Writ In My Lord Clarendon’S “History Of The Rebellion.”

How life hath cheapened, and how blank The Worlde is! like a fen Where long ago unstainèd sank The starrie gentlemen: Since Marston Moor and Newbury drank King Charles his gentlemen.

If Fate in any air accords What Fate denied, O then I ask to be among your Swordes, My joyous gentlemen; Towards Honour’s heaven to goe, and towards King Charles his gentlemen!

A LAST WORD ON SHELLEY.

Each great inrolling wave, a league of sound, All night, all day, the hostile crags confound To merest snow and smoke. The crags remain.

Smile at the storm for our safe poet’s sake! Not ever this ordainèd world shall break That mounting, foolish, foam-bright heart again.

AN EPITAPH FOR WILLIAM HAZLITT.

Between the wet trees and the sorry steeple, Keep, Time, in dark Soho, what once was Hazlitt, Seeker of Truth, and finder oft of Beauty;

Beauty’s a sinking light, ah, none too faithful; But Truth, who leaves so here her spent pursuer, Forgets not her great pawn: herself shall claim it.

Therefore sleep safe, thou dear and battling spirit, Safe also on our earth, begetting ever Some one love worth the ages and the nations!

Nothing falls under, to thine eyes eternal. Sleep safe in dark Soho: the stars are shining; Titian and Wordsworth live; the People marches.

EMILY BRONTË.

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.

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