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Has mingled with a nameless mould。

Only the slower…crumbling stones

Still tell so much as may be told。



And now in shoreless fog adrift

Like some lone mariner gliding by;

I lean above the drowning graves

And wonder when I too shall lie



Where evermore the tides of night

And earth will hide my lonely rest;

And Time will bid my love forget

To read the stone upon my breast。



G。 O。 WARREN





BEAUTY



NOT flesh alone am I; when I can be

So swiftly caught in Beauty's shimmering

thread

Whose slender fibres; woven; held by me;

With their frail strength my following heart have

led。



Yea; not all mortal; not all death my mind;

When; watching by lone twilight waters' brim

I tremblingly decipher; as they wind;

Her deathless hieroglyphs; though strange and dim。



So for this faith; when Thou my dust shalt bring

To dust; remember well; Great Alchemist;

Yearly to change my wintry earth to spring;

That I with Beauty still may keep my tryst。



G。 O。 WARREN





COMRADES



WHERE are the friends that I knew in my

Maying;

In the days of my youth; in the first of my

roaming?

We were dear; we were leal; O; far we went

straying;

Now never a heart to my heart comes homing!

Where is he now; the dark boy slender

Who taught me bare…back; stirrup and reins?

I love him; he loved me; my beautiful; tender

Tamer of horses on grass…grown plains。



Where is he now whose eyes swam brighter;

Softer than love; in his turbulent charms;

Who taught me to strike; and to fall; dear fighter;

And gather me up in his boyhood arms;

Taught me the rifle; and with me went riding;

Suppled my limbs to the horseman's war;

Where is he now; for whom my heart's biding;

Biding; bidingbut he rides far!



O love that passes the love of woman!

Who that hath felt it shall ever forget

When the breath of life with a throb turns human;

And a lad's heart is to a lad's heart set?

Ever; forever; lover and rover

They shall cling; nor each from other shall part

Till the reign of the stars in the heavens be 'over;

And life is dust in each faithful heart。



They are dead; the American grasses under;

There is no one now who presses my side;

By the African chotts I am riding asunder;

And with great joy ride I the last great ride。

I am fey; I am fein of sudden dying;

Thousands of miles there is no one near;

And my heartall the night it is crying; crying

In the bosoms of dead lads darling…dear。



Hearts of my musicthem dark earth covers;

Comrades to die; and to die for; were they;

In the width of the world there were no such rovers

Back to back; breast to breast; it was ours to stay;

And the highest on earth was the vow that we cherished;

To spur forth from the crowd and come back

never more;

And to ride in the track of great souls perished

Till the nests of the lark shall roof us o'er。



Yet lingers a horseman on Altai highlands;

Who hath joy of me; riding the Tartar glissade;

And one; far faring o'er orient islands

Whose blood yet glints with my blade's accolade;

North; west; east; I fling you my last hallooing;

Last love to the breasts where my own has bled;

Through the reach of the desert my soul leaps pursuing

My star where it rises a Star of the Dead。



GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY





THE FLIGHT



I



O WILD HEART; track the land's perfume;

Beach…roses and moor…heather!

All fragrances of herb and bloom

Fail; out at sea; together。

O follow where aloft find room

Lark…song and eagle…feather!

All ecstasies of throat and plume

Melt; high on yon blue weather。



O leave on sky and ocean lost

The flight creation dareth;

Take wings of love; that mounts the most:

Find fame; that furthest fareth!

Thy flight; albeit amid her host

Thee; too; night star…like beareth;

Flying; thy breast on heaven's coast;

The infinite outweareth。



II



〃Dead o'er us roll celestial fires;

Mute stand Earth's ancient beaches;

Old thoughts; old instincts; old desires;

The passing hour outreaches;

The soul creative never tires

Evokes; adcres; beseeches;

And that heart most the god inspires

Whom most its wildness teaches。



〃For I will course through falling years

And stars and cities burning;

And I will march through dying cheers

Past empires unreturning;

Ever the world flame reappears

Where mankind power is earning;

The nations' hopes; the people's tears;

One with the wild heart yearning。



GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY











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