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Page 1 of 11904 · PDF PAGE 53
…N OF A FAR COUNTRY WHERE flower and foam draw close to kiss, And seabirds call to nightingales, And olives mix with clematis ; Where the sun seeks a path, and fails To burn the beechen groves, and rails On the cool leaves, that bend and meet To shape us arches in the dales Where Love has chosen our retreat ! No tide is lapping on the sand Where the stream sleeps along the glade; No nymphs are bathing on the strand, Nor in the pools a Tuscan maid ; Nor lurks a fawn within the shade ; Nor springs the moss to foxes’ feet; For all the world in slee…
1904 · PDF PAGE 56
44 A BALLADE OF FAREWELL Now, ere our last sun sinks in red, Clasp hands in friendship, ere we die, Nor shame us if a tear be shed :— The time has come tosay Good-bye. ENVOI Prince, whether in Life’s Tripos classed Or ploughed quite irretrievably, Our friendship for all time is cast. The time is come to say Good-bye.
1904 · PDF PAGE 21
… with a full pack, And deal them one by one ; You lead the Ace with Queen and Jack (As you have rightly done) ; But lo! a spot upon your sun, A worm in your pea-pod— I trump you, when you have begun To reckon on the odd. With what a mighty smack Your King of Trumps is won! Your partner’s face grows very black ; He doesn’t think it fun. A Yankee would have used a gun, A schoolmaster a rod— A ten ace may be led of none Who reckon on the odd. And now, amid the wrack Of your position, Their old established suit comes back, With an unfettered run ;
1904 · PDF PAGE 29
…ing; Sing heigh-ho for the glad May Term! O the trees are out to-day! O the buds are blossoming! O the snow and the wind are away! O the sun of the late sweet spring ! 17
1904 · PDF PAGE 68
…d of the rocks—they are rotten. (2) We said “’T will be cold, not improbably wet,” We sneered at the ridge we had passed, We said of the sun “ His day’s work he has done.” We said of the sky—“ it is vast.” (3) We spoke of the snow—“ it is notably cold ” ; We supped upon Cotton and Maggi ; We observed to the moon “ Be a dear and come soon.’ We remarked of the crags—“ they are craggy.” (4) Intelligent talk will most surely beguile The longest night out on the rocks ; So we made of the guides the remarks that revile; Of their Herrs we said “sheep …
1904 · PDF PAGE 69
…s anxious about us: “If horrid young fools will break Alpine Club rules ”— In fact, they could get on without us! (9) We sprawled in the sun when the banquet was done (We had feasted on Bouvier 1 and Mauler’”), You said of my knickers—they are not a vicar’s ; It isn’t a hole, it’s a howler ! 1 His champagne. 2 His champagne.
1904 · PDF PAGE 45
…he godlike golden glory of the vast irremeable insuperable weather (Where those perfectly beastly bad Rembrandt effects are, over by the sunset that looks so very much as if to-morrow would be wet) They have bridled the sun with a beautiful bit of black and purple clouds, to tie the Poor up in an intolerable tether, (It’s enough to make a ’eathen slave, ’ow much more a gennelman as ’as allus been a gennelman and a free-born son of Brittania’s ’earts of oak and no negro fret.) Notwithstanding boys beautiful with youth bounce in the efflorescent …