The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-07-09
ASrRORHEL.

ASrROPhEL.
Alter reading ssr Phslin ssaney's .Aresdia" in
tie garden Of an old English MANOR house
star in the silence that fosiews
The song Of the death o. the sun
SPEAKS music IN heavea. a2d the hoiiows
Aud heights OF TIE world are ~ one.
Oae Tyre that oEssinxs and oaslighfeus
Toe rapture OF sunset and tartls
Mute nig a. till the sease OF is orighsens
TIE soul that il nila
The flowers Of the sun that 10 sanken
Ha heavy ~ hcsF. ~ OF head:
Tae oees that have eaten and drunken
Abe soai 81 Their sweetness are fed,
But . surdowcs OF song. Ga whose honey
Ny sp.fit has fed bee.
Makes SUMNER than morning was sunny
The twiiisat for me.
The letters and lines on the RACES
That sundesed mine eyes and the flowers
Wax fain, a. the shadows Of ages
That suuder their season aud Ours:
As the ghosts Of the centuries thai saver
season oil ccloFiess time
From the days wbose remembrance 10 ever,
As they were. sublime.
The season that bred and that cherished
The soul saAt commune with yet,
Had II utterly wisnered and persisted
To rise no: again a. il set.
Shame were il that Engiishmen living
should read - their Iosefataefs read
The books OF tie praise ana thanksgiving
OF Engiishmen dead
o light of the land that adored thee
And kindlsc thy so0l with her breath.
Whose Lie. such ~ late would AFFORD thee.
Was iovelier than aught but thy death.
By what name, could thy lovers but know it,
Might love OF thee hail thee aiar,
Palisades, AstrOpael, poet
whose love was thy star?
star in the moondavu of NsytsmA
star in the cl0udlAnd OF change:
Too splendid and SD foe the daytime
To cheer or eclipse o. estrange:
Too sweet for Tradition or vision
To see but through shadows OF tean
Ri.e deathIsss acroxs the division
.! measusetess years
The twilight may deepen and harden
A. uightwafd the stream OF IL runs
Til starShine transdgure q garden
Whose radiance responds to the suns:
The light OF tue love OF thee dafkens
The lights that arise and that set:
The love that forge;s thee not hearkens
IL England forget.
Bright and brief in the sight OF grief and love
the iight of this lifetime shone,
Seen and felt by the gitts IL dealt, the grace il
gave, and again was gone:
Ay, but now IL is death, not thou, whom time
las conquered Is years pass on.
Ay, not yet may the land forget that bore and
loved thee and praised aud wept,
sidney. ord OF the stainless sword. the name OF
names that her hearts love kept
Fast as thine did her own. sign 10 light thy
Lie till IL sank and slept
Bright a. then for the souls of men thy brave
Arcadia fesounds aud shines.
Lit with love that behoids above ell joys and
sorrows the stead last signs,
Faith, eplendor that hope makes tender, and
truth, whose pfessgs the soul dtvsnes.
All the glory that srds the story OF oil thy life
IS with sunlight round.
All the spell that on all souls fell Who saw thy
spirit, and held them bound.
Lives for all that have heard the call and
cadence yet Of it, music sound
Music bright - the soul OF light for wings an
cage, fos notes . dove.
Leaps aud shines from the lustrous lines where
through thy soui from far above
Shone and Gang ill the darkness rang with
light whose IRE 10 the fouut OF love.
Love that led thee alive and fed thy soul with
sorrowa and ioys and fears.
Love that sped thee alive aud dead to flames
fair goal With thy peerless: peers.
Feeds the namc OF thy Quenchless name with
light that enlig htens the rayiess ycara
Dark as sorrow though night and morrow may
lower with preoage OF clOuded fame,
How may she that of old bare thee. NAV Sid
nes's England, be brought 10 shame:
How should this be. while England Is. What
need OF answer beyond thy name?
From the love that transngurss thy glory.
From the light of the dawn Of thy death,
The life Of thy song and thy story
Took sub,ier aud isrcer breath,
And We. though the day and the morrow
Set fear and thanksgiving at STRIFE
Hail yet the star Of Thy sorrow
The sun Of thy lfe
Shame and tss, may bssss men here. and bid
Thanksgiving snd pride be dumb;
Faith. discrowned OF other praise, ana wound
about with tolls till her life wax numb,
Scarce may see II the sundswn Be, IL darkness
die not and dayriss come.
But England, eumeshsd and benefited
With spiriIless villainies round.
With counsess OF coward.ce fretted,
With trammcis OF treason eaWounos
II yet. though The season be other
Than weps and rejoiced over thee,
Thine England. thy lover. shy mother
sublime ~ the sea
Hers vast thou; IL her face be Less bright. or
seem for an hour less brave.
Let bu, thine on her darkness shine, thy savior
limo shall see. a. the shadows nee, her shame
entombed In Sshamciul grave.
II death aud not life were the portal
That opens on life q, the last,
II the spirit OF sidney were mortal
And the past o. IL utterly past,
Fear stronger than honor Was ever,
Forgetiulucss IN Z hitter than lame,
Faith knows not II England should never
Subsics into shame.
Yea, but yet 10 thy sun not set, thy sunhright
splri. OF trust withdrawn:
Epgiand's love OF thee burns above al hopes
that darkea or fears tnat fawu,
Hsrs thou art: and the faithful heart that hope
bessts upon darkness dawn.
The sunset that sunrise will follow
10 less than the dream Of o dream:
The starshiue on height and on hollow
sheds prom se that dawn shall redeem;
The night, IL the day time would hide IL,
Shows loves!er. assme and afar.
Thy soul ana thy siella's beside IL.
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