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  XXIV





Forebodings are the fiends of Recreance;

The master of the moment; the clean seer

Of ages; too securely scans what is;

Ever to be appalled at what is not;

He sees beyond the groaning borough lines

Of Hell; God's highways gleaming; and he knows

That Love's complete communion is the end

Of anguish to the liberated man。







  XXV





Here by the windy docks I stand alone;

But yet companioned。  There the vessel goes;

And there my friend goes with it; but the wake

That melts and ebbs between that friend and me

Love's earnest is of Life's all…purposeful

And all…triumphant sailing; when the ships

Of Wisdom loose their fretful chains and swing

Forever from the crumbled wharves of Time。









Two Quatrains







  I



 Unity





As eons of incalculable strife

Are in the vision of one moment caught;

So are the common; concrete things of life

Divinely shadowed on the walls of Thought。







  II



 Paraphrase





We shriek to live; but no man ever lives

Till he has rid the ghost of human breath;

We dream to die; but no man ever dies

Till he has quit the road that runs to death。









Romance







  I



 Boys



We were all boys; and three of us were friends;

And we were more than friends; it seemed to me: 

Yes; we were more than brothers then; we three。 。 。 。

Brothers? 。 。 。  But we were boys; and there it ends。





  II



 James Wetherell



We never half believed the stuff

They told about James Wetherell;

We always liked him well enough;

And always tried to use him well;

But now some things have come to light;

And James has vanished from our view; 

There is n't very much to write;

There is n't very much to do。









The Torrent







I found a torrent falling in a glen

Where the sun's light shone silvered and leaf…split;

The boom; the foam; and the mad flash of it

All made a magic symphony; but when

I thought upon the coming of hard men

To cut those patriarchal trees away;

And turn to gold the silver of that spray;

I shuddered。  Yet a gladness now and then

Did wake me to myself till I was glad

In earnest; and was welcoming the time

For screaming saws to sound above the chime

Of idle waters; and for me to know

The jealous visionings that I had had

Were steps to the great place where trees and torrents go。









L'Envoi







Now in a thought; now in a shadowed word;

Now in a voice that thrills eternity;

Ever there comes an onward phrase to me

Of some transcendent music I have heard;

No piteous thing by soft hands dulcimered;

No trumpet crash of blood…sick victory;

But a glad strain of some still symphony

That no proud mortal touch has ever stirred。



There is no music in the world like this;

No character wherewith to set it down;

No kind of instrument to make it sing。

No kind of instrument?  Ah; yes; there is!

And after time and place are overthrown;

God's touch will keep its one chord quivering。













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