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# The Wife of Beith

This poem features a character derived from Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath in the Canterbury Tales, but this work was not written by him. Of the 16 versions listed below, all are chapbooks from the National Library of Scotland. Most of them carry no publication date and some do not have an identified printer. There are some duplicates, which are identified below (see also Discussion page). The number in square brackets corresponds to the 'suffix' used on the Index pages.
* The Wife of Beith reformed and corrected (1800, printed by J. Morren, Edinburgh) [1]
* The Wife of Beith (start transcription) [2]
* The Wife of Beith (start transcription) [3]
* The Wife of Beith with a description of her journey to Heaven (n.d., printed for the booksellers, Falkirk)[4]
* The Wife of Beith with a description of her journey to Heaven (n.d., printed for the booksellers) [5]
* The Wife of Beith (start transcription) [6]
* The Wife of Beith being an allegorical dialogue (start transcription) [7]
* The Wife of Beith reformed and corrected (n.d., printed for the booksellers, Glasgow) [8]
* The Wife of Beith reformed and corrected (1795, printed by J & M Robertson, Glasgow) [9]
* The Wife of Beith reformed and corrected (n.d., printed for the booksellers, Glasgow) [10]
* The Wife of Beith much better reformed, enlarged and corrected, than it was formerly (1785) [11]
* The Wife of Beith (n.d., printed by C. Caldwell, Paisley) [12]
* The Wife of Beith reformed and corrected (1811, printed by J. Neilson, Paisley) (transcription project) [13]
* The Wife of Beith reformed and corrected [14, duplicate of (1) or (3) - do not transcribe]
* The Wife of Beith reformed and corrected [15, duplicate of (1) or (3) - do not transcribe]
* The Wife of Beith reformed and corrected (n.d., printed by M. Randall, Stirling)
# The Wife of Flanders

First published in Poems of the Great War (1914), this poem has been reprinted in many collections of war poetry.
* "The Wife of Flanders" in Poems of the Great War (1914)
* "The Wife of Flanders" in Poems (1915)
* "The Wife of Flanders" in A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919 (1917)
# The Witch-Maid, and Other Verses/Four Translations from the German

FOUR TRANSLATIONS FROM THE GERMAN
I
(Writer unknown)
* I was a master-weaver
* To weave my grief and care,
* And day and night I fashioned
* A heavy robe to wear.
* I trailed it on the highway
* Dust-grey, with weary pride,
* I set upon my forehead
* A wreath of thorns beside.
* The sun on high in Heaven
* Looked down and loud laughed he:
* "What little dwarf goes yonder
* In robes of majesty?"
# The Witch-Maid, and Other Verses/Culgai Paddock

CULGAI PADDOCK
I Know that the tawny grass of the plain  Is blown like the sea to-day By the wind that follows the autumn rain  And chases the clouds away,
And ruffles the winding lagoon, and now  The sky's blue, dewy and clean, Will show in the lee where the rushes bow  Like shattered aquamarine.
To-day, when the cranes in their grey and pink  Fish solemnly in the weeds, To-day, when the cattle come down to drink  And push through the whispering reeds,
I stand there and watch them, in Culgai too,  And they do not heed or fear; There is not one lark in the radiant blue  Whose carol I do not hear.
This morning the wind on the grasses brown  Blows tingling and sweet and rare; Now though my body must tarry in town  Thank God that my soul is there!
Sydney, Australia.
# The Witch-Maid, and Other Verses/Fire

FIRE
This life that we call our own Is neither strong nor free: A flame in the wind of death It trembles ceaselessly.
And this is all we can do— To use our little light Before, in the piercing wind, It flickers into night.
To yield the heat of the flame, To grudge not, but to give Whatever we have of strength That one more flame may live.
# The Witch-Maid, and Other Verses/From a Town Window

FROM A TOWN WINDOW
From my high-jutting window in town
 Looking down,
The lights constellated burn steady and far;
The purple skies meet with the dark at my feet,
I hardly can tell which is lamp and which star.
And the tall sombre buildings that rise
 Near my eyes
Where one lighted window shines gold in the dark,
Unsubstantial show, that I see them as though
I could walk through the walls without leaving a mark.
And the purring and murmurous choir
 Of the wire
That leads the chained lightning a slave through the street, In the night-stillness comes like the throbbing of drums, Like the distant, dread sound of innumerable feet.
Sydney, Australia.
# The Witch-Maid, and Other Verses/Canticle

CANTICLE
For the honey-coloured moon, and the shining host of stars, And the sun's great golden targe, And the luminous red leaves of the sapling gums in spring, And the fen-lake's reed-grown marge:
May'st Thou who mad'st all things to be alive, Thou who hast given the Senses Five, Thou who hast portioned the Nights and Days, Thou who hast given us lips for praise,  Be thanked, Lord God!
For the arrowy swift stream flowing silent in the shade With its twisting waters green,
For the spray-dewed slender fern-fronds beside the cataract, The wet black rocks between:
For the pine-tree like a church-spire, that grows upon the ridge, For the lizard at its foot That is quicker than a thought, yea, and greener than the moss Growing round the great tree's root:
For the ocean stretching dark to the clear horizon-line, For the one white distant sail, For the ripple and the crisp and the calmness of the bay With the tide-lines showing pale:
For the bright-eyed life astir in the grave depths of the bush, For each glimpse of it we get; For the pattering of rain when the tree-frogs chant in choir And the glistening leaves are wet:
For the sea of tossing horns when the round-up's at an end, For the thousand hoofs unshod; For the blossoms and the bees and the floating butterflies We thank Thee, O Lord God!
May'st 'Thou who mad'st all things to be alive, Thou who hast given the Senses Five, Thou who hast portioned the Nights and Days, Thou who hast given us lips for praise,  Be thanked, Lord God!
Australia.
# The Witch-Maid, and Other Verses/Flower and Thorn

FLOWER AND THORN
Black the storm-wind rides the sky, all the leaves are torn, Briers upon the common stand stripped to stick and thorn;
Thorny is the brier, thorny is the brier, Mother Mary, keep me safe, give me my desire!   Now the winter rains have gone, Heaven's washed and clean, All the brooks are laughing sweet, all the trees are green; Leafy is the brier, leafy is the brier, Mother Mary in the sky, grant me my desire!
Summers yellow on the land, throbbing warm and live, Hear her million voices hum like a lucky hive;
Blossom of the brier, blossom of the brier,
Mary in the summertime, give me my desire!
All the talking winds are stilled in the autumn pause, Redder far than blood or fire blaze the hips and haws; Fruiting of the brier, fruiting of the brier— Mother Mary, must I die starved of my desire?
# The Witch-Maid, and Other Verses/High Places

HIGH PLACES
My heart turns to the mountains That I so long have missed, The blue hills on the sky-line, Bird-haunted, sunshine-kissed; For in my soul I see them, The gullies golden-green Where from the hop-vine tangle The bellbird chimes unseen.
And higher yet and higher I want to climb, until The trees give place to bushes Wind-shorn and struggling still For foothold on the corries Steep-sloping to the sky, I want to reach the summit And watch the clouds race by;—
The clouds that go so quickly The whole hill seems to lean;— I want to breathe in deeply The cool air, thin and keen. My heart turns to high places All men have long adored— The proud and lonely mountains, The Altars of the Lord.
Australia.
# The Witch-Maid, and Other Verses/Burning Off

BURNING OFF
They're burning off at the Rampadells,
 The tawny flames uprise
With greedy licking around the trees:
 The hot breath sears our eyes
From cores already grown furnace-hot;
 The logs are well alight;
We fling more wood where the flameless heart
 Is throbbing red and white.
The fire bites deep in that beating heart,
 The creamy smoke-wreaths ooze
From cracks and knot-holes along the trunk
 To melt in greys and blues.
The young horned moon has gone from the sky.
 And night has settled down;
A red glare shows from the Rampadells,
 Grim as a burning town.
Full seven fathoms above the rest
 A tree stands, great and old,
A red-hot column whence fly the sparks,
 One ceaseless shower of gold.
All hail the king of the fire before
 He sway and crack and crash
To earth!—for surely to-morrow's sun
 Will see him fine white ash.
The king in his robe of falling stars
 No trace shall leave behind,
And where he stood with his silent court
 The wheat shall bow to the wind.
Australia.
# The Witch-Maid, and Other Verses/Chateau D'espagne

CHÂTEAU D'ESPAGNE
Castle-of-Spain is builded high,
Thrusting its towers towards the sky,
With its shot-windows looking down
Over the ribbed roofs of the town
That like a cat, her mousing done,
Stretches at ease there in the sun.
Castle-of-Spain upon the crest
Thrones like an eagle come to rest;
Shut wings ready to spread once more
And great and still in the blue to soar:—
On that day you will turn to find
Your castle gone with no wrack behind!
Castle-of-Spain is hard to take.
Your feet will bleed and your heart may break
Long ere that stony height you gain—
Better the safe and pleasant plain!
For, reach the summit, nothing's there
Save mocking sun and empty air
Or a tall cloud-tower in the heaven's span—
Small comfort that to an earthly man!
Castle-of-Spain is builded high
Up above us, beyond the sky. . . .
 Easy we build you, hardly we gain,  Castle-of-Spain, Castle-of-Spain!
San Pablo, Andalusia.
# The Witch-Maid, and Other Verses/Colour

COLOUR
The lovely things that I have watched unthinking,  Unknowing, day by day, That their soft dyes had steeped my soul in colour  That will not pass away:—
Great saffron sunset clouds, and larkspur mountains,  And fenceless miles of plain, And hillsides golden-green in that unearthly  Clear shining after rain;
And nights of blue and pearl; and long smooth beaches,  Yellow as sunburnt wheat, Edged with a line of foam that creams and hisses,  Enticing weary feet;
And emeralds, and sunset-hearted opals,  And Asian marble, veined With scarlet flame; and cool green jade, and moon-stones,  Misty and azure-stained;
And almond trees in bloom, and oleanders,  Or a wide purple sea Of plain-land gorgeous with a lovely poison  The evil Darling pea:—
If I am tired I call on these to help me  To dream—and dawn-lit skies, Lemon and pink, or faintest, coolest lilac, Float on my soothed eyes.
There is no night so black but you shine through it,  There is no morn so drear, O Colour of the World, but I can find you,  Most tender, pure, and clear.
Thanks be to God who gave this gift of colour  Which who shall seek shall find; Thanks be to God who gives me strength to hold it,  Though I were stricken blind.
Australia.
# The Witness for the Defence

[Contemporary reviews are on the Discussion page.] The Witness for the Defence is a 1914 detective novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason.It was adapted by Mason from a 1911 play he had written. In 1919 it was made into an American silent film The Witness for the Defense.
THE WITNESS FOR
THE DEFENCE
BY A. E. W. MASON

### Contents

* I: Henry Thresk
* II: On Bignor Hill
* III: In Bombay
* IV: Jane Repton
* V: The Quest
* VI: In the Tent at Chitipur
* VII: The Photograph
* VIII: And the Rifle
* IX: An Episode in Ballantyne's Life
* X: News from Chitipur
* XI: Thresk Intervenes
* XII: Thresk Gives Evidence
* XIII: Little Beeding Again
* XIV: The Hazlewoods
* XV: The Great Crusade
* XVI: Consequences
* XVII: Trouble for Mr. Hazlewood
* XVIII: Mr. Hazlewood Seeks Advice
* XIX: Pettifer's Plan
* XX: On the Downs
* XXI: The Letter Is Written
* XXII: A Way out of the Trap
* XXIII: Methods From France
* XXIV: The Witness
* XXV: In the Library
* XXVI: Two Strangers
* XXVII: The Verdict
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# The Witch with Eyes of Amber

I met a witch with amber eyes Who slowly sang a scarlet rune, Shifting to an icy laughter Like the laughter of the moon.
Red as a wanton’s was her mouth, And fair the breast she bade me take With a word that clove and clung Burning like a furnace-flake.
But from her bright and lifted bosom, When I touched it with my hand, Came the many-needled coldness Of a glacier-taken land.
And, lo! the witch with eyes of amber Vanished like a blown-out flame Leaving but the lichen-eaten Stone that bore a blotted name.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.
The longest-living author of this work died in 1961, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 62 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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# The Will

BEFORE I sigh my last gasp, let me breathe, Great Love, some legacies; I here bequeath Mine eyes to Argus, if mine eyes can see; If they be blind, then, Love, I give them thee; My tongue to Fame; to ambassadors mine ears; To women, or the sea, my tears; Thou, Love, hast taught me heretofore By making me serve her who had twenty more, That I should give to none, but such as had too much before.
My constancy I to the planets give; My truth to them who at the court do live; My ingenuity and openness, To Jesuits; to buffoons my pensiveness; My silence to any, who abroad hath been; My money to a Capuchin: Thou, Love, taught'st me, by appointing me To love there, where no love received can be, Only to give to such as have an incapacity.
My faith I give to Roman Catholics; All my good works unto the Schismatics Of Amsterdam; my best civility And courtship to an University; My modesty I give to soldiers bare; My patience let gamesters share: Thou, Love, taught'st me, by making me Love her that holds my love disparity, Only to give to those that count my gifts indignity.
I give my reputation to those Which were my friends; mine industry to foes; To schoolmen I bequeath my doubtfulness; My sickness to physicians, or excess; To nature all that I in rhyme have writ; And to my company my wit: Thou, Love, by making me adore Her, who begot this love in me before, Taught'st me to make, as though I gave, when I do but restore.
To him for whom the passing-bell next tolls, I give my physic books; my written rolls Of moral counsels I to Bedlam give; My brazen medals unto them which live In want of bread; to them which pass among All foreigners, mine English tongue: Though, Love, by making me love one Who thinks her friendship a fit portion For younger lovers, dost my gifts thus disproportion.
Therefore I'll give no more, but I'll undo The world by dying, because love dies too. Then all your beauties will be no more worth Than gold in mines, where none doth draw it forth; And all your graces no more use shall have, Than a sun-dial in a grave: Thou, Love, taught'st me by making me Love her who doth neglect both me and thee, To invent, and practise this one way, to annihilate all three.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

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THE WILL TO BELIEVE
AND OTHER ESSAYS IN
POPULAR PHILOSOPHY
BY WILLIAM JAMES
LONGMANS GREEN AND CO
NEW YORK LONDON AND BOMBAY
1897
Copyright, 1896,
By William James..
First Edition, February, 1897
Reprinted, May, 1897
University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.
To
My Old Friend,
CHARLES SAUNDERS PEIRCE,
To whose philosophic comradeship in old times and to whose writings in more recent years I owe more incitement and help than I can express or repay.
CONTENTS
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# The Transitional Constitution of the Republic of the Sudan (2005)/PART SIX
## PART SIX: PUBLIC ATTORNEYS AND ADVOCACY
#### Public Attorneys

133 (1) The public attorneys and the State legal advisors shall be under the National Minister of Justice to advise the State, represent it in public prosecution, litigation and adjudication, and conduct pre-trial proceedings. They shall recommend law reform, strive to protect public and private rights, advise on legal matters and render legal aid.
(2) The National Minister of Justice is the chief legal advisor of the National Government, he/she shall be the prosecuting authority at the national level and at the northern states and may perform any such other functions of legal character as may be prescribed by law.
(3) The State legal advisors shall perform their duties faithfully and impartially according to this Constitution and the law.
(4) Functions, immunities, emoluments, terms and conditions of service of the State legal advisors shall be prescribed by law.
(5) In the interest of justice and effectiveness in the execution of their legal duties, the National Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Legal Affairs and Constitutional Development of Southern Sudan shall co-ordinate, co-operate and assist each other in the fulfillment of their functions and may to this end, establish the necessary mechanisms and channels of implementation.

#### Advocacy

134. (1) Advocacy is an independent private profession and shall be regulated by law.
(2) Advocacy shall promote, protect and advance the fundamental rights of citizens. Advocates shall serve to prevent injustice, defend the legal rights and interests of their clients, seek conciliation between adversaries and may render legal aid for the needy according to law.
# The Transitional Constitution of the Republic of the Sudan (2005)/PART FOURTEEN
## PART FOURTEEN: STATE OF EMERGENCY AND DECLARATION OF WAR
#### Declaration of State of Emergency

210 (1) The President of the Republic, with the consent of the First Vice President, may upon the occurrence of an imminent danger, whether it is war, invasion, blockade, natural disaster or epidemics, as may threaten the country, or any part thereof or the safety or economy of the same, declare a state of emergency in the country, or in any part thereof, in accordance with this Constitution and the law.
(2) The declaration of a state of emergency shall be submitted to the National Legislature within fifteen days of the issuance of the declaration. When the National Legislature is not in session, an emergency session shall be convoked.
(3) When the National Legislature approves the declaration of a state of emergency, all laws, exceptional orders or measures issued or taken by the President of the Republic pursuant to the state of emergency shall continue to remain in force.

#### Powers of the President in the State of Emergency

211 The President of the Republic, with the consent of the First Vice President, may during the state of emergency take, by virtue of law or exceptional order, any measures that shall not derogate from the provisions of this Constitution and the Comprehensive Peace Agreement except as may be provided herein:-
(a) to suspend part of the Bill of Rights. However, there shall be no infringement on the right to life, sanctity from slavery, sanctity from torture, the right of non-discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religious creed, the right in litigation or the right to fair trial,
(b) to dissolve or suspend any of the state organs or suspend such powers, as may be conferred upon the states under this Constitution. The President of the Republic with the consent of the First Vice President shall assume the functions of such organs and exercise the powers or prescribe the manner in which the affairs of the state concerned may be managed,
(c) to take any such measures as deemed necessary to the state of emergency, which shall have the force of law.

#### Duration of the State of Emergency

212 The duration of the measures relating to the state of emergency shall expire in the following cases:-
(a) lapse of thirty days as from the date of issuance of the declaration if the National Legislature does not approve by a resolution the extension of its duration,
(b) lapse of the duration approved by the National Legislature,
(c) Issuance of a declaration by the President of the Republic with the consent of the First Vice President lifting the state of emergency.

#### Declaration of War

213 The President of the Republic, with the consent of the First Vice President, shall declare war whenever they decide that the country is under external aggression. Such declaration shall be legally enforceable upon approval by the National Legislature.
# The Transitional Constitution of the Republic of the Sudan (2005)/PART SIXTEEN
## PART SIXTEEN: SOUTHERN SUDAN RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION
#### Affirmation of the Right to Self-Determination by the People of Southern Sudan

219 The people of Southern Sudan shall have the right to self-determination through a referendum to determine their future status.

#### Southern Sudan Referendum Commission

220 (1) A Southern Sudan Referendum Act shall be promulgated by the National Legislature at the beginning of the third year of the interim period.
(2) The Presidency shall, as soon as Southern Sudan Referendum Act is issued, establish Southern Sudan Referendum Commission.

#### The Assessment and Evaluation Commission

221 (1) An independent Assessment and Evaluation Commission shall be established by the President of the Republic with the consent of the First Vice President to monitor the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement during the interim period.
(2) The Commission shall conduct a mid-term evaluation of the unity arrangements established under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
(3) The Parties to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement shall work with the Commission during the interim period with a view to improving the institutions and arrangements created under that Agreement and to make the unity of the Sudan attractive to the people of Southern Sudan.

#### The Referendum on Self-Determination

222 (1) Six months before the end of the six-year interim period, there shall be an internationally monitored referendum, for the people of Southern Sudan organized by Southern Sudan Referendum Commission in cooperation with the National Government and the Government of Southern Sudan,
(2) The people of Southern Sudan shall either:
(a) confirm unity of the Sudan by voting to sustain the system of government established under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and this Constitution, or
(b) vote for secession.