The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-11-19
TO WILLIAM MoKRIs.

The sea Of The years that endure not,
akose tide shall endure I'LL We die
And know whas she seaso5s assure not,
II death be or life Re e lie,
sways hsther the spirif and thsther.
wall in the swtnx Of the sea-
Whose wrecks ara OF memories that withsr
As leaves .. 8 tree.
We hear not and bali not with greeting
The sound o. the wings OF the years,
The storm OF fae sound OF them beating.
Thar none tilI il pass from him hears;
But tsmpest nor cain can iarertl
1hs treasures taat tade nos nor ny;
Change bids them not change and be sterile.
Death bids them not die.
Hearts pIighted in youth TO the royal
High service Of hope and Of song,
sesied fat for endussnce Is loyal,
And proved of the years as they tarong.
Conceive not, bslieve not, sad fear not
That age may Be ether than youth:
That faith and that friendship may hear not
And utter no truth
Not yesterdays light nor tomorrow's
Cleans nearer or clearer than CLEANS,
Though Joys be forgotten and sorrovs
Forgotten - changes OF dreams.
The dawn OF the days unforgotten
That rnoon could eclipse not or slay.
Whose fruits were children begotten
or dawn upon day.
The years that were Powerful and fruitless,
The years that were fruitful and dark,
The hopes that were radiant and rootiess,
The hopes thai were winged for their mark,
Lie soft In the sepnlchers fashioned
OF hours thai arise aud snbsice.
Absorbed and subdued and impasstoned,
IN pain or in pride
But far in the night that entombs them
The starshine as sunshine IL strong,
And clear through the cloud that resumes them
Remembrance. q light and song.
Rings lustrous as music and hoyers
As birds that tmpsnd on the sea,
And the thoughts that their prison house covers
Arise and are free.
Forgetfulness deep as prison
Holds days that dead for US last
TIL the sepulchre sees rearfsen
The spirit whose reign Is the past,
Dlsentrammelled of darkness, aud kindled
With life that In migh;ier than death.
hen the life that obscured IL has dwindled
And passed as q breath
But time nor oblivion may darken
Remembrance whose name win be JOY
While rnemosy forgets not to hsarken,
While manhood forgets not tho boy
Who heard and exulted in hearing
The songs OF the sunrise OF youth
Ring radiant above him. unfearing
Aud joyons as truth
Truth. winged and enkincled wit rapture
Aud sense of the radiance of yore,
FULFILLED you with power 10 recanture
What never might singer before
The light, the delight and tbs sorrow
OF troublous and ehiralrous years
That know not of night and OF morrow,
OF hopes or OF fears.
But wider the wing an the vision
That quicken the spirit have spread
Since memory beheid with derislon
Mans hope TO be more than his dead.
From the nlisfs and the SHOWS and the thunders
Your spirit has brought for us forth
Light, music. and Joy in the wonders
And charms of the north
The wars and the woes and the glorias
That quicken and tighten and rain
From the clouds of lite chroufcled stories.
The passion, the pride, and the pain.
Whose echoes we're music, aud the token
Was lost Of the spells that they spaks,
Rise bright at your bidding. unbroken
OF ages that break.
For you, and none Of US other.
Time IS not; the dead that must live
Hold commune with you as brother
BY grace of the light that you give.
The heart that was in them 10 in you,
Their soul in your spirit endures;
The strength Of their song is the sinew
OF this that 10 yours.
Hence II is that life. everlasting
As light and as music, sbides
In the sound of the surge OF IL, casting
sound back 10 the surge of the tides,
Iill sons OF the sons Of the Norsemen
Wstch. hurting 60 windward and lee.
Round England, unbacked OF her horsemen.
The stseds of the ses.
-Alsernon Charles Sssinburne