i^'. e*'-**i'i«iir4*K» ^rsii^ mmmia^mttmmmttt^MidM 1^' THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES i NEW SYMBOLS. N EW SYM BO LS, BY THOMAS GORDON HAKE, AUTHOR OK "PARABLF.S AND TALES," KTC. HonlJotT ; CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY. 1876. CONTENTS. THE SNAKE-CHARMER I PYTHAGORAS 12 ECCE HOMO 21 THE EXILE 28 REMINISCENCE - - - ^^ ortrud's vision - - 56 - - 71 - 79 - •- 94 THE BIRTH OF VENUS - - - - - - 10 1 THE DOUBLE SOUL HI THE PHILOSOPHER - - - . . . - 1 1? y THE FIRST SAVED MICHAEL ANGELO THE PAINTER 865129 NEW SYMBOLS. THE SNAKE-CHARMER. I. The forest rears on lifted arms A world of leaves, whence verdurous lighl Shakes through the shady depths and warms Proud tree and stealthy parasite, There where those cruel coils enclasp Tlie trunks they strangle in their grasp- 1 NEW SYMBOLS. II. An old man creeps from out the woods, Breaking the vine's entangUng spell ; He thrids the jungle's solitudes O'er bamboos rotting where they fell ; Slow down the tiger's path he wends Where at the pool the jungle ends. III. No moss-greened alley tells the trace Of his lone step, no sound is stirred, Even when his tawny hands displace The boughs, that backward sweep unheard His way as noiseless as the trail Of the swift snake and pilgrim snail. THE SNAKE-CHARMER. IV. The old snake-charmer, — once he played Soft music for the serpent's ear, But now his cunning hand is stayed ; He knows the hour of death is near. And all that live in brake and bough. All know the brand is on his brow. V. Yet where his soul is he must go : He crawls along from tree to tree. The old snake-charmer, doth he know If snake or beast of prey he be ? Bewildered at the pool he lies And sees as through a serpent's eyes. »»»^.-»«.i»..,,,,r'™'" /j^-^. \ NEW SYMBOLS. VI. I Weeds wove with white-flowered lily crops I Drink of the pool, and serpents hie To the thin brink as noonday drops, And in the froth-daubed rushes lie. There rests he now with fastened breath 'Neath a kind sun to bask in death. VII. The pool is bright with glossy dyes And cast-up bubbles of decay : A green death-leaven overlies Its mottled scum, where shadows play As the snake's hollow coil, fresh shed, Rolls in the wind across its bed. THE SNAKE-CHARMER. VIII. \ No more the wily note is heard \ * From his full flute — the riving air | I That tames the snake, decoys the bird, | I Worries the she-wolf from her lair. g I? I Fain would he bid its parting breath | Drown in his ears the voice of death. % IX. X Still doth his soul's vague longing skim % The pool beloved : he hears the hiss , \ That siffles at the sedgy rim, I Recalling days of former bliss, \ And the death-drops, that fall in showers, ? Seem honied dews from shady flowers. \ NEW SYMBOLS, X. There is a rustle of the breeze And twitter of the singing bird ; He snatches at the melodies And his faint lips again are stirred : The olden sounds are in his ears ; But still the snake its crest uprears. XI. His eyes are swimming in the mist That films the earth like serpent's breath And now, — as if a serpent hissed, — The husky whisperings of Death I, Fill ear and brain — he looks around — i [ Serpents seem matted o'er the ground. '^HE SNAKE-CHARMER. Xll. XIII. Those lips still quaver to the flute, But fast the life-tide ebbs away \ Those lips now quaver and are mute, But nature throbs in breathless play Birds are in open song, the snakes Are watching in the silent brakes. Soon visions of past joys bewitch j^ His crafty soul ; his hands would set % I Death's snare, while now his fingers twitch \ 3 The tasselled reed as 'twere his net. | ii But his thin lips no longer fill i The woods with song ; his flute is still "^ | NEW SYMBOLS^ XIV. In sudden fear of snares unseen The birds like crimson sunset swarm^ All gold and purple, red and green, And seek each other for the charm. Lizards dart up the feathery trees Like shadows of a rainbow breeze. XV. The wildered birds again have rushed Into the charm, — it is the hour When the shrill forest-note is hushed, And they obey the serpent's po wen- Drawn to its gaze with troubled whirr. As by the thread of falconer. THE SNAKE-CHARMER. XVI. As 'twere to feed, on slanting wings They. drop within the serpent's glare Eyes flashing fire in burning rings Which spread into the dazzled air ; They flutter in the glittering coils ; The charmer dreads the serpent's toils. XVII. While Music swims away in death Man's spell is pressing to his slaves : The snake feeds on the charmer's breath. The vulture screams, the parrot raves, The lone hyena laughs and howls, The tiger from the jungle growls^ k 10 NEW SYMBOLS. XVIII. Then mounts the eagle — flame-flecked folds Belt its proud plumes ; a feather falls : He hears the death-cry, he beholds The king-bird in the serpent's thralls, He looks with terror on the feud, — And the sun shines through dripping blood. XIX. The deadly spell a moment gone — Birds, from a distant Paradise, Strike the winged signal and have flown, Trailing rich hues through azure skies The serpent falls ; like demon wings The far-out branching cedar swings. THE SNAKE-CHARMER. ix « XX. The wood swims round ; the pool and skies Have met ; the death-drops down that cheek Fall faster j for the serpent's eyes Grow human, and the charmer's seek. A gaze like man's directs the dart Which now is buried at his heart. XXL The monarch of the world is cold : The charm he bore has passed away The serpent gathers up its fold To wind about its human prey. The red mouth darts a dizzy sting, And clenches the eternal ring. PYTHAGORAS. I. *TwAS not the hour of death the Master feared : He oft had died before, his soul had passed Through many moulds, as each new cycle neared Hoping the Golden Day had come at last. 11. But like a giant 'neath the weight of age Hope was bowed down, and oft he ceased to see Among the spheres the looked for heritage Where he might rest from eartli's illusions free. PYTHAGORAS. III. Whither doth this metempsychosis tend ? 1 Doubt stirs the heavy question in his breast. All that begins is toiling towards its end ; ' Oblivion hath for all its day of rest. IV. And when a universe of death absorbs Into its hungry vortex all that is : The compact colonies of settled orbs, The untamed meteors of the free abyss ; /■ V, And when, at length, the lamp of day is'spent, And the charred air of night supplants the skies, ' What were the soul without its tenement, — Without these feeling hands, these seeing eyes ? 14 ^EW SYMBOLS. VI. Even the blest dawn he once had hoped to find May rise while he in darkness dwells below ; Yes, all may fail him now ; the troubled mind , May end at last, and not its ending know. VII. Such were the thoughts that while his death hour grew Had pressed into his heart such poignant pangs As even the lordliest intellect subdue When life, yet wavering, in the balance hangs. VIII, 'Tis past: A cycle's lustres have run out And his unquickened soul in ashes sleeps, Perturbed no longer by the wasting doubt, Weak as a babe ere in the womb it leaps ; PYTHAGORAS. 15 IX. Still as a vessel stranded by the tide In shallows whereunto no waters drift, Looming at anchor on its mouldering side That neither winds disturb nor billows lift. Yet throes half-stir the drowsings of the grave, ' As when one turns in sleep with heavy sense That what suspended being he may have Is better, yet awhile, with Providence. XI. But all is like the passing of a breath. No eager promptings snatch the loosened thread Wherein is meshed the memory of death : He knows himself, but not that he is dead. 1 6 NEW SYMBOLS, XII. Another cycle bears the cumbrous night Unbroken, save as funeral clouds may roll Which for a moment cross the path of light : So shines the ethereal darkness of his soul. XIII. ■ ' While through the mists of death the'cycles shone, - His soul benumbed, in utter~silence hushed, Advancing time-like through oblivion, Still pace for pace with all that o'er him rushed,— XIV, Unto his grave a sense of nature came. But with no conscious meaning or surprise : 'Twas the old flutter of the dying flame, Tremulousness of being without eyes, PYTHAGORAS, 17 XV. At last a voice, familiar as to seem His own, heard in his sleep and heeded not, Broke through the patient whisper of his dream, With things to be remembered or forgot. XVI. It presages some mighty morrow near When his long baffled soul once more shall rise : The muffled cycles fall upon his ear, And his dust flutters with the centuries. XVII. Awake, Pythagoras, it seems to say, — ■ The looked-for morn is breaking o'er the earth : It grows, it brightens to the perfect day ; ^ Behold man's resurrectionary birth I 2 •I 8 NEW SYMBOLS. XVIII. His thoughts take shape, his pent-up senses move, His soul looks out from that abysmal sleep. Lo ! shadows of the living world above Before his eyes in dreamy pageant sweep. XIX. And in the midst there shone a god-like youth, Who on his brow the Crown of Sorrow wore ; And there was meekness, innocence, and truth ; — Eidolon of his highest hope of yore. Hath it then come at last, the world of peace ? Hath he awakened to that ampler life Where hate and lust of blood shall ever cease, And all ihe bitter days of human strife ? /■ PYTHAGORAS, 19 XXI. Even so it seemed, when, hark ! the upper air' Rang to the battle's rage — the soldier's tread Echoes above his tomb ! In dark despair He turns his face unto the silent dead. XXII. Better to die for aye than wake to find Men blind to light and deaf to nature's hymn. These days of man, why let them vex the mind ? God's spheral music falls on senses dim. XXIII. The Master sleeps — the ages onward roll — O twice nine stormy cycles since o'er-past ! Bore ye through eddying lives and deaths a soul Still dreaming towards its Golden Day at last } 2 — 2 20 NEW SYMBOLS. XXVI. The heavens are as they were, the sun, unworn, Seems on the blue of yesterday to rest, And drops below ; but when shall come the morn He dreamt of, when shall break that morrow blest ECCE HOMO! He strikes his staft to find his way, He feels but may not see the day. The warm sun floods his sightless eyes That tremble in answer to the skies : Yet oft he stays as if to look At memories of the scenes of yore, — The vine and fig-tree at his door, The pleasant places by the brook. NEIV SYMBOLS^ II. The voice within him sighs aloud. When murmurs of a moving crowd Fall on his ear ; he breathes the dust;, But, with a blind man's sturdy trust, He grasps his staff, and oft he cries, "Who Cometh here?" A voice replies, " O blind man turn thy step aside, 'Tis Christ 1" III. The name rings in his ears : With flashing hopes and ashen fears, There stands he breathless, startling all. Some stop, some into ranks divide, Their arms outspreading lest he fall. ECCE HOMO ! He drops his staff, throws out his hands, His fingers are creeping Hke things that see Mid all the multitude he stands And shouts, " Have mercy, Lord, on me !" His shaking beard, his tottering frame, His eye-balls in their sockets turning, His lips delirious with that name, — O'er his blind face a look is burning Of dreadful greed, with mouth agape, Crazed for some good that may escape. " Take my hand, some one ; let me feel His raiment only ; it may heal." IV. Christ heard the man's blind cry, and grieved Because a soul in darkness heaved. He said, " What seekest thou of me ?" 24 NEW S YMBOLS, But in that presence came a fear : The man held earthly blessings dear^ Yet more than all was heavenly light. " Lord, that I may receive my sight, — That I may my Redeemer see !" Christ loved him and his anguish soothed. He took his hand, he gently smoothed The seams upon his wrinkled brow : " Tell me what thou beh oldest now." " Men, dim as shaking trees, I see : O Lord, I crave to look on thee 1" Then said the Saviour, " Look afar." The blind man raised his daze'd eyes. " I see, Lord, above thee a new-risen star, — And beneath it a babe in a manger lies. ECCE HOMO ! 25 Hoary men, kneeling, their gifts prefer : Frankincense, gold, and sacred myrrh. Now a mother, a father, a babe softly sleeping By waters that dream where the lotus bloom reigns ; Shadows of evening over them creeping ; The broad moon breaking o'er palm-bearing plains, Where the ibis croaks and the jackal cries, And pyramids point to the purpling skies." j VI. He pauses, still he looks afar. He still beholds the guiding star, And dreamlight of a sacred river O'er his lone eyes seems still to quiver. Sudden, as if the distant air Stripped the blue curtain from the skies, He sees prophetic nature bare, — When, as with far-off voice, he cries— 26 NEW SYMBOLS. " Lo ! a face to heaven in agony gleaming, Stained of sorrow, but soil-less of sin, Sweat that is blood breaking and streaming From brows that are throbbing of anguish within, — Praying for those that do strip Him and scourge Him As a cross on his quivering shoulders they place. 'Neath its burden He sinks while they mock Him, they urge Him, They crown him with thorns, they spit in His face. They are lifting Him, bruising Him, piercing Him, nail- ing Him To the cross, that is dyed in a crimson flood. See, the sun hides his head, see the vapour envailing Him, Hark, the earth and the skies in the darkness bewailing Him Who dieth for those that are shedding His blood." ECCE HOMO ! VII. He starts, a hand is on his brow. He looks at Christ in meek surprise Tears gather in his new-lit eyes ; "Tis He, the crucified !" he cries : " Yes, I behold the Saviour now !" The adoring people kneel around ; The healed one sinks on the hallowed ground 7 Then goes his way in silence and in awe ; For his unsullied eyes had seen The sight that from the first had been, The sight that nature like a prophet saw. THE EXILE. I. Thev bore her to the northern snows Whose floods down ice-domed caverns run, From lands where that calm river flows Whose depths decoy the vagrant sun, Where palms o'er latticed shadows rise With boughs that web the sultry skies. THE EXILE. 29 II. WTiere roses climb the scent-steeped hills And channelled leaves with dew-drops flash, Bending beneath the trickled rills That fall and the pink clusters splash ; Where aloe-flowers, all flaming red, Like watch-fires o'er the summits spread. III. They bore her to a desert plain ^Vhere the dry, crevaced mosses cling, Sand-sprinkled as by drizzling rain ; ^^^^ere dark and ragged pine-boughs swing, And the free cygnet in its flight Darts with a meteor's winged light. 30 NEJV SYMBOLS. IV. Her father, last of mighty lords Whose deeds the war-like peasants tell, Fearless had met the northern hordes And in the battle's frenzy fell. Full-armed he sleeps, and still the brave Salute him as they pass his grave. V. Now young, she thinks not of her race But feels its glory and its pride. She still recalls her mother's face Who in her stately sorrow died, And those large eyes her image keep, And dream beside it in love's sleep. THE EXILE. 31 VI. Fyes that are of the sultry zone — That oft-times in their musing moods, See rosy banks that seem their own Where lies the waste : her olive-woods, Her sky with cyprus-skirted folds, All that she loves, her heart remoulds. VI r. \ As in a desert one red rose Seems like a garden full of bloom. She charms the wilderness and throws Her own bright colours o'er its gloom \ Then at the falling cone's rebound Pomegranates gild the enchanted ground. 32 NEW SYMBOLS. VIII. And lest when dear illusions come They melt o'er^fast, she hides her eyes, And feigns to see her native home And shouts in play her soul's surprise. So while the southern glory bums, The haunting vision still returns. IX. When spring bursts o'er the wintry plain And violet skies dissolve in spray And marsh-pools echo drops of rain That o'er the bud's new secret play, Her soul seems darting from her eyes To snatch at nature's rhapsodies. THE EXILE. 33 X. The serf who toils upon the road From waste to waste with back that bears Across the steppes another's load, — With eyes that homeward gaze in tears,— Chills not for long a heart that glows In its own fire 'mid northern snows. XI. Where plough may delve or harrow graze, She tramps beside the sluggish team As fain to urge its tardy pace : And when she drifts into some dream Her laugh, her look of childish glee, Is still the joy of memory. 3 34 NEW SYMBOLS. XII. But fears flash o'er her mellow eyes When gaunt sand-fountains, side by side, Like giants in the distance rise Pass slowly by and onward glide. Like shadows from her father's land That seek some rumoured, icy strand. XIII. Then day breaks through a sullen sky ; The keen air shivers ; — doth she know The blackened clouds now sailing by Are freighted with the virgin snow ? ^' Dark ships of winter that unload The wide-spread famine they forbode. "7 HE EXILE. 35 XIV. The snow-flakes build a prison-wall That slants high o'er her window sill- She watches while they slowly fall, Till heaven appears a sinking hill, And darkness gathers o'er her mind : Home is too far for hope to find. XV. In new despair she sees heaven's sand Has drifted o'er her cottage gate ! She fears that now her native land Is like the desert desolate. The snow still falls and still it clings, Soft dropped like insects' broken wings. ■^ 3—2 36 NEIV SYMBOLS, XVI. Through the strange dusk she hears the shrieS: Of trees snapped by the dreaded wind 3 The casements shake, the rafters creak ; Ah ! could she now her mother find I With timid wings too weak for flight She hangs upon the edge of night. [xvii, A wind's moan utters, stir and go : Upon its gust she seems to glide Towards lands beyond the falling snow But reaches not its further side. She drops on the cold hilly steeps And in her distant reverie sleeps. IHE EXILE. yj XVIIL No longer now the large-eyed child, Who draws her charm so fresh from heaven, Gives back its beauty to the wild ; The spell of infant faith is riven : Where the sun's tender rays were sown Stones have sprung up and ice-fields grown. XIX. The spring still comes, when shallow snows Melt o'er a crisping flame of green Wherein the nestled herbage glows Through its white shell, — but there is seen i A heart that still unthawed remains ; An exile of the loveless plains. 38 I^EW SYMBOLS. XX. Now winter's sun through summer shines ; The joys are banished that she brought : For home, not dreams of home, she pines ; Thought is the food of famished thought It is her heart-corroding hour : The rose-tree is without a flower. xxr. She feeds in broken reveries On her chilled soul : within the light Of those black lashes, those dark eyes. The paling cheek seems over-bright, ' With lips, like hanging fruit, whose hue Is ruby 'neath a bloom of blue. THE EXILE, 39 ^XXII, The friends who love her as their own Stir self-upbraidings in her breast, For in their midst she is alone And in their peace is without rest. Is there some home by them forgot ? Exiles they seem and suffer not. XXIII. Their native games to her impart A fitful joy, that sad appears, Only because her eyes and heart Are vacant, and have room for tears. She knows not yet 'tis love's first throe : The snowdrop breaking through the snow. 40 NEW SYMBOLS, XXIV, At length comes one whose love ere told: Seems wafted o'er a flowery plain, And brings her back that charm of old :: The days of childhood live again ; Griefs softened into joys return;] In love's new-kindled incense bum. XXV. In silver-crimson trappings gay, His tinkling barbs with billowy manes Toss their strong necks before his sleigh,- And he has crossed the snowy plains. She hails him, and, with heart a-flame, She wonders how such passion came. THE EXILE. 41 XXVI. Beauty and man's strong soul are his. Be the earth bare, paved o'er with ice, 'Tis full even to its dome in bliss : The desert is her paradise, Where now the hourly deepening sky Rains down on her love's mystery. xxvii. She hears his love and hears no more. As waves might cease to beat, as winds Might drop away on some charmed shore, The word a soul-deep echo finds — All her fond life is without breath. And sinks away in rapturous death. NEW SYMBOLS. xxviir. New paths to home are overlaid With such deep sunshine, not a tree In densest woods can cast a shade. Her glorious soul again is free, — Free in those bonds of love that wind In bliss about the heart they bind. XXIX. Warmer than in its childhood's flush Her cheek in this new passion glows ; Not softer is the fitful blush Of lily 'neath the swaying rose. Her head droops not as when she pined, Now bowed in love's own southern wind. THE EXILE. « XXX. A sun of passion is above ; Her home is here, — in cloudless eyes She sees the birth-place of her love, \ And snows dissolve in burning skies. Palm-leaves above her seem to bow When bridal roses wreathe her browv REMINISCENCE. r. So you would leave me, little Rose ? Dear child, with all your mother's ways ; That look she had in girlish days, The look that with your beauty grows. II. Oft when you bring her to my mind, Before my heart has time for pain, In you she seems to live again, As though no sorrow were behind. REMINISCENCE, 45 in. And when that happy, trustful gaze Meets him you love, yet more I see Your mother as she looked at me : It is her own dear, watchful face. IV. And when he takes your hand in his, There flits across your lips and eyes Her own pleased smile of half surprise S It seems not like departed bUss. V, Ah ! what a heart-locked memory stirs— ' I look, 'tis she, and you are gone ! Yes, though so many springs have flown, Her peace remains, our love is hers. 46 NEW SYMBOLS. yi. She sees your arms my neck enclose ; She sees your lips upon my brow. No truer hour of love than now Awaits your heart, my happy Rose ! vir. How they come back those days of old ! And now that 'tis your wedding-eve, Now that for other scenes you leave. One happy legend shall be told, — VIII. Told in this home, this sunny vale That for long years has been our own, Sacred in days that long have gone To many another lover's tale. REMINISCENCE. 47 IX. It was an hour like this, the sun Was sinking, yet had far to go : The richness of his overflow Down river, wood, and pasture shone. > X. Two lovers in this porch had met Where often they had met in play : 'Twas on this memorable day — As though that sun had never set. XI. These grey-mossed tiles still 'neath it scorch ; The glare and shade still side by side Aslant the mullioned casements glide From yon old gable to the porch. 48 NEW SYMBOLS. XII. A youth has hurried from these walls- He stops, as in a day-dream stands : His shadow with fast-folded hands ' As from yon stone sun-dial falls. xni. His eyes are full of one loved face Sunk pallid in her fingers cleft ; The long-loved one who just had left In timid haste his wild embrace. XIV. The love that with her childhood grew Had still to her unruffled clung, Engaging, playful, ever young, — And without change was ever newi nEMINISCENCE. 49 XV. Not its glad pastimes she disowns ; He drew her to a higher love ; But while the pale emotion strove She fled from his impassioned tones. XVI. Transparent isles of rushes bind The rivers light with bars of green That catch the water's blue between, To where it darkens in the wind. XVII. There lies his boat, and now the sun, Still going westsvard \vith the stream. Appears to tow him on his dream As they advance in unison. 50 NEW SYMBOLS. XVIII. Along the white and yellow meads, Which buttercup and daisy share, The crowding catde idly stare As he winds through the matted reeds. XIX. But her loved image fills his mind, And, ever gazing at him, screens His eyes from those long-happy scenes, As he drifts by them, nature-blind. XX. ^ The white-flowered weed whose tresses float, Combed by the stream and water-waved, Seems her bright hair in crystal laved. Struggling to overtake his boat. REMINISCENCE. 51 XXI. His sculls drip o'er the glossy wash ; The ripple of the mellow tide He scarce feels o'er their edges glide ; He lists not for the thrilling plash, XXII. But thinks, when last the tide he clove, How bank-side elms before him flew, And quiet lay the distant view Of woodland hill where dwelt his love. XXIII. His memory holds it as the stream Holds all the shining summer round : The sky, the woods, the very sound Of cuckoos chanting in a dream. 4—2 52 NEW SYMBOLS. XXIV. And how she loved the grey old bridge f Those arches mirrored deep below, That meet the pillars row to row, Quivering from their ruffled ridge — XXV. Three tunnels open to the skies ! The tasselled mosses as they float, Now still, now heaving with the boat That passes while the vision flies. XXVI. As melt, with all the watery heaven, Those arches hanging o'er a sky — ■ So in the quiet of a sigh The yearnings of his soul seemed riven. REMINISCENCE. S3 XXVII. The far off boom of yonder weir Now rushes down the narrowed day : Like syrens battUng with the spray, Once came its music to her ear, XXVIII. The sun now trembles Uke a ball Heaven-forged and glittering in its blast ; A pale green halo round him cast — Half quenched behind the waterfall XXIX. White streaks are creeping through the shade ; The moon climbs up the poplar trees : But a loved form of light he sees, As if her spirit walked the glade. 54 NEV/ SYMBOLS.. XXX, Well might it be, as since hath seemed, — So holy are the vanished years. But then her cheeks were under tears t It was on them the moonlight gleamed. XXXI. Her sobbings at his bosom fall ; Fonder than words can tell, they say Her heart was his, half love, half play;. But now all love she gives it alL XXXII. 'Twas she, your mother !. While she hung Her head, and hid her tears, and crept To me, as one who, erring, wept ; Wept more the closer that she clung ; REMINISCENCE. 55 XXXIII. She seemed an infant in my arms — Kissed me as would a child bereaved : And then, as 'twere for joy, she grieved — Her heart released from its alarms. XXXIV. God bless you. Rose ! That loving face — Could she but see it ! Well I knew Her thoughts when last she looked at you, Who now have grown up in her place. xxxv. Ah, leave me. Rose ! these memories stir Depths that you may not dream of, child .' These tears till now your love has wiled ; Leave me, that I may think of her. ORTRUD'S VISION. PART I. I. The woods hang low by the river side, The tired-out floods o'er boulders^swoon, Pale willows, lapping at the tide, Draw vapours from the watery moon, Dark loom the towers in the sallow light. Where Ortrud's vision fills the night. ORTRUD'S VISION. 57 IL The lady Ortmd, Oscar's child — Oscar whom all the people blessed ; Whose rule o'er lands of heathen smiled^ Turning to joy each heart oppressed, Though blindly in dark days he strove Against the Christ, the Lord of Love. III. In secret wise she loves the name Of him the Christian folk adore : Christ doth she love, but loves in shame. Her brother Osric loves she more. Yea, though with God he wages strife She loves her brother more than life» 53 NEW SYMBOLS, IV. She lay upon the brink of sleep ; Her soul was sHpping down its bank : There did the slumbrous circles sweep With startling rush, and as she sank , Into the danger of her dream \^ Her flesh crept like a ruffled stream. Half-stranger to herself she lay, When came back in a yellow flood The ghostly light of yesterday As it had set : beside her stood An angel, with a cross that blazed From blue to ruby as she gazed. ORTRUD'S VISION. 59 VI. The cross she loved, whose sign had spread The Saviour's name through all the west. There sits she troubled in her bed With white hands 'gainst her forehead prest With eyes that watch, and never stir, Though the daxk night doth compass her. VII. She creeps out to her gallery floor ; A lamp, dull as a warder's eyes, Is hanging at her father's door : Thither amazed and rapt she hies. Lets fall on him her timid hands And at his pallet waiting stands. 6o NEW SYMBOLS. VIII. " Father !" she says, " art thou asleep ? There is an angel in my room Bearing a cross whose colours leap And tangle in each other's bloom. It is a dream, as now I see, But my heart burned to tell it thee." IX. Those were her words, trembling she told Her vivid vision as it came ; But ere the end her faith grew cold, And she drew back in sudden shame. " Yet not my weak and waning faith, But mine own voice wakes doubt," she saith. ORTRUD'S VISION. 6i He kissed her forehead chill and damp, And said, ** Think of thy dream no more." She slid away beneath the lamp That paled athwart his open door, Troubled at heart, by fears possessed That in her chamber find no rest. XL She strays out on her balcony And holds her face up in the dark* Yes ; there is music in the sky, — She listens to the thrilling lark, And mounts the tower-stairs' circling sweep To break in on her brother's sleep. 62 NEW SYMBOLS. XII. And now what strikes on Ortrud's eyes ? O'er Osric's breast a radiance streams That steeps his tunic in its dyes : A cross throws out its spearing beams, Now with the opal's fitful wane, Now with the rainbow's deepening stain. XIII. While fainting at the door she clings, Osric awakens in amaze : Like one that seeth dreadful things But through another's fixe'd gaze. He cannot see the wondrous sight That fills the room with holy light. ORTRUD'S VISION. 6 J XIV. He could not see the angel there, But rose and swept away in scorn' The films of dream that webbed the air Roused by call of martial horn, He looks out on the welkin grey That splits with many a splintering ray. ^ XV. O'er knights and squires and streamers shone. The glory of the eastern skies : Osric is to the battle gone. High o'er the towers his banner flies And Ortrud at the drawbridge stands Waving farewell with trembling hands. 64 NEIV SYMBOLS. XVI. And when they all have crossed the fosse She turns into her bower and prays : *' Lord, send Thy angel of the cross To my dear brother far away. My brother who is all to me, Open his eyes that he may see !" ORTRUD'S VISION, % PART It. " O thou dear Christ who didst impart Thy holiest sign ! Vouchsafe to show Thy love hath touched my brother's heart !" So she besought in strains of woe From the sun's setting till its rise, Mid hymns and saintly reveries. 5 66 NEIV SYMBOLS. II. She sleeps ; her lax and listless limbs Hang from her seat ; her arms drop low ; With busy leaves the ivy climbs Her lattice, trilling to and fro, In outer dreams that breezes weave Beneath her casement's shady eave. III. In her soul's transit through a dream A dove lights on her window-sill, And enters with the early gleam : She feels its ruffled pinions thrill And flutter at her heart, which keeps Fond watch on heaven while she sleeps. ORTRUnS VISION. 67 IV. la sudden dread, her soul awakes. Is it an angel standing near ? Her brother's glorious image breaks ^" Upon her, she beholds in fear His face paled o'er with deathly gloss, And his blood sprinkled on the cross. " Fear me not, sister, but rejoice ; Thy prayers have reached the world of day Where dwell the blest ; I heard thy voice, — The dead are never far away, — And they who for their kindred yearn, Do oft in love to them return. 5-2 68 NJSIV SYMBOLS, VI-, *' Upon the battle's fevered eve I lay within my tent and slept : Strange visions did my spirit grieve, And wings and voices round me swept ; ' Osric, this fight is not for thee : The good, the faithful follow me I' VII. " And then a beaming angel came With azure eyes and forehead blest* He waved a sword of quivering flame Wherewith he smote me on the breast. Again the cross in radiance broke And slowly faded as I woke- ORTRUD'S VISION. ^9 VIII. '^ I started up, I called my squires -. We rode away witli echoing tramp Where through the night shone ruddy fires From out the holy Christian camp. We passed within the sacred bourn. Our mail aflame with lights of morn. IX. " Scarce the sky broke when heathen foes Came down the distant hills and seemed To pour from night; they still arose; On all the plain their armour gleamed Then swept o'er all a rushing blight And they were hidden from our sight. 70 NE IV S YMBOLS, X. " Through the wide-rolUng mists we rode. War-horse and warrior in his pride ; And on the frighted hosts we trode, — The red-cross banner at our side. Our spears Hke meteors flaming flew And all the foes of Christ o'erthrevv." XI. She saw the glory round his head And in his eyes immortal bliss, And o'er his lips, all beaming spread, ; The light of Christ's remembered kiss. He vanished, but the troubled air Still kept the red-cross shining there. THE FIRST SAVED. LuciLLA lives in yon half-hidden star Bowered in a dreamy, soft-skied, watery vale, ' Where angels gather from bright worlds afar, To see her face, and listen to her tale. II. As if all sunset revelled in the air, The rosy clouds float o'er her paradise, — Home of the once lone daughter of despair Who prayed through tears with ever downcast eyes. 72 NEW SYMBOLS. in. The lucent hills pant in the azure beams,. Behind empurpled steeps that blend below With trembling woods and crystal-bearing streams^ And in the sky-paved water-mirrors glow. IV. As rising stars entangle in their spheres All the blue ether round, her look of thought Hangs in heaven's light, where her sad life appears A sunless vision in new sunshine wrought. There doth she stand, bliss-stricken as by fear. On one soft hand she rests her chin and cheek ; Paling with rapture ere the blush appear. And lips in tremors whisper that would speak. THE FIRST SA VED. 72 VI. " Yes, I am here, and Heaven is undefiled ! This sinless face and these all-loving eyes God gave me when I wa,s a little child, Because I was to be in Paradise. VII. " I heard a voice and slavery's loosened bond Fell from my soul, awaking me to die ; I looked into death's mirror and beyond I saw these halls of immortality. vni. " My wounded heart lay in this bosom dead Ere it had loved — yet oft as I did pray That these wan hands might labour for their bread, Hope only came to prayer but did not stay. 74 NEW SYMBOLS. IX. " Sin compassed me, it was my deadly fate ; Yet lovely visions in the darkness came, And I fled trembling to the Temple's gate But durst not cross the threshold for my shame. X. " While on the Temple's steps I sat in tears, One came and spoke : I gazed and I adored ! Then did a voice that only woman hears Whisper within : I listened, self-abhorred. XI. " 'Twas He whose image visited my sleep. But still He spake to me in words that gave A world, and had soul-echoes clear and deep Which widened ever like the circling wave. THE FIRST SA VED. XII. " His image grew before my wondering mind — His, mid whose many griefs my life began. Enrapt I gazed, until my eyes were blind, On Him who in his pity dies for man. XIII. " When the blest vision ceased my eyes would droop And in great dreams that holy being meet ; Then would he clothe me, lowly would he stoop, And with his hands anoint my weary feet. XIV. " Thenceforth He was the rock that safely drew IVly heart to shelter, as the gentle shore Receives the broken wave : to Him it flew And the lulled sorrow beat on me no more. 76 NEW SYMBOLS. XV. " Then o'er me flow'd that stream of heavenly grace Which all my infant innocence restored : From that glad hour has rested on my face This happy gaze of one who has adored. XVI. " The living Saviour had my heart enthralled ! I saw His face, in His blessed footsteps moved ; And in my dreams His holy word recalled ; I knew not who He was : I only loved. XVII. I "Then did I but remember things to come, The reveries of pure delights above ; Yes, to this blissful height my passion clomb, And sin was silenced in the hush of love. THE FIRST SA VED. 77 XVIIL *' In that o'ershadowing trance till death I lay : Peace weighed upon me like the Saviour's kiss. Towards the beloved my eyes would fondly stray In sleeping rapture and awaking bliss. XIX, " Death with dis-sbadowed hand had come betimes, And bore my grave into the open skies. And then I hearkened to the heavenly chimes That cheered my soul's ascent to Paradise. XX. " My end seemed consummated in the clouds : There with the purple mom my slumber broke j But tempting spirits hovered round in crowds And gathered like a storm as I awoke. 78 NEIV SYMBOLS. XXI. " Upon the Temple's highest pinnacle The Saviour stood in glory like the sun. The rapture of my soul was at the full : Eternal life had unawares begun. XXII. " He from that holy height upon me gazed ; The angels in His glorious presence trod : With outstretched wings 1 rushed to them amazed, And flew into the open arms of God." MICHAEL ANGELO. / see him, Nature's ar(-robed minister Who set her dreaf/i to marble's indrawn breath In the pale forms that sleep, that wake, like her, On those twin Tuscan monuments of Death. His spirit haunts the oHve-laden banks, The cypressed village belfry in deca)-, The marble hills whose silvery whiteness flanks The vale he loved ; all seems the former day When he began in art's warm hand to thaw The frosted rock, and petrify the beam That round his chisel swerved until he saw The spirit's beauty o'er the features gleam. So NEW SYMBOLS, II. And yon old sunset, that with rosy dyes Fades in the marble hollows, tells anew Of Twilight's nodding brows and closing eyes, As when the statue from their depths he drew, Which now in drowsy marble seems to wait, Ere it go down, the waking of the dead ; That simmers in half-sleep as there it sate When lifted, dozing, from its ancient bed. 111. There he first listened to the ringing note That seemed in harmony with art to breathe Out of the marble which the mallet smote, As though a syren quickened underneath, MICHAEL ANGELO. 8i There he first dreamed how all forms fair below In yonder virgin cemetery lay, Their beauty crusted over like the snow Eternal with the snow of yesterday. IV. He wanders here and there a studious guest In halls of state where old-world marbles fill The solemn garden, and through ages rest In high demeanour and impassive will ; I \ Where only heaven-born spirits dare adore ! Where lordly chambers, held from range to range By souls that breathe in sculpture evermore, His perilous ideas to marble change. 6 82 NEW SYMBOLS. He sees the Venus Victrix bold outstand, As crystal pure, shameless as the white rose. Paling the apple's blush in her bright hand, To speak the triumph of that grand repose, j And flushed Bacchante breathes the nectarous gale. And, with uncertain fingers, lightly holds I Her ruffled robe behind her, like a sail, 1 That flutters wide in loose inebriate folds» VI, He sees Hermaphrodite, double-souled. On no fond arm reclines the lonely head ; The fruitless bosom in the dust has rolled, Sleep and despair o'er feeble features spread. MICHAEL ANGELO, 83 Dreaming the silence of enchanted song, There Ariadne sleeps 'twixt bended arms, While Love's impassioned longings round her throng, And melt into the likeness of her charms. VII. Jie sees the Wrestlers, the last gasping throe, The pent-up strength, the all-resisting strain j Yet ere the victor strike that vengeful blov/ The rigid arm he grasps must snap in twain. He sees Laocoon cHmb the serpent-wave That plunges o'er him with a tempest's might, Hurrying his sons to the engulphing grave That whirls them, helpless, from his suffering sight. 6—2 U NEW SYMBOLS. VIII. He sees the Gladiator sink at last On that enduring arm — death now the foe ; — The contest all within, the struggle cast On his strong soul rhat waits no further blow, While he looks down upon the welling flood Which saps the life that he would cherish still- Replenishing the void of dripping blood With the stern breath of his unvanquished will IX. He sees proud Niobe ; the lofty gaze, And the dread-quickened heart her soul divide, As those bewildered eyes pierce through the haze Where death pursues the children of her pride. MICHAEL ANGELO. 85 He loves that loveliest who, death-stricken, stoops 1 As the bent lily-stem and blossom stand — So her sweet body forward falls and droops — The terror fainting from her face and hand. He sees the Fates, o'er-ruling ancient art : Nigh, yet afar, like the calm spreading sea Whose storm is brewed in heaven, they sit apart, Enwrapped in a death-wrinkled drapery ; And Silence, who, with lifted finger, stays The bridled hours that backward seem to slip Into the stillness of departed days, Which hangs upon the magic of his lip. S6 NEW SYMBOLS. XI. He sees Apollo, — burning at his side The unerring shafts — flames in the ether slung^ That leap against the bow and earthward glide — That haughty brow, that arm high-backward flung. He gazes at the all-impatient ray, Closing his eyes at the thrill imminent : A god alone dare speed it on its way — With steadfast glance on the far goal intent. XII. Thus journeying through the ancient world of art His soul is vexed with hope that seems despair^ Eager for heaven, yet oft-times faint of heart With feet that tremble on the golden stair. MICHAEL ANGELO. 87 Through many lands he goes, at last returns To those dear haunts of his triumphant youth, With untamed ardours and with soul that burns > To shape his visions of eternal truth. XIIL Has human beauty then its term outrun ? These spirits all arrayed in marble light, — They stand between him and the glorious sun, They haunt him like the spectres of the night, Wasting his heart — he almost longs to die ; His stream of life is slipping fast away — And there they stand transfixed immovably, Darkening with light of old his new-born day. SS NEW S YMBOLS, XIV. Dare yet another ope the ethereal doors And slant his ladder 'twixt the heaven and earthy Those ever-teeming corridors explore Whence sculpture came and genius had its birth ? Nature is still in heaven, in that high place He hears a voice that bids him not depart. But linger there till he beholds her face, And bears away her likeness on his heart. XV. He snatches at her mysteries while she broods ; In all his toils 'tis she alone he seeks. One eve he stands to watch her changeful moods It seems to him she lifts the veil and speaks. MICHAEL ANGELO. 89 With fevered cheek unconscious of its flush, He hstens there with visions in his eyes : The moon shines forth and blends with twiUght's hush ; The sun looks back from out the purple skies. XVI. He gazes till upon those marble heights Twilight seems sitting on a rocky scroll Beside the weary day, the solemn lights Immerged within the purpling of her soul. Beneath her shoulder nod the depths below — And soon shall sleep those struggling lids surprise Her brows bend lower, dropping as they throw An evening shadow down the precipice, j 90 NEW SYMBOLS. XVII. Then Twilight dies ; there comes the tired-out Night. Yonder she lies in young, full-bosomed sleep, Weaning the hours : her hand shuts out the light, Her half-coiled limbs o'ershadow all the deep. Her dreamless face without a memory, Propped by an arm that like a snowy wreath, Is slipping down the smooth and curved thigh Till sleep seems fluttering on a single breath. XVIII. He gazes till the form that by her slept Moves stealthily and drags the unkempt ray, Before the sun hath o'er the mountain leapt And brought the tidings of the new-born day, MICHAEL ANGELO. 91 At last while float the veils of purple haze, O'er mountain-peak, o'er vineyard, stream and lawn, There breaks upon the sculptor-poet's gaze The beauteous face of the recumbent Dawn. XIX. She sits where Night has sat, held back by sleep ; But troubled into waking by day-dreams, Her scarce half-open eyes for memory peep, While to her breast escape their sprinkled beams That lengthen out new depths of loveliness. And warn her to arise before the sun, That, couched beneath unseen, with warm caress May soon her softer beauty over-run 1 92 NEW SYMBOLS. XX. Then rises up the golden face of Day ! His head hath risen, his astonished eyes Look o'er that lifted shoulder, weird and gray, And in their light his massive body lies. As 'twere yon fertile valley, with those limbs Aslant, that tower and slope in glittering peaks A lustrous brow high up the summit climbs And in a cloudless blaze of morning breaks. XXI. Fair as the valleys, as the mountains grand, These visions in the marble he hath wrought ; Now with a bright now with a shadowy hand, Unconscious nature he hath moved to thought. MICHAEL ANGELO. 93 Here is man's face the symbol of the sun That journeys on, that rests upon his way ; His course for ever ending and begun From twilight unto dawn, from night to day. XXII. He builds up temples, sculptures for the sky Their pinnacles and statues, as he wills : Lovelier to him than all arise on high, Steep behind steep, his native marble hills, Lost in the pale blue shades behind them hung, As if beyond the reach of mortal hand ; For he more wonders from their rocks has wrung Than on the proud seven hills in ruin stand. THE PAINTER. " Summer has done her work," the painter cries, And saunters down his garden by the shore. " The fig is cracked and dry ; upon it lies, In crystals, the sweet oozing of its core. The peach melts in its pink and yellow beam ; Grapes cluster to the earth in diadems Of dripping purple ; from their slender stems^ 'Mid paler leaves, the dark-green citrons gleami THE PAINTER. 95 II. " Summer has done her work ; she, lingering, sees Her shady places glare : yet cooler grow The breezes as they stir the sunny trees Whose shaking twigs their ruby berries sow. Ripe is the fairy-grass, we breathe its seeds. But, hanging o'er the rocks that belt the shore, Safe from the sea, above its bustling roar, Here ripen, still, the blossom-swinging weeds. III. " Pale cressets on the summer waters shine, No ripple there but flings its jet of fire. Rich amber wrack still bronzing in the brine Is tossed ashore in daylight to expire. 96 NEW SYMBOLS. A wallowing wave the rocky shoal enwreathes ; From the loose spray, cascades of bubbles fall Down steeps whose watery, coral-mantled wall Drinks of the billow, and the sunshine breathes. IV. " Summer has done her work, but mine remains. How shall I shape these ever-murmuring waves, How interweave these rumours and refrains. These wind-tossed echoes of the listening caves ? The restless rocky roar, the billow's splash, And the all-hushing shingle — hark ! it blends, In open melody that never ends, The drone, the cavern-whisper, and the clash. THE PAINTER. 97 V. " And this wide ruin of a once new shore Scooped by new waves to waves of solid rock, Dark-shelving, white-veined, as if marbled o'er v,— By the fresh surf still trickling block to block ! O worn-out waves of night, long set aside — The moulded storm in dead, contending rage, — Like monster-breakers of a by-gone age ! And now the gentle waters o'er you ride. VI. ''Can my hand darken in swift rings of flight The air-path cut by the black sea-g\ills' wings, Then fill the dubious track with influent light. While to my eyes the vanished vision clings ? 7 98 NEW SYMBOLS. ^Vhile at their sudden whirr the billows start, Can my hand hush the cymbal-sounding 3ea^ That breaks with louder roar its reverie As those fast pinions into silence dart ? VII. " Press on, ye summer waves, still gently swell,- The rainbow's parent-waters over-run ! Can my poor brush your snaky greenness tell;, Raising your sheeny bellies to the sun ? What touch can pour you in yon pool of blue Circled with surging froth of liquid snow, Which now dissolves to emerald, now below Glazes the sunken rocks with umber hue ? , THE PAINTER. 99 VIII. *' Summer has done her work, dare I begin — Painting a desert, though my pencil craves To intertwine all tints with heaven akin ? Nature has flung her palette to the waves ! Then bid my eyes on cloudy landscape dwell, — Not revel in thy blaze. O beauteous scene ! Between thy art and mine is nature's screen, — Transparent only to the soul, — farewell ! IX. " Oh ! could I paint thee with these ravished eyes,- Catch in my hollow palm thy overflow. Who broadcast fling'st away thy witcheries ! Yet would I not desponding turn and go. 7—2 loo NEW SYMBOLS. Be it a feeble hand to thee I raise, 'Tis still the worship of the soul within : Summer has done her work, — let mine begin, Though as the grass it wither in thy blaze." THE BIRTH OF VENUS. The waters of the warm, surf-laden sea, Couched 'neath a heaven of love that o'er them bends, Lie trance-bound in a dream of ecstasy, Prophetic of a rapture that impends. II. Now they swell up as if love's underflow Lifted their bosom, the sun's shredded fires Glinting each tremor ; now, with pulses low. They lapse into a deluge of desires. -4- 102 NEW SYMBOLS. HI. The sun glares on his way across the deep, And, bounding to the zenith's utmost height. There vacillates and from his fiery steep Burns in his pride on ocean to alight. IV. The procreative ether downward floats On slanting beams that pierce the dazzled sky, And nature kindles as the vivid motes With crackling germs her rage beatify. The wombs of nature, in their several spheres, With rival love new beauty generate : The fruitful earth a swollen harvest bears. But yearns for more beneath her bursting weight. THE BIRTH OF VENUS. 103 VL With teemful breasts, in innocence unchaste, She still the yielding elements distrains, And runs her over-mellowness to waste, Whil.e on her lap one cluster yet remains. VII. The sun has sunk, in his voluptuous heat Creaming with rosy love the ocean'^ floor, Till only serried waves his blush repeat As they uprise and froth the pulpy shore. VIII. The stars revolve in pairs, the fiery red Infect the deathly pale with new desires, And downward whirled upon the ocean-bed Assail its floods with phosphor-dripping fires. -h I04 ■ NEW SYMBOLS. IX. Nature's imperious passions intertwine And one great spirit moves upon the sea : With silver light the emerald waters shine Along the procreant path of Deity. X. "\^'he^e the charmed moon a milder day has shed^ Venus, the love-star, bums : her virgin gifts From heaven to those blest waters she hath sped ; Wave over wave her paler image drifts. XI. Then night in purple dusk descends and holds The earth and skies apart, all dim between : A firmament deep-hidden in its folds Shines densely at love's festival, unseen. THE BIRTH OF VENUS. lo; XII. There heaven the holy hymen celebrates— When all the crowded galaxy appears : A flash has opened the horizon's gates And through them sweeps the concert of the spheres XIII. The lighted waters answer to the skies ; The distant music seems to re-ascend, And spreads in echoes whose soft melodies, Skimming the flood, in silent zeph}TS end. XIV. All passion dies, or, burning still remote, Narrows its sphere, and, mirrored from above. Descends asleep in fairy dreams that float Into the pensive image of its love. io6 NEW SYMBOLS, XV. And now, lest nature slumber o'er desire, The molten passions part, the winds are free, The sweltered air inflames, the flashing fire Darts at the jealous, fierce uprising sea. XVI. The curdled foam whitens the watery night, Froths up the weeds that, hurried on amain, Like congregated porpoises in flight. Are heaped in shoals upon the furrowed plain. XVII. There falls a daylight of celestial lull; But fields are ravaged, the ripe, glistening wheat That travelled in the breezes, ears shock-full, Lies on the ground as by a handflail beat. THE BIRTH OF VENUS. loy XVIII. Woods have flung up their secret roots, embowered On their bruised boughs, and yet with whirling rush Rapacious floods from virgin hills deflowered Strew the snatched blossoms and the meadows flush. XIX. A moist, heart-ripening calm has come to rot Delved shores, despoiled by the unnatural wave And swarming with sea monsters ill-begot That crawl to perish, lacking all they crave: XX. Sea-weeds are piled in stacks upon the beach, And crisp as fuel for the hungry sun. The rocks whose climbing paths the welkin reach. Lashed by the waves, with foam are overrun. io8 NEW SYMBOLS. XXI. Mermaids lie dead along the wreck-strewn sands, Pitched by high waves upon the ocean-side, With snapt-ofF boughs of coral in their hands, Thtir scaly folds frothed in the panting tide. XXII. Over the quiet sea rides on his back The sun-stained dolphin, there, in lifeless ease, Tossed up and down 'raid isles of bladder-wrack Wrenched with their shell-fish from the weeded seas, XXIII, But in one bay, held by the nymphs that bathe In its translucent pools and trust to view Their dripping hair and bosom, while they swathe Their waists in coral spangled by the dewj THE BIRTH OF VENUS. 109 XXIV. Or twist green garlands round them for a shrine, Culling the briny flowers with pearl inwove, That unctuous cling as tendrils of a vine And weave a bower for newly-budded love ; — XXV. In such a bay, where bluest waters buoy Leaves coral-mown and froth of bubbling white, Where the dipped rays o'er shallow rocks deploy And film soft honeycombs of shaking light 3 — XXVI. Lo ! There bright golden ringlets interlace : A rosy hand athwart a bosom gleams. Then sweeps the sur^ and thence looks forth a face 1 As if at length inheriting its dreams. no NEW SYMBOLS, XXVII. She rises from the pool in half eclipse, Knotting the weeds that circle her about, While the mom's kisses meet her coral lips Now stirred, now closed in beauty's luscious pout. XXVIII. Under her rose-dipped feet the mirror shows A form divine enamelled in the sky : Smile after smile along the water flows And ripples as she gazes stealthily. XXIX. Love, the bright image of her virgin soul, Kindles the dreamy depths, is thence upborne To the impassioned heaven, and o'er the whole Of the rapt world reddens the blush of mom. THE DOUBLE SOUL ih the far east whence olden legend flows^ A cryptic cipher fashions Upon stone. Under a weeping tree that floioer less grmvs, H&w man's and ivoman's souls were erst in 0Hi% How in those hapless bonds they ever cried Unto the winds and sea to sever them, — When, cast upon the waves, the bddy died And the souls blootned each on a separate stem. 1. Against a hollow, rocky promontory The sea, breaking as if it wept, throws out Most piteous sounds, — now faint, like woman's cxy^ And shrill ; — now loud, like man's despairing shout. 112 NEW SYMBOLS. II. Is it the waves, or doth some moiling breast, Buoyant above their moan, heave as they heave. Fall as they fall, not resting in their rest, — That 'neath their load so fitfully they grieve ? III. As when the inconsolable makes wail, Many, not knowing why, take up the plaint, — Winds catch the sound and through the caverns trail Its melancholy moanings, shrill or faint, IV. And out to sea drag the wild monody. The all-abhorrent floods and sidelong swirls. The jutting rocks, resound the hopeless cry That o'er the watery vortex echoing \vhirls. THE DOUBLE SOUL. \\% V. With head hurled back and arms behind it tossed, A prostrate form hath from the deep emerged, Uttering loud lamentations, like the lost Whose end is self-begotten and self-dirged. 1 VL That mystic being, beautiful with life In its strong prime, through some high passion dies ) The great desires, surviving mortal strife, -.] Are raving heavenward in those hopeless eyes. VII. The hair, thrown back in wet, uncurling rings, Floats on the wave with woman's silken spell : There seems an end of many sufferings ; The hands repose as after a farewell ' 8 114 NEW S YMBOLS, VIII. The open eyes, unshaken in their pain, The features set in unrepining calm, — Is not this woman, — never to complain , While peace is seen beyond the dying qualm ? IX. Once more a frantic voice calls out for death, That still the tardy element denies : The swollen throat, the nostrils panting breath, — It may not be that there a woman lies. X. That brow, in anger deeply knotted, hurls Its hate at heaven, whose fitful utterance leaves The hair self-twisted into writhing curls : It is a rival god in torment heaves. THE DOUBLE SOUL. 115 xr. It was the bitter cry — ^" Be blotted out From these vain-longing eyes, O universe 3" The voice is man's ; then dies away the shout And woman's sadder echo tracks the curse. XII. As if the spirit's music knew its sex, Now man's, now woman's severing accents thrill j The same desires these troubled natures vex : How long shall they one cruel fate fulfil ? XIII. Like the wind's purple shadow on the deep, Death flits across the face 3 the parted lips, The open eyes, dark-gazing into sleep, Are in the presence of a world's eclipse. 8—2 1 1 6 NEW S YMBOLS. XIV. Who now stands by, with bosom-veiling hair Whose sentient tresses ripple as they hide The noble blush that says her face is fair, While she beholds one greater at her side ? XV. One like in glory to a star new-lit, Who watches her, now from that bondage riven. His eyes feed on her light, and never quit Her sympathetic gaze which deepens heaven. THE PHILOSOPHER. n- In death's abstraction, with slow-rambHng eyes, He gazes on the stationary sun And wonders, as on heaven's brink it lies, Whether the day be ended or begun. And less he knows the course his spirit takes, Whether it sets or into morning breaks. 1 1 8 NEW S YMBOLS, He was the heritor of many minds ; More than their own his thoughts were man's dehght ; Yet now, in the bewildering dusk, he finds No token whether it be day or night. His soul is trembling towards its earthly close Uncertain whence it comes or whither goes^ III. He turns his face to heaven, as to a friend, And feebly asks, '' Is this philosophy That doubts the more the nearer to the end ? Is this how the philosopher should die, Still dubious if the soul may live again J Or with the dead incurious remain ? THE PHILOSOPHER. 119 IV. " Like friends retiring from a pleasant feast, Could we but bear some token in our mind Of those we love, — some parting word at least, — 'Twould not be missed ; yet all we leave behind, Yes, even the sayings of the good and dear : Let them abide though we abide not here ! V. " As I sink back behind the iron veil, Heaven opens not ; no spirits on me call : An untold morrow seems my hope to fail. Are sleep and death twin brothers after all ? The sun shines lonely, pale, dispirited, And on his path escorts me to the dead. lio NE W S YMBOLS. VI. " Once, free in thought, did I the peaks ascend And try to grasp the one momentous theme That lured me on, delusive to the end, And shaped my soul to its immortal dream. Then how life's humble valley I despised For intellectual heights unrealized ! VII. " There came a sadder hour, not yet the last, When thankfully I walked this lower vale, Despite the mountain-shadow on me cast, That brought to mind those struggles made to scale The moral heights, of a divine repose Which, one by one, had vanished as they rose. THE PHILOSOPHER. 121 VIII. " And now my listless thoughts can spell no more Heaven's secret ciphers, fondly beckoning To lofty souls who seek the mountain-shore Of her ethereal seas, and bravely cling Despite the laughter of the troublous wind, And the dishonoured dust they leave behind.. IX. " In youth when a beloved maiden's glance Could overbrim the present with content, Would nature's rival charms in love advance, Saddening my soul while early days were spent And when the ruin of my hope was sure. Passing away the younger to allure. 122 NEW SYMBOLS. " And while those gHmpses of futurity, Which all must once inherit, yet were mine,- I proudly deemed that were ray soul to die Not heaven herself could longer be divine. I seemed the heir of her untrodden strand Which bloomed as never blossoms sea or land. XI. " And what a change is here ! Death's chilly gust Is fanning into frost my stiffened sense. When comes the frenzied hour let me mistrust My soul's delusions as it goeth hence ! The narrow pass is nigh, I creep beneath That arch of ice and shiver into death. THE PHILOSOPHER. 123 XII. " A polar winter with its cutting wind Wheels up the fallow mist and two-edged sleet. It is the storm of death ! May not my mind In dying, as in living, succour meet ? Even to the last the promised skies I see — Thoughts that have been are still the thoughts that be. XIII. " Yes, those blue plains with many a flaky knoll Floating beyond the once snow-frozen heights, I feel descend and pass into my soul Without whose lucid depths were nothing bright. Nature still needs my all-embracing gaze Lest suns be dark in her impervious haze. 124 NEW SYMBOLS. XIV. " Eolian lyres are planted in the sky ; The resurrectionary breezes sweep Across the chords of early memory, And long forgotten thoughts astonish sleep. Departing spirits answer to their call : Past days return, a moment holds them all. XV. " And heaven in unoffended beauty smiles : The coloured waters of her flowery seas, The obdurate mountain peaks, the distant isles, Pass to my spirit with the living breeze. i^The soul alone is the eternal law, It is the light that once I only saw." THE PHILOSOPHER. 125 XVI. Say not his soul expires ; he coils his palms Across his head, his fingers from his brow- Are dripping with a peace that overcalms His inmost heart — and that is closing now. He sleeps, one limb is o'er the other prest, And his delirious dream is now at rest. : THE END. 2.0/ PARABLES AND TALES. BV THOMAS GORDON HAKE. PUBLISHED BY CHAPMAN AND HALL, PICCADILLY. Price ^s. ^ OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. Fortnightly Review. *' The finest new poem here is ' The Blind Boy,' which gives scope to all the poet's sympathies, by summoning the beloved beauties of visible nature round the ideal of a mysterious exclusion and isolation. Speaking of the aim alone, we may say that perhaps there is hardly in Wordsworth himself any single poem of equal length which from so central a stand-point interpenetrates the seen with the unseen, bounded always in a familiar circle of ideasi " I30 OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. Athen^um. "The poem of the book is no doubt that entitled 'The Blind Boy.' We have in this case a poem which, by combining deep and sympa- thetic truth of idea with faithful and minute exposition, especially deserves to live. The tale is equally simple and affecting. An ardent, love of nature, human and external, and a conscientious de- sire to present the traits of both, run through this pathetic idyll. The volume is fresh and charming. Its inspiration shows genuine sympathy M-ith man and external life, while its execution shows a keen love of beauty with a strict adherence to fact. Moreover, the sympathy displayed in the book is healthy and pure. It overflows with __tendemess for childhood, for womanhood, and for poverty. Dr. Hake often discloses to us the secrets of nature and of human feeling with startling truth of representation. The designs of Mr. Arthur Hughes, 'fcy their imaginative conception and characteristic reality of detail, happily accord with the .spirit of the poems." The Globb. " Deep, serious study of the various problems of life." Literary World. " ' Old Souls,' is as original a poem as it is possible to conceive. In some of the verses there is a wondrous power, and the whole 'Parable' is of the purest, noblest order. In 'The Lily of the Valley' and 'The Deadly Nightshade' extremes meet. Both poems are delightful. The poems, as a whole, we must commend OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 131 as the productions of an undoubted poet ; some of them are beyond all criticism. Once read, they will be pondered, and, we think, un- forgotten. We shall be glad to meet with Dr. Hake again." Examiner. " ' The Lily of the Valley,' and ' The Deadly Nightshade '—para- bles, the one of virtue, the other of vice — are both charming. Dr. Hake generally succeeds best in slight touches of description, apt similes and striking metaphors, that at once attract the reader's notice, and that straightway make a home for themselves in his memory." Academy. *' It appears to us, then, that Dr. Hake is, in relation to his own time, as original a poet as one can well conceive possible. He is uninfluenced by any style or mannerisms of the day, to so absolute a degree as to tempt one to believe that the latest English singer he may have even heard of is Wordsworth, while in some respects his ideas and points of view are newer than the newest in vogue ; and the external affinity frequently traceable to elder poets only throws this essential independence into startling, and at times almost whim- sical, relief" Manchester Courier. " His intense humanity, his power of insight, and his singular caoacity for touching the hearts of his readers, place him (the 9—2 132 OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. author) very high amongst the poets of to-day. No one but a man of profound poetic instinct and of singular elevation of thought could have v/ritten 'Old Souls.' " Saturday Review. " It is no common mind that could have written that quaint poem called 'Old Souls,' .and viQ venture to say that those who read it once will read it twice." Guardian. " One of Dr. Hake's parables called ' Old Souls' is most artless, most audacious, or both. Ideas and images are grouped together according to some law which the ordinary reader fails to detect, though he can recognise the beauty of the effect produced. We bid a farewell, which we hope is not final, to Dr. Hake, with a confident sense that there is another really original poet among us." Sunday Times. "A couple of years have elapsed since a volume of verse by Dr. Gordon Hake, won for an author, unknovni until then, such a recep- tion as a first volume has seldom elicited. A warm welcome was accorded the new poet, and those interested in -poetic art waited to see how far a second venture would carry out the promise of the first. The second venture has now been made with unqualified OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 133 success. The four poems reprinted consist of 'Old Souls,' the most original and powerful composition in the volume, ' The Lily of the Valley, ' the tenderest, ' The Deadly Nightshade,' and 'Immortality,' which is re-christened ' The Poet. ' On the whole, the poems are worthy of Dr. Hake's reputation, and may be held to fulfil anticipa- tions. They have a riper style, purchased at no sacrifice of colour, they are as original as their predecessors, and like them steeped in the love of nature, not only for nature's sake, but as the medium of interpretation or illustration to man of all that is best in his own nature, or highest in his destiny." Liverpool Daily Albion: " It is really refreshing to come across a volume of verse so origi- nal and yet so unstrained and spontaneous as this one. Dr. Hake resembles Wordsworth more closely than he resembles any of Words- worth's successors ; but he has warmth, colour, and force of a kind to which, in his ordinary moods, even the great poet of the Lakes was a stranger." The Rock. " Characterised by freshness of style and vigour of thought. Some charming illustrations by Mr. Arthur Hughes tend to increase the general excellence of the volume." 134 OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. The Scotsman. "When Dr. Hake follows most closely the manner of his natu- ralistic master, both in subject and treatment, as in 'The Cripple' and ' The Blind Boy,' his success is so great that we are tempted to doubt whether the genius of that master could shed around the existence of these humble beings a halo of purer and more poetic interest." i Echo. " Dr. Hake is an original poet, who has invented a new type ol poem. These ' Parables and Tales,' differ in many respects from any poetry in the language. In conception and in style they are singularly quaint and homely. The form in which they are cast is antique ; the ideas and feelings embodied in them, on the contrary, are of the most modern character. It is this contrast of form and substance that give these poems their peculiar charm. A strong under sympathy with the sorrows of humanity is expressed in severely simple language and verse. Mr. Arthur Hughes' illus- trations to this volume admirably reflect the sentiments of he poems." Illustrated Review. •' When we find a man of evidently deep thought and culture, choosing the themes which a Crabbe would have chosen, and OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 135 clothing them with the graceful beauties of a style not unworthy of Keats, we may, indeed, take courage, and say that England possesses one more poet. The worst fault that we can find with the writer is that he has not given us a larger volume. We have said that we are reminded somewhat of Keats by Dr. Hake's poems, but we should not forget to add that we have never come across a work {hat showed less traces of anything like plagiarism, whether of words or of manner, than ' Parables and Tales.' 'Old Morality' and ' Old Souls ' are two of the most originally and most ably written poems that have seen the light for many years." Once a Week, " One of the most promising among our less known poets is Dr. T. G. Hake. In his little volume 'Parables and Tales,' there are some really fine poems. Of the new ones, the best, we think, is that entitled ' The Blind Boy,' which is equal to Wordsworth, though some readers will prefer ' The Cripple ' perhaps." New Monthly. " The author of the present volume has succeeded in placing before the public a series of pictures which for fidelity and finish we believe o be unsurpassed in our time. ' Old Morality, ' and ' Old Sotils, ' ■.re remarkable productions. 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