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  Their wish created rapid wings;

But not till aeons had passed by

  With dower of many idler things;

And when dumb flesh demanded speech

  Speech struggled to the lips at last;

  Now the unpeopled Void; and vast;



Clean to that uttermost blank beach

Whereto the boldest thought may reach

  That voyages from the vaguest past

  (Dim realm and ultimate of space)

Is vexed and troubled; stirs and shakes;

In prescience of a god that wakes;

  Born of man's wish to see God's face!



The endless; groping; dumb desires;

  The climbing incense thick and sweet;

The lovely purpose that aspires;

  The wraiths of vapor wing'd and fleet

  That rise and run with eager feet

Forth from a myriad altar fires:

  All these become a mist that fills

The vales and chasms nebular;

  A shaping Soul that moves and thrills

The wastes between red star and star!





A SONG OF MEN



OUT of the soil and the slime;

Reeking; they climb;



Out of the muck and the mire;

Rank; they aspire;



Filthy with murder and mud;

Black with shed blood;



Lust and passion and clay

Dying; they slay;



Stirred by vague hints of a goal;

Seeking a soul!



Groping through terror and night

Up to the light:



Life in the dust and the clod

Sensing a God;



Flushed of the glamor and gleam

Caught from a dream;



Stained of the struggle and toil;

Stained of the soil;



Ally of God in the end

Helper and friend



Hero and prophet and priest

Out of the beast!





THE NOBLER LESSON



CHRIST was of virgin birth; and; being slain;

The creedists say; He rose from death again。

Oh; futile age…long talk of death and birth!

His life; that is the one thing wonder…worth;

Not how He came; but how He lived on earth。

For if gods stoop; and with quaint jugglery

Mock nature's laws; how shall that profit thee?

The nobler lesson is that mortals can

Grow godlike through this baffled front of man!





AT LAST



EACH race has died and lived and fought for the

    〃true〃 gods of that poor race;

Unconsciously; divinest thought of each race gild…

    ing its god's face。

And every race that lives and dies shall make itself

    some other gods;

Shall build; with mingled truth and lies; new icons

    from the world…old clods。

Through all the tangled creeds and dreams and

    shifting shibboleths men hold

The false…and…true; inwoven; gleams: a matted

    mass of dross and gold。

Prove; then; thy gods in thine own soul; all others'

    gods; for thee; are vain;

Nor swerved be; struggling for the goal; by bribe

    of joy nor threat of pain。



As skulls grow broader; so do faiths; as old tongues

    die; old gods die; too;



And only ghosts of gods and wraiths may meet

    the backward…gazer's view。

Where; where the faiths of yesterday?  Ah;

    whither vanished; whither gone?

Say; what Apollos drive to…day adown the flaming

    slopes of dawn?

Oh; does the blank past hide from view forgotten

    Christs; to be reborn;

The future tremble where some new Messiah…

    Memnon sings the morn?

Of all the worlds; say any earth; like dust wind…

    harried to and fro;

Shall give the next Prometheus birth; but say

    at lastyou do not know。



How should I know what dawn may gleam beyond

    the gates of darkness there?

Which god of all the gods men dream?  Why

    should I whip myself to care?

Whichever over all hath place hath shaped and

    made me what I am;

Hath made me strong to front his face; to dare

    to question though he damn。



Perhaps to cringe and cower and bring a shrine

    a forced and faithless faith

Is far more futile than to fling your laughter in

    the face of Death。

For writhe or whirl in dervish rout; they are not

    flattered there on high;

Or sham belief to hide a doubtno gods are mine

    that love a lie!

Nor gods that beg belief on earth with portents

    that some seer foretells

Is life itself not wonder…worth that we must cry

    for miracles?

Is it not strange enough we breathe?  Does every…

    thing not God reveal?

Or must we ever weave and wreathe some creed

    that shall his face conceal?

Some creed of which its prophets cry it holds

    the secret's all…in…all:

Some creed which ever bye and bye doth crumble;

    totter; to its fall!

Say any dream of all the dreams that drift and

    darkle; glint and glow;

Holds most of truth within its gleams; but say

    at lastyou do not know。



Oh; say the soul; from star to star; with victory

    wing'd; leap on through space

And scale the bastioned nights that bar the secret's

    inner dwelling…place;

Or say it ever roam dim glades where pallid

    wraiths of long…dead moons

Flit like blown feathers through the shades; borne

    on the breath of sobbing tunes:

Say any tide of any time; of all the tides that ebb

    and flow;

Shall buoy us on toward any clime; but sayat

    lastyou do not know!









LYRICS





〃KING PANDION; HE IS DEAD〃



〃King Pandion; he is dead;

 All thy friends are lapp'd in lead。〃

SHAKESPEARE。





DREAMERS; drinkers; rebel youth;

  Where's the folly free and fine

You and I mistook for truth?

  Wits and wastrels; friends of wine;

  Wags and poets; friends of mine;

Gleams and glamors all are fled;

  Fires and frenzies half divine!

King Pandion; he is dead!



Time's unmannerly; uncouth!

  Here's the crow's…foot for a sign!

And; upon our brows; forsooth;

  Wits and wastrels; friends of wine;

  Time hath set his mark malign;

Frost has touched us; heart and head;

  Cooled the blood and dulled the eyne:

King Pandion; he is dead!



Time's a tyrant without ruth:

  Fancies used to bloom and twine

Round a common tavern booth;

  Wits and wastrels; friends of wine;

  In that youth of mine and thine!

'Tis for youth the feast is spread;

  When we dine nowwe but dine!

King Pandion; he is dead!



How our dreams would glow and shine;

Wits and wastrels; friends of wine;

Ere the drab Hour came that said:

King Pandion; he is dead!





DAVID TO BATHSHEBA



VERY red are the roses of Sharon;

But redder thy mouth;

There is nard; there is myrrh; in En Gedi;

From the uplands of Lebanon; heavy

With balsam; the winds

Drift freighted and scented and cedarn

But thy mouth is more precious than spices!



Thy breasts are twin lilies of Kedron;

White lilies; that sleep

In the shallows where loitering Kedron

Broadens out and is lost in the Jordan;

Globed lilies; so white

That David; thy King; thy beloved

Declareth them meet for his gardens。



Under the stars very strangely

The still waters gleam;

Deep down in the waters of Hebron



The soul of the starlight is sunken;

But deep in thine eyes

Stirs a more wonderful secret

Than pools ever learn of the starlight。





THE JESTERS



A TOAST to the Fools!

  Pierrot; Pantaloon;

Harlequin; Clown;

  Merry…Andrew; Buffoon

Touchstone and Tribouletall of the tribe。

Dancer and jester and singer and scribe。

We sigh over Yorick(unfortunate fool;

Ten thousand Hamlets have fumbled his skull!)

But where is the Hamlet to weep o'er the biers

  Of his brothers?

And where is the poet solicits our tears

  For the others?

They have passed from the world and left never

      a sign;

  And few of us now have the courage to sing

  That their whimsies made life a more livable

      thing

We; that are left of the line;

Let us drink to the jestersin gooseberry wine!



Then here's to the Fools!

Flouting the sages

Through history's pages

And driving the dreary old seers into rages

The humbugging Magis

Who prate that the wages

Of Folly are Deathtoast the Fools of all ages!

They have ridden like froth down the whirlpools

      of time;

  They have jingled their caps in the councils of

      state;

They have snared half the wisdom of life in a

      rhyme;

  And tripped into nothingness grinning at fate

Ho; brothers mine;

Brim up the glasses with gooseberry wine!



Though the prince with his firman;

The judge in his ermine;

Affirm and determine

  Bold words need the whip;

Let them spare us the rod and remit us the

      sermon;

For Death has a quip



Of the tomb and the vermin

  That will silence at last the most impudent lip!

Is the world but a bubble; a bauble; a joke?

Heigho; Brother Fools; now your bubble is broke;

Do you ask for a tear?or is it worth while?

Here's a sigh for you; thenbut it ends in a smile!

Ho; Brother Death;

We would laugh at you; tooif you spared us the

      breath!





〃MARY; MARY; QUITE CONTRARY〃



〃Mary; Mary; quite contrary;

  How does your garden grow?

With silver bells and cockle…shells

  And pretty maids all in a row!〃

Mother Goose。



MARY; Mistress Mary;

  How does your garden grow?

From your uplands airy;

Mary; Mistress Mary;

Float the chimes of faery

  When the breezes blow!

Mary; Mistress Mary;

  How does your garden grow?



With flower…maidens; singing

  Among the morning hills

With silvern bells a…ringing;

With flower…maidens singing;

With vocal lilies; springing

  By chanting daffodils;

With flower…maidens; singing

  Among the morning hills!





THE TRIOLET



YOUR triolet should glimmer

  Like a butterfly;

In golden light; or dimmer;

Your triolet should glimmer;

Tremble; turn; and shimmer;

  Flash; and flutter by;

Your triolet should glimmer

  Like a butterfly。





FROM THE BRIDGE



HELD and thrilled by the vision

  I stood; as the twilight died;

Where the great bridge soars like a song

  Over the crawling tide



Stood on the middle arch

  And night flooded in from the bay;

And wonderful under the stars

  Before me the city lay;



Girdled with swinging waters

  Guarded 

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