xt741n7xm178 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt741n7xm178/data/mets.xml Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914. 1901 books b92-184-30604775 English Richard G. Badger, : Boston : Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. One day & another : a lyrical eclogue / Madison Cawein. text One day & another : a lyrical eclogue / Madison Cawein. 1901 2002 true xt741n7xm178 section xt741n7xm178

ONE DAY AND ANOTHER
A Lyrical Eclogue

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ONE DAY

A N O T H E R

A Lyrical Ec/ogue
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The poem herewith presented was first pub-
lished some ten years ago in a volume entitled
Days and Dreams. The original verses have
been re-written throughout and extensively
added to, making it comparatively a new poem.

L -KEVIEW PRES8, SOUTH FRAMINGUAM, MASS.

TO
G. F. M.
THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED IN MEMORY
OF MANY DAYS.

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What though I dreamed of mountain heights,
Of peaks, the barriers of the world,
Around chose tops the Northern Lights
And tempests are unfurled.

Mine are the footpaths leading through
Life's lowly fields and woods,-with rifts,
Above, of heaven's Eden blue,-
By which the violet lifts

Its shy appeal; and holding up
Its chaliced gold, like some wild wine,
Along the hillside, cup on cup,
Blooms bright the celandine.

Where soft upon each flowering stock
The butterfly spreads damask wings;
And under grassy loawn and rock
The cottage cricket sings.

Where overhead eve blooms with fire,
In which the new moon bends her bow,
And, arrow-like, one white star by her
Burns through the afterglow.

I care not, so the sesame
I find; the magic fiower there,
Whose touch unseals each mystery
In water, earth and air.

That in the oak tree lets me hear
Its heart's deep speech, its soul's wise words;
And to my mind makes crystal clear
The melodies of birds.

Why should I care, who live aloof
Beyond the din of life and dust,
While dreams still share my humble roof,
And love makes sweet my crust

ONE DAY AND ANOTHER

A Lyrical Eclogue

PART I

LATE SPRING

The mottled moth at eventide
Beats glimmering wings against the pane;
The slow, sweet lily opens wide,
White in the dusk like some dim stai;
The garden dreams on every side
And breathes faint scents of rain.
Among the flowering stocks they stand:
A crimson rose is in his hand.

Outside her garden. He waits mu-sing.

Herein the dearness of her is;
The thirty perfect days of June
Made one, in maiden loveliness
Were not more sweet to clasp and kiss,
With love not more in tune.

Ah me! I think she is too true,
Too spiritual for life's rough way;
For in her eyes her soul looks new-

Two bluet blossoms, watchet-blue,
Are not so pure as they.

So good, so beautiful is she,
So soft and white, so fond and fair,
Sometimes my heart fears she may be
Not long for me, and secretly
A sister of the air.

Dusk deepens. A whippoorwill calls.

The whippoorwills are calling where
The golden west is graying;
c'Tis time," they say, "to meet him there-
Why are you still delaying

"He waits you where the old beech throws
Its gnarly shadow over
Wood-violet and the bramble rose,
Frail maiden-fern and clover.

"Where elder and the sumach creep
Above your garden's paling,
Whereon at noon the lizards sleep
Like lichens on the railing.

"Come! ere the early rising moon's
Gold floods the violet valleys;

Where mists, like phantom picaroons
Anchor their stealthy galleys.

"Come! while the deepening amethyst
Of dusk above is falling-
'Tis time to tryst! 'tis time to tryst!"
The whippoorwills are calling.

They call you to these twilight ways
With dewy odor dripping-
Ah, girlhood, through the rosy haze
Come like a moonbeam slipping.

He enters her garden, speaking dreamily:

There is a fading inward of the day,
And all the pansy heaven clasps one star;
The dwindling acres eastward glimmer gray,
While all the world to westward smoulders
far.

Now to your glass will you pass for the last
time
Pass! humming some ballad, I know,-
Here where I wait it is late and is past time-
Late! and the moments are slow, are slow.

There is a drawing downward of the night;
The bridegroom Heaven bends down to kiss
the moon;
Above, the heights hang silver in her light;
Below, the woods stretch purple, deep in
June.

There in the dew is it you hiding lawny
You, or a moth in the vines-
You! -by your hand, where the band twinkles
tawny!
You!-by your ring, like a glowworm, that
shines!
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She approaches, laughing. She speaks,-

You'd given up hope

Believe me.

SHE

Why, is your love so poor

I knew you'd not deceive me.

SIIE

As many a girl before,-
Ah, dear, you will forgive me

Say no more, sweet, say no more!

SHE

Love trusts, and that's enough, my dear.
Trust wins to trust; whereof, my dear,
Love holds to love; and love, my dear,
Is-well, that's all my lore.

Come, pay me or I'll scold you.-
Give me the kiss you owe.-
You fly when I'd enfold you

SHE

No! no! I say! now, no!
How often have I told you,
You must not treat me so

More sweet the dusk for this is,
For lips that meet in kisses.-

Come! come! why run from blisses
As from a mortal foe

She stands smiling at him. She speaks:

How many words in the asking!
How easily I can grieve you!
My "no" in a "yes" was a-masking,
Nor thought, dear, to deceive you.--
A kiss-the humming-bird happiness here
In my heart consents . . But what are words,
When the thought of two souls in speech ac-
cords
Affirmative, negative-what are they, dear
I wished to say "yes," but somehow said "no."
The woman within me thought you would know
Thought that your heart would hear.

He speaks:

So many hopes in a wooing!
Therein you could not deceive me;
Some things are sweeter for the pursuing-
I knew what you meant, believe me.-
Bunched bells of the blush pomegranate, to fix
At your throat . . six drops of fire they are . .
Will you look where the moon and its following
star
Rise silvery over yon meadow ricks

While I hold-while I lean your head back, so-
For I know it is"yes"though you whisper "no,"
And my kisses, sweet, are six.

Moths flutter around them. She speaks:

Look!-where the fiery
Glow-worm in briery
Blanks of the moon-mellowed bowers
Sparkles-how hazily
Pinioned and arily
Delicate, warily,
Drowsily, lazily,
Flutter the moths to the flowers.

White as the dreamiest
Bud of the creamiest
Rose in the garden that dozes,
See how they cling to them!
Held in the heart of their
Hearts like a part of their
Perfume they swine to them
Wings that are soft as the roses.

Dim as the forming of
Dew in the warming of
Moonlight, they light on the petals;
All is revealed to them;
All-from the sunniest
Tips to the honiest

Heart, whence they yield to them
Spice through the darkness that settles.

So to our tremulous
Souls come the emulous
Spirits of love; through whose power
All that is best in us,
All that is beautiful,
All that is dutiful,
Is made confessed in us,
Even as the scent of a flower.

Taking her hand, he says:

What makes you beautiful
Answer., now, answer !-
Is it that dutiful
Souls are all beautiful
Is't that romance or
Beauty of spirit,
Which souls of merit
Of heaven inherit -
Have you no answer

She roguishly:

What makes you lovable
Answer, dear, answer !-

Is it not provable
That man is lovable
Just because chance or
Nature makes woman
Love him-Her human
Part's to illumine.-
Have you no answer

Then, regarding him seriously, she continues:

Could I recall every joy that befell me
There in the past with its anguish and bliss,
Here in my heart it has whispered to tell me,
Those were no joys like this.

Were it not well if our love could forget them
Veiling the was with the dawn of the is
Dead with the pastwe should neverregret them,
Being no joys like this.

When they were gone and the Present stood
speechful,
Ardent in word and in look and in kiss,
What though we know that their eyes are be-
seechful,
Those were no joys like this.

Is it not well to have more of the spirit,
Living for Futures where naught is amiss,

Less of the flesh with the Past pining near it
Is there a joy like this

Leaving the garden for the lane. He, with
lightness of heart.

We will leave reason,
Sweet, for a season;
Reason were treason
Now that the nether
Spaces are clad, oh,
In silvery shadow-
We will be glad, oh,
Glad as this weather!

She, responding to his mood:

Heart unto heart, where the moonlight is
slanted,
Let us believe that our souls are enchanted:-
I in the castle-keep; you are the airy
Prince who comes seeking me; Love is the
Fairy
Bringing our hearts together.

HIE

Starlight in masses
Over us passes;

And in the grass is
Many a flower:
Now will you tell me
iHow'd you enspell me
What once befell me
There in your bower9

SHE

Soul unto soul-in the moon's wizard glory,
Let us believe we are parts in a story:-
I am. a poem; a poet you hear it
WAhispered in star and in flower; a Spirit,
Love, puts my soul in your power.

He, suddently and very earitestly:

Perhaps we lived in the days
Of the Khalif Haroun er Reshid;
And loved, as the story says
Did the Sultan's favorite one
And the Persian Emperor's son,
Ali ben Bekkar, he
Of the Kisra dynasty.

Do you know the story Well,
You were Haroun's Sultana.
When night on the palace fell,
A slave through a secret door,

Low-arched on the Tigris' shore,-
By a hidden winding stair
Brought me to your bower there.

Then there was laughter and mirth,
And feasting and singing together,
In a chamber of wonderful worth;
In a chamber vaulted high
On columns of ivory;
Its dome, like the irised skies,
Mooned over with peacock eyes;
Its curtains and furniture,
Damask and juniper.

Ten slave girls-like unto blooms--
Stand, holding tamarisk torches,
Silk-clad from the Irak looms;
Ten handmaidens serve the feast,
Each girl like a star in the east;
Ten lutanists, lutes a-tune,
Wait, each like the Ramadan moon.

For you in a stuff of Merv
Blue-clad, unveiled and jewelled,
No metaphor known may serve:
Scarved deep with your raven hair,
The jewels like fireflies there,
Blossom and moon and star,
The Lady Shemsennehar.

The zone that girdles your waist
Would ransom a Prince and Emeer;

In your coronet's gold enchased,
And your bracelet's twisted bar,
Burn rubies of Istakhar;
And pearls of the Jamshid race
Hang looped on your bosom's lace.

You stand like the letter I;
Dawn-faced, with eyes that sparkle
Black stars in a rosy sky;
Mouth like a cloven peach,
Sweet with your smiling speech;
Cheeks that the blood presumes
To make pomegranate blooms.

With roses of Rocknabad,
Hyacinths of Bokhara,-
Creamily cool and clad
In gauze,-girls scatter the floor
From pillar to cedarn door.
Then a poppy-bloom at each ear,
Come the dancing girls of Kashineer.

Kohl in their eyes, down the room,-
That opaline casting-bottles
Have showered with rose perfume,-
They glitter and drift and swoon
To the dulcimer's languishing tune;
In the liquid light like stars,
And moons and nenuphars.

Carbuncles, tragacanth-red,
Smoulder in armlet and anklet;
Gleaming on breast and on head
Bangles of coins, that are angled,
Tinkle; and veils, that are spangled,
Flutter from coiffure and wrist
Like a star-bewildered mist.

Each dancing-girl is a flower
Of the Tuba from vales of El Liwa.-
How the bronzen censers glower!
And scents of ambergris pour
And myrrh brought of Lahore,
And musk of Khoten! how good
Is the scent of the sandal-wood!

A lutanist smites her lute;
Sings loves of Mejnoon and Leila-
Her voice is a houri flute;-
While the fragrant flambeaux wave
Barbaric o'er free and slave,
O'er fabrics and bezels of gems
And roses in anadems.

Sherbets in ewers of gold,
Fruits in salvers carnelian;
Flagons of grotesque mold,
Made of a sapphire glass,
Brimmed with wine of Shiraz;

Shaddock and melon and grape
On plate of an antique shape.

Vases of frosted rose,
Of limpid alabaster,
Filled with the mountain snows;
Goblets of mother-of-pearl,
One filigree silver-swirl;
Vessels of gold foamed up
With spray of spar on the cup.

Then a slave bursts in with a cry:
"The eunuchs! the Khalif's eunuchs!-
With scimitars bared draw nigh!
Wesif and Afif and he,
Chief of the hideous three,
Mesrour!-the Sultan's seen
'Mid a hundred weapons' sheen!"

Did we part when we heard this No!
It seems that my soul remembers
How I clasped you and kissed you, so.
When they came they found us-dead
On the flowers our blood dyed red;
Our lips together, and
The dagger in my hand.

She, musingly:

How it was I cannot tell,
For I know not where nor why;
But perhaps we loved too well
In some world that does not lie
East or west of where we dwell,
And beneath no mortal sky.

WAas it in the golden ages
Or the iron-I had heard,-
In the prophecy of sages,-
Haply, how had come a bird,
Underneath whose wing were pages
Of an unknown lover's word.

I forget. You may remember
How the earthquake shook our ships;
How our city, one huge ember,
Blazed within the thick eclipse.
When you found me-deep December
Sealed my icy eyes and lips.

I forget. No one may say
That such things can not be true:-
Here a flower dies to-day,
And to-morrow blooms anew . .
Death is silent.-Tell me, pray,
Why men doubt what God can do

He, with conviction.

As to that, nothing to tell,
You being all my belief;
Doubt may not enter or dwell
Here where your image is chief;
Here where your name is a spell,
Potent in joy and in grief.

Is it the glamor of spring
Working in us so we seem
Aye to have loved that we cling
Even to some fancy or dream,
Rainbowing everything
Here in our souls with its gleam

See! how the synod is met
There of the heavens to preach us-
Freed from the earth's oubliette,
See how the blossoms beseech us-
Were it not well to forget
Winter and night as they teach us

Dew and a bud and a star,
These,-like a beautiful thought,
Over man's wisdom how far!-
God for some purpose has wrought;
And though they're that which they are,
What are the thoughts they have
brought

Stars and the moon; and they roll
Over our way that is white.
Here shall we end the long stroll
Here shall I kiss you good-night
Or, for a while, soul to soul,
Linger and dream of delight

Thcy enter the garden again... She, somnewhat
pensively.

Myths tell of walls and cities that arose
To melody. But I would build with tone,
Had I that harp, a world for us alone,
A world of love, and joy, and deep repose.

A land of lavender light, of blue-bell skies;
Pale peaks that rise against the gold of eve,;
And on one height, the splendors never leave,
Ouir castled home o'er which the wild swan
flies.

There, pitiless, the ruined hand of death
Should never reach. No bud, no thing should
fade;
All should be perfect, pure, and unafraid;
And life serener than an angel's breath.

The days should move to music; wildly tame
The nights should move to music and the
stars;
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And morn and evening in their opal cars,
Like heralds, banner God's eternal name.

o world! 0 life! desired and to be!
How shall we reach thee -dark the way and
dim.
-Give me your hand, love, let us follow him,
Love with the mystery and the melody.

le, observing the various flowers around them:

Violets and anemnones
The surrendered hours
Pour, as handsets, round the knees
Of the Spring, who to the breeze
Flings her myriad flowers.

Like to coins the sumptuous day
Strews with blossoms golden
Every furlong of his way,-
Like a Sultan gone to pray
At a Kaaba olden.

And the night, with spark on spark,
Clad in dim attire,
Dots with Stars the haloed dark,-
As a priest around the Ark
Lights his lamps of fire.

These are but the cosmic strings
To the harp of Beauty,
To that instrument which sings
In our souls of love that brings
Peace and faith and duty.

She, seriously:

Duty -Comfort of the sinner
And the saint!-when grief and trial
Weigh us, and within our inner
Selves,-responsive to love's viol,-
Hope's soft voice grows thin and thinner,
It is kin to self-denial.

Self-denial !-through whose feeling
Wae are gainer though we're loser;
All the finer force revealing
Of our natures. No accuser
Is the conscience then, but healing
Of the wound of which we're chooser.

Some one said no flower knoweth
Of the fragrance it revealeth;
Song, its soul that overfloweth,
Never nightingale's heart feeleth-
Such the love the spirit groweth,
Love unconscious if it healeth.

He, af ter a pause, lightly:

An elf there is who stables the hot
Red wasp that stings on the apricot;
An elf who rowels his spiteful bay
Like a mote on a ray, away, away;
An elf who saddles the hornet lean
To din i' the ear o' the swinging bean;
Who straddles, with cap cocked all awry,
The bottle-blue back o' the dragon-fly.

And this is the elf who sips and sips
From clover-horns whence the perfume drips;
And, drunk with dew, in the glimmering gloam
Awaits the wild-bee's coming home;
In ambush lies, where none may see,
And robs the caravan bumble-bee-
Gold bags of honey the bees must pay
To the bandit elf of the fairy way.

Another ouphen the butterflies know,
Who paints their wings with the hues that
glow
On blossoms.-Squeezing from tubes of dew
Pansy colors of every hue
On his bloom's pied pallet, he paints the wings
Of the butterflies, moths, and other things.
This is the elf that the hollyhocks hear,
Who dangles a brilliant in each one's ear;

Teases at noon the pane's green fly,
And lights at night the glow-worm's eye.

But the dearest elf, so the poets say,
Is the elf who hides in an eye of gray;
Who curls in a dimple and slips along
The strings of a lute to a lover's song;
Who smiles in her smile, and frowns in her
frown,
And dreams in the scent of her glove or gown;
Hides and beckons as all may note
In the bloom or the bow of a mnaiden's throat.

She, staiiding among the flowers:

Soft through the trees the night wind sighs,
And swoons and dies.
Above, the stars hang wanly white;
Here, through the dark,
A drizzled gold, the fireflies
Rain mimic stars in spark on spark.-
'Tis time to part, to say good-night.
Good-night.

From fern to flower the night-moths cross
At drowsy loss.
The moon drifts veiled through clouds of white;
And pearly pale,
A silver blur, through beds of moss,
Their tiny moons the oglTw-worms trail.-

'Tis time to part, to say good-night.
Good-night.

He, at parting, as they proceed down
the garden:

You say you cannot wed me, now
That roses and the June are here
To your decision I must bow.-
Ah, well! 'tis just as well, my dear:
We'll swear again each old love vow,
And wait another year.

Another year of love with you!
Of dreams and doubts, of sun and rain!
When field and forest bloom anew,
And locust clusters pelt the lane,
When all the song-birds wed and woo,
I'll not take "no" again.

Oft shall I lie awake and mark
The hours by no clanging clock,
But in the dim and distant dark
The crowing of some punctual cock;
Then up as early as the lark
To meet you by our rock.

The rock where first we met at tryst;
Where first I wooed and won your love-

Remember how the moon and mist
Made mystery of the heaven above
As now to-night-How first I kissed
Your lips, you trembling like a dove

So, then, you cannot wed me inow
That roses and the June are here,
That warmth and fragrance weigh each bough
And yet your reason is not clear.
Ah, well! We'll swear anew each vow,
And wait another year.

PART II

EARLY SUMMER

The cricket in the rose-bush hedge
Sings by the vine-entangled gate;
The slim moon slants a timid edge
Of pearl through one low cloud of slate;
Around dark door and trindow-ledge
Like dreams the shadows weait.
And through the sum'Mer dusk she goes,
On her white breast a crimson rose.

She delays, meditating. A rainy afternoon.

Gray skies and the foggy rain
Dripping from sullen eaves;
Over and over again
Dull drop of the trickling leaves;
And the woodward-winding lane,
And the hill with its shocks of sheaves
One scarce perceives.

Shall I go in such wet weather
By the lane or over the hill-
Wphere the blossoming milkweed's feather
The drops like diamonds fill;

Where, draggled and drenched together,
The ox-eyes rank the rill,
To the old corn-mill.

The creek by now is swollen,
And its foaming cascades sound;
And the lilies, smeared with pollen,
In the darn look dull and drowned.
'Tis a path I oft have stolen
To the bridoe that rambles round
With willows bound.

Through a valley wild with berry,
Packed thick with the iron-weeds,
And elder.-washed and very
Fragrant,-the fenced path leads;
Past oak and wilding cherry
To a place of flags and reeds,
That the water bredes.

The sun through the sad sky bleaches-
Is that a thrush that calls
That bird who so beseeches
And see! on the balsam's balls,
And leaves of the water-beeches-
One blister of wart-like galls-
No raindrop falls.

My Shawl instead of a bonnet! . .
Though the woods be soaking yet,
Through the wet to the rock I'll run it,-

How sweet to meet i' the wet!
Our rock with the vine upon it,-
Each flower a fiery jet-
Where oft we've met!

Theyi meet. He speakls.

How fresh the purple clover
Smells in its veil of rain!
And where the leaves brimn over
How fragrant is the lane!
See, bow the sodden acres,
Forlorn of all their rakers,
Their hay and harvest makers,
Look green as spring again.

Drops from the trumpet flowers
Rain on us as we pass;
And every zephyr showers,
From tilted leaf or grass,
Clear beads of moisture, seeming
Pale, pointed emeralds gleaming;
Where, through the green boughs streaming,
The daylight strikes like glass.

Ale speaks.

How dewy, clean and fragrant
Look now the green and gold!-

And breezes trailing vagrant
Spill all the spice they hold.
The west begins to glimmer;
And shadows, stretching slimmer,
Crouch on the ways; and dimmer
Grow field and forest old.

Beyond those rainy reaches
Of woodland, far and lone,
A whi ppoorwill beseeches;
And now an owvl's vague moan
Strikes faint upon the hearing.-
These say the dusk is nearing.
And, see, the heavens clearing
lake on a tender tone.

How feebly chirps the cricket!
How thin the tree-toads cry!
Blurred in the wild-rose thicket
Gleams wet the firefly.-
This way toward home is nearest;
Of weeds and briars clearest . . .
We'll meet to-morrow. dearest;
Till then, dear heart, good-bye.

They mleet again untder the greenwcood tree.
He speaks:

Here at last! And do you know
That again you've kept me waiting

Wondering, anticipating.
If your "yes" meant "no."

.Now you're here we'll have our day
Let us take this daisied hollow,
And beneath these beeches follow
This wild strip of way

Towards the streamn: wherein are seen
Stealing gar and darting minnow;
Over which snake-feeders winnow
Wings of black and green.

Like a cactus flames the sun;
And the mighty weaver, Even.
Tenuous colored, there in heaven,
His rich weft's begun .

How I love you! from the time-
You remember, do you not-
When, within your orchard-plot,
I was reading rhyme,

As I told you. And 't was thus-
"Bv the blue Trinacrian sea,
Far in pastoral Sicily
With Theocritus"-

That I answered you who asked.
But the curious part was this:-

That the whole thing was amiss;
That the Greek but masked

Tales of old Boccaccio-
Tall Decameronian maids
Strolled among Italian glades,
Smiling, sweet and slow.

And when you approached,-my book
Dropped in wonder,-seemingly
To myself I said, " 'Tis she!"
And arose to look

In Lauretta's eyes and-true!
Found them yours.-You shook your head.
Laughing at me, as you said,
"Did I frighten you"

You had come for cherries; these
Dreamily I climbed for while
You still questioned with a smile,
And still tried to tease.

Ah, love, just two years have gone
Since then. I remember, you
Wore a dress of billowy blue
Muslin, or of lawn.

And that apron still I see,-
White, with cherry-juice red-staiiled,-

Which you held; wherein I rained
Ripeness from the tree.

And I asked you-for, you know,
To my eyes your serious eyes
Spoke such sweet philosophies,-
If you'd read Rousseau.

You remember how a chance,
Somewhat like to mine, one June
Happened him at castle Toune,
Over there in France

And a cherry dropping fair
On your cheek I, envying it,
Said-remembering Rousseau's wit-
"Would my lips were there!"

How you laughed and blushed, I know.-
Here's the stream. The west has narrowed
To a streak of gold, deep arrowed.-
There's a skiff. Let's row.

Entering the skiff, she speaks:

Waters, flowing dark and bright
In the sunlight or the moon,
Seize my soul with such delight

As a visible music might;
As some slow, majestic tune
Made material to the sight.

Blossoms colored like the skies,
Sunset-hued and tame or wild,
Fill my soul with such surmise
As the mind might realize
If our thoughts, all undefiled,
Should take torm before our eyes.

So to me do these appeal;
So they sway me every hour:
Letting all their beauty steal
On mv soul to make it feel,
Through a rivulet or flower,
More than any words reveal.

He speaks, rowcing.

See, sweetheart, how the lilies lay
Their lambent leaves about our way;
Or, pollen-dusty, nod and float
Their moon-like flowers around our boat.-
The middle of the stream we've reached
Three strokes from where our boat was
beached.

Look up. You scarce can see the sky,
Through trees that lean, dark, deep, and high;
And coiled with grape and trailing vine

Build a vast roof of shade and shine;
A house of leaves, where shadows walk,
And whispering winds and waters talk.

There is no path. The saplings choke
The trunks they spring from. There an oak
Lies rotting; and that sycamore,
Which lays its bulk fron shore to shore,-
Uprooted by the floods,-perchance,
May be the bridge to some romance.

Now opening through a willow fringe
The waters creep, one tawny tinge
Of sunset; and on either marge
The cottonwoods make walls of shade;
And, near, the gradual hills loom large
Within its mnirror. Herons wade,
Or fly,, like Faery birds, from grass
That mats the shore by which we pass.

She speaki7s.

On we pass; we rippling pass,
On sunset waters still as glass.
A vesper-sparrow flies above
Soft twittering to its woodland love.
A whippoorwill now calls afar;
And 'gainst the west, like some swift star,
A glittering jay flies screaming. Slim
The sand-snipes and king-fishers skim
Before us; and some evening thrush-

Who may discover where such sing--
The silence rinses with a gush
Of mellow music bubbling.

lie speakos.

On we pass.- Now let us oar
To yonder strip of ragged shore,
Where, from a rock with lichens hoar,
A ferny spring wells. Gliding by
The sulphur-colored firefly
Lights its pale lamp where inallows gloom,
And wild-bean and wild-mustard bloom.-
Some hunter there within the woods
Last fall encamped those ashes say
And campfire boughs.-The solitudes
Grow dreamy with the death of day.

She sings.

Over the fields of millet
A young bird tries its wings;
And sweet as a woodland rillet,
Its first wild music rings-
Soul of my soul, where the meadows roll
What is the song it sings

"Love, and a glad good-morrow,
Heart where the rapture is!

Good-morrow, good-morrow!
Adieu to sorrow!
here is the road to bliss:
Where all day long you may hearken my song
And kiss, kiss, kiss!"

Over the fields of clover,
Where the wild bee drones and sways,
The wind, like a shepherd lover,
Flutes on the fragrant ways-
Heart of my heart, where the blossoms part,
What is the air he plays

"Love, and a song to follow,
Soul with the face a-gleam!
Co-lme follow, come follow,
O'er hill and o'er hollow,
To the land o' the bloom and beamer;
Where under the flowers you may listen for
hours,
And dream, (dream, dlearn!"

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le specks, letting the boat drift.

Here the shores are irised. Grasses
Chuimp the water dark that glasses
Broken wood and deepened distance.
Far the musical persistence
Of a field-lark lingers low
In the west where tulips blow.

White before us flames one pointed
Star; and Day hath Night anointed
King; from out her azure ewer
Pouring starry fire, truer
Than pure gold. Star-crowned he stands
With the star-light in his hands.

Will the moon bleach through the ragged
Tree-tops ere we reach yon jagged
Rock, that rises gradually,
Pharos of our homeward valley-
All the west is smouldering red;
Embers are the stars o'erhead.

At my soul some Protean elf is;
You're Simaetha; I am Delphis.
You are Sappho and your Phaon,
I.-We love.-There lies a ray on
All the Dark LEolian seas
'Round the violet Lesbian leas.

On we drift. I love you. Nearer
Looms our island. Rosier, clearer,
The Leucadian cliff we follow,
Where the temple of Apollo
Shines-a pale and pillared fire . . .
Strike, oh, strike the Lydian lyre!
While in Hellas still we seem,
Let us sing of that we dream.

Landing he sings.

Night, night, 'tis night. The moon drifts low
above us,
And all its gold is tangled in the stream:
Love, love, my love, and all the stars, that love
l's,
Tithe stars smile down and every star's a dream.

In odorous purple, where the falling warble
Of water cascades and the plunged foam glows,
A columned ruin lifts its sculptured marble
Friezed with the chiselled rebeck and the rose.

She sings.

Sleep, Sleep, sweet Sleep sleeps at the drifting
tiller,
And in our sail the Spirit of the Rain--
Love, love, May love. ah, bid thy heart be stiller,
And. hark! the music of the resonant main.

WYhat flowers are those that blow their balm
unto us
From mouths of wild aroma, each a flame-
That breathe of love, of love we know that drew
us,
That kissed our eyes, so we might see the same.

He speaks.

Night, night, 'tis night!-no dream is this to
banish;
The temple and the nightingale are there!
Our love has made them, nevermore to vanish,
Real as yon moon, this wild-rose in your hair.

Night, night, 'tis night!-and love's