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Upon the grass or gravel��
Be sure of this�察�the saddle will
With Billy Vickers travel。
At punching oxen you may guess
There's nothing out can ``camp'' him��
He has�察�in fact�察�the slouch and dress
Which bullock´driver stamp him。
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I do not mean to give offence��
But I have vainly striven
To ferret out the difference
'Twixt driver and the driven。
Of course�察�the statements herein made
In every other stanza
Are Billy's own�察�and I'm afraid
They're stark extravaganza。
I feel constrained to treat as trash
His noisy fiddle´faddle
About his doings with the lash��
His feats upon the saddle。
But grant he ``knows his way about''��
Or grant that he is silly��
There cannot be the slightest doubt
Of Billy's faith in Billy。
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Of all the doings of the day
His ignorance is utter��
But he can quote the price of hay��
The current rate of butter。
His notions of our leading men
Are mixed and misty very��
He knows a Cochin´China hen ´
He never speaks of Berry。
As you'll assume�察�he hasn't heard
Of Madame Patti's singing��
But I will stake my solemn word
He knows what maize is bringing。
Surrounded by majestic peaks��
By lordly mountain ranges��
Where highest voice of thunder speaks
His aspect never changes。
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The grand Pacific there beyond
His dirty hut is glowing��
He only sees a big salt pond��
O'er which his grain is going。
The sea that covers half the sphere��
With all its stately speeches��
Is held by Bill to be a mere
Broad highway for his peaches。
Through Nature's splendid temples he
Plods�察�under mountains hoary��
But he has not the eyes to see
Their grandeur and their glory。
A bullock in a biped's boot��
I iterate�察�is Billy��
He crushes with a careless foot
The touching water´lily。
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I've said enough ´ I'll let him go��
If he could read these verses��
He'd pepper me for hours�察�I know��
With his peculiar curses。
But this is sure�察�he'll never change
His manners loud and flashy��
Nor learn with neatness to arrange
His clothing�察�cheap and trashy。
Like other louts�察�he'll jog along��
And swig at shanty liquors��
And chew and spit。 Here ends the song
Of Mr。 Billy Vickers。
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PERSIA
I AM writing this song at the close
Of a beautiful day of the spring
In a dell where the daffodil grows
By a grove of the glimmering wing��
From glades where a musical word
Comes ever from luminous fall��
I send you the song of a bird
That I wish to be dear to you all。
I have given my darling the name
Of a land at the gates of the day��
Where morning is always the same��
And spring never passes away。
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With a prayer for a lifetime of light��
I christened her Persia�察�you see��
And I hope that some fathers to´night
Will kneel in the spirit with me。
She is only commencing to look
At the beauty in which she is set��
And forest and flower and brook��
To her are all mysteries yet。
I know that to many my words
Will seem insignificant things��
But you who are mothers of birds
Will feel for the father who sings。
For all of you doubtless have been
Where sorrows are many and wild��
And you know what a beautiful scene
Of this world can be made by a child��
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I am sure�察�if they listen to this��
Sweet women will quiver�察�and long
To tenderly stoop to and kiss
The Persia I've put in a song。
And I'm certain the critic will pause��
And excuse�察�for the sake of my bird��
My sins against critical laws ´
The slips in the thought and the word。
And haply some dear little face
Of his own to his mind will occur ´
Some Persia who brightens his place ´
And I'll be forgiven for her。
A life that is turning to grey
Has hardly been happy�察�you see��
But the rose that has dropped on my way
Is morning and music to me。
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Yea�察�she that I hold by the hand
Is changing white winter to green��
And making a light of the land ´
All fathers will know what I mean��
All women and men who have known
The sickness of sorrow and sin��
Will feel ´ having babes of their own ´
My verse and the pathos therein。
For that must be touching which shows
How a life has been led from the wild
To a garden of glitter and rose��
By the flower´like hand of a child。
She is strange to this wonderful sphere��
One summer and winter have set
Since God left her radiance here ´
Her sweet second year is not yet。
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The world is so lovely and new
To eyes full of eloquent light��
And�察�sisters�察�I'm hoping that you
Will pray for my Persia to´night。
For I�察�who have suffered so much��
And know what the bitterness is��
Am sad to think sorrow must touch
Some day even darlings like this��
But sorrow is part of this life��
And�察�therefore�察�a father doth long
For the blessing of mother and wife
On the bird he has put in a song。
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LILITH
Strange is the song�察�and the soul that is singing
Falters because of the vision it sees��
Voice that is not of the living is ringing
Down in the depths where the darkness is clinging��
Even when Noon is the lord of the leas��
Fast�察�like a curse�察�to the ghosts of the trees��
Here in a mist that is parted in sunder��
Half with the darkness and half with the day��
Face of a woman�察�but face of a wonder��
Vivid and wild as a flame of the thunder��
Flashes and fades�察�and the wail of the grey
Water is loud on the straits of the bay��
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Father�察�whose years have been many and weary ´
Elder�察�whose life is as lovely as light
Shining in ways that are sterile and dreary ´
Tell me the name of this beautiful peri��
Flashing on me like the wonderful white
Star�察�at the meeting of morning and night。
``Look to thy Saviour�察�and down on thy knee�察�man��
Lean on the Lord�察�as the Zebedee leaned��
Daughter of hell is the neighbour of thee�察�man ´
Lilith�察�of Adam the luminous leman��
Turn to the Christ to be succoured and screened��
Saved from the eyes of a marvellous fiend��
``Serpent she is in the shape of a woman��
Brighter than woman�察�ineffably fair��
Shelter thyself from the splendour�察�and sue�察�man��
Light that was never a loveliness human
Lives in the face of this sinister snare��
Longing to strangle thy soul with her hair��
``Lilith�察�who came to the father and bound him
Fast with her eyes in the first of the springs��
Lilith she is�察�but remember she drowned him��
Shedding her flood of gold tresses around him ´
Lulled him to sleep with the lyric she sings��
Melody strange with unspeakable things��
``Low is her voice�察�but beware of it ever��
Swift bitter death is the fruit of delay��
Never was song of its beauty ´ ah� �never ´
Heard on the mountain�察�or meadow�察�or river��
Not of the night is it�察�not of the day ´
Fly from it�察�stranger�察�away and away。''
Back on the hills are the blossom and feather��
Glory of noon is on valley and spire��
Here is the grace of magnificent weather��
Where is the woman from gulfs of the nether��
Where is the fiend with the face of desire��
Gone�察�with a cry�察�in miraculous fire��
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Sound that was not of this world�察�or the spacious
Splendid blue heaven�察�has passed from the lea��
Dead is the voice of the devil audacious��
Only a dream is her music fallacious��
Here�察�in the song and the shadow of tree��
Down by the green and the gold of the sea。
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BOB
SINGER of songs of the hills ´
Dreamer�察�by waters unstirred��
Back in a valley of rills��
Home of the leaf and the bird� �
Read in this fall of the year
Just the compassionate phrase��
Faded with traces of tear��
Written in far´away days��
``Gone is the light of my lap
��Lord�察�at Thy bidding I bow����
Here is my little one's cap��
He has no need of it now��
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Give it to somebody's boy ´
Somebody's darling'' ´ she wrote。
Touching was Bob in his joy ´
Bob without boots or a coat。
Only a cap�察�but it gave
Capless and comfortless one
Happiness�察�bright as the brave��
Beautiful light of the sun。
Soft may the sanctified sod
Rest on the father who led
Bob from the gutter�察�unshod ´
Covered his cold little head��
Bob from the foot to the crown
Measured a yard�察�and no more ´
Baby alone in the town��
Homeless�察�and hungry�察�and sore ´
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Child that was never a child��
Hiding away from the rain��
Draggled and dirty and wild��
Down in a pipe of the drain。
Poor little beggar was Bob ´
Couldn't afford to be sick��
Getting a penny a job��
Sometimes a curse and a kick。
Father was killed by the drink��
Mother was driven to shame��
Bob couldn't manage to think ´
He had forgotten their name。
God was in heaven above��
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