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Fair are thy leaves when summer glowing

 Lies in the lap of swooning spring;

But where art thou when autumn; blowing;

 Bids youth and tenderness take wing?



Sweet messenger! thou waftest beauty

 Wherever human lives are sown;

Around the peasant's humble duty

 Or weary grandeurs of a throne。



Transfused through hearts in future ages;

 Thy glowing power anew may shine

Effulgent in the poets' pages

 Or music's harmony divine。



But not to thee from future glory

 Can shine one added charm or day;

Sweet is thy life's unwritten story

 Of radiant bloom and swift decay。



Give; then; to vagrant winds thy sweetness;

 Shine; tearful; in the summer shower;

And; heedless of thy season's fleetness;

 Enrich with joy the passing hour。









Mrs。 James Glenny Wilson。







  Fairyland





Do you remember that careless band;

Riding o'er meadow and wet sea…sand;

 One autumn day; in a mist of sunshine;

Joyously seeking for fairyland?



The wind in the tree…tops was scarcely heard;

The streamlet repeated its one silver word;

 And far away; o'er the depths of wood…land;

Floated the bell of the parson…bird。



Pale hoar…frost glittered in shady slips;

Where ferns were dipping their finger…tips;

 From mossy branches a faint perfume

Breathed o'er honeyed Clematis lips。



At last we climbed to the ridge on high

Ah; crystal vision!  Dreamland nigh!

 Far; far below us; the wide Pacific

Slumbered in azure from sky to sky。



And cloud and shadow; across the deep

Wavered; or paused in enchanted sleep;

 And eastward; the purple…misted islets

Fretted the wave with terrace and steep。



We looked on the tranquil; glassy bay;

On headlands sheeted in dazzling spray;

 And the whitening ribs of a wreck forlorn

That for twenty years had wasted away。



All was so calm; and pure and fair;

It seemed the hour of worship there;

 Silent; as where the great North…Minster

Rises for ever; a visible prayer。



Then we turned from the murmurous forest…land;

And rode over shingle and silver sand;

 For so fair was the earth in the golden autumn;

That we sought no farther for Fairyland。







  A Winter Daybreak





From the dark gorge; where burns the morning star;

 I hear the glacier river rattling on

And sweeping o'er his ice…ploughed shingle…bar;

 While wood owls shout in sombre unison;

And fluttering southern dancers glide and go;

And black swan's airy trumpets wildly; sweetly blow。



The cock crows in the windy winter morn;

 Then must I rise and fling the curtain by。

 All dark!  But for a strip of fiery sky

Behind the ragged mountains; peaked and torn。

 One planet glitters in the icy cold;

Poised like a hawk above the frozen peaks;

And now again the wild nor'…wester speaks;

 And bends the cypress; shuddering; to his fold;

While every timber; every casement creaks。

 But still the skylarks sing aloud and bold;

The wooded hills arise; the white cascade

Shakes with wild laughter all the silent shadowy glade。



Now from the shuttered east a silvery bar

Shines through the mist; and shows the mild daystar。

 The storm…wrapped peaks start out and fade again;

 And rosy vapours skirt the pastoral plain;

The garden paths with hoary rime are wet;

And sweetly breathes the winter violet;

The jonquil half unfolds her ivory cup;

With clouds of gold…eyed daisies waking up。



Pleasant it is to turn and see the fire

Dance on the hearth; as he would never tire;

 The home…baked loaf; the Indian bean's perfume;

 Fill with their homely cheer the panelled room。

Come; crazy storm!  And thou; wild glittering hail;

Rave o'er the roof and wave your icy veil;

Shout in our ears and take your madcap way!

I laugh at storms! for Roderick comes to…day。







  The Lark's Song





The morning is wild and dark;

 The night mist runs on the vale;

Bright Lucifer dies to a spark;

 And the wind whistles up for a gale。

And stormy the day may be

 That breaks through its prison bars;

But it brings no regret to me;

 For I sing at the door of the stars!



Along the dim ocean…verge

 I see the ships labouring on;

They rise on the lifting surge

 One moment; and they are gone。

I see on the twilight plain

 The flash of the flying cars;

Men travail in joy or pain 

 But I sing at the door of the stars!



I see the green; sleeping world;

 The pastures all glazed with rime;

The smoke from the chimney curled;

 I hear the faint church bells chime。

I see the grey mountain crest;

 The slopes; and the forest spars;

With the dying moon on their breast 

 While I sing at the door of the stars!









Edward Booth Loughran。







  Dead Leaves





When these dead leaves were green; love;

 November's skies were blue;

And summer came with lips aflame;

 The gentle spring to woo;

And to us; wandering hand in hand;

 Life was a fairy scene;

That golden morning in the woods

 When these dead leaves were green!



How dream…like now that dewy morn;

 Sweet with the wattle's flowers;

When love; love; love was all our theme;

 And youth and hope were ours!

Two happier hearts in all the land

 There were not then; I ween;

Than those young lovers'  yours and mine 

 When these dead leaves were green。



How gaily did you pluck these leaves

 From the acacia's bough;

To mark the lyric we had read 

 I can repeat it now!

While came the words; like music sweet;

 Your smiling lips between 

〃So fold my love within your heart;〃

 When these dead leaves were green!



How many springs have passed since then?

 Ah; wherefore should we count;

The years that sped; like waters fled

 From Time's unstaying fount?

We've had our share of happiness;

 Our share of care have seen;

But love alone has never flown

 Since these dead leaves were green。



Your heart is kind and loving still;

 Your face to me as fair;

As when; that morn; the sunshine played

 Amid your golden hair。

So; dearest; sweethearts still we'll be;

 As we have ever been;

And keep our love as fresh and true

 As when these leaves were green。







  Isolation





Man lives alone; star…like; each soul

 In its own orbit circles ever;

Myriads may by or round it roll 

 The ways may meet; but mingle never。



Self…pois'd; each soul its course pursues

 In light or dark; companionless:

Drop into drop may blend the dews 

 The spirit's law is loneliness。



If seemingly two souls unite;

 'Tis but as joins yon silent mere

The stream that through it; flashing bright;

 Carries its waters swift and clear。



The fringes of the rushing tide

 May on the lake's calm bosom sleep 

Its hidden spirit doth abide

 Apart; still bearing toward the deep。



O Love; to me more dear than life!

 O Friend; more faithful than a brother!

How many a bitter inward strife

 Our souls have never told each other!



We journey side by side for years;

 We dream our lives; our hopes are one 

And with some chance…said word appears

 The spanless gulf; so long unknown!



For candour's want yet neither blame;

 Even to ourselves but half…confessed;

Glows in each heart some silent flame;

 Blooms some hope…violet of the breast。



And temptings dark; and struggles deep

 There are; each soul alone must bear;

Through midnight hours unblest with sleep;

 Through burning noontides of despair。



And kindly is the ordinance sent

 By which each spirit dwells apart 

Could Love or Friendship live; if rent

 The 〃Bluebeard chambers of the heart〃?







  Ishmonie





The traveller tells how; in that ancient clime

Whose mystic monuments and ruins hoar

Still struggle with the antiquary's lore;

To guard the secrets of a by…gone time;

He saw; uprising from the desert bare;

Like a white ghost; a city of the dead;

With palaces and temples wondrous fair;

Where moon…horn'd Isis once was worshipped。

But silence; like a pall; did all enfold;

And the inhabitants were turn'd to stone 

Yea; stone the very heart of every one!

Once to a rich man I this tale re…told。

〃Stone hearts!  A traveller's myth!〃  he turn'd aside;

As Hunger begg'd; pale…featured and wild…eyed。









John Liddell Kelly。







  Immortality





At twenty…five I cast my horoscope;

 And saw a future with all good things rife 

 A firm assurance of eternal life

In worlds beyond; and in this world the hope

Of deathless fame。  But now my sun doth slope

 To setting; and the toil of sordid strife;

 The care of food and raiment; child and wife;

Have dimmed and narrowed all my spirit's scope。



Eternal life  a river gulphed in sands!

 Undying fame  a rainbow lost in clouds!

 What hope of immortality remains

But this:  〃Some soul that loves and understands

 Shall save thee from the darkness that enshrouds〃;

 And this:  〃Thy blood shall course in others' veins〃?







  Heredity





More than a fleshly immortality

 Is mine。  Though I myself return again

 To dust; my qualities of heart and brain;

Of soul and spirit; shall not cease to be。

I view them growing; day by day; in thee;

 My first…begotten son; I trace them plain

 In you; my daughters; and I count it gain

Myself renewed and multiplied to see。



But sadness mingles with my selfish joy;

 At thought of what you may be called to bear。

Oh; passionate maid!  Oh; glad; impulsive boy!

 Your father's sad experience you must share 

Self…torture; the unfeeling world's annoy;

 Gross pleasure; fierce exultance; grim despair!









Robert Richardson。







  A Ballade of Wattle Blossom





There's a land that is happy and fair;

 Set gem…like in halcyon seas;

The white winters visit not there;

 To sadden its blossoming leas;

 More bland than the Hesperides;

Or any warm isle of the West;


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