Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-06

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Known British poet. novelist and essayist.
His prose work y probably hest known n
from which ths present selection 10 taksn.)
Away with systems! Away with a
corrupt world! Let us breathe the
Enchanted Island of Love.
Golden lie the meadows; golden run
the streams; red gold il on the pine:
stems. The sun Ii coming down to
earth. and walks the fields and the
waters
The sun IN coming down to earth,
and the fields and the waters shout to
him golden shouts. He comes and his
heralds run before him, and touch
the leaves Of oaks. and beeches lucid
green. and the plne.stems redder
gold; leaving brightest footprints
upon thickly weeded banks. where the
| fOxglove's last upperbells incline. ana
| bramble.shoots wander amid moist.
rich heritage. The piumes Of the
woodland are slight; and beyond them,
over the open. tbs race with the
long.thrown shadows: a race across
the heaths and up the hills. till. at
| inc I6FLUeSt DOuTHe VI uOuHSCN 10"e'
ern cloud. the heralds Of the sun lay
rosy fingers, and rest.
| Sweet are the shy recesses OF the
woodland. The ray treads softly
there. A film athwart the pathway
quivers many-hued against purple
shade fragrant with warm pines
deep moss.beds, feathery ferns. The
little brown squirrel drops tail. lind
leaps: the inmost bird is startled to q
chance tuneless note. From silence
into silence things move.
| Peeps Of the reveling SPLENDID,
above and around enliven the con
scious full heart within. The flaming
West, the crimson heights. shower
their glories through voluminou'
LEAKAGE. But these are bowers where
deem bliss dwells, imperial joy. thai
| owes no fealty to yonder gl0ries 1r
which the young lamb gambols, and
the spirits Of men are glad. DE
scend, great Radiance: embrace ere
alton with beneficent fire. and pas.
from us! You. and the vicerega
light that succeeds you, and al
heavenly pageants. are the ministers
and the slaves Of the throbbing con
tent within.
For this IL the home Of the en-
chantment. Here. secluded from
vexed shores. the prince and princess
| Of the island meet: here like dark
ling nightingales they sit. and into
eyes and ears and hands pour end
less ever-fresh treasures Of their souls
Roll on. grinding wheels OF the
world: cries of ships going down IL
a cain. groans OF system which
will not know its frightful hour o.
exultation. complain to the universe
You are not heard here.
He calls her by her name. Lucy
and she. blushing at her great bold
ness. has called him by his, Richard
OF the wonderful harmonies the angel!
sing aloft.
Lucy. My beloved"
80 Richard
Out in the world there, on thu
skirts Of the woodland. a sheep-boy
pipes to meditative eve on a penn.
whistle.
Loves musical instrument II q,
old. and az poor: 1t has but two stops
and yet. you see. the cunning mu
stefan does thus much with Il.
Other speech they have little: light
foam playing upon waves Of feeling
and Of feeling compact, that bursts
only when the sweeping volume IL toe
wild. and In no more than their sigh
OF tenderness spoken.
+. Perhaps Love played his tune %
we'll because their natures had un.
blunted edges. and were keen 10,
bliss. confiding In IL as natural food
To gentlemen and ladies' he fine-drawi
upon the vio,, ravishingiy; or blow,
into the mellow bassoon: or rotses tn.
heroic ardors OF the trumpet: or. Il
may he. comma nds the whole. pgches
trm TT them. And. they are 5lAasci
He In still the cunning musicia n. They
fanguish. and taste ecstasy: bat Il II
however sonorous, an earthly concert
For them the spheres move not to two
notes. They have lost. or forfeited
and never known. the first supersen,
sual spring OF the ripe senses into
passion: when they carry the soul
with them. and have the privileges Of
spirits to walk disembodied, hound.
ieasly to feel. Or one has 1t. and the
other II a dead body. Amhrcsia let
them eat and drink the nectar: here
sit couple To whom Loves simple
bread and water In a finer feast.
Pipe. happy sheep.boy, Love: Ir.