BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 312, 26 September 1908, Page 14

BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

VERSES .OLD, AND NEW, A JAPAN. Around th&.oyenlhanging eaves: 11 Of village; T00&, .q» April dajfc The bloom of pbach and cherry .weaves A mist of a coral haze. Ton hear along. rflHe narrow street. . The spl&sht pg signing \vatpr-jnilJs ( . The clink of w6oifes}" sa ?' Called feet, ~ The rush of overfl owing rills. Above the street the'»sunlight fades To dusk,, wh t ere, spijctral silence, broods In avenues and; dim, a "cades' " . And l Btairtyaya'; of , ulotifal woods., . And; up the paths 'a 'pil/grim throng ' Moves silently in flies, ' ,While tremors of:a ghoso'y gong Go, echoing-, down : the fa,rest aisles: ■ , . : B? mystio':lamp," and" sacral fount, -■■ ■ • And' demons. grasping. rods, A thousand' granite-steps, moiuit. .Rio Bljrine; of "their vermilion': gods.-; -t-S. E. Lysaght, i -''Jjfpcctator." EONSAED; " No myrtles here; only the want on I vine ;' ... Writhes in tha amu jet; 'neavVh tyis burnt-up grass ; ■ . -Which' changes, here, with; all VieJ winds that pass He rests, the chicf of primal 6ta!rel that shine In Franco's hcavfiu, of song. Aki! Jjvhat decline ■ Holds now his love-lorn-ghost,-ffho ,saw, alas!. All. beauty sink like sand-'-withan. ,a glass— • .Women, anil youth, red, roses anaV'red wine? And she, his Helen? Did she <thea i, grown? old Andgrev as memory of l a,.lost des re, - ? Mutter: his nama at. midnight, Q*ei,;. the fire I Crouched; with her drowsy- handq-.iaid? Even- ■ ing falls;. ■ . . . . . Let us fee hence; how chiU tfye/airt how cold Seem ail''those.passipnate s! ■ St. John: Lucas, in. "NUw ■ Poems.'?'.'; tttp, IHECHING OF TKEft&JASS, , '■ ,0 the. marching of the.; grastff' ' • 0 the joy that comes to pass,' , When the mighty, silent aTmy,i with'<green . banners overblown, _ . Drags: King . Winter from his, throne .J ; Conquers all his barren valleys, csiinbs the rampart qf the hill, 5 ■ : Steals along by. wayside hedges, fords ttne-river .';■! . r.',: -calm and still,': . ; Fpdermihes ■ the ' foreft archies;- overtops the/ castle wall, .. .'. . - • 'Swift invading "wins ths 'cities '.and the aanuete brown and small— Till:the, wholfe broad world? is captured; And the heart of man enraptured, '■ " Thrills-with passionof; delighjt,-. ■ ' Sniiny-morn-and-dewy night J._ ' joyous rhythmic: me9sure.;marjcethvtime \/ ' for lad &nd. v las3 To the inarching, . • Marching, ' . ' Marchimf of the grass. #-U»ry E. Blake;, in''ln the (Hope." \. , ' MAN'.- • -Man is my name, and'/my 'spirit is'ffree'j • Mine are the laws,. and be! <ldr I am free . of them, : -,Garments are they thati'l doP,tfr I dqn, Mine -for ,my service lor else ' I''hive done r with them.- ' , -Are they, my body? Are they my'breath? Are they my purpose that-now' they should hinder me^. • 'J am -the maker aml'master of "laws, Man.is my name*,and my spirit is Liberty. Gods I beheld in inyj passionate dreams, Gods I created, ?spismg to deity I v.» 'let you go by or let :«>u. abide, ■ j,, .... Man is mynamo, and. <tlie agos.'go d'ver : uie'.' : B. Bums, in " The-iGreat Companions."