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 SONGS OF TWO NATIONS
 
 
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 SONGS OF TWO NATIONS 
 
 BY 
 
 ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE 
 
 I. A SONG OF ITALY 
 
 ODE ON THE PROCLAMATION OF THE 
 FRENCH REPUBLIC 
 
 III. DIR/E 
 
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 CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY 
 
 1875
 
 LONDON : PRINTED BY 
 SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE 
 AND PARLIAMENT STREET
 
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 /jaw ///e double-featured statu? stand 
 
 Of Memnon or of Janus, half with night 
 Veiled, and fast bound with iron; half with light 
 
 Crowned, holding all men 's future in his hand. 
 
 And all the old westward face of time grown grey 
 Was writ with cursing and inscribed for death 
 But on the face that met the morning's breath 
 
 Fear died of hope as darkness dies of day. 
 
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 CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 A Song of Italy i 
 
 Ode on the Proclamation of the French 
 
 Republic 35 
 
 Dir.e : — 
 
 I. A Dead King 55 
 
 II. A Year After 56 
 
 III. Peter's Pence from Perugia . . -57 
 
 IV. Papal Allocution . . . ..,5s 
 V. The Burden of Austria . . . -59 
 
 VI. Locusta 60 
 
 VII. Cel/fno 61 
 
 VIII. A Choice 62 
 
 IX. The Augurs 63
 
 viii CONTENT*. 
 
 I' AGE 
 
 X. A Counsel 64 
 
 XL The Moderates 65 
 
 XII. Intercession . . . . . . . 66 
 
 XIII. The Saviour ok Society .... 70 
 
 XIV. Mentana: Second Anniversary . . . 72 
 XV. Mentana : Third Anniversary ... 74 
 
 XVI. The Descent into Heli 7 6 
 
 XVII. Apologia 7 8
 
 A SONG OF ITALY.
 
 INSCRIBED 
 
 WITH ALL DEVOTION AND REVERENCE 
 
 TO 
 
 JOSEPH MAZZINI. 
 
 1867. 
 
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 A SONG OF ITALY. 
 
 Upon a windy night of stars that fell 
 
 At the wind's spoken spell, 
 Swept with sharp strokes of agonizing light 
 
 From the clear gulf of night, 
 Between the fixed and fallen glories one 
 
 Against my vision shone, 
 More fair and fearful and divine than they 
 
 That measure night and day, 
 And worthier worship ; and within mine eyes 
 
 The formless folded skies 
 Took shape and were unfolded like as flowers. 
 
 And I beheld the hours 
 As maidens, and the days as labouring men, 
 
 And the soft nights again 
 As wearied women to their own souls wed, 
 
 And ages as the dead. 
 And over these living, and them that died, 
 
 From one to the other side 
 A lordlier light than comes of earth or air 
 
 Made the world's future fair. 
 A woman like to love in face, but not 
 
 A thing of transient lot —
 
 6 A SONG OF ITALY. 
 
 And like to hope, but having hold on truth — 
 
 And like to joy or youth, 
 Save that upon the rock her feet were set — 
 
 And like what men forget, 
 Faith, innocence, high thought, laborious peace — 
 
 And yet like none of these, 
 Being not as these are mortal, but with eyes 
 
 That sounded the deep skies 
 And clove like wings or arrows their clear way 
 
 Through night and dawn and day — 
 So fair a presence over star and sun 
 
 Stood, making these as one. 
 For in the shadow of her shape were all 
 
 Darkened and held in thrall, 
 So mightier rose she past them ; and I felt 
 
 Whose form, whose likeness knelt 
 With covered hair and face and clasped her knees ; 
 
 And knew the first of these 
 Was Freedom, and the second Italy. 
 
 And what sad words said she 
 For mine own grief I knew not, nor had heart 
 
 Therewith to bear my part 
 And set my songs to sorrow ; nor to hear 
 
 How tear by sacred tear 
 Fell from her eyes as flowers or notes that fall 
 
 In some slain feaster's hall 
 Where in mid music and melodious breath 
 
 Men singing have seen death. 
 So fair, so lost, so sweet she knelt ; or so 
 
 In our lost eyes below
 
 A SONG OF ITAL Y. 7 
 
 Seemed to us sorrowing ; and her speech being said, 
 •faL . Fell, as one who falls dead. 
 
 And for a little she too wept, who stood 
 
 Above the dust and blood 
 And thrones and troubles of the world ; then spake, 
 
 As who bids dead men wake. 
 
 ' Because the years were heavy on thy head ; 
 
 Because dead things are dead ; 
 Because thy chosen on hill-side, city and plain 
 
 Are shed as drops of rain ; 
 Because all earth was black, all heaven was blind, 
 
 And we cast out of mind ; 
 Because men wept, saying Freedom, knowing of thee, 
 
 Child, that thou wast not free : 
 Because wherever blood was not shame was 
 
 Where thy pure foot did pass ; 
 Because on Promethean rocks distent 
 
 Thee fouler eagles rent ; 
 Because a serpent stains with slime and foam 
 
 This that is not thy Rome ; 
 Child of my womb, whose limbs were made in me, 
 
 Have I forgotten thee ? 
 In all thy dreams through all these years on wing, 
 
 Hast thou dreamed such a thing? 
 The mortal mother-bird outsoars her nest, 
 
 The child outgrows the breast ; 
 But suns as stars shall fall from heaven and cease, 
 
 Ere we twain be as these ;
 
 8 A SONG OF ITAL Y. 
 
 Yea, utmost skies forget their utmost sun, 
 
 Ere we twain be not one. 
 My lesser jewels sewn on skirt and hem, 
 
 I have no heed of them 
 Obscured and flawed by sloth or craft or power ; 
 
 But thou, that wast my flower, 
 The blossom bound between my brows and worn 
 
 In sight of even and morn 
 From the last ember of the flameless west 
 
 To the dawn's baring breast — 
 I were not Freedom if thou wert not free, 
 
 Nor thou wert Italy. 
 O mystic rose ingrained with blood, impearled 
 
 With tears of all the world ! 
 The torpor of their blind brute-ridden trance 
 
 Kills England and chills France ; 
 And Spain sobs hard through strangling blood ; and 
 snows 
 
 Hide the huge eastern woes. 
 But thou, twin-born with morning, nursed of noon, 
 
 And blessed of star and moon ! 
 What shall avail to assail thee any more, 
 
 From sacred shore to shore ? 
 Have Time and Love not knelt down at thy feet, 
 
 Thy sore, thy soiled, thy sweet, 
 Fresh from the flints and mire of murderous ways 
 
 And dust of travelling days ? 
 Hath Time not kissed them, Love not washed them 
 fair, 
 
 And wiped with tears and hair ?
 
 A SONG OF ITALY. 9 
 
 Though God forget thee, I will not forget ; 
 
 Though heaven and earth be set 
 Against thee, O unconquerable child, 
 
 Abused, abased, reviled, 
 Lift thou not less from no funereal bed 
 
 Thine undishonoured head ; 
 Love thou not less, by lips of thine once prest, 
 
 This my now barren breast ; 
 Seek thou not less, being well assured thereof, 
 
 O child, my latest love. 
 For now the barren bosom shall bear fruit, 
 
 Songs leap from lips long mute, 
 And with my milk the mouths of nations fed 
 
 Again be glad and red 
 That were worn white with hunger and sorrow and 
 thirst ; 
 
 And thou, most fair and first, 
 Thou whose warm hands and sweet live lips I feel 
 
 Upon me for a seal, 
 Thou whose least looks, whose smiles and little sighs, 
 
 Whose passionate pure eyes, 
 Whose dear fair limbs that neither bonds could 
 bruise 
 
 Nor hate of men misuse, 
 Whose flower-like breath and bosom, O my child, 
 
 O mine and undefiled, 
 Fill with such tears as burn like bitter wine 
 
 These mother's eyes of mine, 
 Thrill with huge passions and primeval pains 
 
 The fulness of my veins.
 
 io A SONG OF ITALY. 
 
 sweetest head seen higher than any stands, 
 I touch thee with mine hands, 
 
 1 lay my lips upon thee, O thou most sweet, 
 To lift thee on thy feet 
 
 And with the fire of mine to fill thine eyes ; 
 I say unto thee, Arise.' 
 
 She ceased, and heaven was full of flame and sound, 
 
 And earth's old limbs unbound 
 Shone and waxed warm with fiery dew and seed 
 
 Shed through her at this her need : 
 And highest in heaven, a mother and full of grace, 
 
 With no more covered face, 
 With no more lifted hands and bended knees, 
 
 Rose, as from sacred seas 
 Love, when old time was full of plenteous springs, 
 
 That fairest-born of things, 
 The land that holds the rest in tender thrall 
 
 For love's sake in them all, 
 That binds with words and holds with eyes and 
 hands 
 
 All hearts in all men's lands. 
 So died the dream whence rose the live desire 
 
 That here takes form and fire, 
 A spirit from the splendid grave of sleep 
 
 Risen, that ye should not weep, 
 Should not weep more nor ever, O ye that hear 
 
 And ever have held her dear, 
 Seeing now indeed she weeps not who wept sore, 
 
 And sleeps not any more.
 
 A SONG OF ITALY. n 
 
 Hearken ye towards her, O people, exalt your eyes ; 
 Is this a thing that dies ? 
 
 Italia ! by the passion of the pain 
 
 That bent and rent thy chain ; 
 Italia ! by the breaking of the bands, 
 
 The shaking of the lands ; 
 Beloved, O men's mother, O men's queen, 
 
 Arise, appear, be seen ! 
 Arise, array thyself in manifold 
 
 Queen's raiment of wrought gold ; 
 With girdles of green freedom, and with red 
 
 Roses, and white snow shed 
 Above the flush and frondage of the hills 
 
 That all thy deep dawn fills 
 And all thy clear night veils and warms with wings 
 
 Spread till the morning sings ; 
 The rose of resurrection, and the bright 
 
 Breast lavish of the light, 
 The lady lily like the snowy sky 
 
 Ere the stars wholly die ; 
 As red as blood, and whiter than a wave, 
 
 Flowers grown as from thy grave, 
 From the green fruitful grass in Maytime hot, 
 
 Thy grave, where thou art not. 
 Gather the grass and weave, in sacred sign 
 
 Of the ancient earth divine, 
 The holy heart of things, the seed of birth, 
 
 The mystical warm earth. 
 O thou her flower of flowers, with treble braid 
 
 Be thy sweet head arrayed,
 
 i2 A SONG OF ITALY. 
 
 In witness of her mighty motherhood 
 
 Who bore thee and found thee good, 
 Her fairest-born of children, on whose head 
 
 Her green and white and red 
 Are hope and light and life, inviolate 
 
 Of any latter fate. 
 Fly, O our flag, through deep Italian air, 
 
 Above the flags that were, 
 The dusty shreds of shameful battle-flags 
 
 Trampled and rent in rags, 
 As withering woods in autumn's bitterest breath 
 
 Yellow, and black as death ; 
 Black as crushed worms that sicken in the sense, 
 
 And yellow as pestilence. 
 Fly, green as summer and red as dawn and white 
 
 As the live heart of light, 
 The blind bright womb of colour unborn, that brings 
 
 Forth all fair forms of things, 
 As freedom all fair forms of nations dyed 
 
 In divers-coloured pride. 
 Fly fleet as wind on every wind that blows 
 
 Between her seas and snows, 
 From Alpine white, from Tuscan green, and where 
 
 Vesuvius reddens air. 
 Fly ! and let all men see it, and all kings wail, 
 
 And priests wax faint and pale, 
 And the cold hordes that moan in misty places 
 
 And the funereal races 
 And the sick serfs of lands that wait and wane 
 See thee and hate thee in vain.
 
 A SONG OF ITALY. 13 
 
 In the clear laughter of all winds and waves, 
 
 In the blown grass of graves, 
 In the long sound of fluctuant boughs of trees, 
 
 In the broad breath of seas, 
 Bid the sound of thy flying folds be heard ; 
 
 And as a spoken word 
 Full of that fair god and that merciless 
 
 Who rends the Pythoness, 
 So be the sound and so the fire that saith 
 
 She feels her ancient breath 
 And the old blood move in her immortal veins. 
 
 Strange travail and strong pains, 
 Our mother, hast thou borne these many years 
 
 While thy pure blood and tears 
 Mixed with the Tyrrhene and the Adrian sea ; 
 
 Light things were said of thee, 
 As of one buried deep among the dead ; 
 
 Yea, she hath been, they said, 
 She was when time was younger, and is not ; 
 
 The very cerecloths rot 
 That flutter in the dusty wind of death, 
 
 Not moving with her breath ; 
 Far seasons and forgotten years enfold 
 
 Her dead corpse old and cold 
 With many windy winters and pale springs : 
 
 She is none of this world's things. 
 Though her dead head like a live garland wear 
 
 The golden-growing hair
 
 i 4 A SONG OF ITAL Y. 
 
 That flows over her breast down to her feet, 
 
 Dead queens, whose life was sweet 
 In sight of all men living, have been found 
 
 So cold, so clad, so crowned, 
 With all things faded and with one thing fair, 
 
 Their old immortal hair, 
 When flesh and bone turned dust at touch of day : 
 
 And she is dead as they. 
 
 So men said sadly, mocking ; so the slave, 
 
 Whose life was his soul's grave : 
 So, pale or red with change of fast and feast, 
 
 The sanguine-sandalled priest 
 So the Austrian, when his fortune came to flood, 
 
 And the warm wave was blood ; 
 With wings that widened and with beak that smote, 
 
 So shrieked through either throat 
 From the hot horror of its northern nest 
 
 That double-headed pest ; 
 So, triple-crowned with fear and fraud and shame, 
 
 He of whom treason came, 
 The herdsman of the Gadarean swine ; 
 
 So all his ravening kine, 
 Made fat with poisonous pasture ; so not we, 
 
 Mother, beholding thee. 
 Make answer, O the crown of all our slain, 
 
 Ye that were one, being twain, 
 Twain brethren, twin-born to the second birth, 
 
 Chosen out of all our earth 
 To be the prophesying stars that say 
 
 How hard is night on day,
 
 A SONG OF ITALY. i 5 
 
 Stars in serene and sudden heaven rerisen 
 
 Before the sun break prison 
 And ere the moon be wasted ; fair first flowers 
 
 In that red wreath of ours 
 Woven with the lives of all whose lives were shed 
 
 To crown their mother's head 
 With leaves of civic cypress and thick yew, 
 
 Till the olive bind it too, 
 Olive and laurel and all loftier leaves 
 
 That victory wears or weaves 
 At her fair feet for her beloved brow ; 
 
 Hear, for she too hears now, 
 O Pisacane, from Calabrian sands ; 
 
 O all heroic hands 
 Close on the sword-hilt, hands of all her dead ; 
 
 O many a holy head, 
 Bowed for her sake even to her reddening dust j 
 
 O chosen, O pure and just, 
 Who counted for a small thing life's estate, 
 
 And died, and made it great ; 
 Ye whose names mix with all her memories ; ye 
 
 Who rather chose to see 
 Death, than our more intolerable things ; 
 
 Thou whose name withers kings, 
 Agesilao; thou too, O chiefliest thou, QyLA***-* ***»«** ps&*i 
 
 The slayer of splendid brow, A^}*>AS"*»v*#r /£T K^ ^ vtf^L 
 
 Laid where the lying lips of fear deride 
 
 The foiled tyrannicide, 
 Foiled, fallen, slain, scorned, and happy; being in fame, 
 
 Felice, like thy name,
 
 1 6 A SONG OF ITALY. 
 
 Not like thy fortune ; father of the fight, 
 
 Having in hand our light. 
 Ah, happy ! for that sudden-swerving hand 
 
 Flung light on all thy land, 
 Yea, lit blind France with compulsory ray, 
 
 Driven down a righteous way ; 
 Ah, happiest ! for from thee the wars began, 
 
 From thee the fresh springs ran ; 
 From thee the lady land that queens the earth 
 
 Gat as she gave new birth. 
 O sweet mute mouths, O all fair dead of ours, 
 
 Fair in her eyes as flowers, 
 Fair without feature, vocal without voice, 
 
 Strong without strength, rejoice ! 
 Hear it with ears that hear not, and on eyes 
 
 That see not let it rise, 
 Rise as a sundawn ; be it as dew that drips 
 
 On dumb and dusty lips ; 
 Eyes have ye not, and see it ; neither ears, 
 
 And there is none but hears. 
 This is the same for whom ye bled and wept ; 
 
 She was not dead, but slept. 
 This is that very Italy which was 
 
 And is and shall not pass. 
 
 But thou, though all were not well done, O chief, 
 
 Must thou take shame or grief? 
 Because one man is not as thou or ten, 
 
 Must thou take shame for men ?
 
 A SONG OF ITALY. 17 
 
 Because the supreme sunrise is not yet, 
 
 Is the young dew not wet ? 
 Wilt thou not yet abide a little while, 
 
 Soul without fear or guile, 
 Mazzini, — O our prophet, O our priest, 
 
 A little while at least ? 
 A little hour of doubt and of control, 
 
 Sustain thy sacred soul ; 
 Withhold thine heart, our father, but an hour ; 
 
 Is it not here, the flower, 
 Is it not blown and fragrant from the root, 
 
 And shall not be the fruit ? 
 Thy children, even thy people thou hast made, 
 
 Thine, with thy words arrayed, 
 Clothed with thy thoughts and girt with thy desires, 
 
 Yearn up toward thee as fires. 
 Art thou not father, O father, of all these ? 
 
 From thine own Genoese 
 To where of nights the lower extreme lagune 
 
 Feels its Venetian moon, 
 Nor suckling's mouth nor mother's breast set free 
 
 But hath that grace through thee. 
 The milk of life on death's unnatural brink 
 
 Thou gavest them to drink, 
 The natural milk of freedom ; and again 
 
 They drank, and they were men. 
 The wine and honey of freedom and of faith 
 
 They drank, and cast off death. 
 Bear with them now ; thou art holier : yet endure, 
 
 Till they as thou be pure. 
 
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 1 8 A SONG OF ITALY. 
 
 Their swords at least that stemmed half Austria's tide 
 
 Bade all its bulk divide ; 
 Else, though fate bade them for a breath's space fall, 
 
 She had not fallen at all. 
 Not by their hands they made time's promise true ; 
 
 Not by their hands, but through. 
 Nor on Custoza ran their blood to waste, 
 
 Nor fell their fame defaced 
 Whom stormiest Adria with tumultuous tides 
 
 Whirls undersea and hides. 
 Not his, who from the sudden-settling deck 
 
 Looked over death and wreck 
 To where the mother's bosom shone, who smiled 
 
 As he, so dying, her child ; 
 For he smiled surely, dying, to mix his death 
 
 With her memorial breath ; 
 Smiled, being most sure of her, that in no wise, 
 
 Die whoso will, she dies : 
 And she smiled surely, fair and far above, 
 
 Wept not, but smiled for love. 
 Thou too, O splendour of the sudden sword 
 
 That drove the crews abhorred 
 From Naples and the siren-footed strand, 
 
 Flash from thy master's hand, 
 Shine from the middle summer of the seas 
 
 To the old ^Bolides, 
 Outshine their fiery fumes of burning night, 
 
 Swordj with thy midday light ; 
 Flame as a beacon from the Tyrrhene foam 
 
 To the rent heart of Rome,
 
 A SONG OF ITALY. i 9 
 
 From the island of her lover and thy lord, 
 
 Her saviour and her sword. 
 In the fierce year of failure and of fame, 
 
 Art thou not yet the same 
 That wast as lightning swifter than all wings 
 
 In the blind face of kings ? 
 When priests took counsel to devise despair, 
 
 And princes to forswear, 
 She clasped thee, O her sword and flag-bearer 
 
 And staff and shield to her, 
 O Garibaldi ; need was hers and grief, 
 
 Of thee and of the chief, 
 And of another girt in arms to stand 
 
 As good of hope and hand, 
 As high of soul and happy, albeit indeed 
 
 The heart should burn and bleed, 
 So but the spirit shake not nor the breast 
 
 Swerve, but abide its rest. 
 As theirs did and as thine, though ruin clomb 
 
 The highest wall of Rome, 
 Though treason stained and spilt her lustral water, 
 
 And slaves led slaves to slaughter, 
 And priests, praying and slaying, watched them pass 
 
 From a strange France, alas, 
 That was not freedom ; yet when these were past 
 
 Thy sword and thou stood fast, 
 Till new men seeing thee where Sicilian waves 
 
 Hear now no sound of slaves, 
 And where thy sacred blood is fragrant still 
 
 Upon the Bitter Hill, 
 
 C 2
 
 20 A SONG OF ITALY. 
 
 Seeing by that blood one country saved and stained, 
 
 Less loved thee crowned than chained, 
 And less now only than the chief: for he, 
 
 Father of Italy, 
 Upbore in holy hands the babe new-born 
 
 Through loss and sorrow and scorn, 
 Of no man led, of many men reviled ; 
 
 Till lo, the new-born child 
 Gone from between his hands, and in its place, 
 
 Lo, the fair mother's face. 
 Blessed is he of all men, being in one 
 
 As father to her and son, 
 Blessed of all men living, that he found 
 
 Her weak limbs bared and bound, 
 And in his arms and in his bosom bore, 
 
 And as a garment wore 
 Her weight of want, and as a royal dress 
 
 Put on her weariness. 
 As in faith's hoariest histories men read, 
 
 The strong man bore at need 
 Through roaring rapids when all heaven was wild 
 
 The likeness of a child 
 That still waxed greater and heavier as he trod, 
 
 And altered, and was God. 
 Praise him, O winds that move the molten air, 
 
 O light of days that were, 
 And light of days that shall be ; land and sea, 
 
 And heaven and Italy: 
 Praise him, O storm and summer, shore and wave, 
 
 O skies and every grave ;
 
 A SONG OF ITALY. 21 
 
 O weeping hopes, memories beyond tears, 
 
 O many and murmuring years, 
 O sounds far off in time and visions far, 
 
 O sorrow with thy star, 
 And joy with all thy beacons ; ye that mourn, 
 
 And ye whose light is born ; 
 O fallen faces, and O souls arisen, 
 
 Praise him from tomb and prison, 
 Praise him from heaven and sunlight ; and ye floods, 
 
 And windy waves of woods; 
 Ye valleys and wild vineyards, ye lit lakes 
 
 And happier hillside brakes, 
 Untrampled by the accursed feet that trod 
 
 Fields golden from their god, 
 Fields of their god forsaken, whereof none 
 
 Sees his face in the sun, 
 Hears his voice from the floweriest wildernesses ; 
 
 And, barren of his tresses, 
 Ye bays unplucked and laurels unentwined, 
 
 That no men break or bind, 
 And myrtles long forgetful of the sword, 
 
 And olives unadored, 
 Wisdom and love, white hands that save and slay, 
 
 Praise him ; and ye as they, 
 Praise him, O gracious might of dews and rains 
 
 That feed the purple plains, 
 O sacred sunbeams bright as bare steel drawn, 
 
 O cloud and fire and dawn; 
 Red hills of flame, white Alps, green Apennines, 
 
 Banners of blowing pines,
 
 22 A SONG OF ITALY. 
 
 Standards of stormy snows, flags of light leaves, 
 
 Three wherewith Freedom weaves 
 One ensign that once woven and once unfurled 
 
 Makes day of all a world, 
 Makes blind their eyes who knew not, and outbraves 
 
 The waste of iron waves ; 
 Ye fields of yellow fullness, ye fresh fountains, 
 
 And mists of many mountains ; 
 Ye moons and seasons, and ye days and nights ; 
 
 Ye starry-headed heights, 
 And gorges melting sunward from the snow, 
 
 And all strong streams that flow, 
 Tender as tears, and fair as faith, and pure 
 
 As hearts made sad and sure 
 At once by many sufferings and one love ; 
 
 O mystic deathless dove 
 Held to the heart of earth and in her hands 
 
 Cherished, O lily of lands, 
 White rose of time, dear dream of praises past — 
 
 For such as these thou wast, 
 That art as eagles setting to the sun, 
 
 As fawns that leap and run, 
 As a sword carven with keen floral gold, 
 
 Sword for an armed god's hold, 
 Flower for a crowned god's forehead — O our land, 
 
 Reach forth thine holiest hand, 
 O mother of many sons and memories, 
 
 Stretch out thine hand to his 
 That raised and gave thee life to run and leap 
 
 When thou wast full of sleep,
 
 A SONG OF ITALY. 23 
 
 That touched and stung thee with young blood and 
 breath 
 
 When thou wast hard on death. 
 Praise him, O all her cities and her crowns, 
 
 Her towers and thrones of towns ; 
 O noblest Brescia, scarred from foot to head 
 
 And breast-dtep in the dead, 
 Praise him from all the glories of thy graves 
 
 That yellow Mela laves 
 With gentle and golden water, whose fair flood 
 
 Ran wider with thy blood : 
 Praise him, O born of that heroic breast, 
 
 O nursed thereat and blest, 
 Verona, fairer than thy mother fair, 
 
 But not more brave to bear : 
 Praise him, O Milan, whose imperial tread 
 
 Bruised once the German head ; 
 Whose might, by northern swords left desolate, 
 
 Set foot on fear and fate : 
 Praise him, O long mute mouth of melodies, 
 
 Mantua, with louder keys, 
 With mightier chords of music even than rolled 
 
 From the large harps of old, 
 When thy sweet singer of golden throat and tongue, 
 
 Praising his tyrant, sung ; 
 Though now thou sing not as of other days, 
 
 Learn late a better praise. 
 Not with the side sweet lips of slaves that sing, 
 
 Praise thou no priest or king, 
 No brow-bound laurel of discoloured leaf, 
 
 But him, the crownless chief.
 
 24 A SONG OF ITALY. 
 
 Praise him, O star of sun-forgotten times, 
 
 Among their creeds and crimes 
 That wast a fire of witness in the night, 
 
 Padua, the wise men's light : 
 Praise him, O sacred Venice, and the sea 
 
 That now exults through thee, 
 Full of the mighty morning and the sun, 
 
 Free of things dead and done ; 
 Praise him from all the years of thy great grief, 
 
 That shook thee like a leaf 
 With winds and snows of torment, rain that fell 
 
 Red as the rains of hell, 
 Storms of black thunder and of yellow flame, 
 
 And all ill things but shame ; 
 Praise him with all thy holy heart and strength ; 
 
 Through thy walls' breadth and length 
 Praise him with all thy people, that their voice 
 
 Bid the strong soul rejoice, 
 The fair clear supreme spirit beyond stain, 
 
 Pure as the depth of pain, 
 High as the head of suffering, and secure 
 
 As all things that endure. 
 More than thy blind lord of an hundred years 
 
 Whose name our memory hears, 
 Home-bound from harbours of the Byzantine 
 
 Made tributary of thine, 
 Praise him who gave no gifts from oversea, 
 
 But gave thyself to thee. 
 O mother Genoa, through all years that run, 
 
 More than that other son,
 
 A SONG OF ITAL Y. 25 
 
 Who first beyond the seals of sunset prest 
 
 Even to the unfooted west, 
 Whose back-blown flag scared from their sheltering 
 seas 
 
 The unknown Atlantides, 
 And as flame climbs through cloud and vapour clomb 
 
 Through streams of storm and foam, 
 Till half in sight they saw land heave and swim — 
 
 More than this man praise him. 
 One found a world new-born from virgin sea ; 
 
 And one found Italy. 
 O heavenliest Florence, from the mouths of flowers 
 
 Fed by melodious hours, 
 From each sweet mouth that kisses light and air, 
 
 Thou whom thy fate made fair, 
 As a bound vine or any flowering tree, 
 
 Praise him who made thee free. 
 For no grape-gatherers trampling out the wine 
 
 Tread thee, the fairest vine ; 
 For no man binds thee, no man bruises, none 
 
 Does with thee as these have done. 
 From where spring hears loud through her long lit 
 vales 
 
 Triumphant nightingales, 
 In many a fold of fiery foliage hidden, 
 
 Withheld as things forbidden, 
 But clamorous with innumerable delight 
 
 In May's red, green, and white, 
 In the far-floated standard of the spring, 
 
 That bids men also sing,
 
 26 A SONG OF ITALY. 
 
 Our flower of flags, our witness that we are free, 
 
 Our lamp for land and sea ; 
 From where Majano feels through corn and vine 
 
 Spring move and melt as wine, 
 And Fiesole's embracing arms enclose 
 
 The immeasurable rose ; 
 From hill-sides plumed with pine, and heights wind-worn 
 
 That feel the refluent morn, 
 Or where the moon's face warm and passionate 
 
 Burns, and men's hearts grow great, 
 And the swoln eyelids labour with sweet tears, 
 
 And in their burning ears 
 Sound throbs like flame, and in their eyes new light 
 
 Kindles the trembling night ; 
 From faint illumined fields and starry valleys 
 
 Wherefrom the hill-wind sallies, 
 From Vallombrosa, from Valdarno raise 
 
 One Tuscan tune of praise. 
 O lordly city of the field of death, 
 
 Praise him with equal breath, 
 From sleeping streets and gardens, and the stream 
 
 That threads them as a dream 
 Threads without light the untravelled ways of sleep 
 
 With eyes that smile or weep ; 
 From the sweet sombre beauty of wave and wall 
 
 That fades and does not fall ; 
 From coloured domes and cloisters fair with fame, 
 
 Praise thou and thine his name. 
 Thou too, O little laurelled town of towers, 
 
 Clothed with the flame of flowers,
 
 A SONG OF ITALY. 27 
 
 From windy ramparts girdled with young gold, 
 
 From thy sweet hill-side fold 
 Of wallflowers and the acacia's belted bloom 
 
 And every blowing plume, 
 Halls that saw Dante speaking, chapels fair 
 
 As the outer hills and air, 
 Praise him who feeds the fire that Dante fed, 
 
 Our highest heroic head, 
 Whose eyes behold through floated cloud and flame 
 
 The maiden face of fame 
 Like April's in Valdelsa ; fair as flowers, 
 
 And patient as the hours ; 
 Sad with slow sense of time, and bright with faith 
 
 That levels life and death ; 
 The final fame, that with a foot sublime 
 
 Treads down reluctant time ; 
 The fame that waits and watches and is wise, 
 
 A virgin with chaste eyes, 
 A goddess who takes hands with great men's grief ; 
 
 Praise her, and him, our chief. 
 Praise him, O Siena, and thou her deep green spring, 
 
 O Fonte Branda, sing : 
 Shout from the red clefts of thy fiery crags, 
 
 Shake out thy flying flags 
 In the long wind that streams from hill to hill ; 
 
 Bid thy full music fill 
 The desolate red waste of sunset air 
 
 And fields the old time saw fair, 
 But now the hours ring void through ruined lands, 
 
 Wild work of mortal hands ;
 
 2 S A SONG OF ITALY. 
 
 * 
 
 Yet through thy dead Maremma let his name 
 
 Take flight and pass in flame, 
 And the red ruin of disastrous hours 
 
 Shall quicken into flowers. 
 Praise him, O fiery child of sun and sea, 
 
 Naples, who bade thee be ; 
 For till he sent the swords that scourge and save, 
 
 Thou wast not, but thy grave. 
 But more than all these praise him and give thanks, 
 
 Thou, from thy Tiber's banks, 
 From all thine hills and from thy supreme dome, 
 
 Praise him, O risen Rome. 
 Let all thy children cities at thy knee 
 
 Lift up their voice with thee, 
 Saying ' for thy love's sake and our perished grief 
 
 We laud thee, O our chief; ' 
 Saying ' for thine hand and help when hope was 
 dead 
 
 We thank thee, O our head ; ' 
 Saying ' for thy voice and face within our sight 
 
 We bless thee, O our light ; 
 For waters cleansing us from days defiled 
 
 We praise thee, O our child.' 
 
 So with an hundred cities' mouths in one 
 
 Praising thy supreme son, 
 Son of thy sorrow, O mother, O maid and mother, 
 
 Our queen, who serve none other, 
 Our lady of pity and mercy, and full of grace, 
 
 Turn otherwhere thy face,
 
 A SONG OF ITALY. 29 
 
 Turn for a little and look what things are these 
 
 Now fallen before thy knees ; 
 Turn upon them thine eyes who hated thee, 
 
 Behold what things they be, 
 Italia : these are stubble that were steel, 
 
 Dust, or a turning wheel ; 
 As leaves, as snow, as sand, that were so strong ; 
 
 And howl, for all their song, 
 And wail, for all their wisdom ; they that were 
 
 So great, they are all stript bare, 
 They are all made empty of beauty, and all abhorred ; 
 
 They are shivered, and their sword ; 
 They are slain who slew, they are heartless who were 
 wise ; 
 
 Yea, turn on these thine eyes, 
 O thou, soliciting with soul sublime 
 
 The obscure soul of time, 
 Thou, with the wounds thy holy body bears 
 
 From broken swords of theirs, 
 Thou, with the sweet swoln eyelids that have bled 
 
 Tears for thy thousands dead, 
 And upon these, whose swords drank up like dew 
 
 The sons of thine they slew, 
 These, whose each gun blasted with murdering mouth 
 
 Live flowers of thy fair south, 
 These, whose least evil told in alien ears 
 
 Turned men's whole blood to tears, 
 These, whose least sin remembered for pure shame 
 
 Turned all those tears to flame,
 
 3o A SONG OF ITALY. 
 
 Even upon these, when breaks the extreme blow 
 
 And all the world cries woe, 
 When heaven reluctant rains long-suffering fire 
 
 On these and their desire, 
 When his wind shakes them and his waters whelm 
 
 Who rent thy robe and realm, 
 When they that poured thy dear blood forth as wine 
 
 Pour forth their own for thine, 
 On these, on these have mercy : not in hate, 
 
 But full of sacred fate, 
 Strong from the shrine and splendid from the god, 
 
 Smite, with no second rod. 
 Because they spared not, do thou rather spare : 
 
 Be not one thing they were. 
 Let not one tongue of theirs who hate thee say 
 
 That thou wast even as they. 
 Because their hands were bloody, be thine white ; 
 
 Show light where they shed night : 
 Because they are foul, be thou the rather pure ; 
 
 Because they are feeble, endure ; 
 Because they had no pity, have thou pity. 
 
 And thou, O supreme city, 
 O priestless Rome that shalt be, take in trust 
 
 Their names, their deeds, their dust, 
 Who held life less than thou wert ; be the least 
 
 To thee indeed a priest, 
 Priest and burnt-offering and blood-sacrifice 
 
 Given without prayer or price, 
 A holier immolation than men wist, 
 
 A costlier eucharist,
 
 A SONG OF ITALY. 31 
 
 A sacrament more saving ; bend thine head 
 
 Above these many dead 
 Once, and salute with thine eternal eyes 
 
 Their lowest head that lies. 
 Speak from thy lips of immemorial speech 
 
 If but one word for each. 
 Kiss but one kiss on each thy dead son's mouth 
 
 Fallen dumb or north or south. 
 And laying but once thine hand on brow and breast, 
 
 Bless them, through whom thou art blest. 
 And saying in ears of these thy dead ' Well done,' 
 
 Shall they not hear ' O son ' ? 
 And bowing thy face to theirs made pale for thee, 
 
 Shall the shut eyes not see ? 
 Yea, through the hollow-hearted world of death, 
 
 As light, as blood, as breath, 
 Shall there not flash and flow the fiery sense, 
 
 The pulse of prescience ? 
 Shall not these know as in times overpast 
 
 Thee loftiest to the last ? 
 For times and wars shall change, kingdoms and creeds, 
 
 And dreams of men, and deeds ; 
 Earth shall grow grey with all her golden things, 
 
 Pale peoples and hoar kings ; 
 But though her thrones and towers of nations fall, 
 
 Death has no part in all ;. 
 In the air, nor in the imperishable sea, 
 
 Nor heaven, nor truth, nor thee. 
 Yea, let all sceptre-stricken nations lie, 
 
 But live thou though they die ;
 
 32 A SONG OF ITALY. 
 
 Let their flags fade as flowers that storm can mar. 
 
 But thine be like a star ; 
 Let England's, if it float not for men free, 
 
 Fall, and forget the sea ; 
 Let France's, if it shadow a hateful head, 
 
 Drop as a leaf drops dead ; 
 Thine let what storm soever smite the rest 
 
 Smite as it seems him best ; 
 Thine let the wind that can, by sea or land, 
 
 Wrest from thy banner-hand. 
 Die they in whom dies freedom, die and cease, 
 
 Though the world weep for these ; 
 Live thou and love and lift when these lie dead 
 
 The green and white and red. 
 
 O our Republic that shalt bind in bands 
 
 The kingdomless far lands 
 And link the chainless ages ; thou that wast 
 
 With England ere she past 
 Among the faded nations, and shalt be 
 
 Again, when sea to sea 
 Calls through the wind and light of morning time, 
 
 And throneless clime to clime 
 Makes antiphonal answer ; thou that art 
 
 Where one man's perfect heart 
 Burns, one man's brow is brightened for thy sake, 
 
 Thine, strong to make or break ; 
 O fair Republic hallowing with stretched hands 
 
 The limitless free lands,
 
 A SONG OF ITALY. 33 
 
 When all men's heads for love, not fear, how down 
 
 To thy sole royal crown, 
 As thou to freedom ; when man's life smells sweet, 
 
 And at thy bright swift feet 
 A bloodless and a bondless world is laid ; 
 
 Then, when thy men are made, 
 Let these indeed as we in dreams behold 
 
 One chosen of all thy fold, 
 One of all fair things fairest, one exalt 
 
 Above all fear or fault, 
 One unforgetful of unhappier men 
 
 And us who loved her then ; 
 With eyes that outlook suns and dream on graves ; 
 
 With voice like quiring waves ; 
 With heart the holier for their memories' sake 
 
 Who slept that she might wake ; 
 With breast the sweeter for that sweet blood lost, 
 
 And all the milkless cost ; 
 Lady of earth, whose large equality 
 
 Bends but to her and thee ; 
 Equal with heaven, and infinite of years, 
 
 And splendid from quenched tears ; 
 Strong with old strength of great things fallen and fled, 
 
 Diviner for her dead ; 
 Chaste of all stains and perfect from all scars, 
 
 Above all storms and stars, 
 All winds that blow through time, all waves that foam, 
 
 Our Capitolian Rome. 
 
 1867.
 
 ODE 
 
 PROCLAMATION 
 
 FRENCH REPUBLIC, 
 
 September 4TH, 1870.
 
 A VICTOR HUGO, 
 
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 39 
 
 ODE ON THE PROCLAMATION OF THE 
 FRENCH REPUBLIC 
 
 STROPHE I. 
 
 With songs and crying and sounds of acclamations, 
 
 Lo, die flame risen, the fire that falls in showers ! 
 Hark ; for the word is out among the nations : 
 
 Look ; for the light is up upon the hours : 
 O fears, O shames, O many tribulations, 
 
 Yours were all yesterdays, but this day ours. 
 Strong were your bonds linked fast with lamentations, 
 
 With groans and tears built into walls and towers ; 
 Strong were your works and wonders of high stations, 
 
 Your forts blood-based, and rampires of your powers : 
 Lo now the last of divers desolations, 
 
 The hand of time, that gathers hosts like flowers ; 
 Time, that fills up and pours out generations ; 
 
 Time, at whose breath confounded empire cowers. 
 
 STR. 2. 
 
 What are these moving in the dawn's red gloom? 
 
 What is she waited on by dread and doom, 
 111 ministers of morning, bondsmen born of night ? 
 
 If that head veiled and bowed be morning's head, 
 
 If she come walking between doom and dread, 
 Who shall rise up with song and dance before her sight ?
 
 4 o ODE ON THE PROCLAMATION 
 
 Are not trie night's dead heaped about her feet ? 
 Is not death swollen, and slaughter full of meat? 
 What, is their feast a bride-feast, where men sing and 
 dance ? 
 A bitter, a bitter bride-song and a shrill 
 Should the house raise that such bride-followers fill, 
 Wherein defeat weds ruin, and takes for bride-bed 
 France. 
 
 For nineteen years deep shame and sore desire 
 
 Fed from men's hearts with hungering fangs of fire, 
 And hope fell sick with famine for the food of change. 
 
 Now is change come, but bringing funeral urns ; 
 
 Now is day nigh, but the dawn blinds and burns ; 
 Now time long dumb hath language, but the tongue is 
 strange. 
 
 We that have seen her not our whole lives long, 
 We to whose ears her dirge was cradle-song, 
 
 The dirge men sang who laid in earth her living head, 
 Is it by such light that we live to see 
 Rise, with rent hair and raiment, Liberty ? 
 
 Does her grave open only to restore her dead ? 
 
 Ah, was it this we looked for, looked and prayed, 
 This hour that treads upon the prayers we made, 
 This ravening hour that breaks down good and ill 
 alike ? 
 Ah, was it thus we thought to see her and hear, 
 The one love indivisible and dear ? 
 Is it her head that hands which strike down wrong 
 must strike ?
 
 OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. 41 
 
 STR. 3. 
 
 Where is hope, and promise where, in all these things, 
 Shocks of strength with strength, and jar of hurtling 
 kings ? 
 
 Who of all men, who will show us any good ? 
 Shall these lightnings of blind battles give men light ? 
 Where is freedom ? who will bring us in her sight, 
 
 That have hardly seen her footprint where she stood? 
 
 str. 4. 
 
 Who is this that rises red with wounds and splendid, 
 All her breast and brow made beautiful with scars, 
 
 Burning bare as naked daylight, undefended, 
 
 In her hands for spoils her splintered prison-bars, 
 
 In her eyes the light and fire of long pain ended, 
 In her lips a song as of the morning stars ? 
 
 str. 5. 
 
 O torn out of thy trance, 
 
 O deathless, O my France, 
 O many-wounded mother, O redeemed to reign ! 
 
 O rarely sweet and bitter 
 
 The bright brief tears that glitter 
 On thine unclosing eyelids, proud of their own pain ; 
 
 The beautiful brief tears 
 
 That wash the stains of years
 
 4 2 ODE ON THE PROCLAMATION 
 
 White as the names immortal of thy chosen and slain. 
 
 O loved so much so long, 
 
 O smitten with such wrong, 
 purged at last and perfect without spot or stain, 
 
 Light of the light of man, 
 
 Reborn republican, 
 At last, O first Republic, hailed in heaven again ! 
 
 Out of the obscene eclipse 
 
 Re-risen, with burning lips 
 To witness for us if we looked for thee in vain. 
 
 str. 6. 
 
 Thou wast the light whereby men saw 
 Light, thou the trumpet of the law 
 
 Proclaiming manhood to mankind ; 
 
 And what if all these years were blind 
 And shameful ? Hath the sun a flaw 
 Because one hour hath power to draw 
 
 Mist round him wreathed as links to bind ? 
 And what if now keen anguish drains 
 The very wellspring of thy veins 
 
 And very spirit of thy breath ? 
 The life outlives them and disdains ; 
 The sense which makes the soul remains, 
 
 And blood of thought which travaileth 
 To bring forth hope with procreant pains. 
 O thou that satest bound in chains 
 Between thine hills and pleasant plains 
 
 As whom his own soul vanquisheth,
 
 OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. 43 
 
 Held in the bonds of his own thought, 
 Whence very death can take off nought, 
 
 Nor sleep, with bitterer dreams than death, — 
 What though thy thousands at thy knees 
 Lie thick as grave-worms feed on these, 
 Though thy green fields and joyous places 
 Are populous with blood-blackening faces 
 
 And wan limbs eaten by the sun ? 
 Better an end of all men's races, 
 
 Better the world's whole work were done, 
 And life wiped out of all our traces, 
 
 And there were left to time not one, 
 Than such as these that fill thy graves 
 Should sow in slaves the seed of slaves. 
 
 ANTISTROPHE I. 
 
 Not of thy sons, O mother many-wounded, 
 
 Not of thy sons are slaves ingraffed and grown. 
 Was it not thine, the fire whence light rebounded 
 
 From kingdom on rekindling kingdom thrown, 
 From hearts confirmed on tyrannies confounded, 
 
 From earth on heaven, fire mightier than his own ? 
 Not thine the breath wherewith time's clarion sounded, 
 
 And all the terror in the trumpet blown ? 
 The voice whereat the thunders stood astounded 
 
 As at a new sound of a God unknown ? 
 And all the seas and shores within them bounded 
 
 Shook at the strange speech of thy lips alone, 
 And all the hills of heaven, the storm-surrounded, 
 
 Trembled, and all the night sent forth a groan.
 
 44 ODE ON THE PROCLAMATION 
 
 ANT. 2. 
 
 What hast thou done that such an hour should be 
 
 More than another clothed with blood to thee ? 
 Thou hast seen many a bloodred hour before this one. 
 
 What art thou that thy lovers should misdoubt ? 
 
 What is this hour that it should cast hope out ? 
 If hope turn back and fall from thee, what hast thou 
 done? 
 
 Thou hast done ill against thine own soul ; yea, 
 Thine own soul hast thou slain and burnt away, 
 
 Dissolving it with poison into foul thin fume. 
 Thine own life and creation of thy fate 
 Thou hast set thine hand to unmake and discreate; 
 
 And now thy slain soul rises between dread and doom. 
 
 Yea, this is she that comes between them led ; 
 That veiled head is thine own soul's buried head, 
 The head that was as morning's in the whole world's 
 sight. 
 These wounds are deadly on thee, but deadlier 
 Those wounds the ravenous poison left on her ; 
 How shall her weak hands hold thy weak hands up to 
 fight ? 
 
 Ah, but her fiery eyes, her eyes are these 
 That, gazing, make thee shiver to the knees 
 And the blood leap within thee, and the strong joy rise.
 
 OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. 45 
 
 What, doth her sight yet make thine heart to dance ? 
 France, freedom, the soul of France, 
 Are ye then quickened, gazing in each other's eyes ? 
 
 Ah, and her words, the words wherewith she sought 
 
 thee 
 Sorrowing, and bare in hand the robe she wrought 
 thee 
 To wear when soul and body were again made one, 
 And fairest among women, and a bride, 
 Sweet-voiced to sing the bridegroom to her side, 
 The spirit of man, the bridegroom brighter than the 
 sun ! 
 
 ant. 3. 
 
 Who shall help me ? who shall take me by the hand ? 
 Who shall teach mine eyes to see, my feet to stand, 
 
 Now my foes have stripped and wounded me by 
 night ? 
 Who shall heal me ? who shall come to take my part ? 
 Who shall set me as a seal upon his heart, 
 
 As a seal upon his arm made bare for fight ? 
 
 ant. 4. 
 
 If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, 
 If thou see not where the signs of him abide, 
 
 Lift thine eyes up to the light that stars grow dim in. 
 To the morning whence he comes to take thy side. 
 
 None but he can bear the light that love wraps him in, 
 When he comes on earth to take himself a bride.
 
 46 ODE ON THE PROCLAMATION 
 
 ANT. 5. 
 
 Light of light, name of names, 
 
 Whose shadows are live flames, 
 The soul that moves the wings of worlds upon their 
 way ; 
 
 Life, spirit, blood and breath 
 
 In time and change and death 
 Substant through strength and weakness, ardour and 
 decay ; 
 
 Lord of the lives of lands, 
 
 Spirit of man, whose hands 
 Weave the web through wherein man's centuries fall 
 as prey ; 
 
 That art within our will 
 
 Power to make, save, and kill, 
 Knowledge and choice, to take extremities and weigh ; 
 
 In the soul's hand to smite 
 
 Strength, in the soul's eye sight ; 
 That to the soul art even as is the soul to clay ; 
 
 Now to this people be 
 
 Love ; come, to set them free, 
 With feet that tread the night, with eyes that sound 
 the day. 
 
 ant. 6. 
 
 Thou that wast on their fathers dead 
 As effluent God effused and shed,
 
 OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. 47 
 
 Heaven to be handled, hope made flesh, 
 
 Break for them now time's iron mesh ; 
 Give them thyself for hand and head, 
 Thy breath for life, thy love for bread, 
 
 Thy thought for spirit to refresh, 
 Thy bitterness to pierce and sting, 
 Thy sweetness for a healing spring. 
 
 Be to them knowledge, strength, life, light, 
 Thou to whose feet the centuries cling 
 And in the wide warmth of thy wing 
 
 Seek room and rest as birds by night, 
 O thou the kingless people's king, 
 To whom the lips of silence sing, 
 Called by thy name of thanksgiving 
 
 Freedom, and by thy name of might 
 Justice, and by thy secret name 
 Love ; the same need is on the same 
 
 Men, be the same God in their sight ! 
 From this their hour of bloody tears 
 Their praise goes up into thine ears, 
 Their bruised lips clothe thy name with praises, 
 The song of thee their crushed voice raises, 
 
 Their grief seeks joy for psalms to borrow, 
 With tired feet seeks her through time's mazes 
 
 Where each day's blood leaves pale the morrow, 
 And from their eyes in thine there gazes 
 
 A spirit other far than sorrow — 
 A soul triumphal, white and whole 
 And single, that salutes thy soul.
 
 4 8 ODE ON THE PROCLAMATION 
 
 EPODE. 
 
 All the lights of the sweet heaven that sing together ; 
 
 All the years of the green earth that bare man free ; 
 Rays and lightnings of the fierce or tender weather, 
 Heights and lowlands, wastes and headlands of the 
 sea, 
 Dawns and sunsets, hours that hold the world in tether, 
 
 Be our witnesses and seals of things to be. 
 Lo the mother, the Republic universal, 
 
 Hands that hold time fast, hands feeding men with 
 might, 
 Lips that sing the song of the earth, that make rehearsal 
 
 Of all seasons, and the sway of day with night, 
 Eyes that see as from a mountain the dispersal, 
 
 The huge ruin of things evil, and the flight ; 
 Large exulting limbs, and bosom godlike moulded 
 Where the man-child hangs, and womb wherein he 
 lay; 
 Very life that could it die would leave the soul dead, 
 
 Face whereat all fears and forces flee away, 
 Breath that moves the world as winds a flower-bell 
 folded, 
 Feet that trampling the gross darkness beat out day. 
 In the hour of pain and pity, 
 Sore spent, a wounded city, 
 Her foster-child seeks to her, stately where she stands ; 
 In the utter hour of woes, 
 Wind-shaken, blind with blows, 
 Paris lays hold upon her, grasps her with child's hands ;
 
 OF THE FRENCH REFUBLIC. 49 
 
 Face kindles face with fire, 
 
 Hearts take and give desire, 
 Strange joy breaks red as tempest on tormented lands. 
 
 Day to day, man to man, 
 
 Plights love republican, 
 And faith and memory burn with passion toward each 
 other ; 
 
 Hope, with fresh heavens to track, 
 
 Looks for a breath's space back, 
 Where the divine past years reach hands to this their 
 brother ; 
 
 And souls of men whose death 
 
 Was light to her and breath 
 Send word of love yet living to the living mother. 
 
 They call her, and she hears ; 
 
 O France, thy marvellous years, 
 The years of the strong travail, the triumphant time, 
 
 Days terrible with love, 
 
 Red-shod with flames thereof, 
 Call to this hour that breaks in pieces crown and crime ; 
 
 The hour with feet to spurn, 
 
 Hands to crush, fires to burn 
 The state whereto no latter foot of man shall climb. 
 
 Yea, come what grief now may 
 
 By ruinous night or day, 
 One grief there cannot, one the first and last grief, 
 shame. 
 
 Come force to break thee and bow 
 
 Down, shame can come not now, 
 
 E
 
 5 o ODE ON THE PROCLAMATION 
 
 Nor, though hands wound thee, tongues make mockery 
 of thy name : 
 
 Come swords and scar thy brow, 
 No brand there burns it now, 
 No spot but of thy blood marks thy white-fronted 
 fame. 
 
 Now though the mad blind morrow 
 With shafts of iron sorrow 
 Should split thine heart, and whelm thine head with 
 sanguine waves ; 
 
 Though all that draw thy breath 
 Bled from all veins to death, 
 And thy dead body were the grave of all their graves, 
 And thine unchilded womb 
 For all their tombs a tomb, 
 At least within thee as on thee room were none for 
 slaves. 
 
 This power thou hast, to be, 
 Come death or come not, free ; 
 That in all tongues of time's this praise be chanted of 
 thee, 
 
 That in thy wild worst hour 
 This power put in thee power, 
 And moved as hope around and hung as heaven above 
 thee, 
 
 And while earth sat in sadness 
 In only thee put gladness, 
 Put strength and love, to make all hearts of ages love 
 thee.
 
 OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. 51 
 
 That in death's face thy chant 
 
 Arose up jubilant, 
 And thy great heart with thy great peril grew more 
 great : 
 
 And sweet for bitter tears 
 
 Put out the fires of fears, 
 And love made lovely for thee loveless hell and hate ; 
 
 And they that house with error, 
 
 Cold shame and burning terror, 
 Fled from truth risen and thee made mightier than thy 
 fate. 
 
 This shall all years remember ; 
 
 For this thing shall September 
 Have only name of honour, only sign of white. 
 
 And this year's fearful name, 
 
 France, in thine house of fame 
 Above all names of all thy triumphs shalt thou write, 
 
 When, seeing thy freedom stand 
 
 Even at despair's right hand, 
 The cry thou gavest at heart was only of delight. 
 
 e 2
 
 DIR^E.
 
 Guai a voi, anime prave. 
 Dante. 
 
 Soyez maudits, d'abord d'etre ce que vous etes, 
 Et puis soyez maudits d'obseder les poetes ! 
 
 Victor Hugo.
 
 I. 
 
 A DEAD KING. 
 [Ferdinand II. entered Malebolge May 22nd, 1859.] 
 
 Go down to hell. This end is good to see ; 
 
 The breath is lightened and the sense at ease 
 
 Because thou art not ; sense nor breath there is 
 In what thy body was, whose soul shall be 
 Chief nerve of hell's pained heart eternally. 
 
 Thou art abolished from the midst of these 
 
 That are what thou wast : Pius from his knees 
 Blows off the dust that necked them, bowed for thee. 
 Yea, now the long-tongued slack-lipped litanies 
 
 Fail, and the priest has no more prayer to sell — 
 Now the last Jesuit found about thee is 
 
 The beast that made thy fouler flesh his cell — 
 Time lays his finger on thee, saying, ' Cease ; 
 
 Here is no room for thee ; go down to hell.'
 
 56 
 
 II. 
 
 A YEAR AFTER. 
 
 If blood throbs yet in this that was thy face, 
 O thou whose soul was full of devil's faith, 
 If in thy flesh the worm's bite slackeneth 
 In some acute red pause of iron days, 
 Arise now, gird thee, get thee on thy ways, 
 
 Breathe off the worm that crawls and fears not 
 
 breath ; 
 King, it may be thou shalt prevail on death ; 
 King, it may be thy soul shall find out grace. 
 O spirit that hast eased the place of Cain, 
 
 Weep now and howl, yea weep now sore ; for this 
 That was thy kingdom hath spat out its king. 
 Wilt thou plead now with God ? behold again, 
 Thy prayer for thy son's sake is turned to a hiss, 
 Thy mouth to a snake's whose slime outlives the 
 sting.
 
 57 
 
 III. 
 PETERS PENCE FROM PERUGIA. 
 
 Iscariot, thou grey-grown beast of blood, 
 
 Stand forth to plead ; stand, while red drops run 
 here 
 
 And there down fingers shaken with foul fear, 
 Down the sick shivering chin that stooped and sued, 
 Bowed to the bosom, for a little food 
 
 At Herod's hand, who smites thee cheek and ear. 
 
 Cry out, Iscariot ; haply he will hear ; 
 Cry, till he turn again to do thee good. 
 Gather thy gold up, Judas, all thy gold, 
 • And buy thee death ; no Christ is here to sell, 
 But the dead earth of poor men bought and sold, 
 
 While year heaps year above thee safe in hell, 
 To grime thy grey dishonourable head 
 With dusty shame, when thou art damned and dead. 
 
 1>*
 
 5» 
 
 ]V. 
 PAPAL ALLOCUTION. 
 
 1 Popule mi, quid tibi feci ? ' 
 
 What hast thou done ? Hark, till thine ears wax hot, 
 Judas ; for these and these things hast thou done. 
 Thou hast made earth faint, and sickened the sweet 
 sun, 
 With fume of blood that reeks from limbs that rot ; 
 Thou hast washed thine hands and mouth, saying, ' Am 
 I not 
 Clean ? ' and thy lips were bloody, and there was 
 
 none 
 To speak for man against thee, no, not one ; 
 This hast thou done to us, Iscariot. 
 Therefore, though thou be deaf and heaven be dumb, 
 A cry shall be from under to proclaim 
 
 In the ears of all who shed men's blood or sell 
 Pius the Ninth, Judas the Second, come 
 Where Boniface out of the filth and flame 
 Barks for his advent in the clefts of hell.* 
 
 * Dante, ' Inferno,' xix. 53.
 
 59 
 
 V. 
 THE BURDEN OF AUSTRIA. 
 
 1866. 
 
 O daughter of pride, wasted with misery, 
 With all the glory that thy shame put on 
 Stripped off thy shame, O daughter of Babylon, 
 
 Yea, whoso be it, yea, happy shall he be 
 
 That as thou hast served us hath rewarded thee. 
 Blessed, who throweth against war's boundary stone 
 Thy warrior brood, and breaketh bone by bone 
 
 Misrule thy son, thy daughter Tyranny. 
 
 That landmark shalt thou not remove for shame, 
 But sitting down there in a widow's weed 
 
 Wail ; for what fruit is now of thy red fame ? 
 Have thy sons too and daughters learnt indeed 
 What thing it is to weep, what thing to bleed ? 
 
 Is it not thou that now art but a name? * 
 
 * 'A geographical expression.' — Metternich of Italy.
 
 Co 
 
 VI 
 
 LOCUST A. 
 
 Come close and see her and hearken. This is she. 
 Stop the ways fast against the stench that nips 
 Your nostril as it nears her. Lo, the lips 
 That between prayer and prayer find time to be 
 Poisonous, the hands holding a cup and key, 
 
 Key of deep hell, cup whence blood reeks and 
 
 drips ; 
 The loose lewd limbs, the reeling hingeless hips, 
 The scurf that is not skin but leprosy. 
 This haggard harlot grey of face and green 
 
 With the old hand's cunning mixes her new priest 
 The cup she mixed her Nero, stirred and spiced. 
 She lisps of Mary and Jesus Nazarene 
 
 With a tongue tuned, and head that bends to the 
 east, 
 Praying. There are who say she is bride of 
 Christ. 
 
 
 /
 
 6i 
 
 VII. 
 
 CEL^NO. 
 
 The blind king hides his weeping eyeless head, 
 Sick with the helpless hate and shame and awe, 
 Till food have choked the glutted hell-bird's craw 
 And the foul cropful creature lie as dead 
 And soil itself with sleep and too much bread : 
 So the man's life serves under the beast's law, 
 And things whose spirit lives in mouth and maw 
 Share shrieking the soul's board and soil her bed, 
 Till man's blind spirit, their sick slave, resign 
 Its kingdom to the priests whose souls are swine, 
 
 And the scourged serf lie reddening from their rod, 
 Discrowned, disrobed, dismantled, with lost eyes 
 Seeking where lurks in what conjectural skies 
 That triple-headed hound of hell their God.
 
 62 
 
 VIII. 
 A CHOICE. 
 
 Faith is the spirit that makes man's body and blood 
 Sacred, to crown when life and death have ceased 
 His heavenward head for high fame's holy feast ; 
 
 But as one swordstroke swift as wizard's rod 
 
 Made Caesar carrion and made Brutus God, 
 Faith false or true, born patriot or born priest, 
 Smites into semblance or of man or beast 
 
 The soul that feeds on clean or unclean food. 
 
 Lo here the faith that lives on its own light, 
 Visible music ; and lo there, the foul 
 Shape without shape, the harpy throat and howl. 
 
 Sword of the spirit of man ! arise and smite, 
 
 And sheer through throat and claw and maw and 
 
 tongue 
 Kill the beast faith that lives on its own dung.
 
 63 
 
 IX. 
 
 THE AUGURS. 
 
 Lay the corpse out on the altar ; bid the elect 
 Slaves clear the ways of service spiritual, 
 Sweep clean the stalled soul's serviceable stall, 
 
 Ere the chief priest's dismantling hands detect 
 
 The ulcerous flesh of faith all scaled and specked 
 Beneath the bandages that hid it all, 
 And with sharp edgetools oecumenical 
 
 The leprous carcases of creeds dissect. 
 
 As on the night ere Brutus grew divine 
 
 The sick-souled augurs found their ox or swine 
 Heartless ; so now too by their after art 
 
 In the same Rome, at an uncleaner shrine, 
 
 Limb from rank limb, and putrid part from part, 
 They carve the corpse — a beast without a heart.
 
 6 4 
 
 X. 
 
 A COUNSEL. 
 
 O strong Republic of the nobler years 
 
 Whose white feet shine beside time's fairer flood 
 That shall flow on the clearer for our blood 
 
 Now shed, and the less brackish for our tears ; 
 
 When time and truth have put out hopes and fears 
 With certitude, and love has burst the bud, 
 If these whose powers then down the wind shall 
 scud 
 
 Still live to feel thee smite their eyes and ears, 
 
 When thy foot's tread hath crushed their crowns and 
 creeds, 
 
 Care thou not then to crush the beast that bleeds, 
 The snake whose belly cleaveth to the sod, 
 
 Nor set thine heel on men as on their deeds ; 
 But let the worm Napoleon crawl untrod, 
 Nor grant Mastai the gallows of his God. 
 
 1869.
 
 65 
 
 XI. 
 
 THE MODERATES. 
 
 Virtutem videant intabescantque rdictd. 
 
 She stood before her traitors bound and bare, 
 
 Clothed with her wounds and with her naked shame 
 As with a weed of fiery tears and flame, 
 Their mother-land, their common weal and care, 
 And they turned from her and denied, and sware 
 They did not know this woman nor her name. 
 And they took truce with tyrants and grew tame, 
 And gathered up cast crowns and creeds to wear, 
 And rags and shards regilded. Then she took 
 
 In her bruised hands their broken pledge, and eyed 
 These men so late so loud upon her side 
 With one inevitable and tearless look, 
 That they might see her face whom they forsook ; 
 And they beheld what they had left, and died. 
 
 February, 1870.
 
 06 
 
 XII. 
 INTERCESSION. 
 
 Ave Casar Imfcrator, moriturum tc salulo. 
 
 O Death, a little more, and then the worm \ 
 
 A little longer, O Death, a little yet, 
 
 Before the grave gape and the grave-worm fret ; 
 Before the sanguine-spotted hand infirm 
 Be rottenness, and that foul brain, the germ 
 
 Of all ill things and thoughts, be stopped and set ; 
 
 A little while, O Death, ere he forget, 
 A small space more of life, a little term ; 
 A little longer ere he and thou be met, 
 
 Ere in that hand that fed thee to thy mind 
 The poison-cup of life be overset ; 
 
 A little respite of disastrous breath, 
 
 Till the soul lift up her lost eyes, and find 
 
 Nor God nor help nor hope, but thee, O Death.
 
 INTER CESSION. 6 7 
 
 11. 
 
 Shall a man die before his dying day, 
 
 Death ? and for him though the utter day be nigh, 
 
 Not yet, not yet we give him leave to die ; 
 We give him grace not yet that men should say 
 He is dead, wiped out, perished and past away. 
 
 Till the last bitterness of life go by, 
 
 Thou shalt not slay him ; till those last dregs run 
 dry, 
 O thou last lord of life ! thou shalt not slay. 
 Let the lips live a little while and lie, 
 
 The hand a little, and falter, and fail of strength, 
 And the soul shudder and sicken at the sky ; 
 
 Yea, let him live, though God nor man would let 
 
 Save for the curse' sake ; then at bitter length, 
 Lord, will we vield him to thee, but not yet. 
 
 f 2
 
 68 INTERCESSION. 
 
 in. 
 
 Hath he not deeds to do and days to see 
 
 Yet ere the day that is to see him dead ? 
 
 Beats there no brain yet in the poisonous head, 
 Throbs there no treason ? if no such thing there be, 
 If no such thought, surely this is not he. 
 
 Look to the hands then ; are the hands not red ? 
 
 What are the shadows about this man's bed ? 
 Death, was not this the cupbearer to thee ? 
 Nay, let him live then, till in this life's stead 
 
 Even he shall pray for that thou hast to give ; 
 Till seeing his hopes and not his memories fled 
 Even he shall cry upon thee a bitter cry, 
 
 That life is worse than death ; then let him live, 
 Till death seem worse than life ; then let him die.
 
 INTERCESSION. 69 
 
 IV. 
 
 O watcher at the guardless gate of kings, 
 O doorkeeper that serving at their feast 
 Hast in thine hand their doomsday drink, and seest 
 
 With eyeless sight the soul of unseen things ; 
 
 Thou in whose ear the dumb time coming sings, 
 Death, priest and king that makest of king and 
 
 priest 
 A name, a dream, a less thing than the least, 
 
 Hover awhile above him with closed wings, 
 
 Till the coiled soul, an evil snake-shaped beast, 
 Eat its base bodily lair of flesh away ; 
 
 Jf haply, or ever its cursed life have ceased, 
 Or ever thy cold hands cover his head 
 From sight of France and freedom and broad day, 
 He may see these and wither and be dead. 
 
 PARIS, September, 1869.
 
 XIII. 
 THE SAVIOUR OF SOCIETY. 
 
 O son of man, but of what man who knows ? 
 
 That broughtest healing on thy leathern wings 
 
 To priests, and under them didst gather kings, 
 And madest friends to thee of all man's foes ; 
 Before thine incarnation, the tale goes, 
 
 Thy virgin mother, pure of sensual stings,. 
 
 Communed by night with angels of chaste things, 
 And, full of grace, untimely felt the throes 
 Of motherhood upon her, and believed 
 
 The obscure annunciation made when late 
 A raven-feathered raven-throated dove 
 Croaked salutation to the mother of love 
 
 Whose misconception was immaculate, 
 And when her time was come she misconceived.
 
 THE SAVIOUR OF SOCIETY. 71 
 
 11. 
 
 Thine incarnation was upon this wise, 
 
 Saviour ; and out of east and west were led 
 To thy foul cradle by thy planet red 
 
 Shepherds of souls that feed their sheep with lies 
 
 Till the utter soul die as the body dies, 
 And the wise men that ask but to be fed 
 Though the hot shambles be their board and bed 
 
 And sleep on any dunghill shut their eyes, 
 
 So they lie warm and fatten in the mire : 
 
 And the high priest enthroned yet in thy name, 
 
 Judas, baptised thee with men's blood for hire ; 
 And now thou hangest nailed to thine own shame 
 In sight of all time, but while heaven has flame 
 
 Shalt find no resurrection from hell-fire. 
 
 December, 1869.
 
 7 2 
 
 XIV. 
 MENTANA: SECOND ANNIVERSARY. 
 
 Est-ce qu'il n'est pas temps que la foudre se prouve, 
 Cieux profonds, en broyant ce chien, fils de la louve ? 
 
 La Lcgcnde des Sticks : — Ratbert. 
 
 I. 
 
 By the dead body of Hope, the spotless lamb 
 Thou threwest into the high priest's slaughtering- 
 room, 
 And by the child Despair born red therefrom 
 As. thank the secret sire picked out to cram 
 With spurious spawn thy misconceiving dam, 
 
 Thou, like a worm from a town's common tomb, 
 Didst creep from forth the kennel of her womb, 
 Born to break down with catapult and ram 
 Man's builded towers of promise, and with breath 
 And tongue to track and hunt his hopes to death : 
 
 O, by that sweet dead body abused and slain, 
 And by that child mismothered— dog, by all 
 Thy curses thou hast cursed mankind withal, 
 
 With what curse shall man curse thee back again ?
 
 MEJS'TANA. 73 
 
 ii. 
 
 By the brute soul that made man's soul its food ; 
 
 By time grown poisonous with it ; by the hate 
 
 And horror of all souls not miscreate ; 
 By the hour of power that evil hath on good ; 
 And by the incognizable fatherhood 
 
 Which made a whorish womb the shameful gate 
 
 That opening let out loose to fawn on fate 
 A hound half-blooded ravening for man's blood ; 
 (What prayer but this for thee should any say. 
 
 Thou dog of hell, but this that Shakespeare said ?) 
 By night deflowered and desecrated day, 
 
 That fall as one curse on one cursed head, 
 ' Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I pray, 
 
 That I may live to say, The dog is dead ! ' 
 
 1869.
 
 74 
 
 XV. 
 MENTANA: THIRD ANNIVERSARY. 
 
 Such prayers last year were put up for thy sake ; 
 What shall this year do that hath lived to see 
 The piteous and unpitied end of thee ? 
 What moan, what cry, what clamour shall it make, 
 Seeing as a reed breaks all thine empire break, 
 And all thy great strength as a rotten tree, 
 Whose branches made broad night from sea to sea, 
 And the world shuddered when a leaf would shake ? 
 From the unknown deep wherein those prayers were 
 
 heard, 
 From the dark height of time there sounds a word, 
 Crying, Comfort ; though death ride on this red 
 hour, 
 Hope waits with eyes that make the morning dim, 
 Till liberty, reclothed with love'and power, 
 Shall pass and know not if she tread on him.
 
 MENTANA. 75 
 
 11. 
 
 The hour for which men hungered and had thirst, 
 And dying were loth to die before it came, 
 Is it indeed upon thee ? and the lame 
 
 Late foot of vengeance on thy trace accurst 
 
 For years insepulchred and crimes inhearsed, 
 
 For days marked red or black with blood or shame, 
 Hath it outrun thee to tread out thy name ? 
 
 This scourge, this hour, is this indeed the worst ? 
 
 O clothed and crowned with curses, canst thou tell ? 
 Have thy dead whispered to thee what they see 
 Whose eyes are open in the dark on thee 
 
 Ere spotted soul and body take farewell 
 Or what of life beyond the worm's may be 
 
 Satiate the immitigable hours in hell ? 
 
 1870.
 
 7 6 
 
 XVI. 
 THE DESCENT INTO HELL. 
 
 January tytk, 1873. 
 
 O night and death, to whom we grudged him then, 
 When in man's sight he stood not yet undone, 
 Your king, your priest, your saviour, and your son, 
 
 We grudge not now, who know that not again 
 
 Shall this curse come upon the sins of men, 
 Nor this face look upon the living sun 
 That shall behold not so abhorred an one 
 
 In all the days whereof his eye takes ken. 
 
 The bond is cancelled, and the prayer is heard 
 That seemed so long but weak and wasted breath ; 
 Take him, for he is yours, O night and death. 
 
 Hell yawns on him whose life was as a word 
 Uttered by death in hate of heaven and light, 
 A curse now dumb upon the lips of night.
 
 THE DESCENT INTO HELL. 77 
 
 11. 
 
 What shapes are these and shadows without end 
 That fill the night full as a storm of rain 
 With myriads of dead men and women slain, 
 
 Old with young, child with mother, friend with friend, 
 
 That on the deep mid wintering air impend, 
 Pale yet with mortal wrath and human pain, 
 Who died that this man dead now too might reign, 
 
 Toward whom their hands point and their faces bend ? 
 
 The ruining flood would redden earth and air 
 If for each soul whose guiltless blood was shed 
 There fell but one drop on this one man's head 
 
 Whose soul to-night stands bodiless and bare, 
 
 For whom our hearts give thanks who put up prayer, 
 That we have lived to say, The dog is dead.
 
 78 
 
 XVI. 
 APOLOGIA. 
 
 If wrath embitter the sweet mouth of song, 
 And make the sunlight fire before those eyes 
 That would drink draughts of peace from the 
 unsoiled skies, 
 
 The wrongdoing is not ours, but ours the wrong, 
 
 Who hear too loud on earth and see too long 
 The grief that dies not with the groan that dies, 
 Till the strong bitterness of pity cries 
 
 Within us, that our anger should be strong. 
 
 For chill is known by heat and heat by chill, 
 
 And the desire that hope makes love to still 
 By the fear flying beside it or above, 
 A falcon fledged to follow a fledgeling dove, 
 
 And by the fume and flame of hate of ill 
 
 The exuberant light and burning bloom of love. 
 
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