THE YALE REVIEW APRIL 1920 The Passing Strange. Verse Washington Five and Eight O'Clocks The Struggle for the Adriatic Two Lyrics An Anglo-American Entente Yanishev Goes Home to the Village . The Injustice of Zionism Mountain Laurel. Verse . Dragon's Blood The English Actor of To-day To E. T. Verse Edward Thomas Seventeen. Verse . . . . Einstein's Theory of Gravitation Experiences of a Medium . Methusaleh. Verse .... An Accidental Victorian The Moving Picture .... Among the Books Edited by WILBUR PUBLISHED QUARTERLY . John Masefield . Vernon Kellogg . Charles Seymour . John Drinkwater George McLean Harper . Albert Rhys Williams Edward Bliss Reed Alfred Noyes . Samuel Scoville, Jr. A. B. Walkley Robert Frost George F. Whicher Robert Nichols . Leigh Page . Mathilde Weil Charlton M. Lewis Wilbur C Abbott . Ellis P. 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Verse Einstein's Theory of Gravitation . Experiences of a Medium . Methusaleh. Verse .... An Accidental Victorian . The Moving Picture .... John Masefield Vernon Kellogg . Charles Seymour . John Drinkwater George McLean Harper Albert Rhys Williams Edward Bliss Reed Alfred Noyes Samuel Scoville, Jr. A. B. Walkley Robert Frost George F. Whicher Robert Nichols Leigh Page Mathilde Weil Charlton M. Lewis . Wilbur C. Abbott Ellis P. Oberholtzer AMONG THE BOOKS The Full Circle of Masefield's Art . Dickens and Dickensians The Last of the Ichthyosauria A New World Art and Heraldry . The Typical American Short Story A Diagnosis of Stage Diseases . Humanism Militant . Recent Verse . . . A Preacher of Personal Liberty . John Drinkwater Wilbur Cross William 0. Stevens Harold J. Laski A. Kingsley Porter . James C. Alvord Archibald Henderson Frederick A. 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Secretary Henry King Smith, Vice-President S. Sloan Colt, Asst. Secretary D. J. Palmer, Mgr. Foreign Dept. Joseph L. Morris, Mgr. Credit Dept. Member Federal Reserve System and New York Clearing House When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review THE YALE REVIEW Vol. IX APRIL, 1920 No. 3 THE PASSING STRANGE By JOHN MASEFIELD Out of the earth to rest or range Perpetual in perpetual change The unknown passing through the strange. Water and saltness held together To tread the dust and stand the weather And plough the field and stretch the tether. To pass the wine cup and be witty, Water the sands and build the city, Slaughter like devils and have pity, Be red with rage and pale with lust, Make beauty come, make peace, make trust, Water and saltness mixed with dust; Drive over earth, swim under sea, Fly in the eagle's secrecy, Guess where the hidden comets be; Know all the deathy seeds that still Queen Helen's beauty, Caesar's will, And slay them even as they kill, 450 THE YALE REVIEW Fashion an altar for a rood, Defile a continent with blood, And watch a brother starve for food; Love like a madman, shaking, blind . Till self is burnt into a kind Possession of another mind; Brood upon beauty till the grace Of beauty with the holy face Brings peace into the bitter place; Probe in the lifeless granites, scan The stars for hope, for guide, for plan; Live as a woman or a man; Fasten to lover or to friend Until the heart-break at the end, The break of death that cannot mend; Then to lie useless, helpless, still Down in the earth, in dark, to fill The roots of grass or daffodil . Down in the earth, in dark, alone, A mockery of the ghost in bone, The strangeness passing the unknown. Time will go by, that outlasts clocks, Dawn in the thorps will rouse the cocks, Sunset be glory on the rocks, But it, the thing, will never heed Even the rootling from the seed Thrusting to suck it for its need. THE PASSING STRANGE 451 Since moons decay and suns decline How else should end this life of mine? Water and saltness are not wine. But in the darkest hour of night, When even the foxes peer for sight, The byre-cock crows; he feels the light. So, in this water mixed with dust, The byre-cock spirit crows from trust That death will change because it must, For all things change, the darkness changes, The wandering spirits change their ranges, The corn is gathered to the granges. The corn is sown again, it grows; The stars burn out, the darkness goes. The rhythms change, they do not close. They change, and we, who pass like foam, Like dust blown through the streets of Rome, Change ever, too; we have no home, Only a beauty, only a power, Sad in the fruit, bright in the flower, Endlessly erring for its hour But gathering, as we stray, a sense Of Life, so lovely and intense, It lingers when we wander hence, That those who follow feel behind Their backs, when all before is blind, Our joy, a rampart to the mind. 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