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The New Morning Poems



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I.

STEADFAST as any soldier of the line

He served his England, with the imminent death

Poised at his heart. Nor could the world divine

The constant peril of each burdened breath.

England, and the honour of England, he still served

Walking the strict path, with the old high pride

Of those invincible knights who never swerved

One hair's breadth from the way until they died.

Quietness he loved, and books, and the grave beauty

Of England's Helicon, whose eternal light

Shines like a lantern on that road of duty,

Discerned by few in this chaotic night.

And his own pen, foretelling his release,

Told us that he foreknew "the end was peace."

II.

Soldier of England, he shall live unsleeping

Among his friends, with the old proud flag above;

For even today her honour is in his keeping.

He has joined the hosts that guard her with their love.

They shine like stars, unnumbered happy legions,

In that high realm where all our darkness dies.

He moves, with honour, in those loftier regions,

Above this "world of passion and of lies":

For so he called it, keeping his own pure passion

A silent flame before the true and good;

Not fawning on the throng in this world's fashion

come and see what all might see who would.

Soldier of England, brave and gentle knight,

The soul of Sidney welcomes you tonight.


CONTENTS Page DEDICATION: To the Memory of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice   "The Avenue of the Allies"   On the Western Front   Victory AMERICAN POEMS, 1912–1917   Republic and Motherland   The Union   Ghosts of the New World   The Old Meeting House   Princeton   Beethoven in Central Park SONGS OF THE TRAWLERS AND SEA POEMS   The People's Fleet   Kilmeny   Cap'n Storm-along   The Big Black Trawler   Namesakes   Wireless   Fishers of Men   An Open Boat   Peace in a Palace   The Vindictive MISCELLANEOUS POEMS   The Chimney-sweeps of Cheltenham   To a Successful Man   The Old Gentleman With the Amber Snuffbox   What Grandfather Said   Memories of the Pacific Coast   Nippon   The Humming Birds   Lines for a Sun-dial   The Realms of Gold   Compensations   Dead Man's Morrice   The Old Fool in the Wood   A New Madrigal To an Old Melody   The Lost Battle   Riddles of Merlin   The Symphony   Peace   The Open Door   Immortal Sails   The Matin-song of Friar Tuck   Five Criticisms   The Companions   The Little Roads   Sunlight and Sea   The Road Through Chaos   The Night of the Lion   The War Widow   The Bell   Slave and Emperor   On a Mountain-top EARLY POEMS   The Phantom Fleet   Michael Oaktree TOUCHSTONE ON A BUS   Touchstone on a Bus   I The New Duckling   II The Man Who Discovered the Use a Chair   III Cotton-wool   IV Fashions EPILOGUE   The Reward of Song
THE NEW MORNING  

THIS is the song of the wind as it came

Tossing the flags of the nations to flame:

I am the breath of God....