. Rabbi Ben Ezra and other poems . What though the earlier grooves Which ran the laughing lovesAround thy base, no longer pause and press ? What though, about thy rim, Scull-thtngs In order grimGrow out. In graver mood, obey the sterner stress P Look not thou down but up ! To uses of a festal board, lamps flash aud trumpets peal. The new minis foaming flow. The Masters lips a-glow IThou, heaven s consummate cup, what needst thou with earth*s wheel ? Page James Lees PFife James Lees JVife JAMES LEES WIFE SPEAKS AT THE WINDOW I Ah, Love but a day And the world has changed ! The suns
. Rabbi Ben Ezra and other poems . What though the earlier grooves Which ran the laughing lovesAround thy base, no longer pause and press ? What though, about thy rim, Scull-thtngs In order grimGrow out. In graver mood, obey the sterner stress P Look not thou down but up ! To uses of a festal board, lamps flash aud trumpets peal. The new minis foaming flow. The Masters lips a-glow IThou, heaven s consummate cup, what needst thou with earth*s wheel ? Page James Lees PFife James Lees JVife JAMES LEES WIFE SPEAKS AT THE WINDOW I Ah, Love but a day And the world has changed ! The suns away, And the bird estranged ; The wind has dropped,And the skys deranged : Summer has stopped. II Look in my eyes ! Wilt thou change too ?Should I fear surprise ? Shall I find aught newIn the old and dear. In the good and true,With the changing year ?D 29 James Lees Wife III Thou art a man,But I am thy love. For the lake, its swan ;For the dell, its dove ; And for thee—(oh, haste !)Me, to bend above. Me, to hold embraced. 30 James Lees Wife II BY THE FIRESIDE Is all our fire of shipwreck wood, Oak and pine ?Oh, for the ills half-understood, The dim dead woe Long agoBefallen this bitter coast of France !Well, poor sailors took their chance ; I take mine. II A ruddy shaft our fire must shoot Oer the sea ;Do sailors eye the casement—mute, Drenched and stark. From their bark—And envy, gnash their teeth for hateO the warm safe house and happy freight —Th
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