53
The Newly Dead 55
The First Born 56
The Voice of the North 57
To C. 33 59
Silence 60
Columbus' Last Voyage 61
Atonement 62
The Poet Shepherd 63
Our Daily Bread 64
A Mother to the Sea 65
The Feast of the Passions 66
The Human World 68
The Vow Forsworn 69
Confession 70
Love and Art 71
The Song of the Dynamo 73
The Gold Fields 76
The Woman Answers 77
The Monastery 78
The Passion Play 79
Instruments 83
Quatrains 84
Immutability 86
The Fettered Vultures 87
The Dead Child 89
Night in May 90
De Profundis 91

PAN AND AEOLUS

A FUGUE OF HELL.

I.

I dreamed a mighty dream. It seemed mine eyes
Sealed for the moment were to things terrene,
And then there came a strange, great wind that blew
From undiscovered lands, and took my soul
And set it on an uttermost peak of Hell
Amid the gloom and fearful silences.
Slowly the darkness paled, and a weird dawn
Broke on my wondering vision, and there grew
Uncanny phosphorescence in the air
Which seemed to throb with some great vital spell
Of mystery and doom. With aching eyes
I gazed, and lo! the dreadful scene evolved,
Black and chaotic, like an awful birth
To Desolation, of a lifeless world!
My soul in agony cried out to God,
When of a sudden all the place grew calm,
Save for the trembling of the mountain peaks
And the low moaning of the billowy winds
Among the abysses. Dull lights here and there
Kindled, like wreckage of a city razed
By vandals, and the inky sky cupped up
Into a black, impenetrable roof....
But now from out the chaos there arose
Another sound more fearful than the wail
Of tempest, or the quake of mighty hills--
A mortal cry, a human voice in Hell!

II.

The infernal glare grew brighter, and there came
Unto mine ears the sound of many tongues,
Mingling discordant curse with bitter cry