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    Preludes 1921-1922
    Preludes 1921-1922
    Preludes 1921-1922
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    Preludes 1921-1922

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Preludes 1921-1922

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      Title: Preludes 1921-1922

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      Preludes 1921-1922

      By John Drinkwater

      All thoughts, all passions, all delights,

        Whatever stirs this mortal frame,

      All are but ministers of love,

        And feed his sacred flame.

      COLERIDGE.

      FOR DAVID

      CONTENTS

      I. PRELUDE II. DAVID AND JONATHAN III. THE MAID OF NAAMAN'S WIFE IV. LAKE WINTER V. GOLD VI. BURNING BUSH VII. TO MY SON VIII. INTERLUDE

      NOTE.—This book is really one poem, and is a development of my sonnet sequence, Persuasion.

      PRELUDE

      Though black the night, I know upon the sky,

      A little paler now, if clouds were none,

      The stars would be. Husht now the thickets lie,

      And now the birds are moving one by one,—

      A note—and now from bush to bush it goes—

      A prelude—now victorious light along

      The west will come till every bramble glows

      With wash of sunlit dew shaken in song.

      Shaken in song; O heart, be ready now,

      Cold in your night, be ready now to sing.

      Dawn as it wakes the sleeping bird on bough

      Shall summon you to instant reckoning,—

      She is your dawn, O heart,—sing, till the night

      Of death shall come, the gospel of her light.

      DAVID AND JONATHAN

      And Jonathan too had honour in his heart,

      Jonathan who with an armour-bearer went

      Alone by Michmash to the Philistines,

      And met a spray of swords because of courage

      That made him single greater than a host.

      Jonathan too had known his battles, dared

      At any hour the coming of death, because

      In twilight silence he had walked with God,

      Read Him in blossoms and the mountain brooks,

      And learnt that death, well known, can alter nothing.

      He was a brown man, burnt with love of summer,

      His young beard curled, and russet as the eyes

      That looked on life, and feared it, yet were master,

      Because they knew the tyranny they feared,

      Measured it, learnt it, gazed it into nothing.

      ….

      And now he watched the boy, the son of Jesse,

      David with hair like maples in October,

      And skin that women loving coveted,

      David with eyes that often by the sheepfolds

      Had looked through leaves up to the folds of heaven,

      And seeing them crammed with golden fleece of stars,

      Had known how the blood can run because of beauty.

      Jonathan watched him take the armour off

      Given by Saul, and choose the bright smooth pebbles,

      And walk out from the Israelitish throng

      Into the field against the Philistine giant.

      Watching, he snatched his sword and cried to

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