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Dark Wallenstein; and, down the years, The Lorelei; and, creased with sneers, Faust, Margaret;--the Sabboth sound, Witch-whirling, of the Brocken, drowned In storm, through which Mephisto leers,-- They hold their own.

_ON OPENING AN OLD SCHOOL VOLUME OF HORACE_

I had forgot how, in my day The Sabine fields around me lay In amaranth and asphodel, With many a cold Bandusian well Bright-bubbling by the mountain-way.

In forest dells of Faun and Fay How, lounging in the fountain's spray, I talked with Horace; felt his spell, I had forgot.

With Pyrrha and with Lydia How oft I sat, while Lalaga Sang, and the fine Falerian fell, Sparkling, and heard the poet tell Of loves whose beauty lasts for aye, I had forgot.

_LAUS DEO_

In her vast church of glimmering blue, Gray-stoled from feet to chin, Her dark locks beaded with the dew, The nun-like dawn comes in: At once the hills put on their spencers Of purple, swinging streaming censers Of mist before the God of Day Who goes with pomp his way.

With sapphire draperies of light Is hung the sombre pines;

Filling each valley, every height With sacerdotal lines-- Shrines, where, like priests with worship vestured, The forests bow and, heavenly gestured, Lift high the chalice of the sun, Intoning, "Night is done!"

_THE NEW YORK SKYSCRAPER_

_The Woolworth Building_ Enormously it lifts Its tower against the splendor of the west;

Like some wild dream that drifts Before the mind, and at the will's behest,-- Enchantment-based, gigantic steel and stone,-- Is given permanence;

A concrete fact, Complete, alone, Glorious, immense, Such as no nation here on Earth has known: Epitomizing all That is American, that stands for youth, And strength and truth;

That's individual, And beautiful and free,-- Resistless strength and tireless energy.

Even as a cataract, Its superb fact Suggests vast forces Nature builds with--Joy, And Power and Thought, She to her aid has brought For eons past, will bring for eons yet to be, Shaping the world to her desire: the three Her counsellors constantly, Her architects, through whom her dreams come true,-- Her workmen, bringing forth, With toil that shall not cease, Mountains and plains and seas, That make the Earth The glory that it is: And, one with these, Such works of man as this, This building, towering into the blue, A beacon, round which like an ocean wide, Circles and flows the restless human tide.

_ROBERT BROWNING_

Master of human harmonics, where gong And harp and violin and flute accord;

Each instrument confessing you its lord, Within the deathless orchestra of Song.

Albeit at times your music may sound wrong To our dulled senses, and its meaning barred To Earth's slow understanding, never marred Your message brave: clear, and of trumpet tongue.

Poet-revealer, who, both soon and late, Within an age of doubt kept clean your faith, Crying your cry of "With the world all's well!"

How shall we greet you from our low estate, Keys in the keyboard that is life and death, The organ whence we hear your music swell?

_RILEY_

_His Birthday, October the 7th, 1912_ Riley, whose pen has made the world your debtor, Whose Art has kept you young through sixty years, Brimming our hearts with laughter and with tears, Holding her faith pure to the very letter: We come to you to-day, both man and woman, And happy little children, girl and boy,-- To laurel you with all our love and joy, And crown you for the dreams your pen made human: For Orphant Annie and for Old Aunt Mary, The Raggedty Man, who never will grow older, And all the kindly folks from Griggsby's Station, Immortal throngs, with Spirk and Wunk and Faery, Who swarm behind you, peering o'er your shoulder, Sharing with you the blessings of a Nation.

_DON QUIXOTE_

_On receiving a bottle of Sherry Wine of the same name_ What "blushing Hippocrene" is here!

what fire Of the "warm South" with magic of old Spain!

-- Through which again I seem to view the train Of all Cervantes' dreams, his heart's desire: The melancholy Knight, in gaunt attire Of steel rides by upon the windmill-plain With Sancho Panza by his side again, While, heard afar, a swineherd from a byre Winds a hoarse horn.

And all at once I see The glory of that soul who rode upon Impossible quests,--following a deathless dream Of righted wrongs, that never were to be,-- Like many another champion who has gone Questing a cause that perished like a dream.

_THE WOMAN_

With her fair face she made my heaven, Beneath whose stars and moon and sun I worshiped, praying, having striven, For wealth through which she might be won.

And yet she had no soul: A woman As fair and cruel as a god;

Who played with hearts as nothing human, And tossed them by and on them trod.

She killed a soul; she did it nightly;

Luring it forth from peace and prayer, To strangle it, and laughing lightly, Cast it into the gutter there.

And yet, not for a purer vision Would I exchange; or Paradise Possess instead of Hell, my prison, Where burns the passion of her eyes.

_THE SONG OF SONGS_

_Read November 14th, 1913, before the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters in joint session at Chicago, Ill.

_ I heard a Spirit singing as, beyond the morning winging, Its radiant form went swinging like a star: In its song prophetic voices mixed their sounds with trumpet-noises, As when, loud, the World rejoices after war.

And it said: I

Hear me!

Above the roar of cities, The clamor and conflict of trade, The frenzy and fury of commercialism, Is heard my voice, chanting, intoning.

-- Down the long corridors of time it comes, Bearing my message, bidding the soul of man arise To the realization of his dream.

Now and then discords seem to intrude, And tones that are false and feeble-- Beginnings of the perfect chord From which is evolved the ideal, the unattainable.

Hear me!

Ever and ever, Above the tumult of the years, The blatant cacophonies of war, The wrangling of politics, Demons and spirits of unrest, My song persists, Addressing the soul With the urge of an astral something, Supernal, Elemental, Promethean, Instinct with an everlasting fire.

II

Hear me!

I am the expression of the subconscious, The utterance of the intellect, The voice of mind, That stands for civilization.

Out of my singing sprang, Minerva-like, Full-armed and fearless, Liberty, Subduer of tyrants, who feed on the strength of Nations.

Out of my chanting arose, As Aphrodite arose from the foam of the ocean, The Dream of Spiritual Desire, Mother of Knowledge, Victor o'er Hate and Oppression,-- Ancient and elemental dæmons, Who, with Ignorance and Evil, their consorts, Have ruled for eons of years.

III

Hear me!

Should my chanting cease, My music utterly fail you, Behold!

Out of the hoary Past, most swiftly, surely, Would gather the Evils of Earth, The Hydras and Harpies, forgotten, And buried in darkness: Amorphous of form, Tyrannies and Superstitions Torturing body and soul: And with them, Gargoyls of dreams that groaned in the Middle Ages-- Aspects of darkness and death and hollow eidolons, Cruel, inhuman, Wearing the faces and forms of all the wrongs of the world.

Barbarian hordes whose shapes make hideous The cycles of error and crime: Grendels of darkness, Devouring the manhood of Nations: Demogorgons of War and Misrule, Blackening the world with blood and the lust of destruction.

Hear me!

-- Out of my song have grown Beauty and joy, And with them The triumph of Reason;

The confirmation of Hope, Of Faith and Endeavor: The Dream that's immortal, To whose creation Thought gives concrete form, And of which Vision makes permanent substance.

IV

Fragmentary, Out of the Past, Down the long aisles of the Centuries, Uncertain at first and uneasy, Hesitant, harsh of expression, My song was heard, Stammering, appealing, A murmur merely: Coherent then, Singing into form, Assertive, Ecstatic, Louder, lovelier, and more insistent, Sonorous, proclaiming;

Clearer and surer and stronger.

Attaining expression, evermore truer and clearer: Masterful, mighty at last, Committed to conquest, And with Beauty coeval;

Part of the wonder of life, The triumph of light over darkness: Taking the form of Art-- Art, that is voice and vision of the soul of man.

-- Hear me!

Confident ever, One with the Loveliness song shall evolve, My voice is become as an army of banners, Marching irresistibly forward, With the roll of the drums of attainment, The blare of the bugles of fame: Tramping, tramping, evermore advancing, Till the last redoubt of prejudice is down, And the Eagles and Fasces of Learning Make glorious the van o' the world.

V

They who are deaf to my singing, Who disregard me.

-- Let them beware lest the splendor escape them, The glory of light that is back o' the darkness of life, And with it-- The blindness of spirit o'erwhelm them.

-- They who reject me, Reject the gleam That goes to the making of Beauty;

And put away The loftier impulses of heart and of mind.

They shall not possess the dream, the ideal, Of ultimate worlds, That is part of the soul that aspires;

That sits with the Spirit of Thought, The radiant presence who weaves, Directed of Destiny, There in the Universe, At its infinite pattern of stars.

They shall not know, Not they, The exaltations that make endurable here on the Earth The ponderable curtain of flesh.

Not they!

Not they!

VI

Hear me!

I control, and direct;

I wound and heal, Elevate and subdue The vaulting energies of Man.

I am part of the cosmic strain o' the Universe: I captain the thoughts that grow to deeds, Material and spiritual facts, Pointing the world to greater and nobler things.

-- Hear me!

My dædal expression peoples the Past and Present With forms of ethereal thought That symbolize Beauty: The Beauty expressing itself now, As Poetry, As Philosophy: As Truth and Religion now, And now, As science and Law, Vaunt couriers of Civilization.

_OGLETHORPE_

_An Ode to be read on the laying of the foundation stone of the new Oglethorpe University, January, 1915, at Atlanta, Georgia_ I

As when with oldtime passion for this Land Here once she stood, and in her pride, sent forth Workmen on every hand, Sowing the seed of knowledge South and North, More gracious now than ever, let her rise, The splendor of a new dawn in her eyes;

Grave, youngest sister of that company, That smiling wear Laurel and pine And wild magnolias in their flowing hair;

The sisters Academe, With thoughts divine, Standing with eyes a-dream, Gazing beyond the world, into the sea, Where lie the Islands of Infinity.

II

Now in these stormy days of stress and strain, When Gospel seems in vain, And Christianity a dream we've lost, That once we made our boast;

Now when all life is brought Face to grim face with naught, And a condition speaking, trumpet-lipped, Of works material, leaving Beauty out Of God's economy; while, horror-dipped, Lies our buried faith, full near to perish, 'Mid the high things we cherish, In these tempestuous days when, to and fro The serpent, Evil, goes and strews his way With dragon's teeth that play Their part as once they did in Jason's day;

And War, with menace loud, And footsteps, metal-slow, And eyes a crimson hot, Is seen, against the Heaven a burning blot Of blood and tears and woe: Now when no mortal living seems to know Whither to turn for hope, we turn to thee, And such as thou art, asking "What's to be?"

And that thou point the path Above Earth's hate and wrath, And Madness, stalking with his torch aglow Amid the ruins of the Nations slow Crumbling to ashes with Old Empire there In Europe's tiger lair.

III

A temple may'st thou be, A temple by the everlasting sea, For the high goddess, Ideality, Set like a star, Above the peaks of dark reality: Shining afar Above the deeds of War, Within the shrine of Love, whose face men mar With Militarism, That is the prism Through which they gaze with eyes obscured of Greed, At the white light of God's Eternity, The comfort of the world, the soul's great need, That beacons Earth indeed, Breaking its light intense With turmoil and suspense And failing human Sense.

IV

From thee a higher Creed Shall be evolved.

The broken lights resolved Into one light again, of glorious light, Between us and the Everlasting, that is God.

-- The all-confusing fragments, that are night, Lift up thy rod Of knowledge and from Truth's eyeballs strip The darkness, and in armor of the Right, Bear high the standard of imperishable light!

Cry out, "Awake!

--I slept awhile!

--Awake!

Again I take My burden up of Truth for Jesus' sake, And stand for what he stood for, Peace and Thought, And all that's Beauty-wrought Through doubt and dread and ache, By which the world to good at last is brought!"

V

No more with silence burdened, when the Land Was stricken by the hand Of war, she rises, and assumes her stand For the Enduring; setting firm her feet On what is blind and brute: Still holding fast With honor to the past, Speaking a trumpet word, Which shall be heard As an authority, no longer mute.

VI

Again, yea, she shall stand For what Truth means to Man For science and for Art and all that can Make life superior to the things that weight The soul down, things of hate Instead of love, for which the world was planned;

May she demand Faith and inspire it; Song to lead her way Above the crags of Wrong Into the broader day;

And may she stand For poets still; poets that now the Land Needs as it never needed; such an one As he, large Nature's Son Lanier, who with firm hand Held up her magic wand Directing deep in music such as none Has ever heard Such music as a bird Gives of its soul, when dying, And unconscious if it's heard.

VII

So let her rise, mother of greatness still, Above all temporal ill;

Invested with all old nobility, Teaching the South decision, self control And strength of mind and soul;

Achieving ends that shall embrace the whole Through deeds of heart and mind;

And thereby bind Its effort to an end And reach its goal.

VIII

So shall she win A wrestler with sin, Supremely to a place above the years, And help men rise To what is wise And true beyond their mortal finite scan-- The purblind gaze of man;

Aiding with introspective eyes His soul to see a higher plan Of life beyond this life; above the gyves Of circumstance that bind him in his place Of doubt and keep away his face From what alone survives;

And what assures Immortal life to that within, that gives Of its own self, And through its giving, lives, And evermore endures.

_A POET'S EPITAPH_

Life was unkind to him;

All things went wrong: Fortune assigned to him Merely a song.

Ever a mystery Here to his heart;

In his life's history Love played no part.

Carve on the granite, There at the end, Where all may scan it, _Death was his friend_.

_Giving him all he missed Here upon Earth-- Love and the call he missed All that was worth.

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