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# A Channel Passage and Other Poems/On the Death of Mrs. Lynn Linton

ON THE DEATH OF MRS. LYNN LINTON
Kind, wise, and true as truth's own heart,
A soul that here
Chose and held fast the better part
And cast out fear,   Has left us ere we dreamed of death
For life so strong,
Clear as the sundawn's light and breath,
And sweet as song.
We see no more what here awhile
Shed light on men: Has Landor seen that brave bright smile
Alive again?
If death and life and love be one And hope no lie And night no stronger than the sun, These cannot die.
The father-spirit whence her soul Took strength, and gave Back love, is perfect yet and whole, As hope might crave.
His word is living light and fire: And hers shall live By grace of all good gifts the sire Gave power to give.
The sire and daughter, twain and one In quest and goal, Stand face to face beyond the sun, And soul to soul.
Not we, who loved them well, may dream
What joy sublime Is theirs, if dawn through darkness gleam,
And life through time.
Time seems but here the mask of death,
That falls and shows
A void where hope may draw not breath:
Night only knows.
Love knows not: all that love may keep
Glad memory gives:
The spirit of the days that sleep
Still wakes and lives.
But not the spirit's self, though song
Would lend it speech,
May touch the goal that hope might long
In vain to reach.
How dear that high true heart, how sweet
Those keen kind eyes,
Love knows, who knows how fiery fleet
Is life that flies.
If life there be that flies not, fair
The life must be That thrills her sovereign spirit there
And sets it free.
# A Channel Passage and Other Poems/Prologue to Arden of Feversham

PROLOGUE TO ARDEN OF FEVERSHAM
Love dark as death and fierce as fire on wing
Sustains in sin the soul that feels it cling
Like flame whose tongues are serpents: hope and fear
Die when a love more dire than hate draws near,
And stings to death the heart it cleaves in twain,
And leaves in ashes all but fear and pain.
Our lustrous England rose to life and light
From Rome's and hell's immitigable night,
And music laughed and quickened from her breath,
When first her sons acclaimed Elizabeth. Her soul became a lyre that all men heard
Who felt their souls give back her lyric word.
Yet now not all at once her perfect power
Spake: man's deep heart abode awhile its hour,
Abode its hour of utterance; not to wake
Till Marlowe's thought in thunderous music spake.
But yet not yet was passion's tragic breath
Thrilled through with sense of instant life and death,
Life actual even as theirs who watched the strife,
Death dark and keen and terrible as life. Here first was truth in song made perfect: here
Woke first the war of love and hate and fear.
A man too vile for thought's or shame's control
Holds empire on a woman's loftier soul, And withers it to wickedness: in vain
Shame quickens thought with penitential pain:
In vain dark chance's fitful providence
Withholds the crime, and chills the spirit of sense:
It wakes again in fire that burns away
Repentance, weak as night devoured of day. Remorse, and ravenous thirst of sin and crime,
Rend and consume the soul in strife sublime,
And passion cries on pity till it hear
And tremble as with love that casts out fear.
Dark as the deed and doom he gave to fame
For ever lies the sovereign singer's name.
Sovereign and regent on the soul he lives
While thought gives thanks for aught remembrance gives,
And mystery sees the imperial shadow stand
By Marlowe's side alone at Shakespeare's hand.
# A Century of Roundels/Aperotos Eros

APEROTOS EROS.
Strong as death, and cruel as the grave, Clothed with cloud and tempest's blackening breath, Known of death's dread self, whom none outbrave, Strong as death,
Love, brow-bound with anguish for a wreath, Fierce with pain, a tyrant-hearted slave, Burns above a world that groans beneath.
Hath not pity power on thee to save, Love? hath power no pity? Nought he saith, Answering: blind he walks as wind or wave, Strong as death.
# A Century of Roundels/Autumn and Winter

AUTUMN AND WINTER.
I.
Three months bade wane and wax the wintering moon Between two dates of death, while men were fain Yet of the living light that all too soon Three months bade wane.
Cold autumn, wan with wrath of wind and rain, Saw pass a soul sweet as the sovereign tune That death smote silent when he smote again.
First went my friend, in life's mid light of noon, Who loved the lord of music: then the strain Whence earth was kindled like as heaven in June Three months bade wane.
II.
A herald soul before its master's flying Touched by some few moons first the darkling goal Where shades rose up to greet the shade, espying A herald soul;
Shades of dead lords of music, who control Men living by the might of men undying, With strength of strains that make delight of dole.
The deep dense dust on death's dim threshold lying Trembled with sense of kindling sound that stole Through darkness, and the night gave ear, descrying A herald soul.
III.
One went before, one after, but so fast They seem gone hence together, from the shore Whence we now gaze: yet ere the mightier passed One went before;
One whose whole heart of love, being set of yore On that high joy which music lends us, cast Light round him forth of music's radiant store.
Then went, while earth on winter glared aghast, The mortal god he worshipped, through the door Wherethrough so late, his lover to the last, One went before.
IV.
A star had set an hour before the sun Sank from the skies wherethrough his heart's pulse yet Thrills audibly: but few took heed, or none, A star had set.
All heaven rings back, sonorous with regret, The deep dirge of the sunset: how should one Soft star be missed in all the concourse met?
But, O sweet single heart whose work is done, Whose songs are silent, how should I forget That ere the sunset's fiery goal was won A star had set?
# A Century of Roundels/Before Sunset

BEFORE SUNSET.
Love's twilight wanes in heaven above, On earth ere twilight reigns: Ere fear may feel the chill thereof, Love's twilight wanes.
Ere yet the insatiate heart complains 'Too much, and scarce enough,' The lip so late athirst refrains.
Soft on the neck of either dove Love's hands let slip the reins: And while we look for light of love Love's twilight wanes.
# A Century of Roundels/Benediction

BENEDICTION.
Blest in death and life beyond man's guessing Little children live and die, possest Still of grace that keeps them past expressing Blest.
Each least chirp that rings from every nest, Each least touch of flower-soft fingers pressing Aught that yearns and trembles to be prest,
Each least glance, gives gifts of grace, redressing Grief's worst wrongs: each mother's nurturing breast Feeds a flower of bliss, beyond all blessing Blest.
# A Century of Roundels/A Landscape by Courbet

A LANDSCAPE BY COURBET.
Low lies the mere beneath the moorside, still And glad of silence: down the wood sweeps clear To the utmost verge where fed with many a rill Low lies the mere.
The wind speaks only summer: eye nor ear Sees aught at all of dark, hears aught of shrill, From sound or shadow felt or fancied here.
Strange, as we praise the dead man's might and skill, Strange that harsh thoughts should make such heavy cheer, While, clothed with peace by heaven's most gentle will, Low lies the mere.
# A Century of Roundels/A Ninth Birthday

A NINTH BIRTHDAY.
February 4, 1883.
I.
Three times thrice hath winter's rough white wing Crossed and curdled wells and streams with ice Since his birth whose praises love would sing Three times thrice.
Earth nor sea bears flower nor pearl of price Fit to crown the forehead of my king, Honey meet to please him, balm, nor spice.
Love can think of nought but love to bring Fit to serve or do him sacrifice Ere his eyes have looked upon the spring Three times thrice.
II.
Three times thrice the world has fallen on slumber, Shone and waned and withered in a trice, Frost has fettered Thames and Tyne and Humber Three times thrice,
Fogs have swoln too thick for steel to slice, Cloud and mud have soiled with grime and umber Earth and heaven, defaced as souls with vice,
Winds have risen to wreck, snows fallen to cumber, Ships and chariots, trapped like rats or mice, Since my king first smiled, whose years now number Three times thrice.
III.
Three times thrice, in wine of song full-flowing, Pledge, my heart, the child whose eyes suffice, Once beheld, to set thy joy-bells going Three times thrice.
Not the lands of palm and date and rice Glow more bright when summer leaves them glowing, Laugh more light when suns and winds entice.
Noon and eve and midnight and cock-crowing, Child whose love makes life as paradise, Love should sound your praise with clarions blowing Three times thrice.
# A Century of Roundels/A Singing Lesson

A SINGING LESSON.
Far-fetched and dear-bought, as the proverb rehearses, Is good, or was held so, for ladies: but nought In a song can be good if the turn of the verse is Far-fetched and dear-bought.
As the turn of a wave should it sound, and the thought Ring smooth, and as light as the spray that disperses Be the gleam of the words for the garb thereof wrought.
Let the soul in it shine through the sound as it pierces Men's hearts with possession of music unsought; For the bounties of song are no jealous god's mercies, Far-fetched and dear-bought.
# A Century of Roundels/A Night-piece by Millet

A NIGHT-PIECE BY MILLET.
Wind and sea and cloud and cloud-forsaking Mirth of moonlight where the storm leaves free Heaven awhile, for all the wrath of waking Wind and sea.
Bright with glad mad rapture, fierce with glee, Laughs the moon, borne on past cloud's o'ertaking Fast, it seems, as wind or sail can flee.
One blown sail beneath her, hardly making Forth, wild-winged for harbourage yet to be, Strives and leaps and pants beneath the breaking Wind and sea.
# A Century of Roundels/At Sea

AT SEA.
'Farewell and adieu' was the burden prevailing Long since in the chant of a home-faring crew; And the heart in us echoes, with laughing or wailing, Farewell and adieu.
Each year that we live shall we sing it anew, With a water untravelled before us for sailing And a water behind us that wrecks may bestrew.
The stars of the past and the beacons are paling, The heavens and the waters are hoarier of hue: But the heart in us chants not an all unavailing Farewell and adieu.
# A Century of Roundels/Babyhood

BABYHOOD.
I.
A baby shines as bright If winter or if May be On eyes that keep in sight A baby.
Though dark the skies or grey be, It fills our eyes with light, If midnight or midday be.
Love hails it, day and night, The sweetest thing that may be Yet cannot praise aright A baby.
II.
All heaven, in every baby born, All absolute of earthly leaven, Reveals itself, though man may scorn All heaven.
Yet man might feel all sin forgiven, All grief appeased, all pain outworn, By this one revelation given.
Soul, now forget thy burdens borne: Heart, be thy joys now seven times seven: Love shows in light more bright than morn All heaven.
III.
What likeness may define, and stray not From truth's exactest way, A baby's beauty? Love can say not What likeness may.
The Mayflower loveliest held in May Of all that shine and stay not Laughs not in rosier disarray.
Sleek satin, swansdown, buds that play not As yet with winds that play, Would fain be matched with this, and may not: What likeness may?
IV.
Rose, round whose bed Dawn's cloudlets close, Earth's brightest-bred Rose!
No song, love knows, May praise the head Your curtain shows.
Ere sleep has fled, The whole child glows One sweet live red Rose.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chêng Ch'ien

​266 Chêng Ch'ien 鄭虔. 8th cent. A.D. A poet and landscape-painter of the T'ang dynasty, famous for having illustrated his own poems. Being unable to procure paper to write upon, he used persimmon-leaves; yet he rose under the Emperor Hsüan Tsung, A.D. 713—756, to be a Doctor in the Imperial Academy. In consequence of certain published notes on contemporary events, he was accused of tampering with the dynastic history, and was banished for ten years. On his return, he withdrew a large portion of these from circulation. Popularly known as 鄭廣文.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chêng Ch'iao

​265 Chêng Ch'iao 鄭樵 (T. 漁仲. H. 夾漈). A.D. 1108-1166. A native of 蒲田 P'u-t'ien in Fuhkien, and one of the most famous men of letters of the Sung dynasty. For a long time he lived in studious seclusion at 夾漈山 Chia-chi-shan, cut off from all human intercourse. Then he spent some time in visiting various places of interest, devoting himself to searching out marvels, ​investigating antiquities, and reading (and remembering) every book that came in his way. In 1149 he was summoned to an audience, and received an honorary post. He was then sent home to copy out his 通志 History of China, which covered a period from Fu Hsi down to the T'ang dynasty. On its presentation to the Emperor he was made an Imperial historiographer. Besides this, he was author of a collection of twenty-six poems and seven prose pieces, published under the title of 夾漈豪. He also wrote a treatise entitled 石鼓文, in which he showed that the inscriptions on the famous Stone Drums, hitherto accepted as dating from the early part of the Chou dynasty, belonged rather to the latter half of the 3rd century B.C. He was opposed to the famous peace proposals of Ch'in Kuei, and this led to his early retirement into private life, where he died at the age of fifty-eight.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chên Tê-hsiu

​208 Chên Tê-hsiu 陳德秀 (T. 景元 and 景希 and 希元. H. 西山). A.D. 1178-1235. A native of P'u-ch'êng in Fuhkien. Graduating in 1199, he was appointed to the Imperial Academy, and soon rose to high office at the capital. At his own request he was sent into the provinces; and his administration, in spite of the denunciations of enemies, was marked by signal success. On the accession of the Emperor Li Tsung in 1225, he was falsely accused of having favoured the Emperor's brother, who had just ​been put to death. He was degraded, but ultimately restored to office, and became President of the Board of Ceremonies. He was the author of the 讀書記, a philosophical work treating of the character and doings of eminent Ministers of past times; of the 大學衍義, illustrating the doctrines of the Great Learning; of the 文章正宗, a collection of model essays, etc. etc. His miscellaneous works were published under the title of 真西山集. Canonised as 文忠, in 1437 his tablet was placed in the Confucian Temple.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chê Tsung

​Chê Tsung. See Chao Hsü.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chên Tsung

​Chên Tsung. See Chao Hêng.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chu Kuei

​461 Chu Kuei 朱珪 (T. 石君. H. 南厓). A.D. 1781-1807. A native of Ta-hsing in Chihli, who was the youngest of four brothers, another of whom, Chu Yun, also became celebrated as a scholar and official. He graduated as chin shih in 1748; and in 1775, when Treasurer of Shansi, he was denounced for studying all day and recalled to be tutor to the young prince who subsequently reigned under the style of Chia Ch'ing. In 1790 he became Governor of Anhui; and five years later, while acting as Viceroy at Canton, he is said to have "turned back an English tribute-mission." What he appears really to have done was to return the gifts which the English mission had given to the former Viceroy and Hoppo, his action in which matter was approved by the venerable Emperor Ch'ien Lung only five days before his abdication. On the death of the Emperor Ch'ien Lung he became one of Chia Ch'ing's chief advisers, and in 1805 was made Grand Secretary. He was exemplary in all his family duties, and a stranger to corruption in every form. For the last forty years of his life, subsequent to the death of his wife, he lived alone, not even taking a concubine. Author of the 知不 ​足齋詩文集, a collection of poems and essays to which the Emperor prefixed some stanzas. Canonised as 文正, and admitted into the Temple of Worthies.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chu Kuang-ch'ing

​460 Chu Kuang-ch'ing 朱光卿. 14th cent. A.D. A rebel chief, who set up his standard of revolt towards the close of the Mongol dynasty, styling himself Emperor of the 大金國 Great Chin nation.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chên Chiang

​207 Chên Chiang 真姜. 5th cent. B.C. The virtuous wife of Prince 昭 Chao of the Ch'u State. When the prince went from home, he left her in a tower surrounded by water; and it was agreed between them that if he sent for her, he would give the messenger a token to be shown to the princess. On one occasion there was a flood, and the water began to rise high round the tower. The prince hurriedly sent off a messenger to rescue his wife, but forgot the token; the result being that the lady declined to leave the tower, and perished in the flood.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chu Kao-hsü

​457 Chu Kao-hsü 朱高煦. Died A.D. ? 1426. The second son of the Emperor Yung Lo. He gained fame and favour during his father's successful rebellion, and aspired to succeed him on the throne. In 1404 his hopes were disappointed through the representations of Yang Shih-ch'i, Hsieh Chin, and other counsellors; and for the rest of the reign he took every opportunity of attacking them and the Heir Apparent. In 1417 his father, discovering that during his absence on an expedition against A-lu-t'ai, the Prince of Han (the title of Chu Kao-hsü) had enrolled some 3,000 men and rioted at will in Nanking, wished to degrade him; but at the tearful entreaty of his brother, he was merely sent to 樂安 Lo-an in Shantung. There in 1426, on the accession of his nephew, he raised the standard of revolt; but the prompt appearance of the Emperor with artillery forced him to submit. He was shackled and manacled like a criminal; and when the Emperor went to see him, his Majesty ​stumbled over one of the shackles and upset a large caldron, by which Chu was so severely burnt that he died of his injuries.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Tha'ālibī

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​THA'ĀLIBĪ [Abu Manşūr 'Abd ul-Malik ibn Mahommed ibn Isma'īl uth-Tha'ālibī] (961-1038), Arabian philologist, was born in Nīshāpūr, and is said to have been at one time a furrier. Although he wrote prose and verse of his own, he was most famous for his anthologies and collections of epigrams. Like many other Arabian writers, he does not always distinguish between his own and other people's work. Of the twenty-nine works known to have been written by him, the most famous is his Kitāb Yatīmat ud-Dahr, on the poets of his own and earlier times, arranged according to the countries of the poets, and containing valuable extracts (published at Damascus, 4 vols., 1887). Another of his works, the Kitāb Fiqh ul-Lugha, is lexicographical, the words being arranged in classes. It has been published at Paris (1861), Cairo (1867), and Beirūt (1885, incomplete).
For his other works see C. Brockelmann's Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur, vol. i. (Weimar, 1898), pp. 284-86.
(G. W. T.)
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Thale

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​THALE, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Saxony, charmingly situated under the northern declivity of the Harz Mountains, 8 m. by rail S.W. of Quedlinburg, at the entrance to the romantic gorge of the Bode, and in the ​immediate vicinity of the Rosstrappe, the Hexentanzplatz and other notable points in the Harz. Pop. (1905) 13,194. It is largely frequented as a summer resort and for its saline springs. It is also a brisk manufacturing centre, its chief products being enamelled goods, iron-ware and machinery.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Thames (New Zealand)

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​THAMES, a seaport and gold-mining centre in North Island, New Zealand, in the county and at the mouth of the river of its name, on the Firth of Thames, a deep inlet of the Hauraki Gulf of the east coast. Pop. (1906) 3750. It comprises under one municipality the settlement formerly called Grahamstown, with its suburbs Shortland and Tararu. It lies 42 m. S.E. of Auckland by the steamer-route, a pleasant journey among the islands of the Gulf. There is also railway communication with Auckland (but by a circuitous route of 120 m.), and with the neighbouring districts by branch lines. The harbour is good; the industries include foundries, shipbuilding yards and sawmills. The sea fisheries are valuable, a large part of the yield being exported to Auckland. The inland district watered by the Thames river is auriferous; Waitekuri (40 m.) and Karangahake (28 m. S. of Thames) are centres of operations. The small town of Te Aroha (32 m. by rail), on the river, besides being the centre of mining and agricultural industries, is a favourite health resort on account of its hot medicinal springs. The river is navigable for steamers of light draught. The scenery along its course is pleasant, and at Ohinemuri (20 m. from Thames) it flows through a fine gorge.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Thalberg, Sigismond

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​THALBERG, SIGISMOND (1812-1871), German pianist and composer, was born at Geneva in 1812 (May the 5th or January the 7th). In 1822 he was taken to Vienna, where, under the watchful care of Count Dietrichstein, his education was completed. He made his first appearance as a pianist at Prince Metternich's in 1826, and published his first composition — a Fantasia on Airs from “Euryanthe” — in 1828, but it was not until 1830 that he was first fairly introduced to the public, with such brilliant success that from that time forward his only rival was Liszt (q.v.). In 1834 he was appointed “kammervirtuos” to the emperor of Austria. He first appeared in Paris in 1837; and in 1838 he went to England, astonishing his hearers with the novel effects produced in his Variations on God Save the Queen, while he charmed them with his delicate touch and the purity of his expression. Thenceforward his career was a succession of triumphs. In order to disprove the popular idea that he could execute no music but his own, he played Beethoven's Concerto in C minor (Op. 37) at the London Wednesday Concerts, held in 1846-47 at Exeter Hall, with a keen intelligence which proved his power of interpreting the works of the great masters to be at least on a level with his wonderful technique. Besides his pianoforte compositions, which are almost innumerable, Thalberg produced two operas — Cristina, which proved a complete failure, and Florinda, which fared but little better at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1851. He played in London for the last time in 1863, and afterwards retired to his estate near Naples. He died at Naples on the 27th of April 1871.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Thalweg

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​THALWEG (a German word compounded from Thal, valley, and Weg, way) in physical geography, a term adopted into English usage signifying the line of greatest slope along the bottom of a valley, i.e. a line drawn through the lowest points of a valley in its downward slope. It thus marks the natural direction of a watercourse.