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!!!!隆堋響頼��紗秘慕禰厮宴和肝写偬堋響��
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��