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# A Century of Roundels/Plus Ultra

PLUS ULTRA.
Far beyond the sunrise and the sunset rises Heaven, with worlds on worlds that lighten and respond: Thought can see not thence the goal of hope's surmises Far beyond.
Night and day have made an everlasting bond Each with each to hide in yet more deep disguises Truth, till souls of men that thirst for truth despond.
All that man in pride of spirit slights or prizes, All the dreams that make him fearful, fain, or fond, Fade at forethought's touch of life's unknown surprises Far beyond.
# A Century of Roundels/In Sark

IN SARK.
Abreast and ahead of the sea is a crag's front cloven asunder With strong sea-breach and with wasting of winds whence terror is shed As a shadow of death from the wings of the darkness on waters that thunder Abreast and ahead.
At its edge is a sepulchre hollowed and hewn for a lone man's bed, Propped open with rock and agape on the sky and the sea thereunder, But roofed and walled in well from the wrath of them slept its dead.
Here might not a man drink rapture of rest, or delight above wonder, Beholding, a soul disembodied, the days and the nights that fled, With splendour and sound of the tempest around and above him and under, Abreast and ahead?
# A Century of Roundels/Mourning

MOURNING.
Alas my brother! the cry of the mourners of old That cried on each other, All crying aloud on the dead as the death-note rolled, Alas my brother!
As flashes of dawn that mists from an east wind smother With fold upon fold, The past years gleam that linked us one with another.
Time sunders hearts as of brethren whose eyes behold No more their mother: But a cry sounds yet from the shrine whose fires wax cold, Alas my brother!
# A Century of Roundels/In Harbour

IN HARBOUR.
I
Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote us As mourners clothed with regret for the life gone by; To the waters of gloom whence winds of the dayspring float us Goodnight and goodbye.
A time is for mourning, a season for grief to sigh; But were we not fools and blind, by day to devote us As thralls to the darkness, unseen of the sundawn's eye?
We have drunken of Lethe at length, we have eaten of lotus; What hurts it us here that sorrows are born and die? We have said to the dream that caressed and the dread that smote us Goodnight and goodbye.
II.
Outside of the port ye are moored in, lying Close from the wind and at ease from the tide, What sounds come swelling, what notes fall dying Outside?
They will not cease, they will not abide: Voices of presage in darkness crying Pass and return and relapse aside.
Ye see not, but hear ye not wild wings flying To the future that wakes from the past that died? Is grief still sleeping, is joy not sighing Outside?
# A Century of Roundels/Plus Intra

PLUS INTRA.
Soul within sense, immeasurable, obscure, Insepulchred and deathless, through the dense Deep elements may scarce be felt as pure Soul within sense.
From depth and height by measurers left immense, Through sound and shape and colour, comes the unsure Vague utterance, fitful with supreme suspense.
All that may pass, and all that must endure, Song speaks not, painting shews not: more intense And keen than these, art wakes with music's lure Soul within sense.
# A Channel Passage and Other Poems/For Greece and Crete

Previously printed in The Nineteenth Century, March 1897, pp. 337-338
FOR GREECE AND CRETE
Storm and shame and fraud and darkness fill the nations full with night:
Hope and fear whose eyes yearn eastward have but fire and sword in sight: One alone, whose name is one with glory, sees and seeks the light.
Hellas, mother of the spirit, sole supreme in war and peace,
Land of light, whose word remembered bids all fear and sorrow cease,
Lives again, while freedom lightens eastward yet for sons of Greece.
Greece, where only men whose manhood was as godhead ever trod,
Bears the blind world witness yet of light wherewith her feet are shod: Freedom, armed of Greece was always very man and very God.
Now the winds of old that filled her sails with triumph, when the fleet Bound for death from Asia fled before them stricken, wake to greet
Ships full-winged again for freedom toward the sacred shores of Crete.
There was God born man, the song that spake of old time said: and there
Man, made even as God by trust that shows him nought too dire to dare,
Now may light again the beacon lit when those we worship were.
Sharp the concert wrought of discord shrills the tune of shame and death, Turk by Christian fenced and fostered, Mecca backed by Nazareth:
All the powerless powers, tongue-valiant, breathe but greed's or terror's breath.
Though the tide that feels the west wind lift it wave by widening wave
Wax not yet to height and fullness of the storm that smites to save, None shall bid the flood back seaward till no bar be left to brave.
# A Channel Passage and Other Poems/In a Rosary

IN A ROSARY
Through the low grey archway children's feet that pass Quicken, glad to find the sweetest haunt of all. Brightest wildflowers gleaming deep in lustiest grass, Glorious weeds that glisten through the green sea's glass, Match not now this marvel, born to fade and fall.
Roses like a rainbow wrought of roses rise Right and left and forward, shining toward the sun. Nay, the rainbow lit of sunshine droops and dies Ere we dream it hallows earth and seas and skies; Ere delight may dream it lives, its life is done.
Round the border hemmed with high deep hedges round Go the children, peering over or between Where the dense bright oval wall of box inwound, Reared about the roses fast within it bound, Gives them grace to glance at glories else unseen.
Flower outlightening flower and tree outflowering tree Feed and fill the sense and spirit full with joy. Nought awhile they know of outer earth and sea: Here enough of joy it is to breathe and be: Here the sense of life is one for girl and boy.
Heaven above them, bright as children's eyes or dreams, Earth about them, sweet as glad soft sleep can show Earth and sky and sea, a world that scarcely seems Even in children's eyes less fair than life that gleams Through the sleep that none but sinless eyes may know.
Near beneath, and near above, the terraced ways Wind or stretch and bask or blink against the sun. Hidden here from sight on soft or stormy days Lies and laughs with love toward heaven, at silent gaze, All the radiant rosary—all its flowers made one.
All the multitude of roses towering round Dawn and noon and night behold as one full flower,
Fain of heaven and loved of heaven, curbed and crowned,
Raised and reared to make this plot of earthly ground
Heavenly, could but heaven endure on earth an hour.
Swept away, made nothing now for ever, dead,
Still the rosary lives and shines on memory, free
Now from fear of death or change as childhood, fled
Years on years before its last live leaves were shed:
None may mar it now, as none may stain the sea.
# A Channel Passage and Other Poems/On the Death of Colonel Benson

Previously printed in The Saturday Review, November 9th, 1901, p. 584.
ON THE DEATH OF COLONEL BENSON
Northumberland, so proud and sad to-day,
Weep and rejoice, our mother, whom no son
More glorious than this dead and deathless one
Brought ever fame whereon no time shall prey.
Nor heed we more than he what liars dare say
Of mercy's holiest duties left undone
Toward whelps and dams of murderous foes, whom none
Save we had spared or feared to starve and slay.
Alone as Milton and as Wordsworth found
And hailed their England, when from all around Howled all the recreant hate of envious knaves,
Sublime she stands: while, stifled in the sound,
Each lie that falls from German boors and slaves
Falls but as filth dropt in the wandering waves.
November 4, 1901.
# A Channel Passage and Other Poems/Lucifer

LUCIFER
Écrasez l'infâme.—Voltaire Les prêtres ont raison de l'appeler Lucifer.—Victor Hugo
Voltaire, our England's lover, man divine
Beyond all Gods that ever fear adored
By right and might, by sceptre and by sword,
By godlike love of sunlike truth, made thine
Through godlike hate of falsehood's marshlight shine
And all the fume of creeds and deeds abhorred
Whose light was darkness, till the dawn-star soared,
Truth, reason, mercy, justice, keep thy shrine
Sacred in memory's temple, seeing that none
Of all souls born to strive before the sun Loved ever good or hated evil more.
The snake that felt thy heel upon her head,
Night's first-born, writhes as though she were not dead,
But strikes not, stings not, slays not as before.
# A Channel Passage and Other Poems/Delphic Hymn to Apollo

Previously printed in The Nineteenth Century, August 1894, pp. 313-316
DELPHIC HYMN TO APOLLO
(b.c. 280)
Done into English
I
Famed for harping song, will I
Proclaim, and the deathless oracular word
From the snow-topped rock that we gaze on heard,
Counsels of thy glorious giving
Manifest for all men living,
How thou madest the tripod of prophecy thine
Which the wrath of the dragon kept guard on, a shrine
Voiceless till thy shafts could smite
All his live coiled glittering might.
II
All deep woods on Helicon,
Fair daughters of thunder-girt God, with your bright
White arms uplift as to lighten the light,
Come to chant your brother's praise,
Gold-haired Phœbus, loud in lays,
Even his, who afar up the twin-topped seat
Of the rock Parnassian whereon we meet Risen with glorious Delphic maids
Seeks the soft spring-sweetened shades Castalian, fain of the Delphian peak
Prophetic, sublime as the feet that seek.
Glorious Athens, highest of state,
Come, with praise and prayer elate,
O thou that art queen of the plain unscarred
That the warrior Tritonid hath alway in guard,
Where on many a sacred shrine
Young bulls' thigh-bones burn and shine
As the god that is fire overtakes them, and fast
The smoke of Arabia to heavenward is cast, Scattering wide its balm: and shrill
Now with nimble notes that thrill
The flute strikes up for the song, and the harp of gold
Strikes up to the song sweet answer: and all behold,
All, aswarm as bees, give ear,
Who by birth hold Athens dear.
# A Channel Passage and Other Poems/In Memory of Aurelio Saffi

Previously printed in The Athenæum, June l3th, 1896, p. 779.
IN MEMORY OF AURELIO SAFFI
Beloved above all nations, land adored, Sovereign in spirit and charm, by song and sword, Sovereign whose life is love, whose name is light, Italia, queen that hast the sun for lord,
Bride that hast heaven for bridegroom, how should night Veil or withhold from faith's and memory's sight A man beloved and crowned of thee and fame, Hide for an hour his name's memorial might?
Thy sons may never speak or hear the name Saffi, and feel not love's regenerate flame Thrill all the quickening heart with faith and pride In one whose life makes death and life the same.
They die indeed whose souls before them died:
Not he, for whom death flung life's portal wide,
Who stands where Dante's soul in vision came,
In Dante's presence, by Mazzini's side.
March 26, 1896.
# A Channel Passage and Other Poems/Music: An Ode

Previously printed privately as a separate brochure
MUSIC: AN ODE
I.
that shone from the word,
When the night was enkindled with sound of the sun
or the first-born bird?
Souls enthralled and entrammelled in bondage of seasons
that fall and rise,
Bound fast round with the fetters of flesh, and blinded
with light that dies,
Lived not surely till music spake, and the spirit of life
was heard.
II.
Smiled as dawn on the spirit of man, and the thrall
was free.
Slave of nature and serf of time, the bondman of life
and death,
Dumb with passionless patience that breathed but
forlorn and reluctant breath,
Heard, beheld, and his soul made answer, and
communed aloud with the sea.
III.
silent noon
Kept for him not silence: and soft from the mounting
moon
Fell the sound of her splendour, heard as dawn's in the
breathless night,
Not of men but of birds whose note bade man's soul
quicken and leap to light:
And the song of it spake, and the light and the darkness
of earth were as chords in tune.
# A Channel Passage and Other Poems/Northumberland

Previously printed in The Northern Counties Magazine, October 1900, pp. 1-3.
NORTHUMBERLAND
Between our eastward and our westward sea
The narrowing strand
Clasps close the noblest shore fame holds in fee
Even here where English birth seals all men free—
Northumberland.
The sea-mists meet across it when the snow
Clothes moor and fell,
And bid their true-born hearts who love it glow
For joy that none less nobly born may know
What love knows well.
The splendour and the strength of storm and fight
Sustain the song
That filled our fathers' hearts with joy to smite,
To live, to love, to lay down life that right
Might tread down wrong.
They warred, they sang, they triumphed, and they passed,
And left us glad
Here to be born, their sons, whose hearts hold fast
The proud old love no change can overcast,
No chance leave sad.
None save our northmen ever, none but we,
Met, pledged, or fought
Such foes and friends as Scotland and the sea
With heart so high and equal, strong in glee
And stern in thought.
Thought, fed from time's memorial springs with pride,
Made strong as fire
Their hearts who hurled the foe down Flodden side,
And hers who rode the waves none else durst ride—
None save her sire.
O land beloved, where nought of legend's dream
Outshines the truth,
Where Joyous Gard, closed round with clouds that gleam
For them that know thee not, can scarce but seem
Too sweet for sooth,
Thy sons forget not, nor shall fame forget,
The deed there done
Before the walls whose fabled fame is yet
A light too sweet and strong to rise and set
With moon and sun.
Song bright as flash of swords or oars that shine
Through fight or foam
Stirs yet the blood thou hast given thy sons like wine
To hail in each bright ballad hailed as thine
One heart, one home.
Our Collingwood, though Nelson be not ours,
By him shall stand
Immortal, till those waifs of oldworld hours,
Forgotten, leave uncrowned with bays and flowers
Northumberland.
# A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Juan
### Juan.
#### 纂$^2$

    Scarlet silk; to collect; arrange; abstract and form a compendium of; hand down.
# A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Jue
### Jue.
#### 睿$^{-3}$

    Profound intelligence; perspicacity; clear perception.

#### 銳$^{-3}$

    Sharp-pointed; keen.

#### 枘$^3$

    The pointed end of a wooden handle fitted to enter the iron socket.

#### 芮$^3$

    Soft; flexible; plants growing; shore; bank.
# A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Kau
### Kau.
#### 猴$^{-1}$

    The monkey species; name of a fruit.

#### 高$^1$

    Lofty; eminent; a high degree of.

#### 篙$^1$

    A pole for propelling boats.

#### 交$^1$

    To unite; connect; deliver over to; to exchange; intercourse; trade.

#### 筊$^1$

    Name of a musical reed; rope made of bamboos.

#### 蛟$^1$

    A kind of crocodile said to weigh 2000 catties.

#### 郊$^1$

    Common or waste land outside a city; region.

#### 鮫$^1$

    A species of dog fish.

#### 勾$^1$

    A hook; to hook; entice; to mark off and reject; a sentence.

#### 鈎$^1$

    A hook; a sickle; kind of spear; to hook; induce; drag.

#### 羔$^1$

    A lamb.

#### 臯$^1$

    To proclaim from the house-top; high; to sing; drawl.

#### 橰$^1$

    A machine for drawing water; name of a wood.

#### 溝$^1$

    A ditch; moat.

#### 狗$^2$犬$^2$

    A dog; a mean person.

#### 攪$^2$

    To throw into disorder or confusion; to trouble the mind.

#### 狡$^2$

    An animal resembling a dog; crafty; perverse; disorderly. ​

#### 皎$^2$

    White like the moon.

#### 絞$^2$

    To wrap round; twist; strangle.

#### 皦$^2$

    Clear; bright; white and luminous.

#### 皓$^2$

    Pure; white; unspotted; refulgence.

#### 杲$^2$

    The rising sun; clear; bright; eminent.

#### 槁$^2$

    Rotten wood; dried fish.

#### 縞$^2$

    Plain white silk.

#### 燺$^2$

    Dry; destitute of water.

#### 藁$^2$

    Straw; thatch; tablets on which government orders are written.

#### 九$^2$

    Nine.

#### 玖$^2$

    A black colored stone.

#### 厚$^{-3}$

    Thick; large; abundant; liberal; generous.

#### 告$^{3-}$

    To tell; inform; to order; to intreat; to accuse.

#### 誥$^{3-}$

    To command; to give directions; proclaim by writing.

#### 到$^{3-}$

    To arrive at; extend to; reach to; full amount.
# A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Jua
### Jua.
#### 熱$^{-4}$

    Hot; heat; ardent.

#### 爇$^{-4}$

    To burn; blaze; set on a blaze.
# A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Jui
### Jui.
#### 遺$^{-1}$

    To leave; hand down; leave by will; to reject; base.

#### 帷$^{-1}$

    A curtain; a tent.

#### 惟$^{-1}$

    To think; consider; plan; to be; is; but; only.

#### 維$^{-1}$

    To be connected, pertain or belong to; to consider.

#### 唯$^2$

    To answer; assent; yes; but; only; who?
# A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Jun
### Jun.
#### 允$^2$

    Sincerely; honestly; faithful; to assent; promise.

#### 吮$^2$

    To suck; to lick.

#### 狁$^2$

    An opprobrious epithet.

#### 潤$^{-3}$

    To enrich with rain or moisture; to instil; to benefit; riches.

#### 閏$^3$

    Intercalary; to add; or throw in.
# A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Kai
### Kai.
#### 個$^{-1}$箇$^{-1}$

    An individual; one.

#### 皆$^1$

    All; taken together; collectively; all the proceeding circumstances or things.

#### 偕$^1$

    With; together with; united.

#### 喈$^1$

    Voices or songs of birds.

#### 楷$^1$

    A pattern; example; mould; rule; straight and comely.

#### 該$^1$

    Ought; should; proper; the person place or thing refered to.

#### 介$^{3-}$

    To assist; attend upon; great; firm; a boundary; only; single.

#### 价$^{3-}$

    Great; good; to assist.

#### 疥$^{3-}$

    To scratch; a scratch; a mere trifling sore or matter.

#### 界$^{3-}$

    A boundary or limit; to limit; draw a line of separation.

#### 芥$^{3-}$

    Mustard plant or seed; small; trifling.

#### 戒$^{3-}$

    To warn; prohibit; to guard against; percepts; a limit.

#### 誡$^{3-}$

    Commands; percepts; orders; to command; forbid. ​

#### 盖$^{3-}$蓋$^{3-}$

    To cover; screen; protect; a c over; for; because.

#### 屆$^{3-}$

    A fixed or appointed time; utmost limit.

#### 丐$^{3-}$

    To beg; take; give.
# A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Ju
### Ju.
#### 如$^{-1}$

    As; like; according to; if; to go.

#### 筎$^{-1}$

    The bark of bamboo; a sort of medicine.

#### 茹$^{-1}$

    Plants whose roots entangle with each other; soft; flexible; to covet; eat greedily.

#### 臾$^{-1}$

    A moment; an instant.

#### 腴$^{-1}$

    Big-bellied; soft; flabby; fat; entrails.

#### 萸$^{-1}$

    A certain medical plant.

#### 俞$^{-1}$

    To answer; assent; yes; well; still more.

#### 愉$^{-1}$

    To please; be pleased; joy; gratification; luxurious.

#### 腧$^{-1}$

    The back; loins.

#### 窬$^{-1}$

    To bore or open a small hole or aperture; ;a small hole in the wall.

#### 踰$^{-1}$逾$^{-1}$

    To pass over; exceed; advance; distant.

#### 儒$^{-1}$

    A scholar; the literati.

#### 孺$^{-1}$

    An infant at the breast; to attach to; pertain to.

#### 薷$^{-1}$

    Name of an herb and of a medicine.

#### 乳$^2$

    Milk; to breast; tender; soft.

#### 愈$^2$

    To overcome; heal disease; to advance; still more; better.

#### 庾$^2$

    A stack of grain or storehouse in the fields; abundant; affluent.

#### 喻$^{-3}$

    To manifest; declare; instruct; proclaim.

#### 諭$^{-3}$

    An edict; order; mandates; to declare; command.

#### 覦$^{-3}$

    To desire; covet; look at; to attain.

#### 諛$^{-3}$

    Flattery; adulation; to flatter.

#### 裕$^{-3}$

    Plenty; affluent; generous; indulgent. ​

#### 龥$^{-3}$

    To cry out in distress; to invoke with importunity.
# A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Juat
### Juat.
#### 悅$^{-4}$

    Pleased; happy; to delight.
# A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Jù
### Jù.
#### 而$^{-1}$

    And; as; but,

#### 耳$^2$

    The ear; handle to a cup; an euphonic and emphatic particle.

#### 爾$^2$

    An euphonic and emphatic particle; thou; you; your.

#### 璽$^2$

    A seal; a stamp.

#### 邇$^2$

    Near; at hand.

#### 貳$^{-3}$

    Two; both; to divide; double-minded.

#### 膩$^{-3}$

    Fat; glossy; smooth; congealed.

#### 刵$^{-3}$

    To cut off the ears.

#### 字$^{-3}$

    A title.
# A Christmas Garland

1912. Four versions of A Christmas Garland appeared from 1896 to 1950. The first appeared in 1896 and was published simultaneously in the Saturday Review Christmas edition (U.K.) and The Chap Book (U.S.). The second came out in 1906 in the Saturday Review of 8, 15, 22 and 29 December. The third version was the 1912 publication in book form, reprinting some of the earlier pieces and adding a number of new items. The 1950 edition was identical to the 1912 except for the addition of the piece "All Roads".
The 1896 Edition
* 1896 Introduction
* The Sorrows of Millicent by M*rie C*r*lli
* The Blessedness of Apple-Pie Beds by R*ch*rd L* G*ll**n*
* The Defossilized Plum-Pudding by H. G. W*lls
* Beside the Bonnie Mark by I*n M*cl*r*n
* Holly by Al*ce M**n*ll
* The Victory of Aphasia Gibberish by G**rge M*r*d*th
* A Vain Child by Max Beerbohm
The 1906 Edition
* The Mote in the Middle Distance by H*nry J*m*s
* I and Matter by J*hn D*v*ds*n
* P.C., X, 36 by R*dy*rd K*pl*ng
* Dickens by G**rge M**re
* Fond Hearts Askew by M**r*ce H*wl*tt
* A Straight Talk by G**rge B*rn*rd Sh*w
* General Cessation Day by H. G. W*lls
* Christmas Day by G. K. Ch*st*rt*n
The 1912 Edition
* Note
* The Mote in the Middle Distance by H*nry J*m*s
* P.C., X, 36 by R*dy*rd K*pl*ng
* Out of Harm's Way by A. C. B*ns*n
* Perkins and Mankind by H. G. W*lls
* Some Damnable Errors About Christmas by G. K. Ch*st*rt*n
* A Sequelula to "The Dynasts" by Th*m*s H*rdy
* Shakespeare and Christmas by Fr*nk H*rr*s
* Scruts by Arn*ld B*nn*t
* Endeavour by J*hn G*lsw*rthy
* Christmas by G. S. Str**t
* The Feast by J*s*ph C*nr*d
* A Recollection by Edm*nd G*sse
* Of Christmas by H*l**re B*ll*c
* A Straight Talk by G**rge B*rn*rd Sh*w
* Fond Hearts Askew by M**r*ce H*wl*tt
* Dickens by G**rge M**re
* Euphemia Clashthought by G**rge M*r*d*th
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# A Christmas Garland/1896 Introduction
## [1896 Introduction]

[Since the death of Charles Dickens, Christmas, as a literary motive, has declined sadly. It seemed to me that a renewal of that good motive might dispel some, at least, of the morbid vapours which involve our literature. So I appealed to many of our best essayists and romancers. Some were, others were not, susceptible. What follows is a mere selection from the writings I garnered. As I correct the proofs, I venture to think that the little movement has been a success. Not one of the writers seems to have fallen below his or her level and some have even risen above it. Mr. M*r*d*th, for example, and Mr. M*cl*r*n seem to have written more clearly, I myself more sincerely, than usual. And Mrs. M**n*ll, in the festivity of her theme, has been betrayed into an unwonted warmth of style which will not alienate her admirers, I hope.--M. B.]