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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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