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POEMS
SECOND SERIES
By J. C. Squire
London:
William Heinemann Limited
1922
TO
EDWARD SHANKS
PREFACE
Three years ago I published a volume called Poems: First Series, which contained a collection of what I had written between 1905 and March, 1918.
The present collection contains all that I have written since then. The Birds and nine shorter poems were published in a small booklet in 1919; The Moon was separately published in 1920; but the majority of the poems here printed appear in book form for the first time, and twelve have never previously been published.
The poems are as nearly as possible in chronological order, except that the group called An Epilogue should have been dated 1917.
J. C. S.
September, 1921.
CONTENTS
Dedication Preface
1918 The Birds A Dog's Death A Poet to his Muse Processes of Thought. I II III Airship over Suburb The Invocation of Lucretius An Epilogue:
I The Fluke II The Conversation III The Deaf Adder IV The Landscape V Another Hour An Impression Received from a Symphony Fen Landscape Meditation in Lamplight Harlequin
1919 Winter Nightfall A Far Place Late Snow Song: You are My Sky Song: The Heaven is Full Old Song Epitaph in Old Mode The Moon The Happy Night
1920 Constantinople Elegy Wars and Rumours, 1920
1921 To a Musician The Rugger Match
THE BIRDS
(To Edmund Gosse)
Within mankind's duration, so they say,
Khephren and Ninus lived but yesterday.
Asia had no name till man was old
And long had learned the use of iron and gold;
And æons had passed, when the first corn was planted,
Since first the use of syllables was granted.
Men were on earth while climates slowly swung,
Fanning wide zones to heat and cold, and long
Subsidence turned great continents to sea,
And seas dried up, dried up interminably,
Age after age; enormous seas were dried
Amid wastes of land. And the last monsters died.
Earth wore another face. O since that prime
Man with how many works has sprinkled time!
Hammering,