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Genesis

117

To Walt Whitman in America

120

Christmas Antiphones

126

A New Year’s Message

137

Mater Dolorosa

140

Mater Triumphalis

144

A Marching Song

151

Siena

160

Cor Cordium

171

In San Lorenzo

172

Tiresias

173

The Song of the Standard

187

On the Downs

191

Messidor

197

Ode on the Insurrection in Candia

200

“Non Dolet”

209

Eurydice

210

An Appeal

211

Perinde ac Cadaver

215

Monotones

219

The Oblation

221

A Year’s Burden

222

Epilogue

226

Notes

237

PRELUDE

Between the green bud and the red
Youth sat and sang by Time, and shed
   From eyes and tresses flowers and tears,
   From heart and spirit hopes and fears,
Upon the hollow stream whose bed
   Is channelled by the foamless years;
And with the white the gold-haired head
   Mixed running locks, and in Time’s ears
Youth’s dreams hung singing, and Time’s truth
Was half not harsh in the ears of Youth.

Between the bud and the blown flower
Youth talked with joy and grief an hour,
   With footless joy and wingless grief
   And twin-born faith and disbelief
Who share the seasons to devour;