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  Saturday Night





Saturday night in the crowded town;

Pleasure and pain going up and down;

Murmuring low on the ear there beat

Echoes unceasing of voice and feet。

Withered age; with its load of care;

Come in this tumult of life to share;

Childhood glad in its radiance brief;

Happiest…hearted or bowed with grief;

Meet alike; as the stars look down

Week by week on the crowded town。



~And in a kingdom of mystery;

Rapt from this weariful world to see

Magic sights in the yellow glare;

Breathing delight in the gas…lit air;

Careless of sorrow; of grief or pain;

Two by two; again and again;

Strephon and Chloe together move;

Walking in Arcady; land of love。~



What are the meanings that burden all

These murmuring voices that rise and fall?

Tragedies whispered of; secrets told;

Over the baskets of bought and sold;

Joyous speech of the lately wed;

Broken lamentings that name the dead:

Endless runes of the gossip's rede;

And gathered home with the weekly need;

Kindly greetings as neighbours meet

There in the stir of the busy street。



Then is the glare of the gaslight ray

Gifted with potency strange to…day;

Records of time…written history

Flash into sight as each face goes by。

There; as the hundreds slow moving go;

Each with his burden of joy or woe;

Souls; in the meeting of stranger's eyes;

Startled this kinship to recognise; 

Meet and part; as the stars look down;

Week by week on the crowded town。



~And still; in the midst of the busy hum;

Rapt in their dream of delight they come。

Heedless of sorrow; of grief or care;

Wandering on in enchanted air;

Far from the haunting shadow of pain:

Two by two; again and again;

Strephon and Chloe together move;

Walking in Arcady; land of love。~







  ‘Resurgam'



      (Autumn Song)





   Chill breezes moaning are

    Where leaves hang yellow:

   O'er the grey hills afar

    Flies the last swallow;

To come again; my love; to come again

    Blithe with the summer。

But Ah! the long months ere we welcome then

    That bright new comer。



   Cold lie the flowers and dead

    Where leaves are falling。

   Meekly they bowed and sped

    At Autumn's calling。

To come again; my love; to come again

    Blithe with the swallow。

Ah! might I dreaming lie at rest till then;

    Or rise and follow!



   The summer blooms are gone;

    And bright birds darting;

   Cold lies the earth forlorn;

    And we are parting。

To meet again; my love; to meet again

    In deathless greeting;

But ah! what wintry bitterness of pain

    Ere that far meeting!







  Distant Authors



      〃Aqui esta encerrada el alma licenciado Pedro Garcias。〃





Dear books! and each the living soul;

 Our hearts aver; of men unseen;

Whose power to strengthen; charm; control;

 Surmounts all earth's green miles between。



For us at least the artists show

 Apart from fret of work…day jars:

We know them but as friends may know;

 Or they are known beyond the stars。



Their mirth; their grief; their soul's desire;

 When twilight murmuring of streams;

Or skies far touched by sunset fire;

 Exalt them to pure worlds of dreams;



Their love of good; their rage at wrong;

 Their hours when struggling thought makes way;

Their hours when fancy drifts to song

 Lightly and glad as bird…trills may;



All these are truths。  And if as true

 More graceless scrutiny that reads;

〃These fruits amid strange husking grew;〃

 〃These lilies blossomed amongst weeds;〃



Here no despoiling doubts shall blow;

 No fret of feud; of work…day jars。

We know them but as friends may know;

 Or they are known beyond the stars。









John Bernard O'Hara。







  Happy Creek





The little creek goes winding

 Thro' gums of white and blue;

    A silver arm

    Around the farm

 It flings; a lover true;

And softly; where the rushes lean;

 It sings (O sweet and low)

    A lover's song;

    And winds along;

 How happy  lovers know!



The little creek goes singing

 By maidenhair and moss;

    Along its banks

    In rosy ranks

 The wild flowers wave and toss;

And ever where the ferns dip down

 It sings (O sweet and low)

    A lover's song;

    And winds along;

 How happy  lovers know!



The little creek takes colour;

 From summer skies above;

    Now blue; now gold;

    Its waters fold

 The clouds in closest love;

But loudly when the thunders roll

 It sings (nor sweet; nor low)

    No lover's song;

    But sweeps along;

 How angry  lovers know!



The little creek for ever

 Goes winding; winding down;

    Away; away;

    By night; by day;

 Where dark the ranges frown;

But ever as it glides it sings;

 It sings (O sweet and low)

    A lover's song;

    And winds along;

 How happy  lovers know!







  A Country Village





Among the folding hills

 It lies; a quiet nook;

Where dreaming nature fills

 Sweet pages of her book;

While through the meadow flowers

She sings in summer hours;

Or weds the woodland rills

 Low…laughing to the brook。



The graveyard whitely gleams

 Across the soundless vale;

So sad; so sweet; yet seems

 A watcher cold and pale

That waits through many springs

The tribute old Time brings;

And knows; though life be loud;

 The reaper may not fail。



Here come not feet of change

 From year to fading year;

Ringed by the rolling range

 No world…wide notes men hear。

The wheels of time may stand

Here in a lonely land;

Age after age may pass

 Untouched of change or cheer;



As still the farmer keeps

 The same dull round of things;

He reaps and sows and reaps;

 And clings; as ivy clings;

To old…time trust; nor cares

What science does or dares;

What lever moves the world;

 What progress spreads its wings。



Yet here; of woman born;

 Are lives that know not rest;

With fierce desires that scorn

 The quiet life as best;

That see in wider ways

Life's richer splendours blaze;

And feel ambition's fire

 Burn in their ardent breast。



Yea; some that fain would know

 Life's purpose strange and vast;

How wide is human woe;

 What wailing of the past

Still strikes the present dumb;

What phantoms go and come

Of wrongs that cry aloud;

 〃At last; O God! at last!〃



Here; too; are dreams that wing

 Rich regions of Romance;

Love waking when the Spring

 Begins its first wild dance;

Love redder than the rose;

Love paler than the snows;

Love frail as corn that tilts

 With morning winds a lance。



For never land so lone

 That love could find not wings

In every wind that's blown

 By lips of jewelled springs;

For love is life's sweet pain;

And when sweet life is slain

It finds a radiant rest

 Beyond the change of things。



Beyond the shocks that jar;

 The chance of changing fate;

Where fraud and violence are;

 And heedless lust and hate;

Yet still where faith is clear;

And honour held most dear;

And hope that seeks the dawn

 Looks up with heart elate。







  Flinders





He left his island home

For leagues of sleepless foam;

 For stress of alien seas;

  Where wild winds ever blow;

For England's sake he sought

Fresh fields of fame; and fought

 A stormy world for these

  A hundred years ago。



And where the Austral shore

Heard southward far the roar

 Of rising tides that came

  From lands of ice and snow;

Beneath a gracious sky

To fadeless memory

 He left a deathless name

  A hundred years ago。



Yea; left a name sublime

From that wild dawn of Time;

 Whose light he haply saw

  In supreme sunrise flow;

And from the shadows vast;

That filled the dim dead past;

 A brighter glory draw;

  A hundred years ago。



Perchance; he saw in dreams

Beside our sunlit streams

 In some majestic

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