The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-03-05
I.

And up from out tho underw orld
Wesaw the mermen swim.
And II was dawn and middle day
And midnight-for tho noon
On siN or round s across the bay
Had climbed the skies OF June
And hero the glowing. glorious king
u dhy ruled DER his roalm.
with stars OF midnight glittsring
Abou. his diadem.
The seaguli recled on languid wing
In circles round the mast,
We heard tho songs the sirens sing
As We went sailing past:
And UP aad down the golden sands
Athousand fairy throngs
Flung at us from their flashing hands
The echoes of their songs.
y, IL was but . dream I had
While the musician played
For here the sky. and hero the glad
Old ocean kissei the glade:
And here the laughing ripples ran.
And here the roses grew
That threw n kiss to every man
That oyased with the crew.
To return to Mr.. Riley's teachers. or rather to
those elder poets whom he let's US soc that he
likes best. and who. therefore. may DO pre-
sumed to have exercised most influence upon
him. The following exhibits a surprising con-
to the vocabulary. the spirit and the
metrical form OF Herrick:
Dear Lord. to Thee my knee 10 bent.
Give me content
Fuli.p!easured with what comes to me,
Whate'er IL he;
An humble roof-a frugal board.
And simple hoard;
The wintry fagot piled beside
The chimney wide.
While tho enwreathing flames up.sprous
And twine about
The brazeu dogs that guard my hearth
And household WORTH
Tinge with the embers rudy glow
The rafters low;
And let the sparks snap with delight
As fingers might
That mark deft measures Of some tune
The children Groom:
Then. with good friends, the rarsst few
Thou holdest rue.
Ranged round about the blaze. to share
My comfort there.
Give me to claim the service meet
That makes each seat
place OF honor. and each guest
Loved as the rest.
to a careful and fruitful study Of tho sources
OF the sensuous beauty OF 'Endymton and
EST. Agnes's Eve"
Would that my lips might pour out In thy praise
A httiIF meIody-an air sublime.
A song sun. washed and draped In dreamy haze
The floss and velvet OF luxurious rhyme;
lay wrought OF warm %languors and o'er.brimmed
With balminess and fragrance OF wild flowers.
Such as the droning bee meier wearies Of
Such thoughts as might DO hymned
To thee from this midsummer land Of ours
Through shower and sunshine blent for every love.
II.
Deer silence in deep woody aisles where through
Cool ma, his 20 lettering, and where the trtl
OF estremembersd birds hath something new
In cadence for the hear!ng-lingering still
Through all the open day that lies beyond:
Reaches OF pasture lands. vine. wreathcn oaks.
Majestic still in pathos OF decay;
The road-the wayside pond
Wherein tho dra comfy an instant soaks
His flmy wing tips ere he hits away.
And I would pluck from out tho dank. rich mould.
Thick. shaded frem the sun OF noon. the long
1.-the stalks OF barley. topped with rudy gold.
Ana braid them in tho meshss Of my song;
And with them l would tanglo wheat and rye.
And wisps of greenest grass the katydid
Ere orept beneath the blades OF. sulkily.
As harvest hands went by;
And weave OF all, as widest fancy BID,
Acrown of mingled song aud bloom for thee.
The lines Just quoted are manifestly intended
to recall Keats. But his influence is nc less
erAceaoie III 'h' io'o"iHs p'on '"e''o0o Az
Juolth:'
Ohsr eyes are amberfne-
Dark and deep as wells OF wine.
While her smile is Ike the noon.
splendor of a day of June.
II she s~orrow-lo! her face
It is like a fowery space
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Echoed by the knocking bird
In dim thickets dense with bloom
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