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Like petals in a shower。



And tears of awful wonder ran

Adown my cheeks to hear the clan

Of beauty chaunting white

The prayer too deep for living word;

Or sight of man or winging bird;

Or music over forest heard

At falling of the night。



And dropping slowly as the dew

On grasses that the winds renew

In urge of flooding fire;

And softly as the hushing boughs

The gentle airs of dawn arouse

To cradle morning's quire。



The murmur of the singing leaves

Around the secret Flame;

Like mating swallows 'neath the eaves

In rustling silence came;

And flowing through the silent air

Creation fluttered in a prayer

Descending on a spiral stair;

And calling me by name。



It nestled in my dreaming eyes

Like heaven in a lake;

And softened hope into surprise

For very beauty's sake;

And silence blossomed into morn;

Whose fragrant rosy…breasted dawn

Could scarcely bear to break。



I sang into the morning light

As loud as I could sing;

The treetops bowed in sheer delight

Before the slanting wing。

And all the songs of little birds

Who laughed and cried in silver words

Adored the Risen Spring。

EDWARD J。 O'BRIEN





MICHAEL PAT



TO ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH



OLD Michael Pat he said to me

He saw an angel in a tree。

He knew I'd never; never doubt him;

For what would heaven be without them。

The angel laughed for very glee

And sang out loud: 〃Heigh! come with me!〃

Old Michael felt a creeping kind

Of wonder in his humble mind;

And; hardly knowing what to say;

Ran where the angel showed the way。

The lambs were running on the hills;

Glad laughter echoed from the rills;

And many hidden little birds

Talked pleasant things in singing words。

He followed up a mountain then

And saw a crowd of singing men

Approaching to a Crown of Light

Wherein they took a fresh delight。

He danced and sang and whooped and crew

To see the Lord of all he knew

Surrounded by the living songs

Of stars and men in countless throngs;

And then he died to life again;

And shovelled with the strength of ten。

He taught me how to say my letters;

And take my hat off to my betters;

And when I asked for fairy stories;

He told me of angelic glories。

He was a lovely farmer; he

Had seen an angel in a tree。



EDWARD J。 O'BRIEN







SONG



FROM 〃FLESH: A GEOGORIAN ODE〃



EBB on with me across the sunset tide

And float beyond the waters of the world;

The light of evening slipping from my side;

Thy softened voice in waves of silence furled。



Flow on into the flaming morning wine;

Drowning the land in color。 Then on high

Rise in thy candid innocence and shine

Like to a poplar straight against the sky。



EDWARD J。 O'BRIEN





IN MEMORIAM: FRANCIS LEDWIDGE

(Killed in action; July 31; 1917)





SOLDIER and singer of Erin;

What may I fashion for thee?

What garland of words or of flowers?

Singer of sunlight and showers;

The wind on the lea;



Of clouds; and the houses of Erin;

Wee cabins; white on the plain;

And bright with the colours of even;

Beauty of earth and of heaven falls

Outspread beyond Slane!

night through let my mind be still;



Slane; where the Easter of Patrick

Flamed on the night of the Gael;

Guard both the honor and story

Of him who has died for the glory

That crowns Innisfail。



Soldier of right and of freedom;

I offer thee song and hot tears。

With Brian; and Red Hugh O'Donnell;

The chiefs of Tyrone and Tryconnell;

Live on through the years!



NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONOR





EVENSONG



A SHEPHERD piping; herald of the Night

Who comes with Silence up the coloured vale;

Treading low gently; clad in greyish white;

Poignantly piping; sound your reedy wail!

For Day departed moves in funeral train

Tended by Twilight and; in deepest rose;

The splendid Sunset melts beneath the main

While sweet the Sea…wind with cool softness blows。

As when a mother gathers to her breast

The child who frets for Dad's remembered smart;

Now Light fades quickly in the ashen west;

And Night…Peace falls across my troubled heart。

Flutes; for the night through let my mind be still;

And God keep safe with Him my stubborn will!



NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONOR





THE PROPHET



ALL day long he kept the sheep:

Far and early; from the crowd;

On the hills from steep to steep;

Where the silence cried aloud;

And the shadow of the cloud

Wrapt him in a noonday sleep。



Where he dipped the water's cool;

Filling boyish hands from thence;

Something breathed across the pool

Stir of sweet enlightenments;

And he drank; with thirsty sense;

Till his heart was brimmed and full。



Still; the hovering Voice unshed;

And the Vision unbeheld;

And the mute sky overhead;

And his longing; still withheld!

Even when the two tears welled;

Salt; upon that lonely bread。



Vaguely blessed in the leaves;

Dim…companioned in the sun;

Eager mornings; wistful eyes;

Very hunger drew him on;

And To…morrow ever shone

With the glow the sunset weaves。



Even so; to that young heart;

Words and hands and Men were dear;

And the stir of lane and mart

After daylong vigil here。

Sunset called; and he drew near;

Still to find his path apart。



When the Bell; with gentle tongue;

Called the herd…bells home again;

Through the purple shades he swung;

Down the mountain; through the glen;

Towards the sound of fellow…men;…

Even from the light that clung。



Dimly too; as cloud on cloud;

Came that silent flock of his:

Thronging whiteness; in a crowd;

After homing twos and threes;

With the longing memories

Of all white things dreamed and vowed。



Through the fragrances; alone;

By the sudden…silent brook;

》From the open world unknown;

To the close of speech and book;

There to find the foreign look

In the faces of his own。



Sharing was beyond his skill;

Shyly yet; he made essay:

Sought to dip; and share; and fill

Heart's…desire; from day to day。

But their eyes; some foreign way;

Looked at him; and he was still。



Last; he reached his arms to sleep;

Where the Vision waited; dim;

Still beyond some deep…on…deep。



And the darkness folded him;

Eager heart and weary limb。

All day long; he kept the sheep。



JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY





HARVEST…MOON: 1914



OVER the twilight field;

The overflowing field;

Over the glimmering field;

And bleeding furrows with their sodden yield

Of sheaves that still did writhe;

After the scythe;

The teeming field and darkly overstrewn

With all the garnered fulness of that noon

Two looked upon each other。

One was a Woman men called their mother;

And one; the Harvest…Moon。



And one; the Harvest…Moon;

Who stood; who gazed

On those unquiet gleanings where they bled;

Till the lone Woman said:

〃But we were crazed 。 。 。

We should laugh now together; I and you;

We two。

You; for your dreaming it was worth

A star's while to look on and light the Earth;

And I; forever telling to my mind;

Glory it was; and gladness; to give birth

To humankind!

Yes; I; that ever thought it not amiss

To give the breath to men;

For men to slay again:

Lording it over anguish but to give

My life that men might live

For this。

You will be laughing now; remembering

I called you once Dead World; and barren thing;



Yes; so we named you then;

You; far more wise

Than to give life to men。〃



Over the field; that there

Gave back the skies

A shattered upward stare

》From blank white eyes;

Striving awhile; through many a bleeding dune

Of throbbing clay; but dumb and quiet soon;

She looked; and went her way

The Harvest…Moon。



JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEAODY





HORSEMAN SPRINGING

FROM THE DARK: A DREAM



〃HORSEMAN; springing from the dark;

Horseman; flying wild and free;

Tell me what shall be thy road

Whither speedest far from me?〃




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