is warm, and his is cold ! I'll think no longer, — I've enough ! LX. HARMONIES. T_J AST thou not heard it, the univerfal mulic, The throbbing harmonies, the old eternal rhyme, In the wild billows roaring, In the mad torrent pouring, And keeping with the ftars its tramp and march fublime ? Haft thou not heard it, when the night was filent And nothing ftirred but wind among the trees, And the ftar-orbits, firings of harps celeftial, Seemed quivering to the rulh of melodies. If in thy foul there pulfes no faint refponfive echo To that fupernal everlafting hymn, Thou'rt of the low earth lowly, Or liveft life unholy, Or dulleft fpiritual fenfe, by carnal groffnefs dim. Hear it, O fpirit ! hear it ; O preacher ! give it welcome ; And, loving heart, receive it, deep in thine inmoft core, The harmony of Angels, glory, for ever glory, Glory and Peace and Love — for ever, ever more ! LXI. THE VERY LAST SMOKE. [A French teacher in Edinburgh, convicted of murdering his wife, requested that during the last half-hour preceding his execution, he mi'^ht be allowed to smoke. A cigar was handed to him. Hence his reflections — ex fumo.] '"THERE'S pleafure in a good cigar — I'll fmoke it ere I die, And think meanwhile on life and death — Under the fading fky. Puff! I was once a happy boy, And thought the world was fair, Puff! Puff! I frolicked as I went, In ignorance of care. Puff! Puff I I won a blooming bride One funny fu miner day ; The love was lovely for awhile But cool'd and died away. Puff! Puff! my fpring-time quickly palled, But I was ftrong and bold, And toiled and toiled — and fought, and fought, And conquered conquering gold ! The Very Lqfi Smoke. 81 Puff ! Puff ! I played a fkilful game : And when I'd nearly won, I wakened from a gorgeous dream To find myielf undone ! Puff / Puff ! I thought I would repent, And I repented fore ; Puff! 'twas in vain, I linned again As boldly as before. Puff! Puff 7 The end approaches faft — I do not fear to die — I'll draw my laft faint final whiff Nor weep to fay good-bye ! Have I no hope ? I think I have That I may be forgiven ! Puff 7 Puff! my fin was dark and deep, Have mercy — pitying Heaven ! LXII. A LOVE EXTRAVAGANZA. (~* ROW greener, grafs, where the river flows- Her feet have prerTed you : Blow freiher, violet ! lily ! rote ! Her eyes have bletl'ed you. Sing fweeter, birds upon the trees, Her ears have heard you : Sound up to heaven, ye harmonies ! Her hands have ftirred you. LXII1. VERY VIRTUOUS AND RESPECTABLE. " \7"OU do not drink ! " I know ! Drink boils the brain, And bufinefs prolpers beft when you abftain ! " You do not fmoke ! " I know the reafon why, Tobacco makes you bilious, like to die ! " You're no Lothario ! " No, — the grapes are four, Your blood is cold, you have outlived your hour. " You're quite correal: in all you fay and do ! " — Perhaps, mv Chriftian friend, my worfe than Jew. But then, while robed in unctuous felf-content, You lend your villain cafh at cent, per cent., And would not give a five-pound note to lave Your lucklefs brother from a pauper's grave. LXIV. MY WIFE'S PORTRAIT. OVELY one ! lovely one ! vanifhed for ever. But freih in my heart evermore, I gaze on thy lbul-ipeaking likenefs, And ftrive, in my thought, to reftore The beauty and grace that are hidden In Death's evanefcent eclipfe, And cheat my fond eyes by believing I lee the iweet fmile on thy lips. I kits them, — as if they were living With mine to commingle their breath — And feel in the ftrength of my weakneK That love is the Mafter of Death. LXV THE ACTOR. '"PHEY know not, as they lee By the tap-room fire, That I am Julius Caefar Clad in mean attire 3 — That I'm a mighty monarch In my mind and thought; Drinking 'mid dull mechanics, Weary and diftraught. But things, however thing-like, Are not all they Teem ; Thele men are fa<5ts, I fancy — / am but a dream ! me L XVI. QUITS. \/OU icorned the role I gave you, And threw it heedleis by — My heart was in the token, And yours in the reply. I've nothing more to aft. you, " Good-bye, fweetheart, good-bye. LXVII. THREE FASHIONABLE SISTERS. "C AY who you are, ye flaunting hags, That walk befide us on the flags ; Who fmile and grin, and fawn and iheer, Or pump the fan&imonious tear 5 Who fit befide us at the board When meat is carved and wine is poured ; And e'en in church preiume to kneel, And lham the faith ye never feel ? " 11. " We're friends well tried — we're filters three, As old as human hiftory ; But young and frelh as yefter morn ; Ever dying, ever born. In the glance of Satan's eyes We entered into Paradife, And ever fince have played our part In the ill-furnilhed human heart. 88 Three Fufli ion able Sifters. m. " Our names — well known o'er land and fea, Are Humbug, Cant, Hypocrify ! We fcatter falfehoods as we go, To rich and poor, to high and low. You find us here — you find us there — To-day, to-morrow, everywhere ; And ever (hall, while men are men, Or Eden opes its gates again." L X V 1 1 1 . SILENTLY AND SLOWLY. CILENTLY and flowly Springs the tender grafs, You cannot fee it growing As you pals ; — Silently and flowly Buds and leaves expand ; Silently the dairies Gem the land ; — Silently and ilowly The feed produces fruit, As Paft produces Future, From the root ; — Silently and flowly The minutes pafs away, And night, before we know it, Difpoffeffes day ; — And fo, although we heed not, Juftice comes to all, Smiting or requiting Great or fmall. LXIX. "SANS SOUCI" VILLA. "DOOR fool ! to write "fans fouci " o'er your door ! Whene'er you enter " souci " goes before, — If not before (forgive the unwilling laughter), I think I fee him — creeping, fneaking after ' LXX. BROKEN. T'LL break my harp ! — I'll ring no more ! The gentle mufic once I made, Cannot be heard amid the roar Of felfifh and devouring trade. When poor men cheat and rich men fneer, And Mammon rules unqueftioned lord, Why vex the inattentive ear ? Why ftrike the foul-inlpiring chord ? I'll break my harp — and if I'd leek The wretched guerdon of renown, I'll plafter pigments on my cheek And bray coarfe jefts to pleafe the town. Sad harp ! be filent ! never more Shalt thou refpond to fong divine ! — Loft are the harmonies of yore! Hulhed is thy mufic ; dead is mine ! L X X I . LOST REFERENCE. r IVE back, O World ! O Fate ! O Time The pricelefs jewel of our fires, Loll in the modern flufh and flime Where Mockery crawls and never tires! Give back the Reverence for the old, The great, the brave, the good, the true, That fpeech affirmed, that manner told, That eyes revealed, if words were few ; Give, give us back, O kindly Fate ! The power to cherifh and revere, Love is a nobler guide than Hate, There is no wifdom in a fneer ! LXXII. SHADOWS IN THE STREETS. HTHROUGH the ruth of the roaring city I roam by night or day, • With memories fad or pleafant Companions of my way. I mix with the crowd of people And following where they tread, I watch them trample and joftle, And iight with hand or head, In the ftill recurring battle For gold or daily bread. II. I pals the populous houfes In terrace or ftreet or fquare, I hear the rattle of chariots And the founds of life on the air ; And up at the curtained windows Where the flaring gaflights glow, I fee 'mid the flitting fhadows Of the guefts that come and go, 94 Shadows in the Streets. The paler and dimmer lhadows Or' the ghofts of the Long Ago. in. Here died a patriot ftatefman High-prieft of Freedom's caufe, And here a mighty poet Who fhaped a nation's laws : Here flourifhed Wit and Beauty And Learning, wide of ken, And here a world's great teacher, The lightnings of whofe pen Laid bare the hidden fecrets Too vaft for common men. IV. And all the bufy houfes By thefe no longer trod Seem to my gaze like tombltones Infcribed to them and God. Their memories float around me, And fhed o'er many a fpot, Made dark by the blinding Prefent That heeds or knows them not, The haze of their bygone glories Death-veiled, — but unforgot. LXXIII. TO MY DAUGHTER SINGING. A SONG is on thy lips, my love, I know the fong is mine, But yet I'm doubtful as I hear If 'tis not moltly thine — I could not of myfelf approach So near to the divine. <£** LXXIV. PEBBLES. " Y/VHAT are the pebbles, old Father Time, Thou'rt throwing in the river, Thy river that flows without a tide For ever and for ever ? " " Pebbles ? " laid Time. " Yes, pebbles they are- Empires, kingdoms, thrones, Heroes and poets whole fame was wide As the circle of the zones ; I caft them all in my rolling flood That fparkles in the fun, A little fplaih in the mighty ltream — A bubble, and all is done ! " LXXV. PEARLS BEFORE A HOG. W/"E paffed the Chablis with the fifh, He drank and made no fign, He was a man of mighty mark That we had brought to dine. We gave him Clicquot, dry and iced, He lipped — not drained the glafsj And next we ferved Chateau Latitte, — He let the bottle pals. What could be done with churl like this r We tried the Clos Vougeot And Carton Pierre, two royal drinks That cheer our world of woe. He drank, and laid, " Theie wines, no doubt, Are pleafant in their kind, But to my tafte a pint of beer Were worth them all combined." LX.KV1. THE REASON WHY. T F man is born to forrow, And flowers but bloom to die, If fondeft love is like them — Wouldft afk the reafon why ? If glory's but a fparkle, And fame a fickle cry, And life a refilefs nightmare, Wouldlt know the reafon why ? Thou wouldlt ! poor fool prefumptuous Thy wing's too weak to fly To height of fuch great riddles, A Ik not the reafon why ! [f funfliine light and cheer thee, Why fhouldft thou mope and figh, Becaufe thou canfi not fathom The ufelefs reafon why ! The Cynic in his barrel Was thankful for the iky, Nor fought, in upltart wifdom. For any reafon why. The Reafon Why. 99 'Twere well to imitate him, Though lowly, he was high ; Mere life is worth poifefling, Although we know not why. I'll imile if I am happy — And if I'm fad I'll figh — As carelefs as a fhadow, Nor afk the reafon why ! LXXVII. CANDID FRIENDS. A SK no man to be candid, if you're wife ! If he be honeft, he'll afflict your foul ; And if difhoneft, he will tell you lies, And laud your vices — be they black as coal. Candour that tells the truth both flings and galls, But when it lies, it naufeates and palls. LXXVIII. A GREAT DOCTOR. F* HERE'S one phyfician who can cure All grief and pain that men endure ; When docfors lefs expert than he But trifle with our mifery, And hum and haw, and guefs and grope, And hint no remedy but hope ; Wife docfor, lord of life and breath, Friend of all fufferers — Do£tor Death ! LXXIX. GOOD OUT OF EVIL. /^\UT of our poor dead vices Some living virtues grow As the early fnow-drops glilten Beneath the thawing mow, And glint and peep above it Made fertile from below. LXXX. IN THE WILD WOOD. ~\TO\J ai"k if I diicover in the wood Friends or companions of my folitude ; I anfwer, — Many ! Friends moll dear to me, And comrades, kindly, beautiful and free. The waving weeds, untroubled by the plough, Catalpa bloifoms pendent from the bough, Like fairy bells that woo the winds to ling, And hawthorn blooms, the darlings of the fpring ; Forget-me-nots — " whofe very name is fweet," The purple violets glinting at my feet, And tall fpear-heads amid the nodding grafs ; All thefe hold converte with me as I pafs — And I with them — unfolding in my light, Born of earth's joy, and babies of the light ! Nor them alone. Far fairer flowers than they Meet me and cheer me on my joyous way. Eyes cannot fee them — but the foul can find, — Blooms of the heart and angels of the mind, That ftir the leaves, that whifper from the fod Content and Peace, and Love of man and God. LXXXI. CARELESS— NOT VACANT MINDED. DWELL in peace amid my garden paths, Friend of the flowers and feathered fongfters fair Rejoicing in the, funfhine and the verdure, And the embracing beauty of the air. And if the weather drenches, I am glad To ftudy hiftory in my old arm-chair ; Or talk with Plato and the bards of yore, Dead in the fleih, but living evermore. LXXXII. POPULARITY .- A DIALOGUE. i. " "~TIS great to be the idol of the crowd, To live, and living, have one's claim allowed, To rank above the herd of common men By conquefts of our arm, our voice, our pen," Said Brown complacently — " Such fate is mine ! My poems fell, and critics all combine To recognife them as the true divine." II. But, Brown ! my worthy friend, reflect awhile, Ere you out-value fickle fortune's fmile — That popular favour is not merit's teft, And fometimes calls the worft the very beft ; And that a thoufand fools are fooner found Than ten wife men upon the crowded ground, Where donkeys bray, and whifk. their ears around. in. And tell me, Brown ! ere you exult too much Becaufe the crowd makes anfwer to your touch,- :o6 Popularity : a Dialogue. If " Punch ;ind Judy " does not pleafe it more Than Shakfpeare's glories that the few adore ; And if the many vifiting Tuflaud Do not prefer a murderer at her ihow To nude Apollo with his bended bow ? LX.XXUI. IN THE VILLA. '"THE maids are laughing down below, Their wage both high and lure, And ibmetimes if they think at all, They think they're very poor: They groan that they've no eaih to buy Red ribbons for their hair, Or tawdry hlks, to walk abroad On Sunday when it's fair. Poor little grief ! 'Tis all they know ; While he, the mafter fad, Sits in his ftudy all alone And thinks he's going mad. His fortunes dwindle day by day, His credit's at an end, And his laft hope has failed him thrice — The "friendfhip " of a friend. To-morrow, Ruin's bolt will fall On his predefined head, When bankrupt, defolate and lhamed, He'll wifh that he were dead. io8 In the Villa. The girls will get another place, And giggle as before, While he will fink into the depths, Or pafs the prifon door, Perhaps to die — well — that were belt ! The world wags evermore ! LXXXIV. A TRIAD OF LOVE LYRICS. i. THE GENTLE TYRANT. rilVE all your love, or none of it, I claim nor more, nor lefs, The whole wide empire of your heart To hold and to poffefs. I brook no partial mare in what Should be entirely mine ; He fcorns divided loyalty Who rules by right divine. No fhade of love that went before, No fancy even mull ftand, Betwixt me and the perfect truth I covet at your hand. 'Tis all, or nothing, that I crave, And if your thought rebel, Friendship may linger if it will, But Love muft fay farewell ! I io A Triad of Love Lyrics. ii. FAIR AND CRUEL. Your eyes the morning light eclipfe, Your fmiles compel us to adore, Wit and good humour curve your lips — What would you more ? All women praife you or approve, All men your fav'ring glance implore, You fcatter joy where'er you move — What would you more ? To know you, is your love to crave, I love you from the heart's deep core ; Your fcorn will drive me to the grave — What would you more ? in. " Love me little, love me long," Is the burthen of a fong That never mail be long of mine, Or whifpered from my heart to thine ; Greater blifs I crave and claim — No glow-worm's lamp, but living flame Muft feed the fires our fouls implore- So love me much, for evermore ! LXXXV. A SECTARIAN PHILOSOPHER. "AN undevout aftronomer is mad," Sang the great Poet. Is it not as fad To think, ftar-gazing, that the God of Love Who launched the glorious orbs that roll above, Who peopled earth, and tuned the heavenly choirs Will damn us all to everlafting tires, Except the few who think themfelves th' Eleft, To enter Heaven through keyhole of a Se6l ? Anfwer me that — aftronomer purblind ! Nor think the ftars too fmall for all mankind. .''"JYiA LXXXVI. THE OLD PHILOSOPHER. " t'VE paffed," quoth he, " threefcore and ten, And ever fince my boyhood's hour, Have fought among the fons of men To win the knowledge that is power : — Fought, but not conquered ! All I know Seems but a germ that might expand, If feven times feventy years were mine To think, and ftrive to understand. " LXXXVII. THE WIND AND THE WIRES. A QUESTION AND REPLY. The Quejtion. " T WONDER," laid a little child That frolicked by the way, "Whether the winds that wander wild. Have anything to fay? Whether they talk, or ligh, or ring, Or ftrike the flats and fharps Upon the telegraphic firing, Like fingers upon harps ? " II. The Reply. " Come hither, hither ! maiden mine ! And if you feek to know Why vagrant winds in lhade or mine Make mufic as they go, And what they fay to the anfwering wires. As o'er the chords they fweep, H ii4 Th e Wind and the Wire*. Hopes, fancies, prophecies, defires, Or memories fond and deep : in. "I'll tell you truly what I think And fain would underftand, Things verging on the unknown brink Of the dim and fliadowy land ; Things of the prefent or the pall, Or of the days to be, Beautiful all, but vague and vaft, As veiled infinity. IV. " They feem to fay, if I hear aright, In murmuring rife or fall, That Nature's law is Life and Light, And Love the lord of all ; That filent fkies have power of fpeech, And that the earth and ftars Hold high communion each with each, From all their whirling cars. v. " Inaudible to human ears Is their angelic fong, Which founds for ever through the fpheres, That know nor fhort, nor long, Nor time, nor diftance, up nor down, Nor fixity of place, The gems in God's eternal crown, That flafli through endlefs fpace. The Wind and the Wires. 1 15 VI. " I lilten to the chanted prayer, And three ihort words reveal The fecret which the winds declare And ftrong in faith I feel. Echoes affured, though faint and dim, That reach us from above, Tones of the everlafting hymn That tells us ' God is Love.' ' L X X X V 1 1 I . THE LONG, LONG, LONG AGO. i. T-TAINT from afar come the echoes Of the long, long, long ago, They whifper in the foliage, As it trembles to and fro, Or fwoon on the heart of midnight, When the wild winds come and go, All, all the tender fancies Of the long, long, long ago. 11. Alas ! that we cannot recall them In their early youthful glow ! Nor the faces of thofe who loved us In the happy long ago ! They dwindle away to fhadows — We know them, yet fail to know. Fading, vanifhing, dying, In the mifts of the long ago ! LXXXIX. AN OLD FRIEND. "yOU call me old ! Well, as to ages, No doubt there's difference between ; 'Tis true, my friend, when I was thirty You were my junior at nineteen. But age, though counted by the winters, Has other meaiures quite as true, There's heart, there's love — by thefe I reckon I'm much the voun^er of the two. xc. THE HAMMER. T HE red-hot iron on the anvil lay, — 'Twas I, — wafting my fiery foul away. A heavy hammer in a brawny hand, Fell hard upon me, grievous to withftand, And from the iron, ruihing fierce and fair, Ten thoufand fparks lit up th' embracing air. The metal was my foul ; the hammer-blows Afflictions, and calamities, and woes ; The flaihing fparks were gems from forrow wrung ; Thoughts, fancies, hopes, and all the longs I've fung. XCI. WILD SUPPOSITIONS. CUPPOSE that Eve bad never eaten The fruit of the forbidden tree, Suppofe that Noah's Ark had foundered With all on board in open fea ; Suppofe that in this world of ftruggle Eating and drinking were unknown, And that our vigour, health, and beauty Could be fuftained on air alone ; Suppofe that men, like beeves and monkeys, Had never kindled flame or fire, That printing had not been invented, To teach the nations to alpire ; Suppofe that brave Columbus never Had cared to tempt the weftern leas : And then fuppofe what might have happened In fuch contingencies as thefe ; — And, maddeft, wildeft fuppofition That ever gleamed in human mind, 120 Wild Suppqfltions. Suppofs that fince the days of Adam Men had done juftice to mankind! That ever fince the world was faihioned They had been true and good and wife ' God blet's us ! Earth, no longer earthly, Would have been perfect Paradife. %5>.i? XCII. THE BRAVE STRUGGLE HVE looked on Poverty undifmayed, His cold breath on my cheek, I've feen him crouching at my bed, When winds blew flirill and bleak ; I've watched him crawling to my board, To fnatch my fcanty food, But never fuffered him — no, not once — To icare me where I ftood ; But fought him, upright, like a man That only feared difgrace ; And hit him hard, and laid him low And fcorned him to his face ! I've ftruggled, lure of victory, In pride, although in pain, With foul ferene, and head erect, And fo I will again. XCIII. NEVER GROW OLD. LOOKED in the tell-tale mirror, And law the marks of care, The crows' feet and the wrinkles, And the grey in the dark-brown hair. My wife looked o'er my moulder, Moft beautiful was llie, "Thou wilt never grow old, my love," me faid, " Never grow old to me. " For age is the chilling of heart. And thine, as mine can tell, Is as young and warm as when firlt we heard The found of our bridal bell ! " I turned and kiifed her ripe red lips : " Let time do its word on me, If in my foul, my love, my faith, I never feem old to thee ! " XCIV. A ROYAL GRIEVANCE. /^\NCE in my dreams I was a king, Great, powerful, and adored, Wife in the council, gay in hall, And mighty with the fword. But as it happens among kings, And fmaller folk than they, There was a bitter in my cup, A fhadow on my day. Fate had decreed that if I fmiled I'd be my people's feoff, That if I dared to fcratch myfelf My crown would topple off} That if a fervant or a friend Should fcratch me in my ftead, Worfe doom would fall with double ftrength On my devoted head. Great were my fufFerings ! All my joys Diminifhed one by one, I thought myfelf the verieft wretch That crawled beneath the fun. 124 A Royal Grievance. At length I cried, " I'll be no king, At penalty like this ! " I laughed, I fcratched, and woke once more To liberty and bJifi ! xcv. NO! NOT FOR GOLD! i. [The tale told in these stanzas is literally true. It is recorded in the "Shipwreck of the Juno " by William Mackay in 1798. Byron borrowed from it the incidents in the shipwreck in "Don Juan." Thomas Moore preferred the simple and unaffected prose narrative of the sailor to Byron's poetry.] T7IFTY fouls on board ! aloft in the rigging and fpars, In the water-logged veffel, idly afloat in the bay, With only one barrel of bifcuits and two little water-jars To feed them, alas ! for many a weary day ! Water enough for an hour, if none fhould come from the clouds, Which, mocking their forrow, had long refufed to rain, And they clung to the creaking mafts and the cramping fhrouds, Alive, though dying flowly in the grip of the hunger pain. 11. They doled out the bifcuit fairly, patient and true and brave. To each man and woman a portion, and the little cabin boy, 126 No! Not for Gold! And when the mercilefs noon burned fiercely down on the wave, They doled out the dwindling water, each drop a bleiling and joy : And the poor little lad drank, fmiling, his fmall allotted ihare, But, far too feeble to eat, hid the bifcuit away in his veil, While the ravenous crew, with their wolfilh eyes aglare, Could have eaten him up with his bifcuit and thought it for the belt. in. The captain's wife in the rigging, a buxom woman and ftrong, Had fifteen hundred guineas fewed up in the belt lhe wore 5 " Poor little Willie ! " lhe faid, " your bifcuit will laft you long, Give me one half of a bifcuit for half my golden ftore ! Nay, all my golden guineas." — "Ah no!" faid the forrowful child, " I want to live a little, though life is very forlorn ; I cannot eat your guineas, my head feems running wild, But I think I'll eat my bifcuit, to-night or to-morrow morn ! " XCVI. ALL FOR MYSELF. "pROUD world ! no gifts I bring to thee ! My fongs I do not ling to thee ! Nor bear thee in my thought ! My long, this funny morning, Is not for thy adorning, Nor from thine echoes cauarht ! It floats not on thy breath Either for life or death ; But with all its paflionate meafure, Its pulfe, its throb, its ftart, Is only for my pleafure And the foothing of my heart ! 2^V xcvn. EHEU I MISERRIMI : OVE is the great difturber of the world ! It leads to life, and life produces death, — Life is but forrow, and our forrows come With the firit drawing of the infant breath. If we crave beauty as a thing to blefs, If we crave peace 'mid ftorms that rife and rave, What is fo beautiful as nothingnefs ? What is fo quiet as the pitying grave ? There is no nothingnefs in Earth or Heaven, There is no relt, nor triumph in the tomb, Life throbs and pulfes through the eternal fpheres, And Death but leads us through the earthly gloom To the immortal home for which we yearn, From whence we came, and whither we return : Relt is not ours, nor ending of endeavour, But joy and work, for ever and for ever ! XCVIII. HAMLET. [An American author, in a voiume published in 1881, suggested, as a probable explanation of the inconsistencies and weaknesses in the character of Hamlet, that Shakspeare's original intention might have been to portray the Prince as a girl masquerading as a man. Hence the following lines.] jV/T Y mother mould have known me ? Well, ihe did. But for fome hidden purpofe of her own She called me boy ; and as I grew in years I liked the garb : it gave me liberty And fcope for action in the bufy world, Where the good fword oft betters the good word. Men are the matters in this petty fphere, And women (laves. I will not be a Have If a man's hofe and fword can make me free ! So now my fecret's yours. XCIX. CHILDLESS. ''"THERE ftands a cattle by the more, Rich with the memories of yore. Weary, oh weary, and woe is me ! And in it dwells a lady rare, Pure and lovely, with golden hair, By the fad waves plajhing wearily. II. The mailer is a Baron bold, Gallant and young, with ftore of gold ; Wear\j, oh weary, and woe is he/ Store of all that man can crave To cheer the pathway to the grave, By the fad waves plafliing wearily. m. The lady bright is kind and good, The paragon of womanhood, Childlefs. 131 Weary, ah weary, and woe isJJie ! And her wedded lord is leal and fure. Beloved alike of rich and poor, By the fad waves plajliing wearily. IV. There dwells a fifherman on the ftrand, In a little cot with a rood of land ; Merry, oh merry, and brijk is he I With his bonnie wife and his romping boys, Who climb to his knees with a pleafant noife, By the wild waves plq filing cheerily. And the lady of the caftle fighs When lhe meets the filherwife's gladdening eyes. Weary, oh weary, and woe isJJie/ And wilhes that Heaven, to blefs her life, Had made her mother as well as wife, By the wild waves plajliing wearily. VI. The lord of the caftle, riding home O'er the hard fea fand where the breakers foam, Weary, oh weary, and woe is he ! Oft fees the fiflier, his labour done, Sit with his wife in the glint o' the fun By the wild waves plajliing cheerily : !^2 Childlefs. VI i. Sit with his wife and his boys and girls, Killing their cheeks, and twining their curls. Weary, oh weary, and woe is he ! And turns his envious eyes afide, And well-nigh weeps for all his pride By the wild waves plajlring wearily. VIII. I'd give, thinks he, my rank and Hate, My wealth, that little men call fo great, IVeary, oh weary, and woe is me ! Could I but know this fifherman's joys, A wife to love, and girls and boys, By the ivild waves plajhing cheerily. ON THE BATTLEFIELD. [The name of the heroic piper whose deed is here recorded, and whom I knew in my early youth, was, if I remember rightly, John Clark. The incident occurred at the battle of Vittoria, 1813.] A HIGHLAND piper, fliot through both his feet, Lay on the ground in agonizing pain, The cry was railed, " The Highlanders retreat — They run! they fly ! they rally not again! " The piper heard, and rifing on his arm, Clutched to his heart the pipes he loved lb well, And blew a blaft — a dirge-like ihrill alarm, That quickly changed to the all-jubilant fwell Of Tullochgorum. Swift as lightning flalh, Or fire in ftubble, the tumultuous found Thrilled through the clanfmen's hearts, and with a dalh Of unreflecting valour, at one bound They turned upon their hot purfuing foes, And faced them with one wild tempeftuous cheer, That almoft drowned the mufic, as it rofe Defiant o'er the field, loud, long, and clear ! Scotland was in it, and the days of old, When, to the well-remembered pibrochs of their hills, 134 On the Battlefield. They danced the exultant reel on hill-fides cold, Or warmed their hearts with patriotic tires. The ftartled enemy, in hidden dread, Staggered and pauled, then, pale with terror, fled ! The clanfmen followed ; — hurling ihout on lhout In martial madnefs on the hopelefs rout. Twas but five minutes ere the let of fun, And ere it fank the victory was won ! Glory and honour, all that men can crave, Be thine, O Piper, braveft of the brave ! CI. HENRY DE BOURBON (died 1883). 1873. VyELL done! great Henry! great in abnegation, Great in affertion of a life-long thought, Great in the fearlefs, calm renunciation Of crown and throne that ihould be given, not bought ; Great that you would not condefcend to utter What you believed not, for dominion's prize, Or ftoop to fnatch a fceptre from the gutter, Blood fprinkled, filth encrufted, where it lies. Great Henry, firm, unfelfifli, and as pure In confcience as the old hiftoric flag, That with a noble childifhnefs you'd lure To its old place, to fhame a rival rag. The age is fordid, felfifh, bafe, and mean. You, the true prince, high in eclipfed eftate, Give it example, and with foul ferene Teach it that honefty alone is great ! CII. THE OLD POETS LAST RESOURCE. CTAND in the corner, thou fturdy old broom-ftick ! Perhaps I fhall need thee fome cold winter day. Perhaps my iupport thou wilt be, and my doom-ftick When maimed and defeated in Life's cruel fray. My longs and my books may not yield me a penny, But while thou art mine I've a prop and a trult. My humbleft of friends, fole furvivor of many ! I look to thee yet to procure me a cruit. II. I know, in Pall Mall, a fair crofiing, much trodden, With gutters to clear when the rain rultles down, Where peers and rich merchants and bankers wealth-fbdden All pal's and repafs in the tide of the town. There I will ftation me, proud as my betters, If betters I have in the wearifome throng; Sweeping pays better than wifdom or letters. So, up with the broom-ftick ! and down with the fong ! cm. TRUE RICHES. riOLD is not wealth, nor all the gems That ihine on royal diadems, Though while they laft they're good and fair. But Love is wealth beyond compare ! Health, Hope, and Love, the lord of thefe Has empire wider than the teas ! To him all griefs are fmall and mean, He rules them with a foul ferene, Nor lets their ihadow come between Him and thefe bright foretaftes of heaven, The heritage that God has given ! ■fc * CIV. EUTHANASIA. T ET me die in the ftrength of life, In the fulnefs of my ftory, In the midit of the battle ftrife, With the pen or the fword of glory. Let me not linger forlorn, A burden to thofe who love me, But with hope beaming bright as morn From the cheerful Iky above me, Mount to my home in heaven Amid angelic voicing, To be heard of my foul forgiven As it goes on its way rejoicing. cv. OLD EIGHTY-EIGHT. "LJOW is it, brifk old Eighty-eight, You wear fo well and wear fo late, When Seventy-three goes creeping by With feeble ftep and fading eye ? "When I was young," the old man laid, " I had a calm, fagacious head, And all my life I've kept it cool, And curbed Defire by Realbn's rule. Though oft I've heard my neighbours groan, I've felt no forrow but my own ; Nor had a fweetheart, child, or wife, To vex the current of my life." Old Eighty-eight, you may live on Till your full hundred years be gone ; And when you lleep you may depend One rug will wrap your only friend. But as for me, I'd rather die At forty, than like hog in fry, Unmanly, felfifh, and untrue, Live fuch a life as pleafes you. t V I . WORK. T^OU lay I overload my brain By ftrefs of work, that works in vain. You may be right. I think you're wrong. Work is a pleaiure to the ftrong. Weary of walking, I can run, And make good end of well-begun ; Can leave falfe hiftory for romance, That's jult as falfe, or true, perchance ; And then I dive in the deep deep fea And float on the billows of Poefy, — Changing the work, and working ever, Bat worn and weary, never! never ! 'j^r^ CVII. THOU ART NOT FAIR. . HPHOU art not fair with all thy red and white While curls thy fhapely noie with faucy fcorn ; Thou art not lovely, though thine eyes fo bright Might, as thy flatterers fay, outfhine the morn, If from their orbs the quivering hate and fpite Reveal the furnace where their fires were born. No, Lady, no ! not all the golden hair, Streaming in plenteous wavelets to the hips, Can render beautiful or palling fair One who breathes fallehood from her rofy lips. Beauty and Goodnefs, fuper-heavenly pair, Dwell fide by fide, andfuffer no eclipfe. CVIII. VERSE AND POETRY. \TEKSE is but fire that crackles on the ground, Or from a parlour grate iheds warmth around ; But Poetry's the lightning-flam on high, When thunder rides exultant o'er the fky, And burfling clouds difclofe, all rent and riven, The awful pomp and majefly of Heaven. CIX. PARDON. The Firji Thought. T F we knew all, we'd pardon all ; If man fay this, and fpare the rod, Is not the mind perverfe and fmall That does not think the fame of God ? The Second Thought. God never pardons ! 'tis beyond His power, Unlefs He break the law Himfelf decreed. Twin born, and creatures of one pregnant hour, Are guilt and penalty for guilty deed. J uftice, not vengeance, is the Lord of all ! Crime and its punifhment, conjoined for ever, Fly on one arrow, be it great or fmall, And Heaven itfelf may feparate them never. ex. THE DAISY CHORUS. PHE myriad dailies on the lawn Slept with doled petals all the night, Expecting that the punctual dawn Would flufh the world with roly light. But when the morn broke dark and chill, The dailies felt that ftorm was nig-h, And kept their petals folded ftill, To Ihun the rigours of the fky. Yet when the noon-tide fan difperfed The tearful clouds that dimmed its ray, The imprilbned petals open burft, In grateful homage to the day ; And lo ! amid the grals I heard A tender found of mulic fwell, That fpoke without an uttered word, And fweetly rofe and gently fell. Twas but the fancy of a dream That lhaped itfelf into a fong, The ripple of a quivering ftream, That flowed in mulic all day long. The Daify Chorus. H5 It feemed to fay, " Bright Lord of Day ! Glory and praife to Thee be given ! Glory and love to God above, And to the light that comes from heaven.", K CXI. A BACHELOR'S MONO-RHYME. P)0 you think I'd marry a woman That can neither cook nor few, Nor mend a rent in her gloves Or a tuck in her furbelow ; Who fpends her time in reading The novels that come and go ; Who tortures heavenly mulic, And makes it a thing of woe; Who deems three-fourths of my income Too little, by half, to [how What a figure flie'd make, if I'd let her. 'Mid the belles of Rotten Row ; Who has not a thought in her head Where thoughts are expecfed to grow, Except of trumpery fcandals Too fmall for a man to know ? Do you think I'd wed with that, Becaufe both high and low Are charmed by her youthful graces And her moulders white as ihow ? Ah no ! I've a wifh to be happy, I've a thoufand a year or fo, A Bachelor's Mono-Rhyme. T 47 Tis all I can expect That fortune will beitow ! So, pretty one, idle one, ftupid one ! You're not for me, I trow, To-day, nor yet to-morrow, No, no ! decidedly no ! CXII. KISSING THE THIMBLE. [ KISSED the thimble my true love wore, My love that lies in the grave, My love with the dainty little hand, With a heart in it true and brave. My love ! my love ! my dear dear love, So womanly pure and bright, With a laugh like heavenly mulic, With a fmile like the morning light, With a kifs like heaven's fulfilment, Come down to my touch and light ! CXIII. DOGS. 'VATER'E there no dogs, mankind would lofe lbme teachers Of truth, as clear as the blue heavens above, Dumb, but not fpeechlefs, mute but eloquent preachers Of the great gofpel of unfelfiih love. CXIY. UNDER THE OLD OAK TREE. March 31, 1881. 1. V\7"HAT faith the wild March wind to thee, As he blufters and raves in thy branches tree, Thou ftately, beautiful, old oak tree? I fancy I hear as he gallops along, Anthem and pfalm, and jubilant long, As his voice makes anfwer back to thine, In a fymphony divine. 11. [s it but fancy, if we deem That flower and tree and ftorm and ftream, And, twinkling up in the depths afar, Planet with planet, ftar with ftar, Have filent voices each to each, And that vain men who prate and preach Have no monopoly of fpeech ; in. Speaks not the torrent to the rock, Speaks not the cloud to the thunder (hock Under the Old Oak Tree. J5 1 Speaks not the billow to the ihore, Moaning and forrowing evermore ; Speaks not the wild March wind to thee, And thou to it in converie free, Thou ftately, beautiful, old oak tree ? cxv. HAPPY, THOUGH UNHEEDED. T'M told that I write and fing When nobody hears or heeds ; Perhaps 'tis true, but the world's applaufe Is not among my needs. Does the lark on the edge of the cloud Sing for the cow-boy's pleafure ; Or the nightingale tune for the palling churl Its full impaffioned meafure ; Or great Niagara evermore Intone its awful rhyme, Merely to charm the paffers-by With its pfalmody iublime ? CXVI. MY OWN JEWELS. THE rich blind man fpeaks ill of me, Becaufe he thinks I'm poor, Well ! tell him that I'm hale and ftrong And able to endure. Tell him befides, that I poffefs Two jewels clear and bright, That I'd not fell for thrice his wealth Or all the world's delight ; Tell him, I think he's wrong to fcorn My poverty and me; And that if eyes outvalued gold,, I'm richer far than he. CXVI1. IN A WARM BATH. "P)AYS dawn when I deteft the world And everything that Time producer. When men feem knaves, and women wori'e, And nothing ferves tor goodly ufesj When every tongue propounds a lie, And malice taints the faireft faces, When fun and moon are cold and dark, And demons climb to Heaven's high pi But when this blight afflicts my foul, I take a bath, and revel in it, And all the evil fancies fade, One after other, by the minute ; My brain grows cool, — my pulfe beats calm, The world regains its bygone favour ; And feeling I've grown wife once more, I take my fellows back to favour. CXVIII. TOBACCO. Fitz-NoodU (fmokingj. POBACCO is a calm and gentle weed ; No man, when fmoking pipe or good cigar, E'er dreamed of filicide or murderous deed, Or left the gates of Confcience lb ajar, That hate or frenzy could come roaring in, To goad the foul to mifery and fin. Fitz-Boodle (not fmoking) . Granted, good friend ! tobacco foothes the brain, It prompts no death ; but when the fmoke-wreath mounts, Doth no one plot (perchance not all in vain) To forge and fwindle and to cook accounts ? Brother, be wife ! I heed the word you fpoke, 'Tis fraud, not murder, that is not born of fmoke ! ^Z&W®? CXIX. UNAPPRECIATED. T STAND alone : I have no clique to fetter me, I give no dinners, am not known to lords, I court not the fociety of critics, Nor feek the favour which their voice affords. I do not pander to the weary faihion That fneers and jeers at all that's good and true, I do not vaunt myfelf, or blow my trumpet, In any great or any fmall review ; The prefent knows me not ; the future may — What will it matter to my fenfeleis clay ? cxx. ONCE ON A TIME. " C^)NCE on a ^ me '" " tne S°°& °\d fai r y phral'e Took my heart captive in my childhood's days; And now in older hours, my joys of youth, My funny hopes, my difappointed truth, My fairy loves, fo beautiful to fee, Sound the dull chorus of dead vanity ! " Once on a time ! " oh, time that I deplore, Gone, — gone, — for ever ! to return no more ! CXXI. NO ENEMIES. ^/OU have no enemies, you lay ? Alas ! my friend, the boaft is poor ; He who has mingled in the gray Of duty, that the brave endure, Muji have made foes ! If you have none, Small is the work that you have done, You've hit no traitor on the hip, You've dallied no cup from perjured lip, You've never turned the wrong to right, You've been a coward in the fight. ^rt CXXII. EDUCATION. \/OUR education is complete, you think ? Dunce that you are ! and dunce you're doomed to be As long as, dabbling on the ihallow brink, You think you're failing on the wide, wide lea. I've itriven to know, and, finding knowledge fweet, Have learned a hundred times as much as you, And yet I feel I've only wet my feet, With all broad ocean ftretched before my view. CXXIII. TO A VERY HARD SECTARIAN. fANST thou confine the funfhine to thy fields,. Or bid the generous clouds that drop the rain Leave thy next neighbour's acres all intadt, And pour their treafures upon thine alone ? Thou canft not, fool ! and yet thou'dft circumfcribe God's love within the limits of thy feet, And damn the alien univerfe to Hell. CXXIV. A GRAVE. A LL that I want Is little to grant, And dear Mother Earth, From her ample girth, Can lpare it, I ween ; And build it ftrons. ■ Six feet long And two between : A fmall eftate Given to the great, But free to the little when all is done, Birth-right and death-right — both in one. (XXV. THE HIGHEST PLACE. HTHE king fat on his lofty throne, In all his pomp and Hate; The footfore beggar on the Hone That flanked the garden gate. The king was falfe to do and plan. And treacherous through and through The beggar was an honelt man, And loved the good and true. 'Mid all the fplendour of the throne With flatterers at its bale, The good old beggar on the ftone Sat in the nobler place. CXXVI. A SONG WITHOUT AN " S. " [The sibillations of the English language, the plurals of nouns, and the third person singular of the verb, all ending m s, are the horror of vocalists, and the despair of musicians. An attempt is made in the following to show that the difficulty of eliminating the s in lyrical composition, though great, is not insuperable.] C^OAIE meet me in the gloaming. And happy it will be, Out in the mellow moonlight To roam the wild wood free, Forgetting care and trouble, With thee, my love, with thee. I will impart my hope, And feel it will be thine, That all of thee, and all of me, May mingle and combine, For ever and for ever In unity divine. In unity complete Of will and fair endeavour. Fond love and true delight To be unminsded never : I'm thine! oh, love, be mine, For ever and for ever ! CXXVI1. CRITIQUES OR CRITICS. GREAT AUTHORITIES. '"pHREE fwine lay wallowing in the mire, As fat as farmer could defire ; When one pig to the other laid, " Doft fee the warm fun overhead ? Men call him great and wondrous fine, Xoble, glorious, and divine ; In my opinion, men are wrong, And pile their epithets too ftrong." "And in mine, too," laid pig the fecond ; " The fun's lefs mighty than he's reckoned. 'Tis true he flares, and gives us light, But then he difappears at night ! And, to my thought, more lovely far [s the pale moon, or evening liar, They are not fierce enough to kill, We can look at them when we will ; But not at him, fo proud and hot, He'd ftrike us blind as foon as not." Critiques or Critics. 165 " I quite agree," laid pig the third ; " Of courfe, his merits all have heard ; But no one tells of his difgrace, Th' intemperate blotches on his face ! The fevers and the plagues he fends, In ihort, he's flattered by his friends ! He's bright, no doubt, and all the reft, But, to my thinking, moonlight's belt ! " 11. PLAGIARISM. If I've a taper that I light Where other tapers lhine, Am I a thief and plagiarift ? And is the light not mine ? And if my taper fhed a ray Much brighter than the firft, Is taper number one the belt, And mine the very worft r You fay my thoughts in Homer lurk Perhaps ! but I'd be told, Where honeft Homer found his thoughts, And were they new or old ? The ikylark fang in Homer's time ! I hear it in the blue, Did this day's lark rob Homer's lark ? Sweet critic, tell me true. [66 Critiques or Critics. in. KNOWLEDGE. What knows the critic of the book ? As much, it may be, as the rook, Perched on the high cathedral tower, Knows of the folemn organ's power That heaves below with tides of found, Ebbing and flowing all around ; As much, it may be, as at Rome, The fly upon St. Peter's dome Knows of the architect's defign, Who planned and built that fane divine ' IV. A VERY DIFFERENT THING. Smith flood before a profperous butcher's fhop To warn intending purchafers away, " Buy nothing here, nor joint, nor fteak, nor chop, Bad meat, lhort weight, and over much to pay." The butcher heard him, and his wrath was ftrong, And filing Smith for libel, it was found, That fuch trade injury and grievous wrong Required the folace of a thoufand pound. The fame old Smith wrote much for the Reviews, Nothing could pleafe him, whether profe or verle, He loved to fnarl, to cavil and abufe, And never read a book except to curfe. Critiques or Critics. 167 A poet allted, " Shall this man (lander me And all my books, without the law's relief? " Law anfwered " Yes ! " Opinion muft be free On poem and romance ; but not on beef ! THE ICONOCLASTS. Revile him, decry him ! he's better than you ! Difparage and fcorn him, he's noble and true ! He has wrought the dull marble to beauty fublime, He has poured his full foul into paflionate rhyme, He has written a book that (hall comfort the poor, As long as our language and name lhall endure ! He is high ! pull him down ! and if dogs in the night That howl at the moon for her beautiful light, Can harm the fair planet that vexes their ken, Oh, then ye mall damage him, then, my boys, then ! VI. HOMER AND SHAKSPEARE. "A dream, which was not all a dream ! " Homer and Shakfpeare, mighty pair, Pafled o'er my prefence like a gleam Of moonlight on the hammer air. And hark ! they fpoke ! 'Twas Homer firlt " What filly fools are men ! " he laid, " Neglecting living worth, to burft In thunderous prailes of the dead! i68 Critiques or Critics. I never wrote the Iliad, no ! Only fome ballads which I fung For daily bread, long long ago When Greece was valorous and young. " As time wore on my ballads grew By fmall addition line on line, And lwoll to bulk I never knew, And lwelling, were no longer mine. I loathe the Iliad ! but the rack Of pedants trumpet it aloud ; Dear Shakfpeare, is it wit or luck That makes us favourites of the crowd ? " Dear Homer ! " laid the younger bard, " Fame's but a word at random lpread, It leaves our beft in dilregard, And vaunts our very word inftead. My poems ! darlings of my heart ! Men fpurn or utterly ignore, But plays I did not write, impart Joy to denfe donkeys by the fcore. " They bray, they prate in long debate, And call poor drivel quite divine, ( >nly becaufe, whoever wrote, They've learned to think the drivel mine Are there no critics to be born Bright as the funfhine, clear as dew, Who without prejudice or fcorn Will hold the balance fairly true ? " Critiques or Critics. 169 " Never! " laid Homer ; " never more ! The race has perifhed from the fod. But why lament them, or deplore ? There are no critics left but God ! " CXXVIII. THE GOURD AND THE PALM. UOW old art thou ? " laid the garrulous gourd As o'er the palm-tree's creft it poured Its fpreading leaves and tendrils tine, And hung a bloom in the morning ihine. " A hundred years ! " the palm-tree fighed. •" And /," the faucy gourd replied, " Am at the moft a hundred hours, And overtop thee in the bovvers ! " Through all the palm-tree's leaves there went A tremor as of felf-content. " I live my life," it whifpering laid ; "• See what I lee, and count the dead ; And every year of all I've known, A gourd above my head has grown, And made a boaft like thine to-day, And here I (land — but where are they? " CXXIX. TO ONE WHO BOASTED THAT HE THE WORLD." KNEW YZOU know the world ? you know it not at all ! You never ftruggled hard in mifery's grip, Or found in fortune's draught the poifonous gall, When its bright chalice fparkled at your lip. You know the world ? you ne'er at rife of fan Looked in your empty cupboard, and with dread Thought of the children that, ere day was done, Might vainly afk you for a cruft of bread, You know the world ? you never knew defpair Creep through your veins to feize upon your foul, And had to fight him off through ftorms of care, And agonies beyond your ielf-control. You know the world ? you never madly loved, And ftill loved on, till love became defpair ; Nor drained your heart of tears when death removed The life-long partner of your fondeft care. 172 To One who " kiit'iv the World.'' Vain ! oh, moft vain ! your falfe misleading boaft Of felfifh wifdom, arid as the ftone ; He hath molt knowledge who hath llift'ered molt. Perhaps moft joy, — if all the truth were known. cxxx. A DREAM OF DEATH. DREAMED a pleafant dream of death, As a lady fair and bright, Who came to my bedlide fuddenlv In the ftillnefs of the night. " Art thou afraid of me ? " the laid, In tones lb fweet and low, That I knew ihe fpoke as a kindly friend And not as a vengeful foe. And I anfwered cheerily, and fighed, " No, my beloved, no ! ii. " Why ihould I fear r thou canft not com: An hour before the day Fixed and appointed ; and thy fteps Nor haflen, nor delay. I mould have lived my life in vain, Nor known where all things tend If I'd not felt and furely known That. thou wouldft be my friend, 174 A Dream of Death. And that beginning were but lofs Unlets tor bleffed end." in. Come to me then, O kindly Death ! This body fears thee not, "Tis but the garment of the foul To wear and be forgot. I fee thee ftretch thy radiant hand To open wide the door, Through which my fpirit, glad to pafs, Shall mount unfeen, and foar To learn the myfleries of Heaven Ever and evermore. IV. To learn to know the hidden things Too long by earth concealed, The fecrets of Eternity That wait to be revealed. Come to me, Death! take off my robe- Ami lay them in the fod ; I long to leave the doleful paths Where, flave of Earth, I've trod, And lhine a naked foul in Heaven, Immortal as my God! ^©^Ess-.-* CXXXI. MILTON IN THE PORCH. (Milton in his old age, and after the publication of the. " Paradise Lost," was scarcely known to his contemporaries. The popular poets of the day were " the matchless Oritida'" (one Mrs. Arabella Philips) and ' ' the incomparable Cmvley. " Where is their fame now ? Or whose fame, except that of Shakspeare, surpasses Milton's ? ) "D LIND, old, and poor, the bofom-friend of Sorrow. Threefold encompafsed by malicious Fortune, I fit alone beneath th' o'er-arching rofes That lhade my cottage porch, — to breathe the odours That load the breezes of the fummer morning, And catch the earlieft funfhine on my forehead. And as I fit, I hear the great world's echoes Come floating like the blare of diftant trumpets Sounding: the names that men hold moft in honour : O Names of the profperous, the rich, the mighty, Names of fuccefsful knaves and winning gamefters, Names of buffoons who tickle fools to laughter : Names of the filly bards who rhyme for pafiime, But have no ftrength to utter thoughts for thinkers, Or tell the Time one truth that's worth the knowing. i 76 Milton in the Porch. And then I ligh, with lingering human weaknefs, That I, who once, like lark to Heaven upfoaring. Flooded the fields with murk and rejoicing, Find lilieners no more, that (mailer voices, Attuned to pettier themes, rind larger audience, And that great thoughts offend a little people ;— Bards of the hour, that pile the ready guineas, And lav, "The age is ours, we teach it wifdom. And wifdom is rewarded of its fcholars." While I, alas ! muft fight with fordid forrow, Slave of the poverty that holds me captive, And binds me to its mud-befpattered chariot. Yet tell me, O my confcience ! O my fpirit ! And thou, my fecret heart! have I not ftriven, Through long, brave years of effort and endurance, To ufe my gifts of fong to nobler! purpofe, To cheer the fad, to comfort the affli&ed, And from the good to prophefy the better ? Have I not? Wherefore a fk ? God knows His children, To-day is not to-morrow ; and to-morrow Hath its own creed, and utters its own judgments. Hufh, Difappointment ! raife thy head, meek Patience ! Why mould I rail at what hard Fortune brings me When I have that within which matters Fortune ? Though beggared, yet a king ! mine is the Future, My words and thoughts are fhrined in Time's fafe keeping, And if they're worthy, they lhall be immortal. C XXX 1 1. A DREAM OF MY POEMS. ^WAS in the flarry midnight, The wind was whirling: low, And the tall pine-trees replying, As it rocked them to and fro, When half awake, half ileeping, I thought that I was dead, And floated to the gates of Heaven, With angels at my head. ii. Angels ; ah, well I knew them ! Pleafant and fair and kind ; Things of my own creation, And children of my mind. I looked upon their faces, And on their funny wings, Their eyes as bright as Summer, Their breath like balm of fprings. M ijtt A Poet's Dream of his Poems. in. And fome of them were fmiling Like innocence when glad ; And fome were grave and penfive, With tearful eyes and fad. But all of them were lovely; They were no more than feven ; And they floated me and wafted me, And carried me to Heaven. IV. " And are ye all ? " I whifpered, Betwixt a fmile and tear, " Out of a thoufand, only feven, To make my light appear ? Out of a thoufand, only feven, To ihine about my name, And give me what I died for, The heritage of fame ? " " Hulh ! " laid a ftately angel, Refponflve to my thought, "We're all the future Time ill a 1 1 know Of what your hand hath wrought ; Your gay green leaves, and flowers of fong, You've flung them forth broadcaft; But like the bloom of parted years, They've gone into the paft. A Poet's Dream of his Poems. 179 VI. " But we, though no one knows us, Shall echo back your tones As long as England's lpeech ihall make The circuit of the zones. Think not your fate unhappy ! To live to future time, In noble thoughts and noble words, Is deftiny fublime." VII. " Angels of grace and beauty ! " I rubbed mine eyes and iighed, " A dream ! a dream ! a pleafant dream ! Of vanity and pride. A fleeping thought ! a waking doubt ! If only one remain, To cheer and elevate my kind, I have not lived in vain." THE END. PRINTED BY BAIXANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON". Zbc poetical Morfes ot Cbarles /Ifoacftag, Complete in One Volume. 626 pages, with Steel Portrait and Illustrations, is. 6d. Cheap Popular Edition, $s. 6d. From the "Scotsman." " Charles Mackay is the greatest poet that Scotland has yet produced, and it needs no especial gift of prophecy to predict that when the grave has sanctified his genius, his popularity will rival, and possibly excel, that of any of his predecessors. . . . No poet of the day has writte?i so much so ivell ; everything he does bears the impress of a fertile and well- stored mind, of a pure and graceful fancy, of a correct and catholic taste, and of honest workmanship. Young readers, of both sexes, who like poetry, and a good deal of it, could not have a better volume of poems than Charles Mackay's put into their hands. These will find in it much to make them think ; much, also, to animate and cheer ; something for all moods, and nothing that will not elevate, refine, and improve." From the "Highlander." " Charles Mackay has definite and elevating ideas to inculcate, whilst metre and metaphor are ever at his command in rich variety, freshness, and vigour to reveal the essential beauty of truth and the nobility of love. We do not know a volume of English poetry in which so high a poetic level is sustained throughout, and in which so much musical utterance is consecrated to the exaltation of thought, and to the eleva- tion of the purposes of life. There is no other English poetry in which the metre, the metaphor, and the melody flow in such crystalline symmetry and harmony. . . . Turn up Charles Mackay's poems at any page, and on any theme, and you read as if you had caught a new melody which you could not resist singing. Instead of vowels and consonants coming into awkward positions, as they so often do with many poets, they come skipping along at the bidding of Charles Mackay, bounding and leaping into their places, and curving off into melodious sounds, fit and graceful exponents of true and beautiful thoughts. And this mastery of musical language is made to serve the highest purposes of musical and poetic art. . . . Whilst we would place Charles Mackay in the same class with Longfellow, in that he has at all times a high aim and healthy objects, we would put him far above the American poet in having a bolder invention and a finer fancy. We place him in the category with Moore for his melody, and far above Moore for the richness and vigour of his poetical resources." From the "Dispatch.''' "Alfred Tennyson is the favourite poet of the young ladies of the nineteenth century, and writes to and for them. Charles Mackay takes a higher range, and is emphatically the poet of the people. Not inferior to Tennyson in artistic skill— with thoughts as deep as Massey's, but without their bitterness — with some of the pathetic humour of Hood — with a simplicity which reminds the reader of Longfellow — and with a sprightliness and elasticity which none of these possess, Mackay has been singing with the people and for the people, till his words have become the words of the household among all classes. The bold, strong, vigorous sense, and the plain meaning, the terse felicitous imagery, the ennobling thought, the masculine diction, the sonorous swell and rhythmic cadence of every line, the buoyant and bounding leap of the verse — all these are characteristics of Dr. Mackay's poetry, so patent to the world that they scarcely need the enforcement of our pen. We feel that the rough, rugged, grand Saxon words, like hammer on anvil, ring and echo with a clangour whose resonance is like that of trumpets rather than the emasculated melodies of flutes and 'soft recorders.' His smaller pieces are complete utterances, which go direc to the heart. '' From the " Cosmopolitan" " Our standard of poetry is a high one, and consequently we find the ' ring of the true metal' as rare as it is charming. A fine poem, like a beautiful face, makes an indelible impression on our memory ; and the fine poem and the beautiful face are but the one in the million. When either commit themselves, as it were, perforce to the memory, we readily confess to the inspiration. Of the few living poets of the day, not only of England, but of the English tongue, Charles Mackay is the best known by heart. His songs are on everybody's lips in both hemispheres, and the repetition of his fine melodious words, could we but hear them as they are unceasingly chanted in England and America, would swell into such a diapason of 'popular music' as would satisfy the most insatiate ambition for contemporaneous fame." From the "AtAeneeum." " Charles Mackay, as a poet, manifests powers of no ordinary kind ; mental endowments and moral feelings capable of sustaining the poetic character at no common elevation." Ernest Jones, in the " People 's Journal." " The age has need of men who, understanding its spirit and ten- dency, shall give voice to those higher longings, and as yet dimly out- lined, but brightening hopes that wander through many a soul at the present hour ; prophesying of new life and progress for all ; half-reveal- ing ' The vision of the world and all the wonders that shall be,' and animating anew many who are wearied and sick at the sight of so much want, ignorance, and suffering ; so much of hollow formality and cant, of a base and unspiritual character, that are incident to our existing condition. It hath need of those who, while uttering in musical thought its bright belief that these ills are but transient— and its resolve to realise as far as in it lies that faith— shall say all this so beautifully and truly, that to each it shall seem the natural expression of his thought, which (to borrow from Emerson) he had long been desiring to utter, but had not till now found adequate speech. Of such men is Mackay. His verse is pervaded by a philosophy of a cheerful and elevating character ; there is a singular absence of prejudices — national, theolo- gical, or political ; and he has a rich, poetic fancy, forcible expression, and melody of rhythm, that oftentimes reminds one of Coleridge." W.J. Fox, in the "Morning Chronicle." " Mr. Mackay's poems are well known, and, we are happy to think, to a great degree appreciated. There is not a line in one of them which is not honest, hearty, healthy, and true. When not dealing with an elevated theme, Mr. Mackay is the poet laureate of common- sense and sturdy earnestness of purpose. He hates shams just as much as Mr. Carlyle, and denounces them in far better English. Spurning the conventional trappings of poetry — or, at least, what dilletanti triflers and pumpers-up of make-believe enthusiasm consider to be such — Mr. Mackay writes what he feels and feels what he writes — fixes the whole powers of his soul upon some well-defined purpose, often lofty, always good — brings to bear upon his task the muscles of a mind which is as genial as it is sternly honest and uncompromising — and, blowing aside all mock poetic froth, clinches his work by an unfailing use of the right word in the right place." Douglas Jerr old, in "Lloyd's Weekly." "The lyrics of this great English writer — this British Beranger — have gone home to the hearts of the people. Charles Mackay boasts, and with reason, that in whatever he has written he has never courted popularity, but has simply written because he could not help uttering the thought that was in him, and because the thought spontaneously took the lyrical form. The truth of this is set on the front of every page ; lives in the free and noble spirit of every song. There is in Charles Mackay all the freshness and spontaneity, the love of freedom, and the hate of everything mean, which we love in Burns. In this volume there is a surfeit of beautiful things. The flowers are under our feet, and over our head, and they dance and nod about us, as we stand, almost buried in them. " The Voices from the Crowd " are so manly, and speak sentiments so touching and valorous withal, that we exclaim, " Here is one of the real teachers of the people, whom we should do well to honour and cherish ! " We can only hope that this volume may find its way into every cottage library and every workman's club. There is not a har^i nor an unworthy thought in all the collec- tion ; nay, but this is poor praise where so much is due to the chief poet of the people of the Victorian epoch. His abounding humanity, the marvellous variety of ways in which he clothes with beauty and enforms with life the common efforts, the daily cares, the humble heroisms of our work-a-day world, must strike the attentive reader with amaze- ment, as he turns over these pages. Mackay is no ' Idle singer of an empty day,' but a poet full of love for his kind, and of hope in human destinies." From the "Elgin Courier." "Impassioned, imaginative, and earnest— dealing with the real business of life, and the elements of moral and political regeneration which are scattered over the world, and which only wait for the voice ot the gifted to give them utterance and power, Mr. Mackay is justly entitled to a place in the front rank of our living poets." From tlie il St. James* s Magazine." "Throughout all Charles Mackay's poems we trace an imagination copious and original, a mind discriminating and just ; a heart generous and true. He is the vindicator and supporter of all that is good, as he is the contemner and foe of all that is ignoble. He belongs to an order of men of whom English literature may be justly proud." From the Boston, New York, and Philadelphia Papers. " The poems of Charles Mackay are more popular in the United States than those of any other living poet — Tennyson and Longfellow not excepted. They are read, recited, sung in every school and college. Every high school boy and girl is familiar with them." "In this elegant volume the poems of this world-known author, which like so many wings have been flying hither and thither over the earth, are collected and fitly joined together. Many of them are as familiar as the hymns of Watts or the articles of the Decalogue ; while others are new and fresh, bearing the same vigour and nobility which imbue all of Mackay's compositions. This author always writes with a purpose — and that purpose is to elevate, and urge, and inspire. The didactic tone of his poems forms the secret of their universal popularity. He has metaphor and word — architecture sufficient to attract and hold the imagination — but it is, after all, the heart at which he directs his powers. " "Charles Mackay is a favourite with the American public. His verse is imbued with the democratic spirit in the best sense of the term, a progressive, humanitarian spirit, that wars against oppression, and sympathises with the poor, the struggling, and the forlorn, always and everywhere. England in the present age has given birth to a number of such poets, and Charles Mackay seems to us the peer of the worthiest." 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