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Title: The Singing Man A Book of Songs and Shadows
Author: Josephine Preston Peabody
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THE SINGING MAN
A Book of Songs and
Shadows
By JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY
[Illustration]
BOSTON and NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1911
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY JOSEPHINE PEABODY MARKS
Published November 1911
NOTE
Thanks are especially due to the editors of The American Magazine, Scribner's, The Atlantic Monthly, and to Messrs. Harper and Brothers, for their courteous permission to reprint certain of the poems included in this volume.
FOREWORD
We make our songs as we must, from fragments of the joy and sorrow of living. What Life itself may be, we cannot know till all men share the chance to know.
Until the day of some more equal portion, there is no human brightness unhaunted by this black shadow: the thought of those unnumbered who pay all the heavier cost of life, to live and die without knowledge that there is any Joy of Living.
No song could face such blackness, but for the will to share, and for hope of the day of sharing.
Upon that hope and that mindfulness, the poems in this book are linked together.
J.P.M.
4 October, 1911.
CONTENTS
THE SINGING MAN 3
THE TREES 15
O, do you remember? How it came to be? 21
RICH MAN, POOR MAN 23
But we did walk in Eden 29
THE FOUNDLING 31
Love sang to me. And I went down the stair 35
THE FEASTER 37
Belovèd, if the moon could weep 43
THE GOLDEN SHOES 45
NOON AT PÆSTUM 47
VESTAL FLAME 48
The dark had left no speech save hand-in-hand 51
THE PROPHET 53
THE LONG LANE 56
Ah but, Belovèd, men may do 59
ALISON'S MOTHER TO THE BROOK 61
You, Four Walls, wall not in my heart! 65
CANTICLE OF THE BABE 67
And thou, Wayfaring Woman whom I meet 73
GLADNESS 75
THE NIGHTINGALE UNHEARD 81
Envoi 87
THE SINGING MAN
AN ODE OF THE PORTION OF LABOR
'The profit of the Earth is for all.' —ECCLESIASTES.
THE SINGING MAN
I
He sang above the vineyards of the world.
And after him the vines with woven hands
Clambered and clung, and everywhere unfurled
Triumphing green above the barren lands;
Till high as gardens grow, he climbed, he stood,
Sun-crowned with life and strength, and singing toil,
And looked upon his work; and it was good:
The corn, the wine, the oil.
He sang above the noon. The topmost cleft
That grudged him footing on the mountain scars
He planted and despaired not; till he left
His vines soft breathing to the host of stars.
He wrought, he tilled; and even as he sang,
The creatures of his planting laughed to scorn
The ancient threat of deserts where there sprang
The wine, the oil, the corn!
He sang not for abundance.—Over-lords
Took of his tilth. Yet was there still to reap,
The portion of his
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