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A Sequel


I saw again the spirits on a day,
Where on the earth in mournful case they lay;
Five porches were there, and a pool, and round,
Huddling in blankets, strewn upon the ground,...

I

Here am I yet, another twelvemonth spent,
One-third departed of the mortal span,
Carrying on the child into the man,
Nothing into reality. Sails rent,
And rudder broken, reason impotent...

O happy they whose hearts receive
The implanted word with faith; believe
Because their fathers did before,
Because they learnt, and ask no more
High triumphs of convictions wrought,...

Come back, come back, behold with straining mast
And swelling sail, behold her steaming fast;
With one new sun to see her voyage o'er,
With morning light to touch her native shore.
Come back, come back....

Hope evermore and believe, O man, for e'en as thy thought
So are the things that thou see'st; e'en as thy hope and belief.
Cowardly art thou and timid? they rise to provoke thee against them,...

Farewell, my Highland lassie! when the year returns around,
Be it Greece, or be it Norway, where my vagrant feet are found,
I shall call to mind the place, I shall call to mind the day,...

A youth was I. An elder friend with me,
'Twas in September o'er the autumnal sea
We went; the wide Atlantic ocean o'er
Two amongst many the strong steamer bore.
Delight it was to feel that wondrous force...

A Long-Vacation Pastoral

Nunc formosissimus annus
Ite me' felix quondam pecus, ite camen'.


I

Socii cratera coronant.
...

A Long-Vacation Pastoral


II

Et certamen erat, Corydon cum Thyrside, magnum.

Morn, in yellow and white, came broadening out from the mountains,...

A Long-Vacation Pastoral


III

Namque canebat uti

So in the golden morning they parted and went to the westward.
And in the cottage with Airlie and Hobbes remained the Tutor;...

A Long-Vacation Pastoral


IV

Ut vidi, ut perii, ut me malus abstulit error

So in the golden weather they waited. But Philip returned not....

A Long-Vacation Pastoral


IX
Arva, beata Petamus arva!

So on the morrow's morrow, with Term-time dread returning,
Philip returned to his books, and read, and remained at Oxford,...

A Long-Vacation Pastoral


V

Putavi
Stultus ego huic nostr' similem.

So in the cottage with Adam the pupils five together
Duly remained, and read, and looked no more for Philip,...

A Long-Vacation Pastoral


VI

Ducite ab urbe domum, mea carmina, ducite Daphnin.

Bright October was come, the misty-bright October,
Bright October was come to burn and glen and cottage;...

A Long-Vacation Pastoral


VII

Vesper adest, juvenes, consurgite: Vesper Olympo
Expectata diu vix tandem lumina tollit.
...

A Long-Vacation Pastoral


VIII

Jam veniet virgo, jam dicetur hymen'us.

But a revulsion again came over the spirit of Elspie,
When she thought of his wealth, his birth and education:...

Is it true, ye gods, who treat us
As the gambling fool is treated;
O ye, who ever cheat us,
And let us feel we're cheated!
Is it true that poetical power,
The gift of heaven, the dower...

When soft September brings again
To yonder gorse its golden glow,
And Snowdon sends its autumn rain
To bid thy current livelier flow;
Amid that ashen foliage light...