Southern garland . ssed and matted fire and arid flames—These and these only faced the flame-lit faces. If one had said, They have a heart like thine,An eye for beauty and an ear for laughter; The stars are made for them, the sun for them ;The obvious here, the dimly-guessed hereafter : What should another do but doubt the truthOf words that ran so counter to his seeing. That humanised the gorging giants slavesAnd made each toil-worn form a fellow being ? And yet the multitude who slave and sweat, Who know^ no lighting hope, whom w^ant debases, Whose bodies urge the engines of the fi
Southern garland . ssed and matted fire and arid flames—These and these only faced the flame-lit faces. If one had said, They have a heart like thine,An eye for beauty and an ear for laughter; The stars are made for them, the sun for them ;The obvious here, the dimly-guessed hereafter : What should another do but doubt the truthOf words that ran so counter to his seeing. That humanised the gorging giants slavesAnd made each toil-worn form a fellow being ? And yet the multitude who slave and sweat, Who know^ no lighting hope, whom w^ant debases, Whose bodies urge the engines of the fiercely branded like these flame-lit faces. The cool white deck is not for them—the sun, the moon, the music on the ocean : The reaching engines claim their ears and eyes;Their souls and bodies give the World-ship motion. It may be doom forefronts her as she Wrath or Ruin like a storm-wind chases; It may be ... in the meantime Death is takes the fire-sting from their flame-lit THE CURRENCY LASS. tbC Girding HEY marshalled her lovers four and four, fiCarthS. A drum at their heads, in the days of old:O, none could have guessed their heartswere sore ;They marched with such gayness inscarlet and gold. They came to the dance place on the hill Where Death was the piper (he pipes full well) ;They grounded their arms and stood stock-still; And just why he sorrowed no one would tell. O, some had been wed in distant lands, And sweethearts had others—but let that pass;She held them at ease in snow-white hands, For Queen over all was the Currency Lass. They ushered her forth in all her charms— Her eyes were alight and as gold her hair ;She looked on the men and oped her arms— What wonder if then they had wished them there ? She hearkened the Preacher, thin and pale; His voice was as frost, yet his words were wise;But sin on the soul is like wrought mail. And only a scorn of him fired her eyes. O, sorrow and pray, the hour draws nigh. The Lord i
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