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    Song-Surf
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    Song-Surf

    By Cale Young Rice

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    Release dateOct 1, 2007
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      Song-Surf - Cale Young Rice

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Song-Surf, by Cale Young Rice

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      Title: Song-Surf

      Author: Cale Young Rice

      Release Date: April 5, 2010 [EBook #31890]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONG-SURF ***

      Produced by David Garcia, Josephine Paolucci and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Kentuckiana Digital Library.)

      SONG-SURF

      By the Same Author

      Nirvana Days

      Yolanda of Cyprus

      A Night in Avignon

      Charles di Tocca

      David

      Many Gods

      SONG-SURF

      BY

      CALE YOUNG RICE

      NEW YORK

      DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

      MCMX

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION

      INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

      COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

      PUBLISHED, SEPTEMBER, 1910

      TO

      MY SISTERS

      FOREWORD

      These poems, first published as Song-Surf in 1900, by a firm which failed before the book, left the press, were republished with additions as the lyrics of Plays & Lyrics, by Hodder & Stoughton, of London, in 1905. Revision and omissions have been made for this volume of a uniform edition in which they now appear.

      CONTENTS

      PAGE

      With Omar 3

      Jael 16

      To the Sea 22

      The Day-Moon 25

      A Sea-Ghost 27

      On the Moor 29

      The Cry of Eve 31

      Mary at Nazareth 35

      Adelil 38

      Intimation 40

      In July 41

      From Above 44

      By the Indus 45

      Evocation 47

      The Child God Gave 49

      The Winds 51

      Transcended 54

      Love's Way to Childhood 55

      Autumn 57

      Shinto 58

      Maya 60

      A Japanese Mother 62

      The Dead Gods 64

      Call to Your Mate, Bob-White 68

      The Dying Poet 70

      The Outcast 73

      April 76

      August Guests 78

      To a Dove 79

      At Tintern Abbey 81

      Oh, Go Not Out 83

      Human Love 85

      Ashore 86

      The Victory 88

      At Winter's End 89

      Mother-Love 91

      To a Singing Warbler 93

      Songs to A. H. R.:

      I. The World's, and Mine 95

      II. Love-Call in Spring 96

      III. Mating 97

      IV. Untold 98

      V. Love-Watch 99

      VI. At Amalfi 99

      VII. On the Pacific 101

      The Atoner 103

      To the Spring Wind 104

      The Ramble 105

      Return 108

      Lisette 111

      From One Blind 113

      In a Cemetery 114

      Waking 116

      Storm-Ebb 117

      Lingering 119

      Faun-Call 121

      The Lighthouseman 123

      Serenity 125

      Wanton June 127

      Spirit of Rain 129

      Tearless 131

      Sunset-Lovers 133

      The Empty Cross 135

      Unburthened 137

      To Her Who Shall Come 139

      Storm-Twilight 142

      Slaves 143

      Avowal to the Nightingale 144

      Before Autumn 147

      Fulfilment 149

      Last Sight of Land 151

      Silence 153

      SONG-SURF

      WITH OMAR

      I sat with Omar by the Tavern door,

      Musing the mystery of mortals o'er,

      And soon with answers alternate we strove

      Whether, beyond death, Life hath any shore.

      "Come, fill the cup, said he. In the fire of Spring

      Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling.

      The Bird of Time has but a little way

      To flutter—and the Bird is on the Wing."

      The Bird of Time? I answered. "Then have I

      No heart for Wine. Must we not cross the Sky

      Unto Eternity upon his wings—Or,

      failing, fall into the Gulf and die?"

      "Ay; so, for the Glories of this World sigh some,

      And some for the Prophet's Paradise to come;

      But you, Friend, take the Cash—the Credit leave,

      Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!"

      "What! take the Cash and let the Credit go?

      Spend all upon the Wine the while I know

      A possible To-morrow may bring thirst

      For Drink but Credit then shall cause to flow?"

      "Yea, make the most of what you yet may spend,

      Before we too into the Dust descend;

      Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie,

      Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and—sans End!"

      "Into the Dust we shall descend—we must.

      But can the soul not break the crumbling Crust

      In which he is encaged? To hope or to

      Despair he will—which is more wise or just?"

      "The worldly hope men set their hearts upon

      Turns Ashes—or it prospers: and anon,

      Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face,

      Lighting a little hour or two—is gone."

      "Like Snow it comes—to cool one burning Day;

      And like it goes—for all our plea or sway.

      But flooding tears nor Wine can ever purge

      The Vision it has brought to us away."

      "But to this world we come and Why not knowing,

      Nor Whence, like water willy-nilly flowing;

      And out of it, as Wind along the waste,

      We know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing."

      "True, little do we know of Why or Whence.

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