Marzo Pazzo 83
LXXXIV. Dead Love 84
LXXXV. Discord 85
LXXXVI. Concord 86
LXXXVII. Mourning 87
LXXXVIII. Aperotos Eros 88
LXXXIX. To Catullus 89
CX. ‘Insularum Ocelle’ 90
CXI. In Sark 91
CXII. In Guernsey 92
CXIII. ,, 93
CXIV. ,, 94
CXV. ,, 95
CXVI. ,, 96
CXVII. ,, 97
CXVIII. ,, 98
CXIX. ,, 99
C. Envoi 100
IN HARBOUR.
I.
GOODNIGHT and goodbye to the life whose signs denote us
As mourners clothed with regret for the life gone by;
To the waters of gloom whence winds of the dayspring float us
Goodnight and goodbye.
A time is for mourning, a season for grief to sigh;
But were we not fools and blind, by day to devote us
As thralls to the darkness, unseen of the sundawn’s eye?
We have drunken of Lethe at length, we have eaten of lotus;
What hurts it us here that sorrows are born and die?
We have said to the dream that caressed and the dread that smote us
Goodnight and goodbye.
II.
Outside of the port ye are moored in, lying
Close from the wind and at ease from the tide,
What sounds come swelling, what notes fall dying
Outside?
They will not cease, they will not abide:
Voices of presage in darkness crying
Pass and return and relapse aside.
Ye see not, but hear ye not wild wings flying
To the future that wakes from the past that died?
Is grief still sleeping, is joy not sighing
Outside?
THE WAY OF THE WIND.
THE wind’s way in the deep sky’s hollow
None may measure, as none can say
How the heart in her shows the swallow
The wind’s way.
Hope nor fear can avail to stay
Waves that whiten on wrecks that wallow,
Times and seasons that wane and slay.
Life and love, till the strong night swallow
Thought and hope and the red last ray,
Swim the waters of years that follow
The wind’s way.
‘HAD I WIST.’
HAD I wist, when life was like a warm wind playing
Light and loud through sundawn and the dew’s bright trust,
How the time should come for hearts to sigh in saying
‘Had I wist’—
Surely not the roses, laughing as they kissed,
Not the lovelier laugh of seas in sunshine swaying,
Should have lured my soul to look thereon and list.
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