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〃Deep; deep!

        Death…deep!

                Deep; deep!

                        Death…deep!〃

And the dark tide slides and glisters and glides

Snakelike over the secret it hides。





THE SAILOR'S WIFE SPEAKS



YE are dead; they say; but ye swore; ye swore;

  Ye would come to me back from the sea!

From out of the sea and the night; ye cried;

Nor the crawling weed nor the dragging tide

  Could hold ye fast from me:

  Come; ah; come to me!



Three spells I have laid on the rising sun

  And three on the waning moon

Are ye held in the bonds of the night or the day

Ye must loosen your bonds and away; away!

  Ye must come where I wait ye; soon

  Ah; soon! soon! soon!



Three times I have cast my words to the wind;

  And thrice to the climbing sea;

If ye drift or dream with the clouds or foam

Ye must drift again home; ye must drift again

      home



 Wraith; ye are free; ye are free;

  Ghost; ye are free; ye are free!



Are the coasts of death so fair; so fair?

  But I wait ye here on the shore!

It is I that ye hear in the calling wind

I have stared through the dark till my soul is blind!

  O lover of mine; ye swore;

  Lover of mine; ye swore!





HUNTED



Oh; why do they hunt so hard; so hard; who have

    no need of food?

Do they hunt for sport; do they hunt for hate; do

    they hunt for the lust of blood?



。     。     。     。     。     。



If I were a god I would get me a spear; I would

    get me horse and dog;

And merrily; merrily I would ride through covert

    and brake and bog;



With hound and horn and laughter loud; over the

    hills and away

For there is no sport like that of a god with a

    man that stands at bay!



Ho! but the morning is fresh and fair; and oh!

    but the sun is bright;

And yonder the quarry breaks from the brush and

    heads for the hills in flight;



A minute's law for the harried thingthen follow

    him; follow him fast;

With the bellow of dogs and the beat of hoofs

    and the mellow bugle's blast。



。     。     。     。     。     。



Hillo!  Halloo! they have marked a man! there is

    sport in the world to…day

And a clamor swells from the heart of the wood that

    tells of a soul at bay!





A DREAM CHILD



WHERE tides of tossed wistaria bloom

  Foam up in purple turbulence;

Where twining boughs have built a room

  And wing'd winds pause to garner scents

And scattered sunlight flecks the gloom;

  She broods in pensive indolence。



What is the thought that holds her thrall;

  That dims her sight with unshed tears?

What songs of sorrow droop and fall

  In broken music for her ears?

What voices thrill her and recall

  The poignant joy of happier years?



She dreams 'tis not the winds which pass

  That whisper through the shaken vine;

Whose footstep stirs the rustling grass

  None else that listened might divine;

She sees her child that never was

  Look up with longing in his eyne。



Unkissed; his lifted forehead gains

  A grace not earthly; but more rare

For since her heart but only feigns;

  Wherefore should love not feign him fair?

Put blood of roses in his veins;

  Weave yellow sunshines for his hair?



All ghosts of little children dead

  That wander wistful; uncaressed;

Their seeking lips by love unfed;

  She fain would cradle on her breast

For his sweet sake whose lonely head

  Has never known that tender rest。



And thus she sits; and thus she broods;

  Where drifted blossoms freak the grass;

The winds that move across her moods

  Pulse with low whispers as they pass;

And in their eerier interludes

  She hears a voice that never was。





ACROSS THE NIGHT



MUCH listening through the silences;

  Much staring through the night;

And lo! the dumb blind distances

  Are bridged with speech and sight!



Magician Thought; informed of Love;

  Hath fixed her on the air

Oh; Love and I laughed down the fates

  And clasped her; here as there!



Across the eerie silences

  She came in headlong flight;

She stormed the serried distances;

  She trampled space and night!



Oh; foolish scientists might give

  This miracle a name

But Love and I care but to know

  That when we called she came。



And since I find the distances

  Subservient to my thought;

And of the sentient silences

  More vital speech have wrought;



Then she and I will mock Death's self;

  For all his vaunted might

There are no gulfs we dare not leap;

  As she leapt through the night!







SEA CHANGES





I



MORNING



WE stood among the boats and nets;

  We saw the swift clouds fall;

We watched the schooners scamper in

  Before the sudden squall;

The jolly squall strove lustily

  To whelm the sheltered street

The merry squall that piled the seas

About the patient headland's knees

  And chased the fishing fleet。



She laughed; as if with wings her mirth

Arose and left the wingless earth

  And all tame things behind;

Rose like a bird; wild with delight

Whose briny pinions flash in flight

  Through storm and sun and wind。



Her laughter sought those skies because

  Their mood and hers were one;

For she and I were drunk with love

  And life and storm and sun!



And while she laughed; the Sun himself

  Leapt laughing through the rain

And struck his harper hand along

The ringing coast; and that wind…song

  Whose joy is mixed with pain

Forgot the undertone of grief

  And joined the jocund strain;

And over every hidden reef

Whereon the waves broke merrily

Rose jets and sprays of melody

  And leapt and laughed again。





II



MOONLIGHT



We stood among the boats and nets 。 。 。

  We marked the risen moon

Walk swaying o'er the trembling seas

  As one sways in a swoon;



The little stars; the lonely stars;

  Stole through the hollow sky;

And every sucking eddy where

The waves lapped wharf or rotten stair

Moaned like some stricken thing hid there

And strangled with its own despair

  As the shuddering tide crept by。



I loved her; and I hated her

  Or did I hate myself because;

  Bound by obscure; strong; silken laws;

I felt myself the worshiper

  Of beauty never wholly mine?

With lures most apt to snare; entwine;

With bonds too subtle to define;

Her lighter nature mastered mine;

Herself half given; half withheld;

Her lesser spirit still compelled

Its tribute from my franker soul:

  Sorebel; slave; and worshiper!

  I loved her and I hated her。



I gazed upon her; I; her thrall;

  And musing; murmured; What if death



Were just the answer to it all?

  Suppose some dainty dagger quaffed

  Her life in one deep eager draught?

Suppose some amorous knife caressed

The lovely hollow of her breast?〃

She turned a mocking look to mine:

She read the thought within my eyne;

  She held me with her lookand laughed!



Now who may tell what stirs; controls;

  And shapes mad fancies into facts?

What trivial things may quicken souls

  To irrevocable; swift acts?

Now who has known; who understood;

  Wherefore some idle thing

  May stab with deadlier sting

Than well…considered insult could?

May spur the languor of a mood

And rouse a tiger in the blood?



Ah; Christ!had she not laughed just when

That fancy came! 。 。 。 for then 。 。 。 and then 。 。 。

  A sudden mist dropped from the sky;



A mist swept in across the sea 。 。 。

A mist that hid her face from me 。 。 。

  A weeping mist all tinged with red;

A dripping mist that smelt like blood 。 。 。

  It choked my throat; it burnt my brain 。 。 。

And through it peered one sallow star;

  And through it rang one shriek of pain 。 。 。

And when it passed my hands were red;

  My soul was dabbled with her blood;

And when it passed my love was dead

  And tossed upon the troubled flood。





III



MOONSET



But see! 。 。 。 the body does not sink;

  It rides upon the tide

(A starbeam on the dagger's haft);

  With staring eyes and wide 。 。 。

And now; up from the darkling sea;

  Down from the failing moon;

Are come strange shapes to mock at me 。 。 。

All pallid from the star…pale sea;

  White from the paling moon 。 。 。



Or whirling fast or wheeling slow

Around; around the corpse they go;

All bloodless o'er the sickened sea

  Beneath the ailing moon!



And are they only wisps of fog

  That dance along the waves?

Only shapes of mist the wind

  Drives along the waves?

Or are they spirits that the sea

  Has cheated of their graves?

The ghosts of them that died at sea;

Of murdered men flung in the sea;

  Whose bodies had no graves?

Lost souls that haunt for evermore

The sobbing reef and hollowed shore

  And always…murmuring caves?



Ah; surely something more than fog;

  More than starlit mist!

For starlight never makes a sound

  And fogs are ever whist

But hearken; hearken; hearken; now;

  For these sing as they dance!



As airily; as eerily;

  They wheel about and whirl;

They jeer at me; they fleer at me;

  They flout me as they swirl!

As whirling fast or swaying slow;

Reeling; wheeling; to and fro;

Around; around the corpse they go;

  They chill me with their chants!

These be neither men nor mists

  Hearken to their chants:



Ever; ever; ever;

  Drifting like a blossom

Seaward; with the starlight

  Wan upon her bosom

Ever when the quickened

  Heart of night is throbbing;

Ever when the trembling

  Tide sets seaward; sobbing;

Shall you see this burden

  Borne upon its ebbing:

See her drifting seaward

  Like a broken blossom;



Ever see the starlight

  Kiss her bruised bosom。



Flight availeth nothing 。 。 。

  Still the subtle beaches

Draw you back where Horror

  Walks their shingled reaches 。 。

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