BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 502, 8 May 1909, Page 9

BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

VERSES NEW AND OLD. THE FINAL MYSTERY AT ELETJSIS. - rThis ljeliGved 'to have come Egypt .to - Greecoj Vnild : therei'ito 'have ;formed part of - the ' "dootrin'q \ the ;. initiated ;at the EleuaimanMysteries. ■ If. this /.'."jito so, it m,important as a 'source' to which maj bo traced oertain aspects of i tho: modern beliel in tho persistence. o£ ; personality- after death; f/i;;and''''of ,the''/akuraiice;:felt' by: most religious thinkers that -the : individual'./soul, thoueli merged ~ins t hdi'Dniversa],';Will not 'lose tilt memory.: or the" affections of its' earthly • life, :.Eear now, 0 Soul, tho last command of ■all— When thou has left thine/every ..mortal, mark 'And'.;by the -road that lies .beyond .recall Won through;-the .desert, of tlib burning dark, /Thou, shalt-behold within,"a.' 'garden, bright A well,. beside' a cypress ivory-white. Still:is that well, .and in its waters cool . "v. windless sleeps that cypress; -■: :: Y : • SVho drinks but onco. from, out .her ehadowj poolir:-"--''''--i--;- ="".} '•■'.'■ V:' Y : Y : : ''k ■ ..- Shall thirst no more to all eternity. Forgetting all, by all forgotten clean, •" His soul shall ;be ;:which .hath not ' But'.tliou/ thonKh thou li.o trembling with thj dread, And y parched with; thy.. 'desirs^morefierce -Jv-than: flame,'yyy y' 'j' -''/yV' '. Think on the stream. wherefrom thy ..life. was fed, And that diviner fountain ' whence it Turn' thee and cry—boliold' ifc is nat 'far— Unto the hills whero lmng waters are. -"Lord, though' I lived on Earth, the child ,ol Earth', ' /v V Yet'.was I fathcred-by tho starry sky: ■ • Thou knowest I came not of. tho shadows birth, Let mo not: did tho death that shadows' die. Give mo to drink;, of; the-sweet spring -that ' . ..leaps •?; From Memory's fount, whoroin' no cypress Y^j'-YY ■ Then ;shalt than drink, 0 tSiinl,j'and,'there; Yi-'Vr"" r ?.with ; ''slake v; : •••;"•'/ yy . ;The immortal longing, of thy mortal thirst; : '3 80 of thy I'ather's. life shalt thou partake,: ,''.y. And" be ;for : 6'ver, that thou wert:at, first. Lostin remembered lovesjyet .thou , more'thou 'Y/.^V'Y^r&nry'jNewbbit^Kin^ AS YOUTH SEES IT. ; . In' lonesome ''gusty eves ' : '••' ';. ■■ : The Grinds .'whirl .last year ,8 leaves,; ..-.i -. •'. And' Fifty-Year will tell the tale Of friends fir whom.he grieves; ~ -.■■>:■ ; : . Lightiboys, and .b'.cods, and broken men, ' : ,;y '• ' And a- genius, near, divine— ; v■,> .;. A crew wlio.camo from port with him, ... , ' Gone down with scarce a sign. - . it. . ■; He sails-his way. alone to-day; Well may■>!think of mine!. v . w; , ; ... ' What''fellows full of-'cheer ' •• . /'(Ere I:reach. Fifty-Year) \ 'Will pay Death's toll by.land and sea? .y Or who "will then stand ,near?And yoil, my! lovo-whoso waist I clasp, ' You of tho hair, ...... Yyy 1 -vYou have .walked ;b.Vilight of moon ." : And'heard the faith i swear.' '•'•• Y . : : /.-.'..iC v stones-;-'r Fdrgotten-rGod].knows'where? . ' I know, what Fates there bo! ;; :: S'■ Will bring, tho gifts to me, ; ' Such' gold and honour as I,earn, : . For 'tis tho worker's 'fee. . ; But -like old, mournful,-\lriven leaves, 1:;; i i':' Must "first. those :comrodes\fall^./J, 1 . ;;; Like .leaves. that grew and died/ that now ; . 'Tho winds.blow o'er tho wall— . _. And O my love, if thou.wert one,, > .What were my gold and all?.. —R.M., in : the: "Glasgow Herald." MILTON AGONISTES. ; "Due nemici'Cbbe,:e l'uno e l'altro vinso." 1: : . . —C4?ducd| " Sonnet -.on: LutKer.".;'. ' ! ':Swp mightyi Caryatides upboro _ -, . Tliei fabric : of : the. Palace of his Foos. . One held a sceptro' liko a sword for,blows • Lifted,■' and like a croiyn a ■ mitro wore; :■ . The other seflmed.lilce:Comus, when the roar' Is up, and raging .with his rout he'goes, •*K /His' hair : ■witHi l tangled,; .and'i.the >:'>■ :' fose,;: ; i.--.... v.;:-: That passes:in'its.glory,"and is no more.' 1 -,' i ■ w About their,marble "girdles', he unwound' The Sinews of his Songathwart -they flew, ::V'.,'Ahd;the roof irpsh'd,ih ; .ruin to.the ground. 'But Death mii'd'not' 1 thisslayer .'with' 1 , those he :':sI6VV,- ; :Y--And still his' Song has might',to bind anew ' T. : 3 Misrule, and -License, and to break i wher . . bound. . ' —C. H. Herford, in "The Nation." THE WHEEL. Tho .world expends its useless might, : ; ./rhe.'heaying nations" toil and:fight, ; : v 1 The dizzy thinker peers for light, • . -V^The-day;doth;follow,'day. 'and:night,^ : Is thero no rest from anything? ' K ; The plover .'gives another heart,, •' '■ r.'w; .. Tho merchant .finds'another mart, ( .; J ■:/ 'The young men have their .lives, to start, . .The old reluctantly depart, ._ , Is there no rest frorii.'anything?. , ; The gloomy sight'that .life 'is pain, : :' Tho buoyant. call each day a 'gain, 'The doubter,;cries 'that, nought is, plain, . 1 i " The-cynic sneers: that -hope'.is vaih, : .: - Is there no rest from anything? • - Tho worshippers their, gods-appease,' , ' ' The .'tortured sinnermoansforease, : V The speed- ; of things doth' not,.decrease,. ; ' The Wheel of Things';'doth, never, ceaSo," . Is there-no-rest from anything? ' "What is the end of toil and,thought? • ■ ■ What is the jewel ; we.have -sought : What lis tho .work Ithat ;we have- wrought ?' : ; Can nothingness end but in nought? ' • ' . Can thero be rest from anything? ;. " Fool! ,rest shair : cdrae''when stories can feel, : Fool!■:rest ;shall;come when, poisons heal, I'f ' Fool!. rest-, comes not at thy appeal, Fool! thoi? art bound,upon tho Wheel, ... There is"'no rest from anything! > -,Vi-E.''.T. 'Chandler, in the:'' Westminster, . Gazette." ' ■ A LODGE IN THE WILDEItNESS. Out :ih ;tho".'empty desert, alii alone',: j V'. . / P '.Blown'.by.ithe-winds; and -lapped by,.^waves' 0) ': grass, , ■■; There stands ' beneath the . unseeing- skies . t Y."'; :; Vi ,; stone,:Y:::: : .;.:YY;;'- ;V' ; " v. - Where' nevermore' the foot of man. shall pass Set up to mark the grave of. one that died : .. • Long years, ago, whereon may he descrid' :' In signsjto- all but human, eyes unknown: ■ ; Faithful is' ;God, ; 'for. He remoniberethj; ' The Lord is mighty, and.forgetteth none..'.:,- • '.-Here come the deerj-hecause'the grass, is'sweet , ' The . wounded ~ bird, . because ' the shadow ' thrown '.'i, 'V':'- :V : : " . Shelters its aching body from tho heat; And hero a'thousand flying seeds are blown 'And • after-growth; arid, blossom, here they die :■y Even- as he whose bones - beneath. them lie. Of men to read tho .writing. comes'.not one: > Faithful is God, 'for :-'He remembereth; ..: The Lord is mighty, and forgetteth'none. •> The busy hands that:'did thisicarving make,' ~ The eyes that wept, the voices that madi -' ••'. -moan y'-y ■■ ' k - r .°—" l ®-- r grief- and . labour: _The:r tear 3 are: dry, .their lamentation dono ■ The stars,,liko- jewels..on a banner spread, •'. oi'n 10 . . K , c , "'her battles overheatl; ; ... Still cries the "grave, taunting-.oblivion.- ""■ ™ - t 1 ' ' M -^ e rememljerdth; ' The Lord ?s mighty, and forgettoth none.' ; .•. ;X;; >. —Lucy I-yttelton, in " The Nation."