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     You fainting soul who could not see
         That I was near。


     ‘‘Why vex me crying day and night? …
         You call on me to hark!
     But when I bless your world with light;
         Who makes it dark?


     ‘‘Is there a ravelled riddle left
         That you would have undone?
     What other doubts are there to sift?''
         I answered … ‘‘None。''


     ‘‘My son; look up; if you would see
         The Promise on your way;
     And turn a trustful face to me。''
         I whispered … ‘‘Yea。''

GERALDINE


     MY head is filled with olden rhymes beside this moaning sea;
     But many and many a day has gone since I was dear to thee!
     I know my passion fades away; and therefore oft regret
     That some who love indeed can part and in the years forget。

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     Ah! through the twilights when we stood the wattle trees between;
     We did not dream of such a time as this; fair Geraldine。


     I do not say that all has gone of passion and of pain;
     I yearn for many happy thoughts I shall not think again!
     And often when the wind is up; and wailing round the eaves;
     You sigh for withered Purpose shred and scattered like the leaves;
     The Purpose blooming when we met each other on the green;
     The sunset heavy in your curls; my golden Geraldine。


     I think we lived a loftier life through hours of Long Ago;
     For in the largened evening earth our spirits seemed to grow。
     Well; that has passed; and here I stand; upon a lonely place;
     While Night is stealing round the land; like Time across my face;
     But I can calmly recollect our shadowy parting scene;
     And swooning thoughts that had no voice … no utterance; Geraldine。

ACHAN

(From ‘‘Jephthah''。)


     HATH he not followed a star through the darkness;
     Ye people who sit at the table of Jephthah?
     Oh! turn with the face to a light in the mountains;
     Behold it is further from Achan than ever!


     ‘‘I know how it is with my brothers in Mizpeh;''
     Said Achan; the swift…footed runner of Zorah;
     ‘‘They look at the wood they have hewn for the altar;
     And think of a shadow in sackcloth and ashes。


     ‘‘I know how it is with the daughter of Jephthah;
     (O Ada; my love; and the fairest of women!)
     She wails in the time when her heart is so zealous
     For God who hath stricken the children of Ammon。


     ‘‘I said I would bring her the odours of Edom;
     And armfuls of spices to set at the banquet!
     Behold I have fronted the chieftain her father;
     And strong men have wept for the leader of thousands!


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     ‘‘My love is a rose of the roses of Sharon;
     All lonely and bright as the Moon in the myrtles!
     Her lips; like to honeycombs; fill with the sweetness
     That Achan the thirsty is hindered from drinking。


     ‘‘Her women have wept for the love that is wasted
     Like wine; which is spilt when the people are wanting;
     And hot winds have dried all the cisterns of Elim!
     For love that is wasted her women were wailing!


     ‘‘The timbrels fall silent! And dost thou not hear it;
     A voice; like the sound of a lute when we loiter;
     And sit by the pools in the valleys of Arnon;
     And suck the cool grapes that are growing in clusters?


     ‘‘She glides; like a myrrh…scented wind; through the willows;
     O Ada! behold it is Achan that speaketh:
     I know thou art near me; but never can see thee;
     Because of the horrible drouth in mine eyelids。''





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