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   With your bucket of water�察�and mop�察�and brush��
      Bringing her out of the grime
That has smeared her during the smokes of winter
         With such glumness
         In her dumbness��
      And aged her before her time。

   You have washed her down with motherly care ´
      Head�察�shoulders�察�arm�察�and foot��
To the very hem of the robes that drape her ´
         All expertly
         And alertly��
      Till a long stream�察�black with soot��

   Flows over the pavement to the road��
      And her shape looms pure as snow��
I read you are hired by the City guardians ´
         May be yearly��
         Or once merely ´
      To treat the statues so��

   ;Oh�察�I'm not hired by the Councilmen
      To cleanse the statues here。
I do this one as a self´willed duty��
         Not as paid to��
         Or at all made to��
      But because the doing is dear。;

   Ah�察�then I hail you brother and friend��
      Liberty's knight divine。
What you have done would have been my doing��
         Yea�察�most verily��
         Well�察�and thoroughly��
      Had but your courage been mine��

   ;Oh I care not for Liberty's mould��
      Liberty charms not me��
What's Freedom but an idler's vision��
         Vain�察�pernicious��
         Often vicious��
      Of things that cannot be��

   ;Memory it is that brings me to this ´
      Of a daughtermy one sweet own。
She grew a famous carver's model��
         One of the fairest
         And of the rarest�此�
      She sat for the figure as shown。

   ;But alas�察�she died in this distant place
      Before I was warned to betake
Myself to her side�  � 。 。 And in love of my darling��
         In love of the fame of her��
         And the good name of her��
      I do this for her sake。;

   Answer I gave not。  Of that form
      The carver was I at his side��
His child�察�my model�察�held so saintly��
         Grand in feature��
         Gross in nature��
      In the dens of vice had died。



THE BACKGROUND AND THE FIGURE
��Lover's Ditty��



I think of the slope where the rabbits fed��
   Of the periwinks' rockwork lair��
Of the fuchsias ringing their bells of red ´
   And the something else seen there。

Between the blooms where the sod basked bright��
   By the bobbing fuchsia trees��
Was another and yet more eyesome sight ´
   The sight that richened these。

I shall seek those beauties in the spring��
   When the days are fit and fair��
But only as foils to the one more thing
   That also will flower there��



THE CHANGE



   Out of the past there rises a week ´
      Who shall read the years O�  �
   Out of the past there rises a week
      Enringed with a purple zone。
   Out of the past there rises a week
   When thoughts were strung too thick to speak��
And the magic of its lineaments remains with me alone。

   In that week there was heard a singing ´
      Who shall spell the years�察�the years�  �
   In that week there was heard a singing��
      And the white owl wondered why。
   In that week�察�yea�察�a voice was ringing��
   And forth from the casement were candles flinging
Radiance that fell on the deodar and lit up the path thereby。

   Could that song have a mocking note�拭 �
      Who shall unroll the years O�  �
   Could that song have a mocking note
      To the white owl's sense as it fell��
   Could that song have a mocking note
   As it trilled out warm from the singer's throat��
And who was the mocker and who the mocked when two felt all was well��

   In a tedious trampling crowd yet later ´
      Who shall bare the years�察�the years�  �
   In a tedious trampling crowd yet later��
      When silvery singings were dumb��
   In a crowd uncaring what time might fate her��
   Mid murks of night I stood to await her��
And the twanging of iron wheels gave out the signal that she was
come。

   She said with a travel´tired smile ´
      Who shall lift the years O�  �
   She said with a travel´tired smile��
      Half scared by scene so strange��
   She said�察�outworn by mile on mile��
   The blurred lamps wanning her face the while��
;O Love�察�I am here�察�I am with you� ─ � 。 。 Ah�察�that there should have
come a change��

   O the doom by someone spoken ´
      Who shall unseal the years�察�the years�  �
   O the doom that gave no token��
      When nothing of bale saw we��
   O the doom by someone spoken��
   O the heart by someone broken��
The heart whose sweet reverberances are all time leaves to me。

Jan。´Feb。  1913。



SITTING ON THE BRIDGE
��Echo of an old song��



   Sitting on the bridge
   Past the barracks�察�town and ridge��
At once the spirit seized us
To sing a song that pleased us ´
As ;The Fifth; were much in rumour��
It was ;Whilst I'm in the humour��
   Take me�察�Paddy�察�will you now�拭�
   And a lancer soon drew nigh��
   And his Royal Irish eye
   Said�察 �Willing�察�faith�察�am I��
O�察�to take you anyhow�察�dears��
   To take you anyhow。;

   But�察�lo��dad walking by��
   Cried�察 �What�察�you lightheels�  �Fie��
   Is this the way you roam
   And mock the sunset gleam�拭�
   And he marched us straightway home��
Though we said�察 �We are only�察�daddy��
Singing�察�'Will you take me�察�Paddy��';
  Well�察�we never saw from then
   If we sang there anywhen��
   The soldier dear again��
Except at night in dream´time��
   Except at night in dream。

Perhaps that soldier's fighting
   In a land that's far away��
Or he may be idly plighting
   Some foreign hussy gay��
Or perhaps his bones are whiting
   In the wind to their decay�  � 。 。
   Ah��does he mind him how
   The girls he saw that day
On the bridge�察�were sitting singing
At the time of curfew´ringing��
;Take me�察�Paddy�察�will you now�察�dear��
   Paddy�察�will you now�拭�

GREY'S BRIDGE。



THE YOUNG CHURCHWARDEN



When he lit the candles there��
And the light fell on his hand��
And it trembled as he scanned
Her and me�察�his vanquished air
Hinted that his dream was done��
And I saw he had begun
   To understand。

When Love's viol was unstrung��
Sore I wished the hand that shook
Had been mine that shared her book
While that evening hymn was sung��
His the victor's�察�as he lit
Candles where he had bidden us sit
   With vanquished look。

Now her dust lies listless there��
His afar from tending hand��
What avails the victory scanned��
Does he smile from upper air��
;Ah�察�my friend�察�your dream is done��
And 'tis YOU who have begun
   To understand��



;I TRAVEL AS A PHANTOM NOW;



I travel as a phantom now��
For people do not wish to see
In flesh and blood so bare a bough
   As Nature makes of me。

And thus I visit bodiless
Strange gloomy households often at odds��
And wonder if Man's consciousness
   Was a mistake of God's。

And next I meet you�察�and I pause��
And think that if mistake it were��
As some have said�察�O then it was
   One that I well can bear��

1915。



LINES
TO A MOVEMENT IN MOZART'S E´FLAT SYMPHONY



      Show me again the time
      When in the Junetide's prime
   We flew by meads and mountains northerly�  �
Yea�察�to such freshness�察�fairness�察�fulness�察�fineness�察�freeness��
      Love lures life on。

      Show me again the day
      When from the sandy bay
   We looked together upon the pestered sea�  �
Yea�察�to such surging�察�swaying�察�sighing�察�swelling�察�shrinking��
      Love lures life on。

      Show me again the hour
      When by the pinnacled tower
   We eyed each other and feared futurity�  �
Yea�察�to such bodings�察�broodings�察�beatings�察�blanchings�察�blessings��
      Love lures life on。

      Show me again just this��
      The moment of that kiss
   Away from the prancing folk�察�by the strawberry´tree�  �
Yea�察�to such rashness�察�ratheness�察�rareness�察�ripeness�察�richness��
      Love lures life on。

Begun November 1898。



;IN THE SEVENTIES;



;Qui deridetur ab amico suo sicut ego。;JOB。

In the seventies I was bearing in my breast��
         Penned tight��
Certain starry thoughts that threw a magic light
On the worktimes and the soundless hours of rest
In the seventies�察�aye�察�I bore them in my breast
         Penned tight。

In the seventies when my neighbourseven my friend ´
         Saw me pass��
Heads were shaken�察�and I heard the words�察 �Alas��
For his onward years and name unless he mend� �
In the seventies�察�when my neighbours and my friend
      Saw me pass。

In the seventies those who met me did not know
      Of the vision
That immuned me from the chillings of mis´prision
And the damps that choked my goings to and fro
In the seventies�察�yea�察�those nodders did not know
      Of the vision。

In the seventies nought could darken or destroy it��
      Locked in me��
Though as delicate as lamp´worm's lucency��
Neither mist nor murk could weaken or alloy it
In the seventies��could not darken or destroy it��
      Locked in me。



THE PEDIGREE



I

         I bent in the deep of night
      Over a pedigree the chronicler gave
      As mine�察�and as I bent there�察�half´unrobed��
The uncurtained panes of my window´square let in the watery light
         Of the moon in its old age��
And green´rheumed clouds were hurrying past where mute and cold it
globed
   Like a drifting dolphin's eye seen through a lapping wave。

II

         So�察�scanning my sire´sown tree��
      And the hieroglyphs of this spouse tied to that��
         With offspring mapped below in lineage��
         Till the tangles troubled me��
The branches seemed to twist into a seared and cynic face
   Which winked and tokened towards the window like a Mage
      Enchanting me to gaze again thereat。

III

         It was a mirror now��
      And in it a long perspective I could trace
   Of my begetters�察�dwindling backward each past each
         All with the kindred look��
      Whose names had since been inked down in their place
         On the recorder's book��
Generation and generation of my mien�察�and build�察�and brow。

IV

         And then did I divine
      That every heave and coil and move I made
      Within my brain�察�and in my mood and speech��
         Was in the glass portrayed
      As long forestalled by their so making it��
   The first of them�察�the primest fuglemen of my line��
Being fogged in far antiqueness past surmise and reason's reach。

V

         Said I then�察�sunk in tone��
  

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