VIA DOLOROSA 230 I. TRANSFIGURATION 231 II. DELIVERANCE 232 III. THANKSGIVING 233 IV. LIBITINA VERTICORDIA 234 V. THE ORDER OF RELEASE 235 VI. PSYCHAGOGOS 236 VII. THE LAST WORD 237 IN MEMORY OF AURELIO SAFFI 238 THE FESTIVAL OF BEATRICE 242 THE MONUMENT OF GIORDANO BRUNO 243 LIFE IN DEATH 245 EPICEDE 246 MEMORIAL VERSES ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM BELL SCOTT 249 AN OLD SAYING 253 A MOSS-ROSE 254 TO A CAT 255 HAWTHORN DYKE 258 THE BROTHERS 259 JACOBITE SONG 263 THE BALLAD OF DEAD MEN'S BAY 266 DEDICATION 271 ASTROPHEL AND OTHER POEMS TO WILLIAM MORRIS ASTROPHEL AFTER READING SIR PHILIP SIDNEY'S ARCADIA IN THE GARDEN OF AN OLD ENGLISH MANOR HOUSE I A star in the silence that follows The song of the death of the sun Speaks music in heaven, and the hollows And heights of the world are as one; One lyre that outsings and outlightens The rapture of sunset, and thrills Mute night till the sense of it brightens The soul that it fills. The flowers of the sun that is sunken Hang heavy of heart as of head; The bees that have eaten and drunken The soul of their sweetness are fled; But a sunflower of song, on whose honey My spirit has fed as a bee, Makes sunnier than morning was sunny The twilight for me. The letters and lines on the pages That sundered mine eyes and the flowers Wax faint as the shadows of ages That sunder their season and ours; As the ghosts of the centuries that sever A season of colourless time From the days whose remembrance is ever, As they were, sublime. The season that bred and that cherished The soul that I commune with yet, Had it utterly withered and perished To rise not again as it set, Shame were it that Englishmen living Should read as their forefathers read The books of the praise and thanksgiving Of Englishmen dead.