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Twilight is near; and the day grows old;

  The spiders of care are weaving their net;

All night 'twill be blowing and rainy and cold;

  I cower at his door from the wind and wet。



He sent me out the world to see;

  Drest for the road in a garment new;

It is clotted with clay; and worn beggarly

  The porter will hardly let me through!



I bring in my hand a few dusty ears

  Once I thought them a tribute meet!

I bring in my heart a few unshed tears:

  Which is my harvestthe pain or the wheat?



A broken man; at the door of his hall

  I listen; and hear it go merry within;

The sounds are of birthday…festival!

  Hark to the trumpet! the violin!



I know the bench where the shadowed folk

  Sit 'neath the music…loftthere none upbraids!

They will make me room who bear the same yoke;

  Dear publicans; sinners; and foolish maids!



An ear has been hearing my heart forlorn!

  A step comes soft through the dancing…din!

Oh Love eternal! oh woman…born!

  Son of my Father to take me in!



One moment; low at our Father's feet

  Loving I lie in a self…lost trance;

Then walk away to the sinners' seat;

  With them; at midnight; to rise and dance!









THE END









FOOTNOTES:



1 In Scotch the ch and gh are almost always guttural。  The gh

according to Mr。 Alexander Ellis; the sole authority in the past

pronunciation of the country; was guttural in England in the time of

Shakspere。



2 An exclamation of pitiful sympathy; inexplicable to the

understanding。  Thus the author covers his philological ignorance of

the cross…breeding of the phrase。



3 Extraover allower a'orraone more than is wanted。



4 Tennyson's Morte d'Arthur。

     Atque animum nunc huc celerem; nunc dividit illuc。

     ?neid: IV。 285



5 This line is one of many instances in which my reader will see

both the carelessness of Ericson and my religion towards his

remains。



6 Why should Sir Walter Scott; who felt the death of Camp; his

bullterrier; so much that he declined a dinner engagement in

consequence; say on the death of his next favourite; a grayhound

bitch'Rest her body; since I dare not say soul!'?  Where did he

get that dare not?  Is it well that the daring of genius should be

circumscribed by an unbelief so common…place as to be capable only

of subscription?



7 Amongst Ericson's papers I find the following sonnets; which

belong to the mood here embodied:



  Oft; as I rest in quiet peace; am I

Thrust out at sudden doors; and madly driven

Through desert solitudes; and thunder…riven

Black passages which have not any sky。

The scourge is on me now; with all the cry

Of ancient life that hath with murder striven。

How many an anguish hath gone up to heaven!

How many a hand in prayer been lifted high

When the black fate came onward with the rush

Of whirlwind; avalanche; or fiery spume!

Even at my feet is cleft a shivering tomb

Beneath the waves; or else with solemn hush

The graveyard opens; and I feel a crush

As if we were all huddled in one doom。



  Comes there; O Earth; no breathing time for thee?

No pause upon thy many…chequered lands?

Now resting on my bed with listless hands;

I mourn thee resting not。  Continually

Hear I the plashing borders of the sea

Answer each other from the rocks and sands。

Troop all the rivers seawards; nothing stands;

But with strange noises hasteth terribly。

Loam…eared hyenas go a moaning by。

Howls to each other all the bloody crew

Of Afric's tigers。  But; O men; from you

Comes this perpetual sound more loud and high

Than aught that vexes air。  I hear the cry

Of infant generations rising too。



8 This sonnet and the preceding are both one line deficient。



9 To these two sonnets Falconer had appended this note。



'Something I wrote to Ericson concerning these; during my first

college vacation; produced a reply of which the following is a

passage: 〃On writing the first I was not aware that James and John

were the Sons of Thunder。  For a time it did indeed grieve me to

think of the spiritual…minded John as otherwise than a still and

passionless lover of Christ。〃'












Word;Definition;Notes

a';all; every;also have

a' gait;everywhere;

a' thing;everything; anything;

abeelity;ability;

abettin';abetting;

a'body;everyone; everybody;

aboon;above; up; over;

aboord;aboard;

aboot;about;

aboot it an' aboot it;all about;

abune;above; up; over;

accep's;accepts;

accoont;account;

accoonts;accounts;

accordin';according;

acquant;acquainted;

a'…creatin';all…creating;

ae;one;

aff;off; away; past; beyond;

aff…gang;outlet;

afflickit;afflicted;

affoord;afford;

affront;affront; disgrace; shame;

affrontet;affronted; disgraced;also ashamed; shamed

afit;afoot; on foot;

afore;before; in front of;

aforehan';beforehand;

aften;often;

aftener;more often;

agen;against;

aheid;ahead;

ahin';behind; after; at the back of;

ahint;behind; after; at the back of;

aiblins;perhaps; possibly;

aidin';aiding;

ailin';ailing; sick;

ain;own;also one

airin';airing;

airm;arm;

airm…cheir;armchair;

airms;arms;also coat of arms; crest

airmy;army;

airth;earth;

aise;ashes;

ait;eat;

aither;either;

aiths;oaths;

aitin';eating;

aits;oats;

alane;alone;

alang;along;

Algerine;Algerian;

alloo;allow;

allooed;allowed;

Almichty;Almighty; God;

amaist;almost;

amang;among; in; together with;

amen's;amends;

amo';among;

amuntit;amounted;

an';and;

ance;once;

ane;one;also a single person or thing

aneath;beneath; under;

anent;opposite to; in front of;also concerning

Anerew;Andrew;

anes;ones;

angert;angered; angry;also grieved

anither;another;

answerin';answering;

answert;answered;

a'ready;already;

aricht;aright;

aside;beside;also aside

aspirin';aspiring;

astarn;astern;

'at;that;

ate;hate;also eat

a'thegither;all together;

a'thing;everything; anything;

'at's;that is; that has;

attreebuted;attributed;

atweel;indeed; truely; of course;

atween;between;

aucht;eight; eighth;also ought; own; possess

aul';old;

auld;old;

aulder;older;

aumrie;cupboard; pantry; store…closet;

aumry;cupboard; pantry; store…closet;

a'…uphaudin';all…upholding; all…supporting;

ava;at all; of all;exclamation of banter; ridicule

awa;away; distant;also off; go away

awa';away; distant;also off; go away

awaur;aware;

Awbrahawm;Abraham;

aweel;ah well; well then; well;

awfu';awful;

awpron;apron;

ay;yes; indeed;exclamation of surprise; wonder

aye;yes; indeed;

ayont;beyond; after;

bade;did bide;

badena;did not bide;

bagonet;bayonet;

bailey;civic dignitary; magistrate;

bairn;child;

bairnie;little child;diminutive

bairns;children;

baith;both;

bakehoose;bakery;

baneless;insipid; without pith;

banes;bones;

barfut;barefoot;

barrin';barring;

barrowfu';wheelbarrow full;

baubee;halfpenny;

baubees;halfpennies;

bauchles;old pair of shoes;also shoes down at the heel

baukie;bat;

beggit;begged;

beginnin';beginning;

begud;began;

behaud;withhold; wait; delay;also behold

behavin';behaving;

bein';being;

beir;bear;

beirer;bearer;

beirs;bears;

bejan;first year's student;at a Scottish university

belangs;belongs;

believin';believing;

ben' leather;thick leather for soling boots/shoes;

bena;be not; is not;

bend…leather;thick leather for soling boots/shoes;

benn;in; inside; into; within; inwards;also inner room

benn the hoose;in/into the parlour;best room of the house

beowty;beauty;

beuks;books;

beyon';beyond;

bide;endure; bear; remain; live;also desire; wish

bides;endures; bears; remains; lives;also stays for

biggit;built;

bilin';boiling;also the whole quantity

bin';bind;

binna;be not;

birse;bristle; hair; plume of hair;

bit;but; bit;also small; littlediminutive

bitch;;term of contempt usually applied to a man

bitin';bit

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