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Dreams & Dust



by Don Marquis









TO

MY MOTHER

VIRGINIA WHITMORE MARQUIS









CONTENTS





PROEM 





DAYLIGHT HUMORS



THIS IS ANOTHER DAY 

APRIL SONG  

THE EARTH; IT IS ALSO A STAR  

THE NAME  

THE BIRTH 

A MOOD OF PAVLOWA 

THE POOL  

〃THEY HAD NO POET〃

NEW YORK  

A HYMN  

THE SINGER  

WORDS ARE NOT GUNS  

WITH THE SUBMARINES 

NICHOLAS OF MONTENEGRO  

DICKENS 

A POLITICIAN  

THE BAYONET 

THE BUTCHERS AT PRAYER  









SHADOWS



HAUNTED 

A NIGHTMARE 

THE MOTHER  

IN THE BAYOU  

THE SAILOR'S WIFE SPEAKS  

HUNTED  

A DREAM CHILD 

ACROSS THE NIGHT  

SEA CHANGES 

THE TAVERN OF DESPAIR 





COLORS AND SURFACES



A GOLDEN LAD  

THE SAGE AND THE WOMAN  

NEWS FROM BABYLON 

A RHYME OF THE ROADS  

THE LAND OF YESTERDAY 

OCTOBER 

CHANT OF THE CHANGING HOURS 





DREAMS AND DUST



SELVES  

THE WAGES 

IN MARS; WHAT AVATAR? 

THE GOD…MAKER; MAN  

UNREST  

THE PILTDOWN SKULL  

THE SEEKER  

THE AWAKENING 

A SONG OF MEN 

THE NOBLER LESSON 

AT LAST 





LYRICS



〃KING PANDION; HE IS DEAD〃  

DAVID TO BATHSHEBA  

THE JESTERS 

〃MARY; MARY; QUITE CONTRARY〃  

THE TRIOLET 

FROM THE BRIDGE 

〃PALADINS; PALADINS; YOUTH NOBLE…HEARTED〃 

〃MY LANDS; NOT THINE〃 

TO A DANCING DOLL 

LOWER NEW YORKA STORM 

AT SUNSET 

A CHRISTMAS GIFT  

SILVIA  

THE EXPLORERS 

EARLY AUTUMN  

〃TIME STEALS FROM LOVE〃 

THE RONDEAU 

VISITORS  

THE PARTING 

AN OPEN FIRE  





REALITIES



REALITIES 

THE STRUGGLE  

THE REBEL 

THE CHILD AND THE MILL  

〃SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI〃  

THE COMRADE 

ENVOI 











PROEM



〃SO LET THEM PASS; THESE SONGS OF MINE〃



So let them pass; these songs of mine;

Into oblivion; nor repine;

Abandoned ruins of large schemes;

Dimmed lights adrift from nobler dreams;



Weak wings I sped on quests divine;

So let them pass; these songs of mine。

They soar; or sink ephemeral

I care not greatly which befall!



For if no song I e'er had wrought;

Still have I loved and laughed and fought;

So let them pass; these songs of mine;

I sting too hot with life to whine!



Still shall I struggle; fail; aspire;

Lose God; and find Gods in the mire;

And drink dream…deep life's heady wine

So let them pass; these songs of mine。











DAYLIGHT HUMORS











THIS IS ANOTHER DAY



I AM mine own priest; and I shrive myself

Of all my wasted yesterdays。  Though sin

And sloth and foolishness; and all ill weeds

Of error; evil; and neglect grow rank

And ugly there; I dare forgive myself

That error; sin; and sloth and foolishness。

God knows that yesterday I played the fool;

God knows that yesterday I played the knave;

But shall I therefore cloud this new dawn o'er

With fog of futile sighs and vain regrets?



This is another day!  And flushed Hope walks

Adown the sunward slopes with golden shoon。

This is another day; and its young strength

Is laid upon the quivering hills until;

Like Egypt's Memnon; they grow quick with song。

This is another day; and the bold world

Leaps up and grasps its light; and laughs; as leapt

Prometheus up and wrenched the fire from Zeus。



This is another dayare its eyes blurred

With maudlin grief for any wasted past?

A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt!

Let dust clasp dust; death; deathI am alive!

And out of all the dust and death of mine

Old selves I dare to lift a singing heart

And living faith; my spirit dares drink deep

Of the red mirth mantling in the cup of morn。





APRIL SONG



FLEET across the grasses

  Flash the feet of Spring;

Piping; as he passes

Fleet across the grasses;

〃Follow; lads and lasses!

  Sing; world; sing!〃

Fleet across the grasses

  Flash the feet of Spring!



Idle winds deliver

  Rumors through the town;

Tales of reeds that quiver;

Idle winds deliver;

Where the rapid river

  Drags the willows down

Idle winds deliver

  Rumors through the town。



In the country places

  By the silver brooks

April airs her graces;

In the country places

Wayward April paces;

  Laughter in her looks;

In the country places

  By the silver brooks。



Hints of alien glamor

  Even reach the town;

Urban muses stammer

Hints of alien glamor;

But the city's clamor

  Beats the voices down;

Hints of alien glamor

  Even reach the town。





    THIS EARTH; IT IS ALSO A STAR



WHERE the singers of Saturn find tongue;

  Where the Galaxy's lovers embrace;

Our world and its beauty are sung!

  They lean from their casements to trace

  If our planet still spins in its place;

Faith fables the thing that we are;

  And Fantasy laughs and gives chase:

This earth; it is also a star!



Round the sun; that is fixed; and hung

  For a lamp in the darkness of space

We are whirled; we are swirled; we are flung;

  Singing and shining we race

  And our light on the uplifted face

Of dreamer or prophet afar

  May fall as a symbol of grace:

This earth; it is also a star!



Looking out where our planet is swung

  Doubt loses his writhen grimace;

Dry hearts drink the gleams and are young;

  Where agony's boughs interlace

  His Garden some Jesus may pace;

Lifting; the wan avatar;

  His soul to this light as a vase!

This earth; it is also a star!



Great spirits in sorrowful case

  Yearn to us through the vapors that bar:

Canst think of that; soul; and be base?

  This earth; it is also a star!





THE NAME



IT shifts and shifts from form to form;

  It drifts and darkles; gleams and glows;

It is the passion of the storm;

  The poignance of the rose;

Through changing shapes; through devious

      ways;

  By noon or night; through cloud or flame;

My heart has followed all my days

  Something I cannot name。



In sunlight on some woman's hair;

  Or starlight in some woman's eyne;

Or in low laughter smothered where

  Her red lips wedded mine;

My heart hath known; and thrilled to know;

  This unnamed presence that it sought;

And when my heart hath found it so;

  〃Love is the name;〃 I thought。



Sometimes when sudden afterglows

  In futile glory storm the skies

Within their transient gold and rose

  The secret stirs and dies;

Or when the trampling morn walks o'er

  The troubled seas; with feet of flame;

My awed heart whispers; 〃Ask no more;

  For Beauty is the name!〃



Or dreaming in old chapels where

  The dim aisles pulse with murmurings

That part are music; part are prayer

  (Or rush of hidden wings)

Sometimes I lift a startled head

  To some saint's carven countenance;

Half fancying that the lips have said;

  All names mean God; perchance!〃





THE BIRTH



THERE is a legend that the love of God

So quickened under Mary's heart it wrought

Her very maidenhood to holier stuff。 。 。 。

However that may be; the birth befell

Upon a night when all the Syrian stars

Swayed tremulous before one lordlier orb

That rose in gradual splendor;

Paused;

Flooding the firmament with mystic light;

And dropped upon the breathing hills

A sudden music

Like a distillation from its gleams;

A rain of spirit and a dew of song!





A MOOD OF PAVLOWA



THE soul of the Spring through its body of earth

  Bursts in a bloom of fire;

And the crocuses come in a rainbow riot of mirth。。。。

  They flutter; they burn; they take wing; they

      aspire。 。 。 。

Wings; motion and music and flame;

Flower; woman and laughter; and all these the

      same!

She is light and first love and the youth of the

      world;

She is sandaled with joy 。 。 。 she is lifted and

      whirled;

She is flung; she is swirled; she is driven along

  By the carnival winds that have torn her away

  From the coronal bloom on the brow of the

      May。 。 。 。

She is youth; she is foam; she is flame; she is

      visible Song!





THE POOL



REACH over; my Undine; and clutch me a reed

Nymph of mine idleness; notch me a pipe

For I am fulfilled of the silence; and long

For to utter the sense of the silence in song。



Down…stream all the rapids are troubled with pebbles

  That fetter and fret what the water would utter;

And it rushes and splashes in tremulous trebles;

  It makes haste through the shallows; its soul is

      aflutter;



But here all the sound is serene and outspread

  In the murmurous moods of a slow…swirling pool;

  Here all the sounds are unhurried and cool;

Every silence is kith to a sound; they are wed;

They are mated; are mingled; are tangled; are

      bound;

Every hush is in love with a sound; every sound

By the law of its life to some silence is bound。



Then here will we hide; idle here and abide;

In the covert here; close by the waterside

Here; where the slim flattered reeds are aquiver

With the exquisite hints of the reticent river;

  Here; where the lips of this pool are the lips

Of all pools; let us listen and question and wait;

  Let us hark to the whispers of love and of death;

Let us hark to the lispings of life and of fate

In this place where pale silences flower into sound

Let us strive for some secret of all the profound

Deep and calm Silence that meshes men 'round!

There's as much of God hinted in one ripple's

      plashes

  There's as much of Truth glints in yon dragon…

      fly's flight

There's as much Purpose gleams where yonder

      trout flashes

  As inany book else!could we read things

      aright。



Then nymph of mine indolence; here let us hide;

Learn; listen; and question; idle here and abide

Where the rushes and lilies lean low to the tide。





〃THEY HAD NO POET 。 。 。〃



〃Vain was the chief's; the sage's pride!

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