The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-01
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~ Two Poets. One New.
Thirty brief poems, all relating to music,
are included in Mr.. Richard Watson elders
A Book Of Music (the Century Company.
A prelude in verse has a pleasant and ex-
planatory beginning:
Without intent l And a book I've writ.
And music is the pleasant theme Of II;
For though I can no music make. / trust
Here's proof love n.
Two of the poems begin with the same
question. or one, relating to Essipon, the
first stanza runs:
What is her playing likeI
ask, while dreaming here under her music's
IT'S like the leaves OF the dark passion flower.
Which grows on a string whose roots. oh, deep they
sink.
Deep in the ground. that flowers pure life to drink.
Another poem, concerned with Adele
Aus der 0he, has In its opening stanza this
different answer:
What is her playing likei
IT'S like the wind in wintry Northern valleys:
A dream pause, then It rallies
And once more bends the pine tops, skaters
The ice cragS. Whitley scatters
The spray along the paths OF svslanches.
Startles the blood. and every visage blanches.
That is a reminder of the paling OF the
world when Napoleon's oannons ratified.
A a~uatrain entitled Wagner has much OF
the earnest quality and more than the
brevity OF the poet to whom II is addressed.
IL runs:
This is the eternal mystery Of art:
He told the secretest secret Of his heart
How many mortals with quick flaming brow
whispered. 10. this am land that art thou.
Mr.. Thomas Nelson Page comes newly
INTO the company Of the poets in a book
OF moderate size entitled The Coast OF
Bohemia" Charles Scribner's Sons) Several
poems Of patriotism are included here, n
these have interested us rather more than
the others. There 10 one that was written
in April, 1864 momentous time. 1t is
entitled THE Dragon OF the Seas and
relates in good strong phrase and signin-
cantly how Francis Drake once sailed the
Spanish Main. It begins:
They say tho Spanish shlps arc out
To seize the Spanish Main:
Reach down the volume. boy. and read
The story DER again.
How when the spaniard had the might
He drenched the earth. like rain,
With Saxon blood and made Il death
To sail tho Spanish Main.
with torch and steel. with stake and rack
He trampled out Gods Truce.
Until Queen Bess her lesshcs slipt
And lot her seadogs loose.
God how they sprang and how they torsI
The Gnberts, Hawkins. Drakei
Remember, boy. they were your siros;
They made the Spaniards quake.
The poem goes on TO show hat they did,
indeed, and after relating the death Of
Drake IL concludes:
But II Spain nre . single shot
Upon the Spanish Main.
6he1I come TO deem tho Dragon dead
Has walked 20 life again.
Another poem, entitled America: Greet
ing makes no concealment Of the patriotic
feeling. Its opening verse declares:
have journeyed the spacious world over.
And here TO thy sapphire wide Eatc.
America, I. thy True Lover,
Return now. exalted. eiatc.
As an heir who returns 20 recover
His forefathsrs' lofty estate.
We will quote the last verse also. but
this We do particularly In order to call
attention to the rather extraordinary
rhymes. The verse runs:
God lowered thee fair mid the oceanss
He bulwarked theo strong with the seas.
That Man might preserve here the motions
He gave Freedoms bold processes:
That Man in his lofticst devotions
Might serve Freedoms altar In Peace.
Freedoms altar In peas" was the way
we thoughtlessly sounded IL after cautious
dealing with processes In another poem
we found this curious rhyme:
You say the gods and muses. all
From earth now banlshed bet
VIII you believe that yester eve
saw TerpsichOref
Terp-sick-o-ree, or We have no ear. But
here Is another bit OF patriotism, with q
little c~ommendable mother love thrown in:
The old lion stood In his lonely lair:
Tho sound OF the hunting had broken bis resti
He scowled TO the eastward: Tiger and Bear
We're marrying his Jungle. He turned TO the west
And sent through the murk and mist of the night
A thunder that rumbled and rolled down the trail;
And Tiger and Bear. the Quarry In sight,
Crouched low In the covert TO cover and quail;
For deep through the midnight, like surf on q shore.
Pealed Thunder In answer resoundlng with Ire.
The Hunters tun'd stricken: they knew the dread
roar:
The wheip Of the Lion was Joining his Sire.
That will repay Tennyson for BE proud
of these strong sons Of thine