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# Collected poems, 1901-1918/Keep Innocency

KEEP INNOCENCY
LIKE an old battle, youth is wild
With bugle and spear, and counter cry,
Fanfare and drummery, yet a child
Dreaming of that sweet chivalry,
The piercing terror cannot see.
He, with a mild and serious eye
Along the azure of the years,
Sees the sweet pomp sweep hurtling by;
But he sees not death's blood and tears,
Sees not the plunging of the spears.
And all the strident horror of
Horse and rider, in red defeat,
Is only music fine enough
To lull him into slmnber sweet
In fields where ewe and lambkin bleat.
O, if with such simplicity
Himself take arms and suffer war;
With beams his targe shall gilded be,
Though in the thickening gloom be far
The steadfast light of any star!
Though hoarse War's eagle on him perch,
Quickened with guilty lightnings—there
It shall in vain for terror search,
Where a child's eyes beneath bloody hair
Gaze purely through the dingy air.
And when the wheeling rout is spent,
Though in the heaps of slain he lie;
Or lonely in his last content;
Quenchless shall burn in secrecy The flame Death knows his victors by.
# Collected poems, 1901-1918/Macbeth

MACBETH
ROSE, like dim battlements, the hills and reared
Steep crags into the fading primrose sky;
But in the desolate valleys fell small rain,
Mingled with drifting cloud. I saw one come,
Like the fierce passion of that vacant place,
His face turned glittering to the evening sky;
His eyes, like grey despair, fixed satelessly
On the still, rainy turrets of the storm;
And all his armour in a haze of blue.
He held no sword, bare was his hand and clenched,
As if to hide the inextinguishable blood
Murder had painted there. And his wild mouth
Seemed spouting echoes of deluded thoughts. Around his head, like vipers all distort, His locks shook, heavy-laden, at each stride.
If fire may burn invisible to the eye;
O, if despair strive everlastingly;
Then haunted here the creature of despair, Fanning and fanning flame to lick upon A soul still childish in a blackened hell.
# Collected poems, 1901-1918/Martha

MARTHA
"ONCE . . . once upon a time . . . "
Over and over again,
Martha would tell us her stories,
In the hazel glen.
Hers were those clear grey eyes
You watch, and the story seems
Told by their beautifulness
Tranquil as dreams.
She would sit with her two slim hands
Clasped round her bended knees;
While we on our elbows lolled,
And stared at ease.
Her voice and her narrow chin,
Her grave small lovely head,
Seemed half the meaning
Of the words she said.
 "Once . . . once upon a time . . ."
Like a dream you dream in the night,
Fairies and gnomes stole out
In the leaf-green light.
And her beauty far away
Would fade, as her voice ran on,
Till hazel and summer sun
And all were gone:
All fordone and forgot;
And like clouds in the height of the sky,
Our hearts stood still in the hush
Of an age gone by.
# Collected poems, 1901-1918/Moonlight

MOONLIGHT
THE far moon maketh lovers wise
In her pale beauty trembling down,
Lending curved cheeks, dark lips, dark eyes,
A strangeness not her own.
And, though they shut their lids to kiss, In starless darkness peace to win,
Even on that secret world from this
Her twilight enters in.
# Collected poems, 1901-1918/Motley

MOTLEY
COME, Death, I'd have a word with thee;
And thou, poor Innocency;
And love — a Lad with broken wing;
And Pity, too:
The Fool shall sing to you,
As Fools will sing.   Ay, music hath small sense,
And a tune's soon told, And Earth is old,
And my poor wits are dense;
Yet have I secrets, — dark, my dear,
To breathe you all: Come near.
And lest some hideous listener tells,
I'll ring my bells.
They are all at war! —
Yes, yes, their bodies go
'Neath burning sun and icy star
To chaunted songs of woe, Dragging cold cannon through a mire
Of rain and blood and spouting fire,
The new moon glinting hard on eyes
Wide with insanities!
Hush! ... I use words
I hardly know the meaning of;
And the mute birds
Are glancing at Love
From out their shade of leaf and flower,
Trembling at treacheries
Which even in noonday cower.
Heed, heed not what I said
Of frenzied hosts of men, More fools than I,
On envy, hatred fed,
Who kill, and die —
Spake I not plainly, then?
Yet Pity whispered, "Why?"   Thou silly thing, off to thy daisies go.
Mine was not news for child to know.
And Death — no ears hath. He hath supped where creep
Eyeless worms in hush of sleep;
Yet, when he smiles, the hand he draws
Athwart his grinning jaws —
Faintly the thin bones rattle, and — There, there;
Hearken how my bells in the air
Drive away care! . . .
Nay, but a dream I had
Of a world all mad.
Not simply happy mad like me,
Who am mad like an empty scene
Of water and willow tree,
Where the wind hath been;
But that foul Satan-mad,
Who rots in his own head,
And counts the dead, Not honest one — and two —
But for the ghosts they were,
Brave, faithful, true,
When, head in air, In Earth's clear green and blue
Heaven they did share
With beauty who bade them there. . . .
There, now ! Death goes —
Mayhap I've wearied him.
Ay, and the light dolh dim, And asleep's the rose,
And tired Innocence
In dreams is hence. . . .
Come, Love, my lad, Nodding that drowsy head,
'Tis time thy prayers were said!
# Collected poems, 1901-1918/Life

LIFE
HEARKEN, O dear, now strikes the hour we die;
We, who in our strange kiss
Have proved a dream the world's realities,
Turned each from other's darkness with a sigh,
Need heed no more of life, waste no more breath
On any other journey, but of death.
And yet: Oh, know we well
How each of us must prove Love's infidel;
Still out of ecstasy turn trembling back
To earth's same empty track
Of leaden day by day, and hour by hour, and be
Of all things lovely the cold mortuary.
# Collected poems, 1901-1918/Miss Loo

MISS LOO
WHEN thin-strewn memory I look through,
I see most clearly poor Miss Loo,
Her tabby cat, her cage of birds, Her nose, her hair, her muffled words,
And how she would open her green eyes,
As if in some immense surprise,
Whenever as we sat at tea
She made some small remark to me.
'Tis always drowsy summer when
From out the past she comes again;
The westering sunshine in a pool
Floats in her parlour still and cool;
While the slim bird its lean wires shakes,
As into piercing song it breaks;
Till Peter's pale-green eyes ajar
Dream, wake; wake, dream, in one brief bar.
And I am sitting, dull and shy,
And she with gaze of vacancy,
And large hands folded on the tray,
Musing the afternoon away;
Her satin bosom heaving slow
With sighs that softly ebb and flow.
And her plain face in such dismay,
It seems unkind to look her way:
Until all cheerful back will come
Her gentle gleaming spirit home:
And one would think that poor Miss Loo
Asked nothing else, if she had you.
# Collected poems, 1901-1918/Mrs. Grundy

MRS. GRUNDY
"STEP very softly, sweet Quiet-foot,
Stumble not, whisper not, smile not:
By this dark ivy stoop cheek and brow.
Still even thy heart! What seest thou? . . ."
"High-coifed, broad-browed, aged, suave yet grim,
A large flat face, eyes keenly dim, Staring at nothing — that's me! — and yet,
With a hate one could never, no, never forget . . ."
"This is my world, my garden, my home,
Hither my father bade mother to come
And bear me out of the dark into light, And happy I was in her tender sight.
"And then, thou frail flower, she died and went,
Forgetting my pitiless banishment, And that Old Woman — an Aunt — she said,
Came hither, lodged, fattened, and made her bed.
"Oh yes, thou most blessed, from Monday to Sunday,
Has lived on me, preyed on me, Mrs. Grundy:
Called me, 'dear Nephew'; on each of those chairs
Has gloated in righteousness, heard my prayers.
"Why didst thou dare the thorns of the grove,
Timidest trespasser, huntress of love?
Now thou hast peeped, and now dost know
What kind of creature is thine for foe.
"Not that she'll tear out thy innocent eyes,
Poison thy mouth with deviltries.
Watch thou, wait thou: soon will begin
The guile of a voice: hark! . . ." "Come in, Come in!"
# Collected poems, 1901-1918/Mercutio

MERCUTIO
ALONG an avenue of almond-trees
Came three girls chattering of their sweethearts three.
And lo! Merculio, with Byronic ease, Out of his philosophic eye cast all
A mere flowered twig of thought, whereat —
Three hearts fell still as when an air dies out
And Venus falters lonely o'er the sea.
But when within the further mist of hloom
His step and form were hid, the smooth child Ann
Said, "La, and what eyes he had!" and Lucy said,
"How sad a gentleman!" and Katherine,
"I wonder, now, what mischief he was at."
And these three also April hid away,
Leaving the Spring faint with Mercutio.
# Collected poems, 1901-1918/Mistress Fell

MISTRESS FELL
"WHOM seek you here, sweet Mistress Fell?"
"One who loved me passing well.
Dark his eye, wild his face —
Stranger, if in this lonely place
Bide such an one, then, prythee, say
I am come here to-day."
"Many his like, Mistress Fell?"
"I did not look, so cannot tell.
Only this I surely know,
When his voice called me, I must go;
Touched me his fingers, and my heart
Leapt at the sweet pain's smart."   "Why did he leave you, Mistress Fell?"
"Magic laid its dreary spell. —
Stranger, he was fast asleep;
Into his dream I tried to creep;
Called his name, soft was my cry;
He answered — not one sigh.
"The flower and the thorn are here;
Falleth the night-dew, cold and clear;
Out of her bower the bird replies,
Mocking the dark with ecstasies,
See how the earth's green grass doth grow,
Praising what sleeps below!
"Thus have they told me. And I come,
As flies the wounded wild-bird home.
Not tears I give; but all that he
Clasped in his arms, sweet charity;
All that he loved — to him I bring
For a close whispering."
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Blacklock, Ambrose

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​BLACKLOCK, AMBROSE (1816–1873)
Doctor : son of a medical officer of the Navy ; born in 1816 : educated at Edin-burgh : joined the medical service in Madras in 1840 : Professor of Surgery, and Surgeon, General Hospital, Madras, 1851 : in 1858 Professor of Medicine, and Physician there : in 1870 Deputy Inspector-General : died at Chitore Feb. 11, 1873.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Blackwood, George Frederick

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​BLACKWOOD, GEORGE FREDERICK (1838–1880)
Major : son of Major William Blackwood of the Bengal Army : born 1838 : educated at the Edinburgh Academy, and Addis-combe : joined the Bengal Artillery : Lieut., 1857 : in the mutiny served with the Rohilkund movable column : commanded the Artillery in the Lushai expedition of 1871–2 under General Bourchier (q.v.) : at Tipai Mukh and other actions : Brevet Major : commanded the Artillery under General Burrows at Maiwand on July 27, 1880 : fell in battle : his little band of men was the last which made any stand against Ayub Khan's forces.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Blair, Sir Robert

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​BLAIR, SIR ROBERT ( ? - ? )
Joined the E. I. Co's 1st European Infantry in Bengal, 1773: with General Goddard's force from Bengal to Bombay, 1778–81: A.D.C. to Col. W. Blair commandmanding in the Doab, 1786–8: took the fortress of Sasni, 1802: in the Mahratta war, under Lake, at Alighar, Delhi, Agra, 1803: commanded at Cuttack, 1808: Maj-General, 1810: commanded Fort William and neighbouring districts, 1812: retired, 1817: K.C.B., 1815: Lt-General, 1817.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Blakiston, John

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​BLAKISTON, JOHN (1788–1867)
Son of Sir Mathew Blakiston, Bart.: born 1788: educated at Winchester: joined the Madras Engineers and the 27th regt.: as Major, present at Assaye, Bourbon, the Mauritius, and in the Peninsula campaign: the sole survivor of the regiment massacred in the mutiny of Vellore, 1806: and returned with (Sir R.R.) Gillespie, who came to the rescue: wrote Twelve Years Military Adventures, 1829: and Twenty Years in Retirement, 1836: died 1867.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Bland, Nathaniel

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​BLAND, NATHANIEL (1803–1865)
Born Feb. 3, 1803: son of Nathaniel Bland (formerly called Crumpe) who took his mother's name: educated at Eton, 1818, and Christ Church, Oxford, 1821–5: was a distinguished Persian scholar: sent contributions to the R.A.S.J., 1843–53 : on Persian chess: on the Pote collection of Oriental MSS. in the Eton College Library, etc: took to gambling, had to sell his estate, and took his own life, Aug. 10, 1865.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Blaney, Thomas

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​BLANEY, THOMAS (1823–1903)
Doctor: born in Ireland; went to India, 1836, as apprentice in the subordinate medical service of the E. I. Co. at Bombay: studied at the Grant Medical College: in Government service until 1860: took up private practice at Bombay: made a large fortune, which he spent chiefly in charity: became J.P., Town Councillor: Member of the Municipal Corporation: was connected with civil administration for 30 years: twice President of the Municipal body: carried schemes for abundant water-supply from Vihar and Tansa lakes: twice Sheriff of Bombay: for many years Chairman of joint Government and Municipal Committee for education: Coroner of Bombay, 1876–93: C.I.E.: a fine statue of him erected in Bombay by his fellow citizens: died there April 1, 1903: Member of the Royal Asiatic Society, Bombay, and a frequent contributor to the columns of the Bombay Gazette.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Blackburne, Sir William

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​BLACKBURNE, SIR WILLIAM (1764–1839)
Political : joined the Madras Army in 1782 : served against the Poligars in 1784, and in the defeat of Tippoo, 1892 : was Interpreter of Mahratti at Tanjore in 1787 under the Resident, and was himself Resident, 1801–23 : remodelled the administration there and in Pudukota : was sent on missions to Travancore : Maj-General : knighted 1838 : died Oct. 16, 1839.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Blacker, Valentine

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​BLACKER, VALENTINE (1778–1823)
Soldier, historian : born Oct. 19, 1778 : entered the Madras Army, 1798 : in the Mysore campaign : at Malavilli : in the Nizam's country : was Q.M.G. 1810 : was under Sir Thomas Hislop at Mahidpurin 1817 and in the Dekkan : Lt-Colonel and Surveyor-General of India : C.B. in 1818 : died at Calcutta, 1823 : wrote a military memoir of the Mahratta war of 1817–19.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Blackwood, Sir Henry, Baronet

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​BLACKWOOD, SIR HENRY, BARONET (1770–1832)
Son of Sir John Blackwood, Bart. : born Dec. 28, 1770 : entered the Navy, 1781 : was employed on various stations in several ships : continually engaged : was at Trafalgar, 1805, and at the blockade of Toulon, 1810 : Baronet, 1814 : K.C.B. 1819 : was C. in C. on the East Indian station, 1819–22 : Vice-Admiral, 1821, and commanded at the Nore, 1827–30 : died Dec. 17, 1832.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Blair, James

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​BLAIR, JAMES (1828–1905)
Born Jan. 27, 1828 : son of Captain E. M. Blair of the Bengal Cavalry : entered the Army in 1844 : in the mutiny of 1857–9 : fought at Nimbhara and Ziran : was at the sieges of Neemuch and Kotah, and in the pursuit of Tantia Topi : gained the V.C. for gallant and daring conduct on two occasions.on Aug. 12, 1857 at Neemuch and Oct. 23, 1857, at Jeerum : Political Resident and Brig-General at Aden, ​1882–5: Lt-General, 1889: C.B., 1889: General, 1894: died Jan. 1905.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bastard, John Pollexfen

1904 Errata appended.
​BASTARD, JOHN POLLEXFEN (1756–1816), member of parliament for Devon, was born in 1756 at Kitley, near Plymouth. His family, settled in Devonshire since the Conquest, obtained the Kitley property about the end of the seventeenth century by the marriage of William Bastard with the heiress of Pollexfen of Kitley. John Pollexfen Bastard was the son of another William Bastard, who, as colonel of the East Devonshire militia, saved the arsenal of Plymouth when it was threatened by the approach of the French fleet in August 1779, and was gazetted a baronet on 4 Sept. following, but the title was never assumed by himself or his heirs. On the death of his father in 1782, Bastard succeeded to the family possessions, and to the colonelcy of the East Devonshire militia. In 1799 he prevented the destruction of the Plymouth docks and dockyards in a sudden revolt of the workmen. Without waiting for a requisition, he marched his regiment against the insurgents, and brought their rioting to an end. He received the thanks of the king and the ministry. He represented Truro in the House of Commons in 1783–4 and Devonshire from 1784 until his death, a period of thirty-two years, and approved Pitt's foreign policy, whilst occasionally opposing his domestic measures. In 1815 he went to Italy for his health, being conveyed in a vessel of the royal navy to Leghorn, where he died on 4 April 1816. His remains, brought back in a man-of-war, were buried in the family vault at Yealmpton, near Kitley, on 16 June, 1816. Colonel Bastard was twice married, but left no issue.
A. H. G.
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.17 N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bate, Julius

​BATE, JULIUS (1711–1771), divine, was born in 1711, being one of the ten children of the Rev. Richard Bate, by his wife, Elizabeth Stanhope. He entered St. John's College, Cambridge, became B.A. 1730, and M.A. 1740. He became a disciple of Hutchinson, and was a prominent member of the Hutchinsonian school, of which Bishop Horne and Jones of Nayland are the best known representatives. Hutchinson was patronised by the Duke of Somerset, who allowed him to appoint Bate to the rectory of Sutton, near the duke's seat of Petworth. Bate attended Hutchinson in his last illness (1737), and was associated with Spearman in the publication of Hutchinson's works. Bate, in 1745, wrote a pamphlet called ‘Remarks upon Mr. Warburton's remarks, showing that the ancients knew there was a future state, and that the Jews were not under an equal providence.’ It provoked some expressions of contempt from Warburton, who calls him (Works, xii. 58) ‘Zany to a mountebank’ (that is, to Hutchinson), and classes him with Dr. Richard Grey as an ‘impotent railer.’ Bate published various other pamphlets in defence of Hutchinson's fanciful mysticism, and on the corresponding interpretation of the Hebrew text. His chief work is ‘Critica Hebræa, or a Hebrew-English Dictionary without points,’ 1767, an objection to the ‘hydra of pointing’ being one of the characteristics of the school. Sufficient specimens may be found in the ‘Monthly Review’ (xxxvi. 355–61). Bate died at Arundel 20 Jan. 1771.
L. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Baston, Philip

1904 Errata appended.
​BASTON or BOSTON, PHILIP (d. 1320?), Carmelite, the brother of Robert Baston [q. v.], was born at Nottingham, in which town he became a Carmelite friar. From Nottingham Philip Baston proceeded to Oxford, where, according to Pits, after long application to philosophical and theological studies, he finally devoted himself to rhetoric and poetry, in both of which pursuits he gained great fame. At the same time he did not altogether neglect work of a more popular nature, but used very frequently to hold forth to the people. Tanner quotes from the register of Oliver Sutton, bishop of Lincoln from 1280 to 1300, an entry to the effect that a certain friar Phil. de Baston, of the Carmelite order, was ordained priest on 22 Sept. 1296. Philip Baston seems to have died about 1320, and to have been buried in his own convent at Nottingham. His biographers ascribe two works to his pen, the one being entitled ‘Doctæ Conciones,’ and the other a collection of letters.
T. A. A.
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.17 N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Batecumbe, William

​BATECUMBE or BADECUMBE, WILLIAM (d. 1487?), mathematician, of whose personal history the little that is known has been preserved by Leland, the antiquary, and in the pages of Bale, would appear to have studied at Oxford. First applying himself to natural philosophy, he afterwards turned to mathematics, of which he is supposed to have been professor in the reign of Henry V. It has been suggested by the learned Tanner that he is identical with the person named in the following entry: ‘Vicaria S. Trinit. Cantabr. vacabat per mortem mag. Will. Bathecumbe, ultimi vicarii, 10 Nov. 1487’ (Registro Alcock epis. Eliensis, p. 15).
Batecumbe's writings, which were never published, were: 1. ‘De Sphæræ concavæ fabrica et usu,’ a copy of which was seen by Bale in the library of Dr. R. Recorde, a physician. 2. ‘De Sphæra solida.’ 3. ‘De Operatione Astrolabii.’ This, it is highly probable, was a transcript from the ‘Compositio et operatio Astrolabii,’ by the Jew Ma'shea Allah Al Misri (Messahallah), of which there are numerous examples by various copyists in the public libraries of both Oxford and Cambridge. It was from one or more of these texts that Chaucer compiled his ‘Treatise on the Astrolabe for his son Lowys’ in 1391. 4. ‘De Conclusione Sophiæ.’ To these may be added, 5. ‘Tabula mediorum motuum Planetarum in annis collectis et expansis, composita a magistro Batecombe.’ This manuscript is preserved, with others associated with his name, in the library of Magdalen College, Oxford. In a list of manuscripts formerly belonging to Dr. Dee of Mortlake, mention is made of ‘Tabulæ Latitudinum secundum Bachecombe.’
C. H. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bate, George

​BATE, GEORGE (1608–1669), court physician, was born at Maids Morton, Buckinghamshire, in 1608. He began his studies at New College, Oxford, migrated to Queen's, and thence to St. Edmund Hall, graduating in 1626. He became M.B. 1629 and M.D. 1637, and soon obtained practice. He was at first thought a puritan, but on the establishment of the court at Oxford attached himself to the royal party, and was made physician to the king. He was elected a fellow of the College of Physicians in 1640, settled in London, and during the interregnum became physician to Oliver Cromwell. The Restoration found him a royalist again, and he was made physician to Charles II. He was one of the earliest fellows of the Royal Society, and lectured on anatomy at the College of Physicians. He had some share in the authorship of two medical books; first in the ‘De Rachitide’ (1650) of Glisson, who names him as one of the physicians who had worked out with him the observation of rickets; and, posthumously, in the ‘Pharmacopœia Bateana’ (1690), which professes to be a collection of his prescriptions. A political work is said to be entirely his own. It is entitled ‘Elenchus Motuum nuperorum in Angliâ simul ac juris regii ac parliamentarii brevis narratio,’ 1650. It was added to and republished more than once, and its bibliography is obscure. It is, in part at least, a Latin version of a work also attributed to him, ‘The Royal Apologie, or the Declaration of the Commons in Parliament 11th February 1647 canvassed,’ 4to, London, 1648. Both are defences of the king's acts in his quarrel with the parliament, and profess to be drawn up from authentic records. Bate praises Charles I with the warmth of a client, and Oliver perhaps thought that a man so grateful to one patron would appreciate another. Clarendon and others are said to have helped Bate with papers, but there is nothing in the ‘Elenchus’ to make its author respected among contemporary politicians or valuable to subsequent historians. Dr. Bate lived in Hatton Garden, and was buried in 1669 at Kingston-on-Thames with his wife Elizabeth.
N. M.