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Song-Surf - Cale Young Rice
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Title: Song-Surf
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SONG-SURF
By the Same Author
Nirvana Days
Yolanda of Cyprus
A Night in Avignon
Charles di Tocca
David
Many Gods
SONG-SURF
BY
CALE YOUNG RICE
NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
MCMX
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
PUBLISHED, SEPTEMBER, 1910
TO
MY SISTERS
FOREWORD
These poems, first published as Song-Surf
in 1900, by a firm which failed before the book, left the press, were republished with additions as the lyrics
of Plays & Lyrics,
by Hodder & Stoughton, of London, in 1905. Revision and omissions have been made for this volume of a uniform edition in which they now appear.
CONTENTS
PAGE
With Omar 3
Jael 16
To the Sea 22
The Day-Moon 25
A Sea-Ghost 27
On the Moor 29
The Cry of Eve 31
Mary at Nazareth 35
Adelil 38
Intimation 40
In July 41
From Above 44
By the Indus 45
Evocation 47
The Child God Gave 49
The Winds 51
Transcended 54
Love's Way to Childhood 55
Autumn 57
Shinto 58
Maya 60
A Japanese Mother 62
The Dead Gods 64
Call to Your Mate, Bob-White 68
The Dying Poet 70
The Outcast 73
April 76
August Guests 78
To a Dove 79
At Tintern Abbey 81
Oh, Go Not Out 83
Human Love 85
Ashore 86
The Victory 88
At Winter's End 89
Mother-Love 91
To a Singing Warbler 93
Songs to A. H. R.:
I. The World's, and Mine 95
II. Love-Call in Spring 96
III. Mating 97
IV. Untold 98
V. Love-Watch 99
VI. At Amalfi 99
VII. On the Pacific 101
The Atoner 103
To the Spring Wind 104
The Ramble 105
Return 108
Lisette 111
From One Blind 113
In a Cemetery 114
Waking 116
Storm-Ebb 117
Lingering 119
Faun-Call 121
The Lighthouseman 123
Serenity 125
Wanton June 127
Spirit of Rain 129
Tearless 131
Sunset-Lovers 133
The Empty Cross 135
Unburthened 137
To Her Who Shall Come 139
Storm-Twilight 142
Slaves 143
Avowal to the Nightingale 144
Before Autumn 147
Fulfilment 149
Last Sight of Land 151
Silence 153
SONG-SURF
WITH OMAR
I sat with Omar by the Tavern door,
Musing the mystery of mortals o'er,
And soon with answers alternate we strove
Whether, beyond death, Life hath any shore.
"Come, fill the cup, said he.
In the fire of Spring
Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling.
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter—and the Bird is on the Wing."
The Bird of Time?
I answered. "Then have I
No heart for Wine. Must we not cross the Sky
Unto Eternity upon his wings—Or,
failing, fall into the Gulf and die?"
"Ay; so, for the Glories of this World sigh some,
And some for the Prophet's Paradise to come;
But you, Friend, take the Cash—the Credit leave,
Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!"
"What! take the Cash and let the Credit go?
Spend all upon the Wine the while I know
A possible To-morrow may bring thirst
For Drink but Credit then shall cause to flow?"
"Yea, make the most of what you yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie,
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and—sans End!"
"Into the Dust we shall descend—we must.
But can the soul not break the crumbling Crust
In which he is encaged? To hope or to
Despair he will—which is more wise or just?"
"The worldly hope men set their hearts upon
Turns Ashes—or it prospers: and anon,
Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face,
Lighting a little hour or two—is gone."
"Like Snow it comes—to cool one burning Day;
And like it goes—for all our plea or sway.
But flooding tears nor Wine can ever purge
The Vision it has brought to us away."
"But to this world we come and Why not knowing,
Nor Whence, like water willy-nilly flowing;
And out of it, as Wind along the waste,
We know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing."
"True, little do we know of Why or Whence.
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