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    Nirvana Days
    Nirvana Days
    Nirvana Days
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    Nirvana Days

    By Cale Young Rice

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateOct 1, 2007
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      Nirvana Days - Cale Young Rice

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Nirvana Days, by Cale Young Rice

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      Title: Nirvana Days

      Author: Cale Young Rice

      Release Date: October 7, 2009 [EBook #30198]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NIRVANA DAYS ***

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      NIRVANA DAYS

      NIRVANA DAYS

      BY

      CALE YOUNG RICE

      AUTHOR OF

      CHARLES DI TOCCA, A NIGHT IN AVIGNON,

      YOLANDA OF CYPRUS, DAVID, ETC.

      NEW YORK

      DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

      MCMIX

      Copyright, 1909, by Cale Young Rice

      TO

      JAMES LANE ALLEN

      WITH FRIENDSHIP AND

      FAITHFUL ESTEEM

      FOREWORD

      A few of the poems of this volume are retained from two of the author's earlier volumes which are now out of print. The rest are new.

      CONTENTS

      NIRVANA DAYS

      INVOCATION

      (From a High Cliff)

      Sweep unrest

      Out of my blood,

      Winds of the sea! Sweep the fog

      Out of my brain

      For I am one

      Who has told Life he will be free.

      Who will not doubt of work that's done,

      Who will not fear the work to do.

      Who will hold peaks Promethean

      Better than all Jove's honey-dew.

      Who when the Vulture tears his breast

      Will smile into the Terror's Eyes.

      Who for the World has this Bequest—

      Hope, that eternally is wise.

      THE FAIRIES OF GOD

      Last night I slipt from the banks of dream

      And swam in the currents of God,

      On a tide where His fairies were at play,

      Catching salt tears in their little white hands,

      For human hearts;

      And dancing dancing, in gala bands,

      On the currents of God;

      And singing, singing:—

      There is no wind blows here or spray—

      Wind upon us!

      Only the waters ripple away

      Under our feet as we gather tears.

      God has made mortals for the years,

      Us for alway!

      God has made mortals full of fears,

      Fears for the night and fears for the day.

      If they would free them from grief that sears,

      If they would keep all that love endears,

      If they would lay no more lilies on biers—

      Let them say!

      For we are swift to enchant and tire

      Time's will!

      Our feet are wiser than all desire,

      Our song is better than faith or fame;

      To whom it is given no ill e'er came,

      Who has it not grows chill!

      Who has it not grows laggard and lame,

      Nor knows that the world is a Minstrel's lyre,

      Smitten and never still!...

      Last night on the currents of God.

      A SONG OF THE OLD VENETIANS

      The seven fleets of Venice

      Set sail across the sea

      For Cyprus and for Trebizond

      Ayoub and Araby.

      Their gonfalons are floating far,

      St. Mark's has heard the mass,

      And to the noon the salt lagoon

      Lies white, like burning glass.

      The seven fleets of Venice—

      And each its way to go,

      Led by a Falier or Tron,

      Zorzi or Dandalo.

      The Patriarch has blessed them all,

      The Doge

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