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# Poems (Davidson)/Contemplation of the Heavens

CONTEMPLATION OF THE HEAVENS.
To count the glittering millions of the sky, to marshal them in bright array before us, to mark the brilliant traces of a Creator's presence, the foot-prints of the Deity, is a hallowed and sublime employment of the soul; for being insensibly led onward from gazing upon the portals of heaven, the wonderful threshold of God's wide pavilion, it dares to lift itself in pure and unearthly communion with the Holy Spirit that inhabits there, and to bow in adoration and praise before the great I AM.
To a feeling mind, the heavens unroll a vast volume, filled with subjects of wonder, love, and praise,—wonder, at the inconceivable majesty and goodness of the great Creator of so vast, so splendid a system; love, for his condescension in deigning to bend his attention to so insignificant a creature as man, even in the meridian of his earthly glory; and praise for his unchangeable benevolence, infinite wisdom, and perfection. What hand but that of a God could have formed the wide solar system above us? what voice but that of Him who created them, could bid the starry millions move on for thousands of ages in one unbroken and unceasing march? The lights of heaven are bright and beautiful, still they are but feeble beams from the everlasting fountain of splendor, or wandering sparks of heaven's dazzling glory. Well indeed might Zoroaster, in the enthusiasm of his heart, worship the fires of heaven as parts of that ineffable and never​dying spirit which animates and lives in all, through all eternity.
In the dark ages of superstition and bigotry, was it strange that he should turn in disgust from the sacrifices of blood, from horrid images, the disgraceful productions of weak bewildered minds, to a fount of pure, unchanging, living light; to the brilliant fires above him, holding their unbroken paths through heaven, pointing to God's throne, and whispering to the heart of something still more bright, more beautiful and holy?
# Poems (Davidson)/Charity (The sacred volume exhorts us)

CHARITY.
The sacred volume exhorts us to Charity. How carefully, then, should we cherish this kindly feeling, this spark from the fountain of life, that it may beam forth undimmed, and, with its pure and friendly light, cast a ray over our many imperfections, in that day when all will stand in need of mercy and forbearance!
It is not the bare distribution of alms to the needy and suffering beggar, it is not the pompous offerings of opulence to the shrinking child of poverty, which constitutes true charity; no, it is to be understood in a far wider sense; it is forbearing to join with the multitude, when trampling upon a fallen fellow-creature. It is the voice of Charity which pleads for the wretched and the penitent, which raises the prostrate, and whispers forgiveness for the past, and hope for the future. It is her hand which pours the balm of consolation into the lacerated bosom of the returning wanderer, who dares not look back upon the past, and whose heart shrinks as it meets the cold and averted glances of those who in the hour of its pride had bowed before it.
We are all liable to err. Let us make the situation of the suffering penitent our own. Where are the friends we had fondly fancied ours? fled, as from the breath of pestilence, and we are desolate; left with the arrow of adversity rankling in our bosoms, like the stricken deer by the selfish herd, to perish in solitude and wretchedness.
​There is no heart so hardened and depraved, that it will not, when the soft voice of Charity whispers peace and forgiveness, yield like wax beneath the hand which stamps it. Then is the moment to impress upon it the sacred precepts of virtue, and to place the bright rewards of penitence before it. "Let us, then, do as we would that others should do unto us;" have mercy upon the fallen, and stretch forth the hand of Charity to the suffering and the penitent.
# Perry v. Schwarzenegger/2:Procedural History of This Action

PROCEDURAL HISTORY OF THIS ACTION
Plaintiffs challenge the constitutionality of Proposition 8 under the Fourteenth Amendment, an issue not raised during any prior state court proceeding. Plaintiffs filed their complain on May 22, 2009, naming as defendants in their official capacities California's Governor, Attorney General and Director and Deputy Director of Public Health and the Alameda County Clerk-Recorder and the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (collectively "the government defendants"). Doc #1. With the exception of the Attorney General, who concedes that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, Doc #39, the government defendants refused to take a position on the merits of plaintiffs' claims and declined to defend Proposition 8. Doc #42 (Alameda County), Doc #41 (Los Angeles County), Doc #46 (Governor and Department of Public Health officials).
[p. 4] Defendant-intervenors, the official proponents of Proposition 8 under California election law ("proponents"), were granted leave in July 2009 to intervene to defend the constitutionality of Proposition 8. Doc #76. On January 8, 2010, Hak-Shing William Tam, an official proponent and defendant-intervenor, moved to withdraw as a defendant; Doc #369; Tam's motion is denied for the reasons stated in a separate order filed herewith. Plaintiff-intervenor City and County of San Francisco ("CCSF" or "San Francisco") was granted leave to intervene in August 2009. Doc #160 (minute entry).
The court denied plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction on July 2, 2009, Doc #77 (minute entry), and denied proponents' motion for summary judgment on October 14, 2009, Doc #226 (minute entry). Proponents moved to realign the Attorney General as plaintiff; the motion was denied on December 23, 2009, Doc #319. Imperial County, a political subdivision of California, sought to intervene as a party defendant on December 15, 2009, Doc #311; the motion is denied for the reasons addressed in a separate order filed herewith.
The parties disputed the factual premises underlying plaintiffs' claims and the court set the matter for trial. The action was tried to the Court January 11–27, 2010. The trial proceedings were recorded and used by the court in preparing the findings of fact and conclusions of law; the clerk is now DIRECTED to file the trial recording under seal as part of the record. The parties may retain their copies of the trial recording pursuant to the terms of the protective order herein, see Doc #672. [p. 5] Proponents' motion to order the copies' return, Doc #698, is accordingly DENIED.
# Perry v. Schwarzenegger/3:Plaintiffs' Case Against Proposition 8

PLAINTIFFS' CASE AGAINST PROPOSITION 8
The Due Process Clause provides that no "State [shall] deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." US Const Amend XIV, § 1. Plaintiffs contend that the freedom to marry the person of one's choice is a fundamental right protected by the Due Process Clause and that Proposition 8 violates this fundamental right because:
* It prevents each plaintiff from marrying the person of his or her choice;
* The choice of a marriage partner is sheltered by the Fourteenth Amendment from the state's unwarranted usurpation of that choice; and
* California's provision of a domestic partnership—a status giving same-sex couples the rights and responsibilities of marriage without providing marriage—does not afford plaintiffs an adequate substitute for marriage and, by disabling plaintiffs from marrying the person of their choice, invidiously discriminates, without justification, against plaintiffs and others who seek to marry a person of the same sex.
The Equal Protection Clause provides that no state shall "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." US Const Amend XIV, § 1. According to plaintiffs, Proposition 8 violates the Equal Protection Clause because it:
* Discriminates against gay men and lesbians by denying them a right to marry the person of their choice whereas heterosexual men and women may do so freely; and
* Disadvantages a suspect class in preventing only gay men and lesbians, not heterosexuals, from marrying.
Plaintiffs argue that Proposition 8 should be subjected to heightened scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause because gays [p. 6] and lesbians constitute a suspect class. Plaintiffs further contend that Proposition 8 is irrational because it singles out gays and lesbians for unequal treatment, as they and they alone may not marry the person of their choice. Plaintiffs argue that Proposition 8 discriminates against gays and lesbians on the basis of both sexual orientation and sex.
Plaintiffs conclude that because Proposition 8 is enforced by state officials acting under color of state law and because it has the effects plaintiffs assert, Proposition 8 is actionable under 42 USC § 1983. Plaintiffs seek a declaration that Proposition 8 is invalid and an injunction against its enforcement.
# Perry v. Schwarzenegger/15:Remedies

[p. 136] REMEDIES
Plaintiffs have demonstrated by overwhelming evidence that Proposition 8 violates their due process and equal protection rights and that they will continue to suffer these constitutional violations until state officials cease enforcement of Proposition 8. California is able to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, as it has already issued 18,000 marriage licenses to same-sex couples and has not suffered any demonstrated harm as a result, see FF 64-66; moreover, California officials have chosen not to defend Proposition 8 in these proceedings.
Because Proposition 8 is unconstitutional under both the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses, the court orders entry of judgment permanently enjoining its enforcement; prohibiting the official defendants from applying or enforcing Proposition 8 and directing the official defendants that all persons under their control or supervision shall not apply or enforce Proposition 8. The clerk is DIRECTED to enter judgment without bond in favor of plaintiffs and plaintiff-intervenors and against defendants and defendant-intervenors pursuant to FRCP 58.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
/s/
VAUGHN R WALKER
United States District Chief Judge
# Perry v. Schwarzenegger/14:Conclusion

CONCLUSION
Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples. Because California has no interest in discriminating against gay men and lesbians, and because Proposition 8 prevents California from fulfilling its constitutional obligation to provide marriages on an equal basis, the court concludes that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.
# Poems, by Robert Louis Stevenson, hitherto unpublished/The look of Death is both severe and mild

THE LOOK OF DEATH IS BOTH SEVERE AND MILD—1875
In commenting, in the previously published Bibliophile edition of Stevenson's poems, on the poem beginning—
Death, to the dead forevermore, A King, a God, the last and best of friends,
the editor fell into an error in calling it the earliest of the poems devoted exclusively to the theme of Death "as the ultimate and fulfilling peace." It was indeed the earliest of such published poems, but the present verses, reflecting the same point of view, antedate the others by at least a brief time, evidence of which is found in the original draft of the previously published poem, where Stevenson used the line, "And comfortably welcomes weary feet," one of the best verses in the present rondeau.
The opening stanza of this poem gives Stevenson's most successful presentation of his conception of Death. In the adjective "severe" is the intimation of the joys of life, forgotten when death appears; while in the antithetical adjective "mild," Death is shorn of its terror.
THE LOOK OF DEATH IS BOTH SEVERE AND MILD
The look of Death is both severe and mild, And all the words of Death are grave and sweet; He holds ajar the door of his retreat; The hermitage of life, it may be styled; He pardons sinners, cleanses the defiled, And comfortably welcomes weary feet. The look of Death is both severe and mild, And all the words of Death are grave and sweet.
And you that have been loving pleasure wild, Long known the sins and sorrows of the street, Lift up your eyes and see, Death waits to greet, As a kind parent a repentant child.
The bugle sounds the muster roll, The blacksmith blows the roaring coal; The look of Death is both severe and mild, And all the words of Death are grave and sweet.
# Poems, by Robert Louis Stevenson, hitherto unpublished/The whole day thro', etc.

THE WHOLE DAY THRO', IN CONTEMPT AND PITY—1871
The poem entitled "Prelude," previously printed by The Bibliophile Society, was accompanied by a manuscript note of Stevenson's to the effect that it was then that he first began to take interest in the poor and sorrowful. In that poem he beats his drum in search of recruits to make life happier. The present poem shows the same metaphor, and throughout is similar in theme and purpose,—its fine note of optimism coming to a climax in the closing stanza where Stevenson, full of his new sympathy with humanity, likes to think of all men as heroes in a common cause.
THE WHOLE DAY THRO', IN CONTEMPT AND PITY
The whole day thro', in contempt and pity, I pass your houses and beat my drum, In the roar of people that go and come, In the sunlit streets of the city.
Hark! do you hear the ictus coming, Mid the roar and clatter of feet? ​Hark! in the ebb and flow of the street Do you hear the sound of my drumming?
Sun and the fluttering ribbons blind me; But still I beat as I travel the town, And still the recruits come manfully down, And the march grows long behind me.
In time to the drum the feet fall steady, The feet fall steady and firm to hear, And we cry, as we march, that the goal is near, For all men are heroes already!
# Poems, by Robert Louis Stevenson, hitherto unpublished/Take not my hand as mine alone

TAKE NOT MY HAND AS MINE ALONE—1871
While in various poems of this year Stevenson thinks of himself as one who shall be a leader in recruiting humanity for endeavors towards fairer goals than the past has for the most part set, he here writes in a more modest vein, and emphasizes the fact that his hand is but one in a chain of helpfulness, and that the real debt is to those great bygone leaders from whom he has caught his inspiration.
TAKE NOT MY HAND AS MINE ALONE
Take not my hand as mine alone— You do not trust to me— I hold the hand of greater men Too far before to see.
Follow not me, who only trace Stoop-head the prints of those Our mighty predecessors, whom The darknesses enclose.
​I cannot lead who follow—I Who learn, am dumb to teach; I can but indicate the goals That greater men shall reach.
# Poems, by Robert Louis Stevenson, hitherto unpublished/Sit doon by me, my canty freend

SIT DOON BY ME, MY CANTY FREEND—1874
This drinking song in the Scots dialect is associated with those convivial nights when Stevenson, with some of his fellow students, frequented the taverns of Edinburgh after days generally spent in serious study. It is, of course, the characteristic student drinking song of all ages, with the insistence on the value of tasting the delights of wine, especially in view of the shortness of life.
SIT DOON BY ME, MY CANTY FREEND
Sit doon by me, my canty freend, Sit doon, an' snuff the licht! A boll o' bear 's in ilka glass Ye'se drink wi' me the nicht!
Chorus
Let preachers prate o' soberness An' brand us ripe for doom, Yet still we'll lo'e the brimmin' glass, And still we'll hate the toom.
​There's fire an' life in ilka glass, There's blythesomness an' cheer, There's thirst an' what'll slocken it, There's love and laughter here.
O mirk an' black the lee lang gate That we maun gang the nicht, But aye we'll pass the brimmin' glass An' aye we'll snuff the licht.
We'll draw the closer roond the fire And aye the closer get. Without, the ways may thaw or freeze, Within we're roarin' wet!
# Poems, by Robert Louis Stevenson, hitherto unpublished/The moon is sinking, etc.

THE MOON IS SINKING—THE TEMPESTUOUS WEATHER—1871
This fragment proceeds far enough to show Stevenson at work on the same theme—the onward march despite difficulties—that first engrossed him in 1871 and afforded the material for numerous verses of that year. The lines have little in themselves to recommend them, and Stevenson after having laid aside his mediocre beginning comes back to it later just long enough to add the amusing comments of the last four words of his manuscript. This touch of humor would seem to warrant the inclusion of the fragment, being characteristic of the detached critical attitude which Stevenson took towards his own work.
THE MOON IS SINKING—THE TEMPESTUOUS WEATHER
The moon is sinking—the tempestuous weather Grows worse, the squalls disputing our advance; And as the feet fall well and true together In the last moonlight, see! the standards glance!
One hour, one moment, and that light forever. Quite so. Jes' so.
# Poems, by Robert Louis Stevenson, hitherto unpublished/There where the land of love

THERE WHERE THE LAND OF LOVE—1876
As the winter of 1876 gave way to spring, Stevenson's spirits greatly improved. His letters to friends were far more numerous in the second half of that year than in the first half, and the charm of Nature reasserted its power over his spirits. In the present fragmentary poem, we find the first lyric indication of the re-appearance of Nature's appeal, though even here, in the comment in his autograph where the briefness of life is imaged forth as a flash between the past and the future, the poet is seen as still under the sway of the sombre thoughts that have darkened his winter.
THERE WHERE THE LAND OF LOVE
There where the land of love, Grown about by fragrant bushes, Sunken in a winding valley, Where the clear winds blow And the shadows come and go, And the cattle stand and low ​And the sheep bells and the linnets Sing and tinkle musically. Between the past and the future, Those two black infinities Between which our brief life Flashes a moment and goes out.
# Poems, by Robert Louis Stevenson, hitherto unpublished/The rain is over and done

THE RAIN IS OVER AND DONE
(1876?)
The handwriting and context of these verses point to the winter of 1876, and the poem is emphatically in consonance with the moods of those months when Stevenson's outlook on life was darkest. The poem indicates that his despondency was partly due to the recognition of the lessening of his love for the Edinburgh girl who had aroused the great passion of his early manhood.
THE RAIN IS OVER AND DONE
The rain is over and done; I am aweary, dear, of love; I look below and look above, On russet maiden, rustling dame, And love's so slow and time so long, And hearts and eyes so blindly wrong, I am half weary of my love, And pray that life were done.
# Poems, by Robert Louis Stevenson, hitherto unpublished/The Well-Head

THE WELL-HEAD—1869
The "Prayer," which was the opening poem in the 1916 Bibliophile edition of Stevenson manuscripts, was written in October, 1869; and to the month of March of that year belongs the present poem, composed also in a spirit of religious reverence, yet with an interesting element of doubt as to the superiority of a future life over man's "dear world of hill and plain."
The "mottoes for the beginning," jotted down by Stevenson and here retained, show the source of the theme, and incidentally establish the identity of the "Ayrshire peasant" who might otherwise have been mistaken for Robert Burns. But the young Stevenson is unable to follow Sir Thomas Browne, or ​the eighteenth century John Stevenson, in finding in Nature, or in Nature's creatures, God the Creator. The closing stanzas show his passionate desire for such consummation, but the poem as a whole does not follow the Hebraic attitude, adopted by Christianity, of perceiving God in his works. Stevenson distinctly states how difficult it is with him; how
The creatures will not let me see The great creator of them all;
and the poem reveals the quandary of one caught up in religious yearning, who is yet preeminently a Pagan in his devotion to Nature in itself. The very title suggests the duality of the young Stevenson's mental struggle, the "well-head" being both the natural source of physical waters, and the divine source of life's spiritual stream.
THE WELL-HEAD
The withered rushes made a flame Across the marsh of rusty red; The dreary plover ever came And sang above the old well-head.
​About it crouch the junipers, Green-black and dewed with berries white, And in the grass the water stirs, Aloud all day, aloud all night.
The spring has scarcely come, 'tis said; Yet sweet and pleasant art thou still, 'Mong withered rushes, old well-head, Upon the sallow-shouldered hill.
The grass from which these waters came, These waters swelling from the sod, Had been a bible unto some, A grave phylactery of God.
The Ayrshire peasant, years ago, Drank down religion in a cool Deep draught of waters such as flow From out this pebbly little pool.
But different far is it with me, Here, where the piping curlews call; The creatures will not let me see The great creator of them all.
And I should choose to go to sleep, With Merlin in Broceliande, ​To hear the elm boughs hiss and sweep, In summer winds on either hand.
To cling to forest-trees and grass And this dear world of hill and plain, For fear, whatever came to pass, God would not give as good again.
And some may use the gospel so, That is a pharos unto me, And guide themselves to hell, although Their chart should lead them unto Thee.
Lord, shut our eyes or shut our mind, Or give us love, in case we fall; 'Tis better to go maim and blind Than not to reach the Lord at all.
# Poems, by Robert Louis Stevenson, hitherto unpublished/The old world moans and topes

THE OLD WORLD MOANS AND TOPES—1871
Intellectually and politically, the period when this poem was written was for all Europe a time of restlessness. The war of 1870 had upset the old order of things in continental affairs, and religious belief had, for many, not as yet reconciled itself to the disturbing influence of the new thought of Darwin and Spencer. In the present poem Stevenson offers as a prescription to cure the ills of the time a renewed faith in the nobility of mankind itself, thus coming into accord with the conviction of that ruggedly fine old Scotsman to whom, politically, he was opposed, but who still so greatly aroused his admiration. For was it not Stevenson's compatriot, Thomas Carlyle, who said: "There is one godlike thing, the essence of all that ever was or ever will be godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men."
THE OLD WORLD MOANS AND TOPES
The old world moans and topes, Is restless and ill at ease; And the old-world politicians Prescribe for the new disease.
I have stooped my head to listen (Its voice is far from strong) For the burthen of its moanings As it topes all night long.
I have watched a patient vigil Beside its fever bed, And I think that I can tell you The burthen of what it said:—
"As sick folk long for morning And long for night again, So long for noble objects The hearts of noble men.
"They long and grope about them, With feverish hands they grope ​For objects of endeavour, And exercise for hope.
"And they shall be our heroes And be our Avatar, Who shall either reach the objects Or tell us what they are."
# Poems (Smith)/The Lady at the Ball

THE LADY AT THE BALL.
Reflections at the Grand Union Ball, Saratoga, 1879.
# Poems (Vadlan)

POEMS
OF
ELAINE VADLAN
KITCHENER:
Printed for the Author by
RITTINGER & MOTZ LIMITED
June 1917
Copyright, Canada, 1917,
by
E. VADLAN
CONTENTS
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