What sacramental hurt that brings The terror of the truth of things, Had changed thee? Secret be it yet. ’Twas thine, upon a headland set, To view no isles of man’s delight With lyric foam in rainbow flight, But all a-swing, a-gleam, mid slow uproar, Black sea, and curved uncouth sea-bitten shore. PAX PAGANICA. Good oars, for Arnold’s sake, By Laleham lightly bound, And near the bank, O soft, Darling swan! Let not the o’erweary wake Anew from natal ground, But where he slumbered oft, Slumber on. Be less than boat or bird, The pensive stream along; No murmur make, nor gleam, At his side. Where was it he had heard Of warfare and of wrong?— Not there, in any dream Since he died. VALEDICTION (R. L. S., 1894). When from the vista of the Book I shrink, From lauded pens that earn ignoble wage, Begetting nothing joyous, nothing sage, Nor keep with Shakespeare’s use one golden link; When heavily my sanguine spirits sink, To read too plain on each impostor page Only of kings the broken lineage, Well for my peace if then on thee I think, Louis: our priest of letters, and our knight With whose familiar baldric hope is girt, From whose young hands she bears the Grail away. All glad, all great! Truer because thou wert, I am and must be; and in thy known light Go down to dust, content with this my day. [Illustration] CHISWICK PRESS:—CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. Some of Grant Richards’s Publications in Belles Lettres. By A. E. HOUSMAN. A SHROPSHIRE LAD. Fcap. 8vo, cloth, 3_s._ 6_d._ net. By KATHARINE TYNAN (Mrs. Hinkson). THE WIND IN THE TREES: A BOOK OF COUNTRY VERSE. Fcap. 8vo, cloth, 3_s._ 6_d._ net. By ALICE MEYNELL. THE FLOWER OF THE MIND: A CHOICE AMONG THE BEST POEMS. With Cover designed by LAURENCE HOUSMAN. Crown 8vo, yapped parchment, 7_s._ 6_d._ By EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS. A BOOK OF VERSES FOR CHILDREN. With Cover, Title-page, and End-papers designed in colours by F. D. BEDFORD. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6_s._ [_Third Edition._ By LAURENCE HOUSMAN. SPIKENARD: A BOOK OF DEVOTIONAL LOVE POEMS. With Cover designed by the Author. Small 4to, boards, 3_s._ 6_d._ net. By LAURENCE BINYON. PORPHYRION AND OTHER POEMS. Crown 8vo, buckram, 5_s._ net. By WALTER LEAF, LL.D. VERSIONS FROM THE DIVAN OF HAFIZ. Pott 4to, 5_s._ net. By RICHARD LE GALLIENNE. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYĀM: A PARAPHRASE FROM SEVERAL LITERAL TRANSLATIONS. Long fcap. 8vo, parchment cover, 5_s._ By LAURENCE ALMA-TADEMA. REALMS OF UNKNOWN KINGS: POEMS. Fcap. 8vo, buckram, 3_s._ net; paper covers, 2_s._ net. By ARABELLA and LOUISA SHORE. POEMS BY A. AND L. Crown 8vo, cloth, 5_s._ net. By LOUISA SHORE.