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Everywhere I see around me rise the wondrous world of Art:

Fountains wrought with richest sculpture standing in the common

mart;



And above cathedral doorways saints and bishops carved in stone;

By a former age commissioned as apostles to our own。



In the church of sainted Sebald sleeps enshrined his holy dust;

And in bronze the Twelve Apostles guard from age to age their

trust;



In the church of sainted Lawrence stands a pix of sculpture rare;

Like the foamy sheaf of fountains; rising through the painted

air。



Here; when Art was still religion; with a simple; reverent heart;

Lived and labored Albrecht Durer; the Evangelist of Art;



Hence in silence and in sorrow; toiling still with busy hand;

Like an emigrant he wandered; seeking for the Better Land。



Emigravit is the inscription on the tombstone where he lies;

Dead he is not; but departed;for the artist never dies。



Fairer seems the ancient city; and the sunshine seems more fair;

That he once has trod its pavement; that he once has breathed its

air!



Through these streets so broad and stately; these obscure and

dismal lanes;

Walked of yore the Mastersingers; chanting rude poetic strains。



From remote and sunless suburbs came they to the friendly guild;

Building nests in Fame's great temple; as in spouts the swallows

build。



As the weaver plied the shuttle; wove he too the mystic rhyme;

And the smith his iron measures hammered to the anvil's chime;



Thanking God; whose boundless wisdom makes the flowers of poesy

bloom

In the forge's dust and cinders; in the tissues of the loom。



Here Hans Sachs; the cobbler…poet; laureate of the gentle craft;

Wisest of the Twelve Wise Masters; in huge folios sang and

laughed。



But his house is now an ale…house; with a nicely sanded floor;

And a garland in the window; and his face above the door;



Painted by some humble artist; as in Adam Puschman's song;

As the old man gray and dove…like; with his great beard white and

long。



And at night the swart mechanic comes to drown his cark and care;

Quaffing ale from pewter tankard; in the master's antique chair。



Vanished is the ancient splendor; and before my dreamy eye

Wave these mingled shapes and figures; like a faded tapestry。



Not thy Councils; not thy Kaisers; win for thee the world's

regard;

But thy painter; Albrecht Durer; and Hans Sachs thy cobbler…bard。



Thus; O Nuremberg; a wanderer from a region far away;

As he paced thy streets and court…yards; sang in thought his

careless lay:



Gathering from the pavement's crevice; as a floweret of the soil;

The nobility of labor;the long pedigree of toil。







THE NORMAN BARON

  Dans les moments de la vie ou la reflexion devient plus calme

et plus profonde; ou l'interet et l'avarice parlent moins haut

que la raison; dans les instants de chagrin domestique; de

maladie; et de peril de mort; les nobles se repentirent de

posseder des serfs; comme d'une chose peu agreable a Dieu; qui

avait cree tous les hommes a son image。THIERRY; Conquete de

l'Angleterre。



In his chamber; weak and dying;

Was the Norman baron lying;

Loud; without; the tempest thundered

      And the castle…turret shook;



In this fight was Death the gainer;

Spite of vassal and retainer;

And the lands his sires had plundered;

      Written in the Doomsday Book。



By his bed a monk was seated;

Who in humble voice repeated

Many a prayer and pater…noster;

      From the missal on his knee;



And; amid the tempest pealing;

Sounds of bells came faintly stealing;

Bells; that from the neighboring kloster

      Rang for the Nativity。



In the hall; the serf and vassal

Held; that night their Christmas wassail;

Many a carol; old and saintly;

      Sang the minstrels and the waits;



And so loud these Saxon gleemen

Sang to slaves the songs of freemen;

That the storm was heard but faintly;

      Knocking at the castle…gates。



Till at length the lays they chanted

Reached the chamber terror…haunted;

Where the monk; with accents holy;

      Whispered at the baron's ear。



Tears upon his eyelids glistened;

As he paused awhile and listened;

And the dying baron slowly

      Turned his weary head to hear。



〃Wassail for the kingly stranger

Born and cradled in a manger!

King; like David; priest; like Aaron;

      Christ is born to set us free!〃



And the lightning showed the sainted

Figures on the casement painted;

And exclaimed the shuddering baron;

      〃Miserere; Domine!〃



In that hour of deep contrition

He beheld; with clearer vision;

Through all outward show and fashion;

      Justice; the Avenger; rise。



All the pomp of earth had vanished;

Falsehood and deceit were banished;

Reason spake more loud than passion;

      And the truth wore no disguise。



Every vassal of his banner;

Every serf born to his manor;

All those wronged and wretched creatures;

      By his hand were freed again。



And; as on the sacred missal

He recorded their dismissal;

Death relaxed his iron features;

      And the monk replied; 〃Amen!〃



Many centuries have been numbered

Since in death the baron slumbered

By the convent's sculptured portal;

      Mingling with the common dust:



But the good deed; through the ages

Living in historic pages;

Brighter grows and gleams immortal;

      Unconsumed by moth or rust







RAIN IN SUMMER



How beautiful is the rain!

After the dust and heat;

In the broad and fiery street;

In the narrow lane;

How beautiful is the rain!



How it clatters along the roofs;

Like the tramp of hoofs

How it gushes and struggles out

From the throat of the overflowing spout!



Across the window…pane

It pours and pours;

And swift and wide;

With a muddy tide;

Like a river down the gutter roars

The rain; the welcome rain!



The sick man from his chamber looks

At the twisted brooks;

He can feel the cool

Breath of each little pool;

His fevered brain

Grows calm again;

And he breathes a blessing on the rain。



From the neighboring school

Come the boys;

With more than their wonted noise

And commotion;

And down the wet streets

Sail their mimic fleets;

Till the treacherous pool

Ingulfs them in its whirling

And turbulent ocean。



In the country; on every side;

Where far and wide;

Like a leopard's tawny and spotted hide;

Stretches the plain;

To the dry grass and the drier grain

How welcome is the rain!



In the furrowed land

The toilsome and patient oxen stand;

Lifting the yoke encumbered head;

With their dilated nostrils spread;

They silently inhale

The clover…scented gale;

And the vapors that arise

From the well…watered and smoking soil。

For this rest in the furrow after toil

Their large and lustrous eyes

Seem to thank the Lord;

More than man's spoken word。



Near at hand;

From under the sheltering trees;

The farmer sees

His pastures; and his fields of grain;

As they bend their tops

To the numberless beating drops

Of the incessant rain。

He counts it as no sin

That he sees therein

Only his own thrift and gain。



These; and far more than these;

The Poet sees!

He can behold

Aquarius old

Walking the fenceless fields of air;

And from each ample fold

Of the clouds about him rolled

Scattering everywhere

The showery rain;

As the farmer scatters his grain。



He can behold

Things manifold

That have not yet been wholly told;

Have not been wholly sung nor said。

For his thought; that never stops;

Follows the water…drops

Down to the graves of the dead;

Down through chasms and gulfs profound;

To the dreary fountain…head

Of lakes and rivers under ground;

And sees them; when the rain is done;

On the bridge of colors seven

Climbing up once more to heaven;

Opposite the setting sun。



Thus the Seer;

With vision clear;

Sees forms appear and disappear;

In the perpetual round of strange;

Mysterious change

From birth to death; from death to birth;

From earth to heaven; from heaven to earth;

Till glimpses more sublime

Of things; unseen before;

Unto his wondering eyes reveal

The Universe; as an immeasurable wheel

Turning forevermore

In the rapid and rushing river of Time。







TO A CHILD



Dear child! how radiant on thy mother's knee;

With merry…making eyes and jocund smiles;

Thou gazest at the painted tiles;

Whose figures grace;

With many a grotesque form and face。

The ancient chimney of thy nursery!

The lady with the gay macaw;

The dancing girl; the grave bashaw

With bearded lip and chin;

And; leaning idly o'er his gate;

Beneath the imperial fan of state;

The Chinese mandarin。



With what a look of proud command

Thou shakest in thy little hand

The coral rattle with its silver bells;

Making a merry tune!

Thousands of years in Indian seas

That coral grew; by slow degrees;

Until some deadly and wild monsoon

Dashed it on Coromandel's sand!

Those silver bells

Reposed of yore;

As shapeless ore;

Far down in the deep…sunken wells

Of darksome mines;

In some obscure and sunless place;

Beneath huge Chimborazo's base;

Or Potosi's o'erhanging pines

And thus for thee; O little child;

Through many a danger and escape;

The tall ships passed the stormy cape;

For thee in foreign lands remote;

Beneath a burning; tropic clime;

The Indian peasant; chasing the wild goat;

Himself as swift and wild;

In falling; clutched the frail arbute;

The fibres of whose shallow root;

Uplifted from the soil; betrayed

The silver veins beneath it laid;

The buried treasures of the miser; Time。



But; lo! thy door is left ajar!

Thou hearest footsteps from afar!

And; at the sound;

Thou turnest round

With quick and questioning eyes;

Like one; who; in a foreign land;

Beholds on 

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