s: scarlet braid) by the fashionable visitors. (There was always


s: to the foot of a mountain, to take people up to the top to


s: As black and immovable as the silent fir-trees you solemnly


s: Little brown mother, you sit on your nest.


s: When the blue eggs hatch, the brown birds will sing--


s: Singing sweet songs to the hot Summer sky.


s: Hatched are the blue eggs; the brown birds do sing--


s: Published in _Aunt Judy's Magazine_, July 1866, with music by


s: Hold my hand, little Sister, and nurse my head, whilst I try to


s: What was it?--that the doctor says is now fairly established both


s: C-O-N-_con_--how my head swims! Now I've got it!


s: _Convalescence!_ And that's what the doctor says is now fairly


s: established both in my blackbird and me.


s: He says it means that you are better, and that you'll be well


s: And so the Sea-captain says, and he says we ought to be friends,


s: because we're both convalescents--at least we're all three


s: convalescents, my blackbird, and the Captain and I.


s: He's a sea-captain, not a land-captain, but, all the same, he was


s: and rather better than the rest of his relations, for I asked


s: him; and now he's afraid she will never belong to him


s: He was very kind, and let me ask questions. I said, "Are you a


s: sea-captain?" and he said, "Yes." And I said, "How funny it


s: There are captains and sea-captains, and weeds and sea-weeds, and


s: really like the dragons on our very old best blue tea-things?"


s: if you try to read, and your neck if you draw, and your back


s: if you sit up, and your head if you talk?


s: you won't think 'What is it I'd rather have?' but, 'What is


s: 'What have I got to do or to bear; and how can I do it or bear


s: That's the only safe point to make for, my lad. Make for it, and


s: "What should I think of the fellow? Why, I should know he was a


s: "And if he were confined to bed," said the Sea-captain, "and lay


s: grumbling and wishing he were in battle, I should give


s: And won't be fit to work for months? (will _she_ be convalescent,


s: say, "So much grumbling and complaining is nigh as big a sin


s: Get your things on, and have a gallop on Jack.


s: Ride round this way and let me see you. I won't say a word about


s: wishing I was going too; and if my head gets bad whilst


s: you're away, I will bear it my very best till you come back.


s: Perhaps, if I try hard at Convalescence now, I may become a brave


s: and bring her out again with flying colours and fame,


s: _By Fedor Flinzer. Freely translated by J.H. Ewing._


s: The Bee flew round, and buzzed and stung,


s: With paws and snout the beast was nimble,


s: The mouse shrieked "Murder!" "Fire!" and "Thieves!"


s: And struggled through the twigs and leaves.


s: The mouse sprang through the garden-gate--


s: Her eyes like stars dispell'd the gloom,


s: The fair, false maid forswore her faith;


s: Sweet lips that pray'd--"Forget me not!"


s: And those thou lovest best shall grieve,


s: The night is dark, and yet it is not quite:


s: Those stars are hid that other orbs may shine;


s: Twin stars, whose rays illuminate the night,


s: And cheer her gloom, but only deepen mine;


s: For these fair stars are not what they do seem,


s: But vanish'd eyes remember'd in a dream.


s: The night is dark, and yet it brings no rest;


s: Those eager eyes gaze on and banish sleep;


s: Though flaming Mars has lower'd his crimson crest,


s: These two with tender shining mock my woe


s: From out the distant heaven of long ago.


s: The night is dark, and yet how bright they gleam!


s: Sweet eyes! must you for ever be a dream


s: Deep in my heart, and distant from my sight?


s: For could you shine as once you shone before,


s: The stars might hide their rays for evermore!


s: The flower, the little flower, was dead:


s: Whose gallant sails should waft me home.


s: As heav'n through summer clouds doth show,


s: She's like her mother, love, you've said:


s: No song-bird there its thirst may slake,


s: From fleeting pleasures and abiding cares,


s: From sin's seductions and from Satan's snares,


s: From woes and wrath to penitence and prayers,


s: To godly cares that end in endless weal,


s: To joys man cannot think or speak or feel,


s: From this world's ways and being led by them,


s: From floods of evil thy youth could not stem,


s: Blest be thy worldly loss to thy soul's gain,


s: Blest be the blow that freed thee from thy chain,


s: Blest be the tears that wash thy spirit's stain,


s: Oh, dead, and yet alive! Oh, lost and found!


s: Salvation's walls now compass thee around,


s: Death gently garner thee with all the blest,


s: A little lad, I ran to seek my fortune on the main;


s: I marvel now with how much hope and with how little pain!


s: For this I toil'd, to this I look'd through many a weary year,


s: I marvel now with how much hope, and with how little fear.


s: A homeless man, once more I seek my fortune on the main:


s: I marvel with how little hope, and with what bitter pain.


s: And drink heart's ease from every breeze


s: Whilst by our side the brook doth glide,


s: Ah, love! I shall not search your hands,


s: If I should wish hereafter that your heart


s: May Time's hard hand our footsteps guide apart,


s: But lead yours back one spring-time to the Lea.


s: For then the grass we loved grows green again,


s: And April showers make April woods more fair;


s: But no sun dries the sad salt tears of pain,


s: Or brings back summer lights on faded hair,


s: The Spring's bright tints no more are seen,


s: How bright the sky! How full the sheaves!


s: In this bright air, of these bright days,


s: The love that's loveliest when 'tis old--


s: Long, long ago, with vows too much forgotten,


s: The Cross of Christ was seal'd on every brow,


s: Ah! slow of heart, that shun the Christian conflict;


s: Rise up at last! The accepted time is now.


s: Stand in the battle; the victory is sure.


s: Hark! hark! the Saviour's voice to each is calling--


s: "I bore the Cross of Death in pain for thee;


s: On thee the Cross of daily life is falling:


s: Children! take up the Cross and follow Me."


s: Strive as God's saints have striven in all ages;


s: Press those slow steps where firmer feet have trod:


s: For us their lives adorn the sacred pages,


s: Peace! peace! sweet voices bring an ancient story,


s: "Hard is the strife, but unconceived the glory:


s: On! Christian souls, all base temptations spurning,


s: Drown coward thoughts in Faith's triumphant hymn;


s: Since Jesus suffer'd, our salvation earning,


s: Shall we not toil that we may rest with Him?


s: Our Church still shows the outward sign,


s: Of those who fain would strength receive;


s: Come down! although we grieve Thee sore,


s: Come down! come down! not what we would,


s: Oh, happy Christmas, full of blessings, come!


s: Let the long-parted meet again in peace;


s: And by the hopes of Christmas-tide we pray--


s: Let love restore the fallen to his Home;


s: Ah, Christ! and yet a happier day shall come!


s: Whilst up and down the golden streets the blessed angels sing,


s: And evermore the heavenly chimes in heavenly cadence ring.


s: _Translated from the Danish of Oehlenschläger._


s: _The present Series of Mrs. Ewing's Works is the only authorized,


s: specially designed by a Friend of Mrs. Ewing._


s: _The following is a list of the books included in the Series_--


s: BOOKS, with a selection from Mrs. Ewing's


s: It will be found that these poems are intended for children of


s: This success, which must secure to her also the approbation of


s: The present edition of Hymns, Songs, and Fables, has been greatly


s: "Suffer little children to come unto me"


s: That power which does your life sustain,


s: That sing his praise with light renewed;


s: The moon, that walks in brightness, says,


s: Yes; should the sun and stars turn pale,


s: The bright green fields, the clear blue sky,--


s: But now once more she spreads her wings,


s: To all that's sweet, and bright, and fair,


s: It seeks the source from whence it came,


s: Sweet Summer, with her flowers, has past,


s: This earth, these heavens, shall change and die;


s: Christian! when, overwhelmed with grief and care,


s: Thou prayest for the help that thou dost need,


s: As shipwrecked mariner for life will plead,


s: O, then for faith pour forth the fervent prayer!


s: 'Tis faith alone life's heavy ills can bear.


s: O, mark her calm, far-seeing, quickening eye,


s: It tells of worlds unseen, and calls us there;


s: That look of hers can save thee from despair.


s: When sorrow, like thick darkness, gathers round,


s: And all life's flowers are fading in the dust,


s: Faith lifts our drooping vision from the ground,--


s: Says, that the hand that smites us yet is just;


s: And the small voice of conscience heard?


s: With moon and stars all sparkling bright,


s: By my dull lamp, whose light's near gone,


s: He's still my trust; he, the true Shepherd, never


s: Will forsake his sheep,--he watcheth ever;


s: The mother may forget her child, but yet


s: Thus saith the Lord,--"Thee I will not forget."


s: The world may laugh, the world may blame.


s: Shall look to heaven from whence it came,


s: And thought, perhaps, 'twas made for him.


s: "The trees that looked so stiff and gray


s: "Go forth, my child, and laugh and play,


s: Good night! my friends, both far and near,


s: And all the stars, that shine so bright,


s: Hark! now one morning bell's sweet tone,--


s: From whispering sounds of those who kneel,


s: The boy's glad notes, his shouts of glee,


s: She struggles hard,--she's free;--O, no!


s: They lightly o'er the blue waves float,--


s: What makes our hearts seem gay and light,


s: Life's flowers are there, and everywhere


s: When young hearts weep as they go to sleep,


s: The flesh must creep, and woes are deep,


s: Where all is brightness, goodness, peace.


s: Our hearts would raise this day to heaven.


s: from Herder, will perceive that a slight liberty has been


s: Thou fear'st e'en now death's bitter smart.


s: The Sabbath is here, it is sent us from heaven;


s: The Sabbath is here, to the fields let us go;


s: The Sabbath is here; on this blessed morn


s: The Sabbath is here; our seed we have sown


s: The Sabbath is here; His love we will sing


s: And home the bright sheaves we will bring.


s: The Sabbath is here; in hope and in love


s: The trees with whispering leaves are dressed,


s: The flowers are blooming far and wide,--


s: Fly here and there, and where they please


s: Sweet flower! so young, so fresh, so fair,


s: The bloom with which the soul's arrayed,


s: That sings and flies just where he will,


s: Through pretty flowers, and shining stones,


s: In mournful tones, these words to sing:--


s: The prisoner sings, with breaking heart:--


s: Soon as he ceased,--"Suppose," said she,


s: You love the clouds, I choose the house;


s: So keep your wings just where they are."


s: When all your youthful heart beats high,


s: And, hastening on from flower to flower,


s: "Would you were there!" the Pin replied;


s: "You are so cross, and sharp, and thin,"


s: "Stop," cried the Needle, "you're too much,


s: That where you are there is no speaking;


s: And he, poor thing, is pricked and mauled,


s: They might have quarrelled for a week,--


s: You should have both been better taught;


s: 'Tis not worth while to mince the matter;


s: Nor men nor boys like girls can chatter;


s: Less of yourselves you'll think, and more


s: You'll learn, that in their own right sphere


s: To have said so much, and all was hushed.


s: "Now," said the youngster, "father dear,


s: Little Roland played in the free fresh air;


s: The king looked out, through the open door,


s: But with the beggars he would not stay,--


s: "The peasant drinks from the running brook,


s: Little Roland raised his clear blue eyes,--


s: "For the sake of this dear son of thine,


s: He shall seize with his free right hand,


s: woods, and gave to a little girl of the name of Mary. She


s: was very attentive to the little prisoner, gave him an


s: abundance of good things to eat, and tried her best to make


s: him happy; but all in vain. After many attempts, he at last


s: succeeded in making his escape, and instantly disappeared in


s: the woods. In the course of the day, the following letter,


s: sealed with a sharp thorn, was received by his friend Mary.]


s: You thought, my dear Mary, you had Billy fast,


s: But I tried very hard, and escaped you at last;


s: The chance was so tempting, I thought I would _nab_ it,--


s: It was not very naughty, I'm sure, in a rabbit.


s: O, let not your kind heart be angry with me;


s: To see the green woods, to feel the fresh air,


s: To skip, and to play, and to run everywhere.


s: The food that you gave me was pleasant and sweet,


s: But I'd rather be free, though with nothing to eat.


s: O, how glad they all were to see me come back,


s: And every one wanted to give me a smack.


s: And the neighbours came in to witness the fun.


s: My father said something, but could not be heard;


s: My mother looked at me, but spoke not a word;


s: And while she was looking, her eyes became pink,


s: And she shed a few tears, I verily think.


s: To all sorts of beings, to men, and to rabbits,


s: So I hope you'll forgive me for sending this letter,


s: To tell you I'm safe, and feel so much better,


s: Cut all sorts of capers, and act very silly,


s: "Good bye, get away, you ugly old things!"


s: "All stubbed are your toes, all twisted your strings,


s: "But here are my new ones, so shiny and bright,


s: How stiff they are, too! how straight and upright!


s: So saying, he gave to his old shoes a kick,


s: His unkindness had cut the old shoes to the quick,


s: "Master Frank, Master Frank, stop a while, if you please,"


s: "Our _soles_ cannot bear such insults as these,


s: And your pride, Sir, will soon have a fall."


s: Frank stood still with wonder and looked at the shoe,


s: At last he exclaimed,--"As they've nothing to do,


s: I suppose, like Poll Parrot, they chatter."


s: So he opened the door, and walked down the stairs;


s: But let us observe him, and see how he fares,


s: His shoes were so smooth that he could but just stand,


s: So tight, that they pinched in his toes;


s: He could only sit still, and try to look grand,


s: But Fido ran in, who loved little Frank,


s: They began to cut capers, but at the first prank


s: He was a brave boy, he thought not of crying,


s: He whistled to Fido, but there is no denying


s: He went to his bed with his heart full of sorrow;


s: He said to the nurse,--"I should choose,


s: If you please, when I'm dressed, my good Betsey, to-morrow,


s: "See how red my toes are, and I'm all black and blue;


s: "Ah! you see," answered Betsey, "what I told you was true;


s: Your shoes, Master Frank, are too small."


s: His old shoes he was glad in the morning to see,


s: "How happy," said he, "my poor toes will be


s: The voice of the old shoe now once more was heard:--


s: "Master Frank, will you please to attend?


s: I wish, with your leave, to say just a word,--


s: "Never part with old shoes till they part from you;


s: Old shoes and old friends are far better than new,


s: "Our strings and our toes are bad, we must own,


s: I have done," said the shoe, in a kind, easy tone,


s: New toes and new heels now the old shoes have got,


s: Frank wears them in peace, and has never forgot


s: The monkeys, 'tis said, once asked of the bears,


s: How it was that their nation so much surpassed theirs,


s: And begged that the means they would graciously tell


s: By which the young bears were kept hearty and well.


s: "Perhaps it may be," said one of the mothers,


s: Who seemed more considerate and wise than the others,


s: "Perhaps," said she, trembling at even the thought,


s: "We give our dear young ones less food than we ought;


s: We may be impatient; I have really some fears


s: That we rock them too little, the poor little dears;


s: Our milk may cause fever, and their stomachs not suit,


s: Or perhaps they are weakened and injured by fruit.


s: Perhaps the whole mischief is caused by the air,


s: And who 'gainst this evil can ever prepare?


s: In their earliest years, it may poison instil,


s: And through their whole lifetime produce every ill.


s: They breathe in a pestilence, borne on the air.


s: Perhaps, for the nerves of us monkeys are weak,


s: In jumping, or leaping, some bone they may break


s: In their breasts." Here, for weeping, she scarcely could speak,


s: And she snatched up her little one long to her breast;


s: With such vehement love the poor victim she pressed,


s: That all its complainings and troubles were stilled;


s: Alas the poor mother! her pet she had killed.


s: Said the bear,--"No longer I think you need seek


s: For the cause why your young ones are sickly and weak;


s: It is not the milk, nor the fruit, nor the air,


s: Nor fault of the stomach, and 'tis no lack of care.


s: Your blind fondness it is that cuts short their days.


s: How is it that we such multitudes raise?


s: As soon as our young ones are able to run,


s: We take them out with us to play in the sun.


s: We take them through floods, through heat, and through cold,


s: And so they are healthy, and live to be old."


s: All Periodicals, both American and Foreign, supplied promptly. A


s: _Foreign Books imported to order by every steamer._


s: Correspondence and Manuscripts. Edited by his nephew, WM. HENRY


s: man,--one who lived for the world!'"--_Christian Messenger._


s: "Only one who was similar in purpose and temper,--who felt like


s: aspirations, hopes, and faith,--could at all do justice to the


s: impression on the age that is passing, and that is yet to


s: relating to repentance, or the duty of commencing the Christian


s: course,--to edification, or the encouragements to progressive


s: The following is a list of the writers:--


s: "The tone of these sermons, their living interest, their


s: unpremeditated variety in unity, fit them well for this


s: "We think the volume is upon the whole one of the best volumes of


s: "This volume by Mr. Miles has substantial value. It is by the


s: Bringing into a simple and popular form, and small compass,


s: NAOMI; or Boston Two Hundred Years Ago. A Tale of the Quaker


s: connected, however remotely, with the land of the Puritans. The


s: accomplished author of 'The Life of Jean Paul' has produced an


s: American novel which we should like to see followed by others


s: "It was a happy thought that suggested such a volume. We were not


s: literature on the subject."--_Christian Register._


s: "We would express a high opinion of the book, and can assure the


s: Christian reader who will compare it carefully with our common


s: especially to the young."--_Daily Advertiser._


s: "Your gift of 'Self-Formation' is truly a welcome one, and I am


s: greatly obliged to you for it. It is a work of quite original


s: This book has met with a ready sale in this country, and has been


s: "The Lecture 'On the Best Means of exerting a Moral and Spiritual


s: "We are glad to see this book. It is a work of great and peculiar


s: compositions written for a purpose, but rather as the actual


s: utterances of a pure and elevated soul in reverent and immediate


s: communion with the Infinite Father."--_Christian Examiner._


s: "It is simple and unpretending: and though some of the pieces are


s: elevated spirit, and here and there is an exquisite effusion of


s: genius, which answers to the holiest wants of the soul.


s: "Not only great pleasure may be derived from such a volume, but


s: CONTENTS.--The Capacities of Woman; Female Influence; Female


s: A HISTORY OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS and of Religious Education, from the


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s: "Mr. Ware has left very few things which will do so much towards


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s: "We welcome with almost as much surprise as satisfaction the


s: appearance of a volume of discourses as excellent as those of Mr.


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s: The Christian Examiner is published on the first days of January,


s: printed in the "Bulletin," others in "Punch,"


s: Some few are now published for the first time.


s: but to print on peculiar paper, not wholly


s: prohibitive or to defer the publication of my


s: verses for an unknown period, the natural


s: longing of a parent to parade his "well be-


s: gotten" prevails. If my book is unusual and


s: bizarre from a craftman's point of view,


s: I plead the unusual times and extraordinary


s: conditions. Of these times and conditions.


s: I hope "Hello Soldier" is in some measure


s: You've done some rousing things of late.


s: Now have you strength to stand and shine


s: Shirk not the creed, "What's ours is good,"


s: There's a lilting kind of magic in the swagger


s: Swinging all aboard the steamer with her


s: What is calling, Billy Khaki, that you're foot-


s: And the merry magpie bugle splits the morn-


s: While your feet are beating rhythms up the


s: And the drums are all a-talking in the hollow


s: Billy Khaki, is't the splendor of the song the


s: Or the whipping of the flags aloft that sets


s: Is't the cheering like a paean of the toss-


s: Or the boom of distant cannon flatly bumping


s: What's calling, calling, Billy? 'Tis the rattle


s: Of the cavalry at gallop and artillery in play;


s: 'Tis the great gun's fierce concussion, and the


s: But your eyes are laughing, Billy, and a


s: While the old men sit and tell us war it is a


s: When the swift machines are busy and the


s: At your bolts as vain as eggs of gulls that spatter on the rocks.


s: When the horses sweep upon you to complete


s: Or in fire and smoke and fury some brave


s: War is cruel, Bill, and ugly. But full well


s: Yet your heart is for the battle, and your face


s: For if war is beastly, Billy, you can picture


s: There's the wrecking of an empire, and its


s: There are nations reft of freedom, and of hope


s: And the shadow of an evil black upon the


s: So we know what's calling, Billy. 'Tis the


s: And its stir is in your pulses, and its light is


s: To uphold the land we live in, and to pull a


s: The world's heart throb at my workshop door.


s: The sun was keen, and the day was still;


s: The township drowsed in, a haze of heat.


s: The measured beat of their buoyant feet,


s: The township woke, and the doors flew wide;


s: He took the stride, and he caught their song,


s: And Steve went then, and Meneer, and Ben,


s: All whisked away by the "Come! Come! Come!"


s: All brave with dust that the eyes laughed through,


s: His shoulders square, and his chin in line,


s: For sons gone out to the long war's end;


s: And faint, but still with an ardent flow,


s: Where the snow sits on the mountain 'n' the


s: He'd a silly name like Archie. Squattin'


s: He knew nex' to holy nothin' through the gor-


s: No thoughts he had of women, no refreshin'


s: If he'd battled, loved, or suffered vital facts


s: But the parsons and the poets couldn't teach


s: When it come to pokin' guyver at a pore,


s: If nags got sour 'n' kicked agin the rules of


s: Artie argued matters with 'em, 'n' he'd kid


s: "Here's a pony got hystericks. Pipe the word


s: The Sargint yapped, 'n' all the ship came


s: He'd chat him confidential, 'n' he'd pet 'n'


s: He'd tickle him, 'n' flatter him, 'n' try him


s: 'N' presently that neddy sobers up, 'n' sez


s: Since you puts it that way, cobber, I will be


s: Whose monkey tricks with Privit Rowe was


s: He'd done stunts in someone's circus, 'n' he


s: Whirlin' in to bust his boiler, or to kick


s: Rowe he sez: "Well, there's an idjit! Oh,


s: Where's yer 'orse sense, little feller? Where's


s: Well, you orter serve yer country!" Then


s: 'N' that nag would drop his head-piece, 'n', so


s: We was heaped ashore be Suez, rifle, horse,


s: Where the land is sand, the water, 'n' the


s: We had intervals iv longin', we had sweaty


s: We goes driftin' on the desert, nothin' doin',


s: Till we get to think we're nowhere, 'n' arf


s: 'N' the only 'uman interest on the red hori-


s: Is Marshal Neigh's queer faney fer the lad


s: Plain-livin's nearly, bored us stiff. The Major


s: Isn't in the regulations. Him 'n' Rowe is


s: 'N' that horse's sense iv humor is the oddest


s: But the Turk arrives one mornin' on the outer


s: From back iv things his guns is floppin' kegs


s: 'N' Privit Artie Rowe along with others iv


s: Goes pig-rootin' inter battle, holdin' converse


s: Little Abdul's quite a fighter, 'n' he mixes it


s: But the Anzacs have him snouted,, 'n', oh,


s: They wake the all-fired desert, 'n' the land for


s: Is alive 'n' fairly creepin', and the skies are


s: When they've got the Ot'man goin', little


s: It fer us to chiv His Trousers. 'n' to round


s: Cuttin' closest to the raw, 'n' swearin' lovin'


s: Is Artie from Molinga on his neddy, Marshal


s: We're pursuin' sundry camels turkey-trottin'


s: With the carriage iv an emu 'n' the action iv


s: When a sand dune busts, 'n' belches arf a


s: They uncork a blanky batt'ry, 'n' it's, Allah,


s: We're not stayin' dinner, thank you. Lie


s: While the bullets pip yer britches 'n' you


s: Here it is that Artie takes it good 'n' solid in


s: He dives from out the saddle, 'n' is swallered


s: I got through 'n' saw them pointin' where the


s: He was goin' where we came from, sniffin'


s: Till he found Rowe snugglin' under, took him


s: 'N' be all the Asiatic gods, he brought his


s: With a bullet in his buttock, 'n' a drill hole


s: There's no medals struck fer neddies, but we


s: 'N' the pride iv all the Light Horse is old


s: IT is thirty moons since I slung me hook


s: Took me solemn oath, 'n' I straight forsook


s: All the ways of life, dinkum ways 'n' crook,


s: 'N' the things on which it was good to look


s: N' I dipped my lid to the big pub light,


s: To the ole push cobbers I give "Good-night!"


s: Slipped a kiss to 'er, 'n' I wings me flight


s: Ez we pricked our heel to the skitin' drum.


s: Holdin' do the tear that was bound to come


s: Now I've seen it all, I may come out dead,


s: I have scorched, 'n' thirsted, 'n' froze, 'n'


s: 'N' bin taught the use of the human head,


s: For when all is done 'n' when all is said,


s: I've bin taught to get 'em 'n' never fret,


s: We have swarmed a slope with the red rain wet;


s: I 'ave learned a pile, 'n' I'm learnin' yet;


s: But the thing I've learned that I won't forget


s: We was shot down there in a dirty place--


s: I'd have pass him one ez a gooey. 'Strewth


s: On the track iv Huns, he's a eight-day sleuth,


s: I ain't proud with him ; 'n' I'm modest, too,


s: When a Fritzy offers to sock me through;


s: There you are, you see! Oh! it makes you sore,


s: In them pifflin' days of the years before


s: Takes a odds-on chance with the God of War,


s: 'N' he tows you out with his left lung tore,


s: 'Twas a lad called Hugh done ez much for


s: Well, I mind the days in the Port when we


s: With his tone 'n' style, 'n' my foot was free


s: Now he's paid me back. I had struck a snag,


s: Like a crippled snake I was forced to drag


s: When they saw me he was the one who came.


s: Didn't get me then, for the lad was lame.


s: They had passed him his, but his 'art was


s: For the sake of one who he thinks he sees


s: When the Nurse's hands bring a kind of ease;


s: And I thank God, too, for the things like these


s: There are Percies, Algies, 'n' Claudes I've


s: While the bullets flew in a screamin' jet.


s: What in pain, 'n' death, and in mire 'n' sweat


s: I 'ave learned from them that I won't forget


s: When skies were peltin' fish-plates, bricks


s: 'N' puts a kind, soft 'and on mine, 'n' all


s: You'll see this donah take her place, first


s: She's sweet 'n' cool, her touch is dew--


s: 'N' minds me of a mother with a baby at her


s: The whole pack perks up like a bird, 'n'


s: And hopin' how they find you fit. Gorbli',


s: Since Jumbo ducked the Port, 'n' drilled 'n'


s: He walked his pork on Collins like a hero off


s: Then hiked a rifle 'cross the sea this bleedin'


s: The things what's 'appened lately calls to


s: With twenty cops to top it off. But now I'm


s: A bullet in me gizzard where I took it good


s: A-dealin'-stoush 'n' mullock to the Prussian


s: All in a 'elpless hole-the Pug, Bill Carkeek,


s: Don, Steve, 'n' Jack, 'n' seven more, 'n', as


s: With nothin' in since breakfast, 'n' a week


s: Worked loose from Caddy's bunch, we went


s: We'd took to 'arf the ragin' German Hempire


s: Then down we went so 'umble, with our noses


s: Takin' cover in the rubble. If a German head


s: It was fare-the-well to Herman with a bullet


s: We slogged the cows remorseless, 'n' they


s: We held that stinkin' cellar, though, 'n' when


s: Had spit out loaded lightnin', and he slugged


s: Then choked a Fritzie with his dukes, 'n'


s: We rigged her on her knuckle-bones. Cri',


s: We hosed 'em out with livin' lead. That was


s: Me left eye I'd 'ave give for jest a bubble in a


s: Three fingers I'd 'ave parted for a bone I've


s: But the butcher wasn't callin', 'n' the fountain


s: T'was rotten mozzle, Neddo. We had blown


s: 'N' 'blooed the hammunition for the little box


s: Each took a batten in his fist. Sez Billy


s: There's more than 'arf a million spilt where


s: We creeps among 'n' sorts 'em, stack afore,


s: The Hun is comin' at us with his napper like


s: You couldn't 'ope to miss it, pickled, par-


s: Then bricks was flyin' in the wind. Mine


s: Ole Nosey got his brother, which he never


s: When Ulrich stopped a Port bookay he rolled


s: Their fire was somethin' fierce. Poor Son


s: "Fill up," he coughs, "'n' plug 'em! S'elp


s: With bricks we drove right at 'em 'n' we


s: 'Twas either bed 'n' breakfast or a scribble


s: Haynes bust a Prussian's almond, took the


s: Then heaved his last 'arf-Brunswick, split


s: And Son went down in glory, with a German


s: We'd started out with gibbers in our clobber


s: They gave us floatin' lead enough to stop an


s: We yelled like fiends, 'n' countered with a


s: Then rushed in close formation, heavin' cot-


s: Through blinded, bleedin' Bosches, 'n' lor


s: We came peltin', headfirst, 'elpless, in a drain


s: Eight left of us, all punctured, each man


s: Me wild, a rat hole in me lung, but in me


s: A bull-nosed brick with whiskers where no


s: There's nothin' doin' now. I wear me blan-


s: The way this fat nurse pets me, strewth, it's


s: A-dreamin' of our contract 'n' the way we


s: I reckon Haig is phonin' Hughes: "Hullo,


s: A dozen of the pushes and a thousan' tons


s: THIS war's a waste of slurry, and its at-


s: We're the victims of a thicker sort of universal


s: With discomforts that old Noah never knew.


s: If you're calling, second Tuesday is our reg'-


s: So delighted if you'll toddle in to tea!


s: There is mud along the corridors enough to


s: There's a frog-pond in the parlour, and the


s: She has neither doors nor windows, nor a


s: By the day the board is gratis, by the week


s: For the season there's a corresponding drop.


s: Opening off the spacious hallway is my natty


s: By judicious disposition, with exclusion of


s: There is sleeping room for Oliver the toad.


s: Though the ventilation's gusty, and in gobs


s: Though there comes a certain quantity of


s: On my right is Cobber Carkeek. There's a


s: And his mattress is a special kind of clay.


s: And he makes it with a shovel every day.


s: For he lights a fire on Sunday, bakes his sur-


s: Then he takes a little maul, and cracks it


s: After hanging out a winter in this Cimmerian


s: In the dark and deadly calm last night they


s: Seven, little fellows, thinking of their sins.


s: It was ours like blinded snails to prowl the


s: With a feeler pricking out at every pore


s: For the death that stalks in darkness, or the


s: And the other trifling matters that are war.


s: That's the stuff to get your liver, that's the


s: For it tries his hones, and seeks his marrow


s: You have got the thought to comfort you that


s: If Fritz squirts his loathly limelight over


s: "Oh, thank Heaven, blokes," he murmured,


s: Stuffed out with kits, 'n' spiked with rifles,


s: A-heavin' down the misty road, club-footed


s: Like 'arf creation's tenants shiftin' early


s: We're marchin' out, we dunno where, to meet


s: But here we lights eventual, 'n' sighs 'n'


s: 'N', 'struth, the first to take us on is Mickie


s: A copper of the Port he was, when 'istory


s: Sez I : "We're sent to face the foe, 'n', selp


s: I takes a baby brick, 'n' drives it hard agin


s: 'N' Privit Mick is scattered out fer all the


s: But not afore indelible he's put his mark on


s: I got the signs Masonic all inlaid along me


s: He's sargin' now, a vet'ran; I'm a newchum


s: 'N' when he sorter fixes me there's some-


s: If after this I dreams of scraps promiscuous


s: Those nights he raided Wylie's shed to break


s: I takes a screw at Molly. With a grin that


s: He's toyin' with a scar of old I reckernise


s: 'N' so I'm layin' for it, 'n' I'm wonderin' how


s: We're signed on with the Germans, 'n' there


s: But sure it's comin' to me, 'n' it's comin' 'ard


s: Me lurk is patient waitin', but I'm trim-


s: A brick to jab or swing with, in a willin'


s: Oh, judge me wonder! There's a scrim that


s: I'm roughin' it all-in with Hans. He sock


s: I slides on somethin' narsty, 'n' me little grave


s: But Molly butts my Hun, 'n' leaves no face


s: 'N', "'Scuse me, Mister Herr," sez he, "I have a lien on that!"


s: He helps me under cover, 'n' he 'ands me


s: (I've got a lick or two that leaves me feelin'


s: "Lor love yeh, ole John Hop," sez I, "yiv


s: "Don't minton ut at all," he sez, 'n' eyes


s: 'N' back there in the trench I sits, 'n' trims


s: "Come aisy, Jumm, yeh loafer, little hell 'n'


s: A job most illegant is on, cut out fer you 'n'


s: I take, with knife 'n' pistol, arf a brick to line


s: We creeps a thousan' yards or so to jigger


s: Which seven Huns is workin' on the Irish like


s: He stands above me, rakin' sweat from off his


s: Sez he: "Bleed there in comfort, I'm for


s: He's back in twenty minutes, with a dillied


s: "Three'll carry in the gun," sez he, "the


s: I dunno how he got 'em, but he made them


s: Then Mickie s'lutes the Major. "They're in


s: "Fer conduc' calculated to provoke a breach


s: A-tearin' iv me uniform, 'n' 'saultin' the


s: When hack to front I chucks me bricks 'n'


s: He grins at me: "Yer right," sez he, "Hold


s: I couldn't fight yeh, blarst yeh, if yeh dinted


s: Stodgy, splodgy, seepy, soaky, sanguinary


s: Sticky, sicky, slimy, sloppy, stummick-strafin'


s: Million billion bar'ls of beastly, cloyin'


s: To the little 'ouse at Coogee or a hut at Bar-


s: She was 'ookin' up to spike the stars, or rootin'


s: An' me liver turned a hand spring with each


s: Then we pulls a sick 'n' silly smile 'n' tips a


s: At Gallip' the steamer dumped us, 'n' we got


s: Whoopin' up the hill splendacious, playin'


s: When the stinkin' Abdul hit us we curled


s: 'N' we yelled for greater glory, crackin' 'ardy


s: Not so Willie. He was cursin', cold ez death


s: 'N' the smallest thing that busted made the


s: In the bitter day's that follered, spillin' life be-


s: We would fake a spry expression for the things


s: Always dressin' up the winder, crackin' 'ardy


s: Fearful creepy in the whiskers, very cold be-


s: But his jills would sniff 'n' shiver in the mother


s: 'N' go blubberin' 'n' quakin' out to waller in


s: In the West we liked the weather, 'n' we fat-


s: Crackin' 'ardy, stewed together, rats an'


s: Weepin' Willie wouldn't have it these was


s: 'N' he shuddered in his shimmy if they passed


s: When he cried about his mother, in a gentle


s: There was nothin' sweet for Willie in a rough-


s: But if all things scared him purple, not a thing


s: If some chaps was wanted urgent special dirty


s: Willie went in with a shudder, but he alwiz


s: Oh, a busy little body was our Willie in a


s: Then he'd cry out in the night about the faces


s: Well they pinked him one fine mornin' with


s: Put it in 'n' all across him. What he was


s: 'N' he'd on'y lived because he was afraid to


s: Sez he "Struth, they're out there fightin',


s: While I'm bedded here 'n' 'elpless. It fair


s: But he came again last Tuesday '-n' we go it


s: "London's big 'n' black 'n' noisy. It would


s: He's away now in the trenches, white 'n'


s: Playin' lovely 'ands of poker with his busy


s: 'Fraid of givin' 'n' of takin', 'fraid of gases,


s: But a champion lightweight terror to the gor-


s: With sand-blight in his optics, and much


s: We are drivin' out the infidel, we're hittin'


s: Same ez Richard slung his right across the


s: 'Ere I am, a thirsty Templar in the fields of


s: There's no plume upon me helmet, 'n' no red


s: We've no 'Oly Grail I know of, but we do


s: With a jamtin, 'n' a billy, 'n' a battered


s: Quite a lot of guyver missin' from our brand


s: We've no pretty, pawin' stallion, 'n' no


s: We 'most always slip the cattle 'n' we cut out


s: When it fairly comes to buttin' into battle's


s: Goin' forward on our wishbones, with our


s: 'N' we 'eave a pot iv blazes at the cursed


s: What we wear's so near to nothin' that it's


s: And we swings a tank iv iron scrap across


s: We ain't ever very natty, for the climate here


s: When it isn't liquid mud the dust is thicker


s: Ten to one our bold Noureddin is some wad-


s: 'N' the Saladin we're on to is a snortin'


s: For he'd bomb his Royal Jills from out his


s: By my 'alidom from Agra we will send the


s: Those old-timers botched the contract, but we


s: Knights Templars from Balmain, the Port,


s: We 'are wipin' up Jerus'lem; we were ready


s: Spoutin' lead, a dandy cleaner that you bet


s: Can all pack their bettin' bags, and come


s: HERE in the flamin' thick of thick of things,


s: They're on the earth--ignores the clout,


s: While down his cheeks the salt tears run.


s: Twice the size of Cootamundra, and the goods


s: They were bombs as big as water-butts, and


s: Shells that looked like blessed gasmains, and


s: We had struck a warehouse dignity in dealing


s: It was, "Sign here, Mr. Eddie!" "Clarkson,


s: Our floor-walker was a major, with a nozzle


s: And a stutter in his Trilbies; and a limping


s: We were off at eight to business, we were free


s: And we talked of new Spring fashions, and the


s: After five we sought our dugouts lying snug


s: Each with hollyhocks before it and geraniums


s: Then smoked out on the doorstep in the twi-


s: And we 'tended to the cabbage and the shrink-


s: So long lived we unmolested that this seemed


s: Set apart from mirk and worry and the inci-


s: And we trimmed our Kitchen Eden, swapping


s: Whi1e the whole demented world beside was


s: There was little talk of Boches and of bloody


s: Porky specialised on onion and he had a sort


s: For a cabbage plump and tender that it took


s: In the pleasant Sabbath morning, when the


s: And illumed the happy dugout with effulgence


s: It was fine to see us forking, raking, picking


s: Treading flat the snails and woodlice and


s: Then one day old Fritz got going. He had


s: And the shell the blighter posted was as roomy


s: He was groping round the dump, and kind of


s: When he plugged the hill the world heeled up,


s: Then, 0 Gott and consternation! Swooped a


s: In Carkeek's beans. Those beans came up!


s: As we watched them--plunk! another shell


s: Flew the spuds of Billy Murphy. There were


s: Bill! she tore a quarter-acre from the land-


s: Tommy's carrots, and we watched them, and


s: Then a wail of anguish 'scaped us. Boomed


s: A detestable concussion. Porky's cabbages


s: There the Breaking strain was reached, for


s: Up and over went the hero. He was savage


s: And he tore across the distance like a mad-


s: They had left a woeful sight indeed--frail cab-


s: Turnips mangled, little carrots all in one red


s: Parsnips ruined, lettuce shattered, torn and


s: And a black and grinning gap where once our


s: Five and fifty hours had passed when came a


s: "I sniped six of 'em," said Porky, "an' me


s: "I done in the crooel swine what strafed me


s: IN days before the trouble Jo was rated as


s: He chose to sit in hourly expectation of a job.


s: He'd loop hisself upon a post, for seldom


s: A gift of patient waitin' his distinctif quality.


s: He'd linger in a doorway, or he'd loiter on the


s: Edgin' modestly aside to let the fleetin'


s: Jo' begged a bob from mother, but more often


s: And settled down with cigarettes to smoke the


s: He put a satin finish on the frontage of the


s: His shoulder-blades were pokin' out from


s: But if a job ran at him Joey's footwork was


s: Jo strayed in at the cobbler's door, but, scoffed


s: He found the conversation too exhaustin' as


s: Or, canted on the smithy coke, he'd hoist his


s: His boots slid up his shinbones, and his pants


s: And if the copper chanced along 'twas beauty-


s: Then came the universal nark. The Kaiser


s: They cleared the ring. The scrap was for the


s: Jo Brown was takin' notice, lurkin' shy be-


s: And every day he crept to see the drillin' on


s: He waited, watchin' from the furze the blokes


s: For the burst of inspiration that would tell him


s: He couldn't lean, he couldn't lie. He yelled


s: Jo understood--he'd all these years been


s: Mooched gladly in the dust, or roasted gaily


s: "Gorstruth," he said, with shining eyes, "it


s: 'N' now I know this is the thing that Heaven


s: Jo went away a corporal and fought again the


s: And like a duck to water Joey cottoned to the


s: If anythin' was doin' it would presently come


s: That Joseph Brown from Booragool was there


s: He got a batch of medals, and a glorious


s: Then people talked of Joey as the dearest


s: They were chummy with his uncles, or ac-


s: Joe goes to France, and presently he figure as


s: Two-handed all-in fighter in the armies of the


s: And men of every age at home and high and


s: Then Hayes and Jo, in Flanders met, and very


s: To shake a townsman by the hand, and sing


s: If I was in a hurry, mate, to finish up this war


s: I'd lay out every Fritz on earth, but, strike me,


s: Now Jo's a swell lieutenant, and he's keepin'


s: The town gets special mention every time he


s: If peace don't mess his chances up, he'll be


s: Dad, mother and the uncles Brown and all our


s: That Providence began this war to find a grip


s: Shed changed her names and state, alack!


s: To close the seams 'n' keep the flume in


s: But, soft 'n' sentimental, when the long, cold


s: I'd dream me nibs was dronking' to the height


s: With rights of suction over all the breweries


s: Where barrels squat, like Brahma gods, in


s: I had me fit of longin' on the night the Ger-


s: All breathin' lioke a gas attack. The air


s: We smelt 'em in the darkness, 'n' our rage


s: It was envy, squealin' envy, put the ginger


s: We shot 'em full of spelter, then went over it


s: The swines what drunk the liquor that was


s: "If this ain't stopped, 'n' quick," sez we,


s: To celebrate the vict'ry when we capture


s: I'm prowlin' blind, when sharp there comes a


s: Swung round a post, a German in a pitiful


s: 'N' sings of beer that touchin' it would make


s: Sez he: "Berloffed kamarid, you haf some


s: 'N' "If you put it thus," sez I, "I don't


s: Of hostilities to sample contraband 'n' other


s: In the enemy's possession. Which I think


s: That Hun had thirty pockets, 'n' he'd stowed


s: 'N' presently I'm thinkin' I could love him


s: He's talkin' fond 'n' friendly in outlandish


s: "You're prisoner of war," I sez; 'n' then


s: Ten flasks he pours into his hat, 'n' fills it


s: 'N' weeps 'n' sez his frau she will be waitin'


s: We drink each other's health, 'n' know no


s: I see I've got to pinch him, but he's out to


s: 'N' don't care if he don't go home till day-


s: Sez he: "I pud you home to bed upside dot


s: He shakes his finger in me eye: "Mein friendt,


s: Then arm in arm through No Man's land we


s: There's Fear afoot. Comes more than once


s: We're rockin' fine 'n' careless where the


s: 'N' singin' most uproar'ous, in the bomb's


s: Of girls, 'n' drink, 'n' cheerful sprees, 'n'


s: Whereas I know fer certain it is me is takin'


s: Somehow, sometime, I lands him where he's


s: I wake nex' day, 'n' holy smoke! I'm pri-


s: Me mouth is like an ashpan, there's hot fish-


s: "Ve capdure each lasd nighd," sez he "you


s: For bravery in takin' me, he got the Iron


s: Says Tom: "Who rides the mail track now?


s: Says Cole "But, 'struth, you must 'ave seen


s: Where an Abdul bit me, chokin' in the Holy


s: 'Struth, they got some dirty fighters in the


s: Bull-nosed slugs their sneakin' snipers spat


s: Back once more on Moley's corner, loafin' like


s: Solid ez the day I started, medals on me


s: Switchin' with me pert melacca, swankin'


s: Plucks his black ole greasy banjo while the


s: Fish 'n' chips, a pint iv local, and the tidy


s: Dancin' glad attendance on yeh 'zif yeh was


s: Takin' hozone at St. Kilder's good enough


s: Seein' Summer and the star-blink simmer in


s: Cantin' up me bloomin' cady, toyin' with a


s: Blowin' out me pout a little, chattin' wide 'n'


s: Back again, a wounded hero, moochin' up 'n'


s: Feelin' 'sthough I'd got a fond arf-Nelson on


s: Never was so gay, so 'elp me, never felt so


s: Fresh from 'ell a paradise ain't very hard to


s: THREE other soldier blokes 'n' me packed


s: Bit into each the God of Battles' everlastin'


s: They limped in time, 'n' coughed in tune, 'n'


s: 'N' one was short a tier of ribs 'n' all was


s: The thirst of man 'as never yet bin squenched


s: Bill's skull was welded all across, Jim 'ad an


s: Sam 'obbled on a patent leg, 'n' every man


s: They sang a song of "Mother" with their faces


s: Says Bill-o: "'Ere's yer 'eroes, sling the


s: The swag of honest liquor that for years he


s: They'd pinched a wicker barrer, 'arf a pram


s: In this ole Bill-o nestled 'neath a blanket, on


s: A someone's darlin' sorter look, a touch iv


s: A dollar or a deener for the pore haff1ict


s: The others trucked the wounded to a hentrance


s: I sez: "Sich conduck's shameful!" Bill-o


s: The gripman lent his countenance to wot he


s: 'N' twenty flappers stroked his paw, 'n' said


s: The gathered in the tokens and they blooed


s: While Jim-o done the hinvalid 'oom Sammy


s: Sez I: "No noble 'eroes what's bin fightin'


s: Should smirch theirselves by doin' this dis-


s: You betcher life I let 'im hear just what I


s: Nine, g.m. at St. Kilder, saw the finish of the


s: Each 'ad his full-'n'-plentv, and was blowin'


s: As neither bloke cud stand alone, they leaned


s: Which was the patient sufferer oo's turn it was


s: 'Tain't conduck wot it worthy of a soldier and


s: I cud 'a' cried with injured pride. Afore a


s: Got scrappin', vague 'n' foolish, which the


s: Sam slips his scientific leg, 'n' flings it in the


s: "I'll auto 'ome," he sez, "or never see me


s: Comes sudden reckerlection. Great Gohan-


s: They cheered the khaki through the street


s: 'Board ship there's me like arf a peach,


s: We're hitched for good, we're two in one.


s: Our taste's the same, from togs to tipple.


s: But, straight, it makes me sad, ole son,


s: To right and left are livid strife, but on the


s: The purple pot-flowers swell and glow, and


s: Prinked creeper steals caressing hands, the


s: While down the clear, cool stones, 'tween


s: A little, bridged, blind rivulet goes touching


s: Peace lingers hidden from the knife, the tear-


s: Where falls the spattered sunlight on a lichen-


s: No voice is here, no fall of feet, no smoke lifts


s: But on the granite stoop a cat blinks vaguely


s: The cot roof on a brooding dove recks not the


s: Spit hate and death; and red blood flows


s: Pile where the splintered elm-tree spawls.


s: Shot-ravaged, thinned, but urgent still,


s: The brown, fierce, blooded Anzacs sweep,


s: Strange crimson tears. Tight-lipped and mute,


s: The grim, gaunt soldiers stab and shoot.


s: Wild-eyed, foam-flecked and every breath


s: That feel the hounds' keen teeth, appear


s: Cries fade and fitful shots die down. The


s: Smoke faintly in the summer light, and lifts


s: A sigh stirs in the trampled green, and held


s: The rill creeps o'er a dead man's face and


s: Peace like the snowflake lights again where


s: And softly with white finger-tips she seals a


s: And smile, her smile, so sweet and wise--


s: And while the cheer-stormed heavens crack


s: From pincered teeth. The wide, still space


s: They tweak your ear, your hair they tease,


s: And while they mocked Him for their mirth


s: The black smoke parted. Through the rift


s: Christ wept, for still His priceless gift


s: When all the hills were lit with Spring,


s: And through the bushland throbbed a croon


s: But with that young, sweet wonder blent.


s: With strength from him to stay my fears.


s: I fought my fight the long days through;


s: early in the action, yet he remained alone in


s: a most exposed post awaiting orders, with


s: Brave tales of men who toyed with death,


s: "But now," we sighed, "the blood is pale,


s: Their wild profusion wreathed the street-


s: Past where the flowers of Satan bloomed,


s: Up gutted hills with shell-breath plumed,


s: Swart shapes with sweat-washed eyes have


s: The Viennese authorities have melted down


s: the great bell in St. Stephen's to supply metal


s: for guns or muntions. Every poor village


s: has made a similar gift.--Lokal Anzeiger.


s: And still the bell, with reverent tones,


s: The straight, white, rigid clip of teeth.


s: A fair, tall nurse with slim, neat hands


s: She soothes, and damps his fevered lips!


s: She heals his wounds, she strokes his hair...


s: the battlefield has a seven times better chance


s: of life than a new-born baby."--Secretary of


s: Come stumbling through the mists of morn;


s: With poison stream, and shot, and knife,


s: Around from all the neighbouring streets


s: While round him stood his faithful guard,


s: Then came the rocket, fierce and bright,


s: "You've got a pair of lungs, all right!"


s: Home from the shop came Maud's new hat--


s: When, sch-u-u! up through the box so proud


s: Tom's pap had helped him start his train,


s: "Who would have thought that toy," said pap,


s: "Whoa, Spot!" said Burt. "Who would have thought


s: And froze quite stiff, as it would seem,


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s: Every Christmas Eve the young men studying to be ministers at the


s: 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house


s: Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;


s: The stockings were hung by the chimney with care


s: In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;


s: The children were nestled all snug in their beds,


s: While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;


s: And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap,


s: Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap,


s: When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,


s: I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.


s: Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.


s: The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow


s: Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below,


s: When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,


s: But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,


s: With a little old driver, so lively and quick,


s: More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,


s: And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:


s: To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!


s: Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"


s: As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,


s: When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;


s: So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,


s: With the sleigh full of Toys, and St. Nicholas too.


s: And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof


s: The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.


s: As I drew in my head, and was turning around,


s: Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.


s: He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,


s: And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;


s: A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back,


s: And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.


s: His eyes--how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!


s: His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!


s: His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,


s: And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow;


s: The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,


s: And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;


s: He had a broad face and a little round belly,


s: That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.


s: He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,


s: And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;


s: A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,


s: Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;


s: He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,


s: And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,


s: And laying his finger aside of his nose,


s: And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;


s: He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,


s: And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.


s: But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,


s: _"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night."_


s: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by


s: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,


s: Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore."


s: "Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December,


s: And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."


s: "Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow


s: From my books surcease of sorrow--sorrow for the lost Lenore."


s: "For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore--


s: "''T is some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door--


s: Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.'"


s: "Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."


s: --"A stately Raven of the saintly days of yore.


s: "Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door--


s: "Wandering from the Nightly shore." _Frederick Juengling._


s: "Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking


s: "But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er


s: "'Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,


s: "And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor


s: "Caught from some unhappy master, whom unmerciful Disaster


s: Followed fast and followed faster--so, when Hope he would adjure,


s: "With a murmurous stir uncertain, in the air, the purple curtain


s: Swelleth in and swelleth out around her motionless pale brows,"


s: "And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain


s: Thrilled me--filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before."


s: "Restless I pace our lonely rooms, I play our songs no more,


s: The garish sun shines flauntingly upon the unswept floor;


s: The mocking-bird still sits and sings, O melancholy strain!


s: For my heart is like an autumn-cloud that overflows with rain;


s: "The raven, too, * * * might have been made, more than we now see


s: Underneath that calm white forehead, are ye ever burning torrid


s: O'er the desolate sand-desert of my heart and life undone?'"


s: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,


s: Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,


s: While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,


s: As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.


s: "'T is some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--


s: Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,


s: And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.


s: Eagerly I wished the morrow:--vainly I had sought to borrow


s: From my books surcease of sorrow--sorrow for the lost Lenore--


s: For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore--


s: And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain


s: Thrilled me--filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;


s: So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating


s: "'T is some visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door


s: Some late visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door;--


s: Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,


s: "Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;


s: But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,


s: And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,


s: But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,


s: And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore!"


s: This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!"


s: Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,


s: Soon again I heard a tapping, somewhat louder than before.


s: "Surely," said I, "surely that is something at my window lattice;


s: Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;--


s: Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door--


s: Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,


s: By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,


s: Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,


s: For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being


s: Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door--


s: Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,


s: But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only


s: That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.


s: Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,


s: "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store,


s: But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,


s: Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore--


s: What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore


s: This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing


s: To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core;


s: This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining


s: On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o'er,


s: But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er


s: Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"


s: On this home by Horror haunted--tell me truly, I implore--


s: Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,


s: It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore--


s: Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore."


s: Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!


s: And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting


s: And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,


s: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,


s: Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore."


s: "Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,


s: And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."


s: "Eagerly I wished the morrow;--vainly I had sought to borrow


s: From my books surcease of sorrow--sorrow for the lost Lenore."


s: "For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore--


s: "'T is some visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door--


s: Some late visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door."


s: "Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."


s: ... "A stately Raven of the saintly days of yore.


s: "Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door--


s: "Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking


s: "But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er


s: "Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,


s: It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore."


s: "And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor


s: And bellowed out, "You're scorchin', kid--


s: The Go-cart struck the bass drum square,


s: At first he thought he'd caught a whale,


s: To master John wally these bokes Called Welth and helthe/the


s: comparison with a number of works to which he did affix his name


s: 'Wealth and health' appears among the titles in the list of plays


s: ¶ Here entreth Welth, and Helth synging together


s: a balet of two partes, and after speaketh


s: No instrument went nor ballattes synging


s: For I am to euery man louing and freendly


s: +Helth.+ Brother welth haue ye not yet doone?


s: +Weith.+ Wherfore, by god I cannot say to much


s: +Welth.+ Welth hath ben euer in this countrey


s: And for pastyme I would speake some wayes


s: Of no comparison, nor to you no dyspayre,


s: +Wealth+ Brother what soeuer ye say to me.


s: +Health+ I thanke you hartely then wyll I


s: +Wealth.+ To whom haue I doone any harme can ye say,


s: Aunswere for my selte in euery maner way


s: +Welth.+ As I, mary ther in deede ye do compare.


s: Such wordes myght brynge you soone in care


s: +Health.+ Yes I can tell what you are, be not dyspleased


s: welth is of great substaunce, that cannot be denyed


s: yet shew your comodities, and ye shalbe answerrd


s: Nor called vnsure, well I wyll make no stryfe


s: Thai I should show my commodityes alwayes


s: The best for my selfe wherof I aske prayse


s: yf I shoulde stand her all my lyfe dayes


s: Nor halfe the benefites that commeth of me


s: Ferste god saue, our soueraine Ladye the Queene


s: With all the counsel and all that with them bene


s: Men of the lawe, and ioly rych marchauntes


s: There be welthy both of goodes and lands,


s: +Health.+ O good syr, of whom commeth all this


s: And yet mans welth stands not all in ryches


s: with the grace of god that passeth all thyng


s: Loue of his neyghbour, and good reporting


s: +Welth.+ Nay thou art a wretch, and a foole vnwyse


s: Whan can welth lacke, seing all thing is solde


s: +Health+ I denye that, your saying is nought


s: Grace, heauen, nor cunning, cannot be bought


s: without great paine, ãd good dedes wrought


s: +wealth+ Stop thereat, and hold thy peace


s: +Health+ Yea, but yet ye must marke one thynge


s: Nay nay except that man himselfe doo meeke


s: And make resystance the ryght honour to seeke


s: Els all such good dedes is not woth a leeke


s: +wealth.+ Why thinkest thou that all men which hath welth


s: Getteth theyr goodes with brybry and stealeth


s: +Health+ So I wyll, but yet I must say true


s: And hath in his cheste treasures plentye


s: And a wreke his malyce for valew of strawe


s: +Welth.+ Thou speakest with a slaunderous tonge


s: Therfore I welth, am this realmes comfort,


s: +Helth.+ So I wold ye should, and I shall do the same


s: If I would not abyde heare I were to blame


s: +Weith.+ Why should they loue thee? that woulde I knowe


s: +Helth.+ To shew why I wyll not be afraied


s: But of welth, if they haue neuer so much


s: Goodes, tryasure and golde, and be called rych


s: Yet yfthey lacke helth, there payne is suche


s: What ioy hath he? none, but would be fayne


s: To giue all his treasure for helth playne


s: Yet if he haue helth, that is a treasure,


s: +Welth.+ I neuer marked thus muche, nor vnderstood


s: That Helth was such a treasure, and to man so good


s: Wherfore I am sory, and I wil chaunge my moode


s: +Health+ I will forgiue or els I were to blame


s: I loue you hartly, and wyll prayse your name


s: ¶ Here entreth lyberty with a song & after speaketh


s: +libert+ Why tary syrs whether are ye going


s: What looke ye on werwhy are ye so straunge


s: From your fellow liberty, doth your minds cha[=u]ge


s: yf I haue made a faute it shalde amended


s: with so shorte warning let me not be voyded


s: +liberty+ What was the matter, I pray you tell


s: +Welth.+ The matter is doone we are agreed


s: +liberty.+ Gods bodi how commeth this gere to pas


s: +Health+ Why be you angry that we doo agree


s: +yllibert+ Then of my loue ye set no store


s: yet I am your betters and so am I called.


s: +wealth+ Such presumptuouse wordes wyll haue a fall


s: +liberti.+ What were ye both two, were not I.


s: +Helth.+ Wyll ye heare how he doth clatter?


s: What neede ye to rehearse all this matter.


s: ye stande to farre in your owne conceyte


s: +liberty.+ Now there ye lye, I can suffer no longer


s: +wealth+ Libertye I pray the reason no more


s: +liberty,+ Now I thanke you both full kindly


s: And now at your cõma[=u]dement I am redy


s: +Wyll..+ Mary I am come at the first call


s: +Wy ll.+ Why, I cam not tyll I was called


s: Then I came a pace lest I should be blamed


s: +ealth+ Whole wyll, or what wyll, doth he meane


s: Thou art not my wyl, I forsake thee cleane


s: +Wyll.+ Alas good masters I can none yll


s: your wil, & your will, & your will, therfore keepe me


s: +liberty.+ This is a straunge saying vnto me


s: My wyl, your wyll, and his wyll, this cannot be


s: +Wyll.+ Yet by Christ your owne wyl I am


s: +Wyll.+ By god sir and I durst be so bolde


s: +Health+ How fo? let me here that I pray thee hartly


s: +Wyll.+ Wyl and lybertyeis, of aunciterie olde


s: with out lyberfye, wili dare not bebolde


s: And where wyl lacketh, lybertye is full colde


s: Thyrfore wyl and lybertye must nedes be of kyn.


s: +liberti.+ In dede as he saythe it may well be


s: I praye you al be good to him And goeth out


s: +Welth.+ For your sake he is welcome to vs all


s: Let him come to our place ano than he shall


s: & now we wil depart. And welth & helth goth out.


s: +Wyll.+ Wyl ye go hence. I thanke ye masters with al my hert


s: I wyl seke you out I warrant you feare not


s: Now they be gone I am glad by saint mary


s: How to deceyue welth, helth, and libertie


s: Doth much mischiefe this is a playne case


s: Then of my purpose I should be neuer [the] nere


s: On seuen or no mumchaunce, what yonkers dare auaunce


s: with this money we wolde make good chere


s: +Wytte+ I woulde come in but I am a fearde


s: +wylle+ Thou horson art thou mad, cum in I say


s: This is not the fyrste hazard that I haue scaped


s: +wytte.+ Now welcome wyll and what cheare:


s: By god I thought for thee a thousand yere


s: Gut nynen scone rutters by the moder got


s: Ic best de mauikin van de koining dangliler


s: De grot keyser kind ic bene his busketer


s: +Wyll.+ Here ye not dronk[=e] hance how he be gins to prate


s: The malowperte sleminge is a little to cheke mate


s: +wytte+ Let the knaue alone, for his name is war.


s: Such dronken slemminges your company wil mar


s: +Hance.+ Ic best nen emond, ic best in soche


s: ye secte nete vell ic forstaue ye in doche


s: +Wyll.+ Cumpt hore leyf with your gound stand nere


s: yt becummes you better to handle a potte of beare


s: +Hance+ Dat maght icvell dan, ic can skynke frelyck


s: Tab bers frow, ic briuges brore, begotts nemerick


s: +wytte.+ The horsen knaue by the masse is dronke


s: A winking for depe his eyen be cleane lonck


s: +Hance+ Ic foraue ye vell ye seg dac ic slope


s: Nenike, nenike, ic compte hore for an andor cope


s: +Wyll.+ Wel coppin I pray the hartly tell vs trew


s: Wherfore comest thou hether for any thing to sew


s: +Hance+ yeicke feger, en b[=u]bardere vã de koyning wei it be


s: Heb twe skelling de dagh ic con scote de culueryn


s: +wytte.+ Nay ye shall walke a fleming knaue, wyl ye not see


s: We haue English gunners ynow, there is no rome empty


s: +Hance+ Ic best en bomberde mot ye to me spreken


s: what segye ye bones, it sal ye yode flaen


s: +Wyll.+ We speake not to thee thou art a scone man


s: But goe thy way they be not here that promot [the] cã


s: +Hance+ Caut ye me a de house dragen van degrot here.


s: +wytte.+ Hance ye must go to [the] court & for welth inquire


s: +Hance+ What segre ye welth nenyke he is net hore


s: welth best in ssaunders, it my self brought him dore


s: +Wyll.+ Beshrew your horson sleminges hert therfore.


s: in dede as he saith, by war in fla[=u]ders theris welth store


s: +Hance+ Segt ye dat brower, by the moder got dan


s: Gut naught it mot wast, to sent cafrin to mi lanmã & goeth out


s: +wyll.+ Is be gone, farewel hanykin bowse


s: +Wyll.+ I cun thee thanke, this is well deuysed


s: And I yll wil, wolde haue euery man dispised


s: He is called lust, discreete and indifference


s: Willing to fulfil his soueraines commaundement


s: +wytte.+ So am I to this maketh me very sadde


s: Yet oftentymes I haue bene harde bestadde


s: Now [that] I am warned of him I am very glad


s: Now Iesu saue Welth, Helth, and Lybertie.


s: Liberty and helth returneth back with welth


s: +Wealth+ Syrs you shall haue both gods blessing


s: +wytte.+ Forsoth mayster I am his vrother


s: To be your seruant, was my c[=u]ming hether


s: +Health+ To haue you both in seruyce I am content


s: How say you libertie wil you therto consent


s: +liberti.+ Yf we sholde refuse wyl and wyt


s: +Wyll.+ God thanke you maisters all three


s: ye shal finde vs pore but true we cannot be


s: +wealth+ Syrs go your way home vnto one place


s: And when we come we shall set you in case


s: +Health+ Then loke ye do both truely and iust


s: +wytte+ Maisters feare not for I haue wit inough


s: I haue vegyled many one I may say to you


s: +liberty.+ Beware of that, what doth he say?


s: He meneth chat he wil be profitable alw ay


s: +wytte.+ ¶ Now and it please ye, wyll ye here any synging


s: +liberty+ Syr I pray you sing and ye can


s: Therfore wyll and wit I wyll kepe styll.


s: ¶ Here commeth remedy in and to him saith


s: +Welth.+ Syr your maystership is hartely welcome


s: Take your place here aboue as it is reason.


s: +Health+ I pray you oardon vs, we know not what ye be


s: ye seme a man of honour, and of great auctority


s: +liberty+ Syr to know wherfore ye come we are desyrous


s: +Remdi+ I am he that ought for to be well knowen


s: Great payne and busines as for mine owne


s: For you I haue taken because I loue you hartely


s: To maintaine you is all my desyre and faculty


s: yet hard it is to doo, the people be so variable


s: And many be so wilfull, they will not be reformable.


s: +wealth+ Syr I pray you pardon vs of our ignoraunce now


s: I se well ye know vs better than we do you


s: +Remdi+ I pardon you, for I doo know you wel both


s: The which Gngland to forbere were very loth


s: For by welth and helth commeth great fames


s: Many other renlmes for our great welth shames


s: That they dare not presume, nor thy dare not be bold


s: To stryue againe England, or any right with holde.


s: +Health+ Sir ye be welcom, I besech you show vs your name


s: +remedi+ Good remedy forsouth I rm the same.


s: +liberti.+ yf I durst be so bolde I wolde pray you hartely


s: To shewe vs apart of your great aceoritie,


s: +R md+ My actoritie is geuen to me most speciall


s: To maintaine you three, in this realme to be


s: What mine intent is. I wyl tel, but not all


s: For that were to longe to reherse of a surety


s: And I desyre you all for to be louing to me


s: For your owne ease, come welth and profyt


s: +Wealth+ Good remedy, then we must desyre your aydyng


s: For by good remedy cometh all our prefercing.


s: +Remdi+ All that I doo intende, if ye wil therto agree


s: It is not the thynge that lieth only in me


s: But my good wyl, therfore I wyl not cease


s: To haue your loue and fauour, and therby to please


s: Al the worlde ouer, and to promote ehis realme


s: That you thre may prosper, ye percelue what I mene


s: The chiefe parte of all welth lyeth in great estates


s: Theyr substance and landes. is right commendable


s: Prelates of the churche is welthy of ryches


s: Mercha[=u]tes hath marcha[=u]dise & goods incõperable


s: M[=e] of law & franklins is welthy which is laudable


s: Thus welth of riches is deuided diuerse wayes


s: And to these many charges, come now a dayes


s: +Health+ My hert reioyseth to here your good reporting


s: Much are we bound to god, which prouideth althing


s: +Remdi+ Forsoth here is not halfe that I could reherse


s: The benefits of god that be sheweth to you welth


s: Consider Englyshmen, how valiant they be & ferce


s: Of al nacions none such, when they haue their helth


s: No land can do vs harme, but wyth falsehod or stelth


s: rem[=e]bre what nõbre of m[=e], or artilerie & good ordinãce


s: Specially [the] grace of god, which is our chief forderãce


s: If there be any that wyll grudge, surmyce or doo


s: Againe welth, helth & libertie, then must I for [the] same


s: Shew mine auctorite and power, for to remedy it so


s: That none of you shall diminishe, nor amisse be tane


s: I good remedy therfore may & will speake [with]out blãe


s: For the comen welth, & helth both of the soule & body


s: +wealth+ Our lorde continue ye, & we thanke you hartly


s: Both for your good instruction, and for your kindnes


s: That you intende so wel for vs good remedy


s: when we haue nede we will desyre your goodnes


s: +Health+ When we be infect in the soule or body


s: Then will I seke good remedy for succour


s: As yet I thanke god I haue no nede greatly


s: yf I haue then wyll I seke to haue your fauour


s: +liberty+ Syr now we wyl departe hence with your licence


s: For other divers busines that we must haue tohether


s: +Remdi+ Sirs I am content, now when ye wyll depart


s: To god I commyt you I wyll not make you tary


s: But yet I pray with all my minde and heart


s: Take hede in any wise exchewe yl & shrewd compani


s: yf a mã be neuer soo good & vse [with] th[=e] [that] be vnthrifti


s: therfore beware of such people, & from th[=e] be exempt


s: +Health+ yes yes I warrant you of sach I wyll beware.


s: Farewel good remedy & wel to fare.     & goth out


s: +Remdi+ I pray god be your spede & preserue you frõ paine


s: it is mi mind ye shold prosper I wold haue it so fain.


s: +Wyll.+ Here is none of our acquainta[=u]ce wil retourneth


s: +Remdi+ Nay good fellowe I dwel not heare


s: +Wytte.+ Hew lookest thou one him halfe a scorne


s: I p=omise you he is a scant gentylman borne


s: +Wyll.+ I wyll swere for hym, as tor this yeares twenty


s: yet sometyme he will steale and make a lye


s: +Wyll.+ What dost thou ayle canst thou tell?


s: +remedi+ you false theues I know ye well


s: yllwyll, and shrewd wit, the deuyll of hell


s: +wytte.+ Mary thou lyest, our names be not so


s: Call vs but wit, and wyll, adde no more thereto,


s: +Remdi+ Syrs farewell here I wil no longer abide


s: That all your falfe craft shalbe out tryed


s: And our subtillitie knowen and goeth out.


s: +wytte.+ To go so soone the horson was wyse


s: that each man may welth, helth and libertidespise


s: +Wytte+ Peace no mo wordes, for they come yonder


s: +wealth+ Syrs I am glade that you be heare


s: How doth all our houshold, with them what chere?


s: +wyll.+ ye syr they be all mery and glad


s: With reuell and rout somtime they be mad


s: +wytte.+ By the masse ihe horson doth lye


s: As his fast in your kechin, or seller truly.


s: I wolde there should be liberalitie compet[=e]t


s: +Wyll.+ you be angey with all that we haue done


s: I know a new maister wher we shalbe welcume


s: +wytte+ Nay nay, I can tel what was the matter


s: +Health+ With good remedy we spake in dede


s: +Wytte+ I meruayle ye speake so of good remedy


s: I know some that hath this thousand yere


s: Sought god remedy and yet neuer rhe nere


s: wit can put remedy by, yea this is cleare


s: +liberty+ Why what cause haue you to go your way


s: ye shall abyde wich vs though you say nay


s: +wytte.+ yf I wist al my masters wolde so do


s: +Health+ Syrs ye be welco me to me playne


s: +Wyll.+ Then let vs go hence, with kindnes my her ye do kyll


s: +Health+ I pray you let vs go, wherfore do we byde styll.


s: +Remdi+ As touching my first purpose hither I am com again


s: I trow ye know me, good remedy is my name


s: That euery day doth take great .abor or payne


s: To amende all faultes, I am chosen to the same


s: yf any mans conscience here doth grudge or shame


s: Hauing in him self remorse, & mendes in tyme & space


s: I am good remedy, and god is ful of mercy and grace


s: Therfore I wyl stand asyde, & a lyttel whyle remaine


s: Of welth, Helth and Lybertye, for to inquire


s: How they be ordred, and yf any man complayne


s: I wil be glad to shew me remedy, my think I se one a peare.


s: +Hance+ Begots drowse ic my selfe bin c[=u]pt heye scõ lansmã


s: Ic mot in ander land lopen, al is quade dan


s: +Remdi+ Thou fleming frõ wh[=e]ce comest [thou]


s: +Hance+ Ic my self cumt frõ sent Katryns dore


s: +Remdi+ Get [the] thether againe, & tary here no lõger


s: +Hance+ Syr ic mot mid ye spreken ic my self be en scomaker


s: +Remdi+ What and thou be therwith I haue nothin a doo.


s: +Hance+ Ic dest al forlore, copin is dod, ic maght aot do therto


s: +Remdi+ I pray thee go hence, for thou dost trouble me yll.


s: +Hance+ Nen ic seker, ic wyl not gon, ic wold fain liue hore stil


s: +Remdi+ There is to mainy allaunts in this reale, but now I


s: good remedy haue so provided that English men shall


s: +Hance+ What segt ye by gots drowse, dai is de quade man


s: Be de moro goi, ic my selfe loue de scone Englishman.


s: ye can [with] craft & subtel tiget englishm[=e]s welth away


s: +Hance+ O skon mester, ic heb hore bin, this darten yeore


s: ic canskote de coluerin, & ic can be dr beare broer,


s: trust see so prouide that welth from you haue I shall


s: +Hance+ Ic seg to you dat welth is lopen in an ander contry


s: wat hebegy dar brough, forstan ye net, segt me


s: +Remdi+ Ic vnderstand the wel, yet thou liest lyke a knaue


s: welth is here [=i] Englãd, & welth stil i trust we shal haue


s: +Hance+ Ic ment no quad ic loue de english man by min here


s: C[=u]p vp sent Katrin and ic shal ye geu[=e] twe stope bere,


s: +Remdi+ Get [the] hence drõk[=e] fleming


s: +Hance+ Mor it net mare herebin, woder sal ic gewest kiskin


s: Ic wil to de Kaizer gan, dar fall ic wal skinkin


s: +Remdi+ Is he gon? I pray god the deuyll go with him


s: wher is welth, helth & tiberty. I wold see th[=e] come in


s: Helth commeth in with a kercher on his head.


s: +Health+ ¶ O good lorde helpe me, by your licence my souerain


s: I am homely to com her in your pres[=e]ce thus diseased


s: Nede constraineth me, for remedy I wold haue faine


s: I am [=i]fect both body & soul, I prai you be not displesed


s: +Remdi+ Why what aile you shew me, yet you I do not know


s: Glad I am to remedy any man, that is affirmity


s: I perceiue by your phisnamy, [that] ye ar veri weke feble & low


s: yet show me your griefe, & I wil help you gladly.


s: +Health+ Gracio[us] remedi I thank you, yet I am half ashamed


s: to shew you mi maladi & mi name, I was called helth


s: Therfore I am wel worthi to be punished & blamed


s: Because I haue not folowed your co[=u]sel, but al thing


s: +Remdy+ Are you helth, this maketh me very pensife and sad


s: ye t be of good chere, & show how you were infect


s: To remedy you and succour you I wold be very glad


s: For god wyl punish the people when they be detelt


s: +Health+ Syr I thanke god therof for wel worthy I am


s: My conscience doth iudge, some trouble haue I must


s: Wil ãd wit hath deceiued me in them I put my trust.


s: +Remdi+ yf thou haue doone amisse, and be sory therfore


s: Then helfe a mendes is made, for that is contrission


s: Let that passe, now wil I axe you one thyng more


s: Wher be welth ãd Libertie, be they of good disposiciõ


s: +Health+ As for welth is fallen in decay, and neceslitie


s: By wast & war, thorow ytt wyll, and shrewdwit


s: And lybertie is kept in duraunce and captiuite


s: God helpe vs all, and sende vs good remedy for it


s: +Remdi+ For to heare this tale it maketh my hart heauie


s: yet be of good cõfort, god is ful of grace, & I am good


s: +Health+ ¶ Sir, th[=e] I besech you help vs in the way of charity


s: +Remdi+ I would fayne but I cannot tel which way to begin


s: Except I might catch wil & wit, then I trow I could


s: +Health+ You may soone catch them, if ye wil stande a syde


s: From this place they two, wyl not longe abide.


s: +Remdi+ Me thinketh I here them com, helpe to holde th[=e] fast


s: +wytte+ I must nedes laugh I cannot forbeare


s: To remember warre that knaue wil ye heare


s: The horson fleming was beshitten for feare


s: +Wyll.+ Herke now do I meruayle by this bread


s: I saw saw him go with a kercher on his head


s: +wytte+ Harke in thine Eare, yf tste horson hap


s: To complayne to him that weres the red cap


s: That he doth not wel, his good name to put out


s: +remedi.+ Frende therin thou art the more to blam


s: Co staunder me wrongfully, and vndesrrued


s: But or thou drpart thou shalt answere for the same,


s: wher is Welth & liberty, how hast thou th[=e] ordred?


s: +Wyll+ Qury cicis quest is vn malt ombre


s: +Health+ Thou folse chefe is thine English tonge gone


s: as mischeuo[us] il wil & shrewdwit, ye haue destroyd ma ni on


s: +Wytte.+ Sir hurt not me, & I wiltel you trouth anone


s: This same ia as false a knaue as euer cam [with]in saint Ioh[=e]s


s: +Remdy+ I can not tel what thou dost meae blabbler


s: But [thou] shalt speake English & confesse an other mater,


s: +Health+ Syr I besech your lordship, in the way of charity


s: Let not fhese thefes escape your hands they haue destroyed


s: +wytte:+ Syr, beleue hym not he speakes but of malice onely


s: we be true men, therof we shall fetch good witnes


s: An honest man that shalbe bound for him and me


s: The law sayth plaine, nulla fides contra testes


s: +Remdi+ that is trouth, but who wilbe witnes or bo[=u]d for the


s: +Wyll.+ There is three amonge you in this howse


s: +Wytte.+ They wil come vns[=e]d for I warant you if they wyst


s: +Remd+ what be theyr names, tel me what they be,


s: +Wyll.+ That on is Iohn Irische abd Iohn sholer


s: +Health+ Trust not their wordes they wyll dessemble styll


s: They are so false and crafty, all theyr intent is yll.


s: +Wyll.+ ye lye falsely I fpeake but right and reason


s: And by the law of armes ye must nedes be tane


s: you are called good remedy which at al feason


s: Sholde leaue to mans lyfe, and maintaine the same


s: we be here both your prisoners wrongfully accused bi defame


s: That other for frendes and wytnes goo shall.


s: +wytte,+ Syr let hym not goo and leue me behynde


s: He wyl euer be a false knaue, for I know his mynde


s: +Wyll.+ Holde thy tonge folish knaue I do not meane so


s: +Remdt+ I here now ye cannot agre, which of you should go


s: +Wyll.+ No by gods body there shall none go but I


s: +Wytte.+ Thou playest the knaue it must nedes be I


s: +Health+ Kepe them safe I pray you for yf they scap againe


s: Many men shal repent it, it shalbe to our payne


s: +Remdi+ They be here yet, to kepe them fast is myne intent,


s: Haue them away both to prison in continent.


s: +wyll.+ Lo false knaue this is for thy crafty wif.


s: Now fast by the heeles we are lake to syt.


s: +Wytte.+ I am content so that I may haue compeny


s: yf I shold behanged, I wold be hãged honest


s: +Remdi+ Go hence with them & bring welth & liberty.


s: +helth,+ Com away ye theues, now I shals kepe you surely,


s: +Wyll.+ Lock vs vp & kepe vs as fast as ye can


s: yet yll wyl and shrewdwit shalbe with many a man.


s: +Remdi+ I am halfe ashamed, that long it hath ben sayd


s: That noble men by such wretches hath ben deceiued


s: they did reioyce and iest, and were very well apaide


s: Trusting to scape cleare, and styl for to haue rained


s: But now they shall not so, let them be wel assured


s: That ylwyl and shrewde wyt shal haue but yl rest


s: For wheresoeuer they be I wyll breake theyr nest


s: +wealth+ In the honour of god we aske you forgeuenes althre


s: we ought to be ashamed to looke you in the face


s: By our foly & negligence, we haue done so vnwisely


s: we were fowle deceyued, we put vs to your grace


s: Thys shaibe a good warding for vs alonge space


s: whan man is wel punished then he wyl beware


s: who that knoweth what nede is, wel after drede care


s: +Remdi+ I may not blame you gretly for by mine owne reasõ


s: I know ylwyl and shrewdwit deceiueth great & smal


s: yf ye can remãbre thys. and beware a nother season


s: This is a good example and lerning to you all


s: Now serue god and loue him, & for grace euer call


s: And ylwyl and shrewdewyt, from you I shall abstaine


s: ye haue vsed them to longe to your domage and pain.


s: +health.+ Forsoth syr ye sai trouth, they did vs great displesur


s: Full hard it is to vanquishe the vngrocious ylwyl


s: He is so croked, by flattery, dissulation & such other


s: Mannes mynd is so variable, & glad to report yl


s: I feare many one yet wolde haue him raine styll


s: For some vnto their owne wyl hath so much affection


s: yet the devyl and yl wyl is both of one complexion


s: +liberty=+ yll wyll is nought, but worse is shrewdwyt


s: For he contryueth al subtil ymanginacien


s: yt were vnpossyble for a man els to doo it


s: shrewdwyt breweth myscef, & false conspyracion


s: He hath put me lyberty in prison, ãd great tribulacion


s: if it had not bene for your good remedi & forbera[=u]ce


s: I & other [that] hath libertie, shold haue b[=e] in duraunce.


s: +Remdi+ Be al of good chere, and haue no mistrust


s: The ende of yl wyl and shrewd wyt is but shame


s: Though they reygne a while, wrongfully and uniust


s: yet truth wyll appeare and their misdedes blame


s: Then wronge is subdued, and good remedy tane


s: Though falsehod cloke, and hide his matters all


s: Craft wyll out and disceite wyll haue a fall


s: Whereas ye are now, in distresse all three


s: Neare were ye brought in case lyke to marre


s: Now haue ye no doubt, yf ye wyll be ruled after me


s: I shal rcstore ye agayne as well as euer ye were


s: Welth kepe styll this realme, looke ye stray not farre


s: And Helth be of good chere, your disease I can soone m[=e]de


s: Liberty now ye be released do no more offend,


s: +wealth+ Now let vs al thãke god [that] good remedy hath sende


s: Trust to hym only for his grace and goodnes


s: we are forgiuenes of our trespas I trust we wil am[=e]d


s: And cleane forsake syn, foly, and unthriftines


s: th[us] we wil here cõclude, soueraine of your graciousnes


s: we besech you to remyt our negligence, & misbehauor


s: There we haue sayd amis, we cõmit al to your fauor


s: +Health+ And for your preseruacion hartely we wyl pray


s: your realme to increase, with ioy and tranquility


s: That welth, helth & liberty, may continue here alway


s: By the ouersight and aide of him that is good remdy


s: which willingly doth his deuer, vnder your actoritye


s: As parte here apereth your purpose to maintaine


s: God rontinue his goodnes, that longe he may riagne


s: Iesu continue her helth long for to endure


s: Iesu maintaine the lords of [the] co[=u]sel


s: Iesu spede and helpe al them gods honour to further


s: Iesu increase the comunaltie to prosper and doo wel.


s: The absurd ABC originally published 1874.


s: valuable contribution to literary scholarship.


s: The writer has endeavored first of all to define carefully the


s: never-failing assistance my graduate studies were carried on.


s: James Sully, in his elaborate treatise on Pessimism, divides it,


s: männlichen und weiblichen Geschlechts, welche am meisten zur


s: If we attempt a classification of Weltschmerz with regard to its


s: Der Tag und Nacht in meinem Busen wechselt.


s: Wenn ich nicht sinnen oder dichten soll,


s: says Goethe's Tasso. If this impulse of genius is embodied in a


s: Weltschmerz is essentially a symptom of a period of conflict, of


s: Frederician absolutism, the conflict between the dynastic and the


s: emphasizes the influence of English literature. Young's "Night


s: unreasoned inclination to the new order of things.


s: Oft sollt' ich stracks in meine Schule wandern,


s: Und baute Flotten, schifft' ins hohe Meer.


s: Dies kostete mich tausend kleine Leiden,


s: Einst schlugst du mir so ruhig, empörtes Herz!


s: Einst in des Vaters Schoosse, des liebenden


s: Schnellte den Pfeil, und es sank die Stütze.


s: bereavement. We cannot wonder then at finding these impressions


s: reflected in his most juvenile poetic attempts. His poem "Das


s: menschliche Leben," written at the age of fifteen, begins:


s: There is a world of pathos in this helpless cry of pain, with its


s: Weg von meinem lustigen Geschwisterpaar.


s: Wie im Tempel war mir's in der Nächte Hülle,


s: Wann so einsam von dem Turm die Glocke scholl.


s: Unter Fremden irrte, we ich nimmer weinen


s: Wann er sich im Weltgewirre müd gerungen,


s: In der lieben, wehmutsvollen Einsamkeit.


s: Hölderlin's Weltschmerz, inasmuch as it was just this unequal and


s: And just as his ideals are vague and abstract, so too are the


s: Entirely consistent with this idealism is the nature of his love,


s: Lass sie drohen, die Stürme, die Leiden,


s: Denn mein bist du! Und über das Grab hinaus


s: Soll sie dauren, die unzertrennbare Liebe.


s: Dann Freundin--lohnet auch Freundschaft--


s: The second bearing which his relations to Louise have upon his


s: sentiment which pervades almost all his writings:


s: Tot ist nun, die mich erzog und stillte,


s: Diese Brust, die einst ein Himmel füllte,


s: Noch, wie einst, ein freundlich tröstend Lied,


s: Scherer calls attention to Gervinus' remark that new intellectual


s: "Iphigenie." Hölderlin does not bring the blessed Genii into any


s: Es glimmt in uns ein Funke der Göttlichen!


s: Und diesen Funken soll aus der Männerbrust


s: Hölderlin grew up into young manhood. But deeper than in the mere


s: Da sah er (der Schwärmer) all die Schande


s: Und fluchte den verdorbenen Affen des Auslands,


s: Verweilen müsse unter diesem Geschlecht.


s: Spottet ja nicht des Kinds, wenn es mit Peitsch' und Sporn


s: Auf dem Rosse von Holz, mutig und gross sich dünkt.


s: eingeschränktem Geiste." Their work he characterizes as


s: Deutsches Blut und deutsche Liebe glüht,


s: Dann, O Himmelstochter! sing ich wieder,


s: What a remarkable change is noticeable in the tone which the poet


s: Allduldend gleich der schweigenden Muttererd'


s: Du Land der Liebe! bin ich der Deine schon,


s: feelings, his sojourn in strange places and the attendant


s: Wie lange ist's, O wie lange! des Kindes Ruh'


s: Ist hin, und hin ist Jugend, und Lieb' und Glück,


s: subsequently wrote so many of his poems.


s: In der Stille der Nacht denket an euch mein Lied,


s: Wo mein ewiger Gram jeglichen Stundenschlag,


s: Und wo sind Dichter, denen der Gott es gab,


s: Wie unsern Alten, freundlich und fromm zu sein,


s: Lack of self-restraint, so often characteristic of the poet of


s: judgment of Hyperion is correct when she says: "O es ist so ganz


s: striking a resemblance, however, to Lenau's characteristic


s: Wo bist du? wenig lebt' ich, doch atmet kalt


s: Mein Abend schon. Und stille, den Schatten gleich,


s: Schlummert das schau'rende Herz im Busen.


s: If Hölderlin's Weltschmerz has been fittingly characterized as


s: Lenau's aimlessness and instability were so extreme that they may


s: predilection. He did himself no small credit in his medical


s: 's ist eitel nichts, wohin mein Aug' ich hefte!


s: Ein wüstes Jagen ist's von dem zum andern,


s: Doch trägt uns eine Macht von Stund zu Stund,


s: Wie's Krüglein, das am Brunnenstein zersprang,


s: Und dessen Inhalt sickert auf den Grund,


s: So weit es ging, den ganzen Weg entlang,--


s: Nun ist es leer. Wer mag daraus noch trinken?


s: Und zu den andern Scherben muss es sinken.


s: Much more frequent than in the case of the latter are the ominous


s: beherbergen." He is continually engaged in a gruesome


s: Spargelstangen zu verschlingen." The letter concludes with the


s: signature: "Ich umarme Dich, bis Dir die Rippen krachen. Dein


s: Niembsch." Not infrequently this humor was at his own expense,


s: geschürzt. Ich wollte, ich wäre schon tot!" Not only was this


s: apologize. If with Hölderlin love was to a predominating degree a


s: fact might be found in his lyrics, all of which would repeat with


s: Umsonst zu sterben, lieb' ich nicht; doch


s: Für's Vaterland, zu bluten des Herzens Blut,


s: cited, together with the inevitable impressions gathered from the


s: hand that his opposition to the prevailing taste was after all a


s: restlessness which drove him from place to place, his patriotic


s: enthusiasm would naturally have turned to Austria, and the poetic


s: geistfressenden Tiere dar, eine abscheuliche, monströse Klasse!"


s: There is something of a counterpart to Hölderlin's Hellenism and


s: Die Träume, ungelehr'ge Bestien, schleichen


s: Noch immer nach des Wahns verscharrten Leichen.


s: But just as helpless as this defiant pride proved before his


s: Bestrebungen." "Die (Recensenten) wissen den Teufel von


s: Another characteristic difference between Lenau's Weltschmerz and


s: Die du das Haus der Trauernden nicht verschmähst.


s: illustrated by a few quotations from poems and letters, arranged


s: Der Herbst durchweht mich trennungsschaurig,


s: mehr zu thun, und ich wünschte dann, Gervinus möchte


s: recht haben, indem er, wie Georg mir erzählte, mir einen


s: baldigen Zusammenbruch und Tod prophezeite.


s: Vergänglichkeit! wie rauschen deine Wellen


s: Durch's weite Labyrinth des Lebens fort!


s: consolation in nature as in a mother's embrace. So that while for


s: dissolution and decay. So in "Herbstlied":


s: Der dunkle Wald umrauscht den Wiesengrund,


s: Gar düster liegt der graue Berg dahinter,


s: Das dürre Laub, der Windhauch gibt es kund,


s: Geschritten kommt allmählig schon der Winter.


s: Die Sonne ging, umhüllt von Wolken dicht,


s: Unfreundlich, ohne Scheideblick von hinnen,


s: the dew of love; Lenau, on the other hand, characterizes rain as


s: the tears of heaven, for him the woods are glad, the brooklet


s: weeps, the air is idle, the buds and blossoms listen, the


s: forest in its autumn foliage is "herbstlich gerötet, so wie ein


s: characteristic for Lenau in its morbidness is the following:


s: Wie auf dem Lager sich der Seelenkranke,


s: Wirft sich der Strauch im Winde hin und her.


s: Hölderlin speaks of a friend's bereavement as "ein schwarzer


s: Sturm"; when he had grieved Diotima he compares himself to the


s: Die düstre Wolke dort, so bang, so schwer.


s: Der Mond zieht traurig durch die Sphären,


s: Tot ist nun, die mich erzog und stillte,


s: Diese Brust, die einst ein Himmel füllte,


s: If we compare the simile in the last line with the corresponding


s: metaphor used by Lenau in the following stanza,--


s: Hölderlin by his relations with Diotima; and finally the marked


s: difference in the attitude of these two poets toward nature.


s: finds an instance of it in Julian Schmidt's "Geschichte der


s: Romantik," 1847. He seems to have entirely overlooked Heine's use


s: In Lenau's case we noted circumstances which point to a direct


s: zersprengte mein.... Wir wollen von andern Dingen sprechen...."


s: mitgeteilt haben." And to Merkel (1827): "Ach! ich bin heute sehr


s: Their inspiration is to be found almost exclusively in Heine's


s: Perlen." Let us see how Lenau treats the same theme:


s: entirely changed his views of life and of nature, or has at least


s: "Ach! wenn ich nicht zu vernünftig wär',


s: wollte, er schösse mich tot," "Doktor, sind Sie des Teufels;"


s: "Madame, ich liebe Sie!" and many other glaring instances of the


s: "Sturzbad," in order to show how the poet himself deliberately


s: In not a few of his lyrics Heine gives us a truly Lenauesque


s: nature-setting, as for instance in "Der scheidende Sommer:"


s: does not succeed,--with the few exceptions just referred to,--in


s: Sometimes this effect is produced by a distinct though unintended


s: Lenau's lyrics have shown that much Weltschmerz may grow out of


s: And again, the poem "Lumpentum" presents an ironical eulogy of


s: Die Glieder sind mir rheumatisch gelähmt,


s: Und grausam von den Wanzen gebissen, etc.


s: reciprocated though unsatisfied, we could not easily imagine the


s: Und krank, und kranker noch als krank, denn ach,


s: Die allerschlimmste Krankheit ist das Leben;


s: Liebesseufzern 'Rindfleisch Banko!' sinkt sie an die Brust des


s: unmöglich--" "Hamburg!!! mein Elysium und Tartarus zu gleicher


s: Zeit! Ort, den ich detestiere und am meisten liebe, wo mich die


s: abscheulichsten Gefühle martern und we ich mich dennoch


s: Unterkommen, fand aber nichts als Feinde, Verklatschung und


s: pleading he replies (1833): "Aber ich will, wenn Du es durchaus