BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 110, 1 February 1908, Page 13

BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

\;..v ■— : « ; — - VERSES NEW AND OLD. , ' , LOVE AND CHANGE. My lovo for you dies many times a -year, iAnd a ncw love is--monarch in-his place, -'-Lover-must grow-weary of tho fairest face; Tho fondest heart:must fait to hold' him .near; '. For loyp.-.is born of wonder, km to fear-~v -. -v Tilings'grown: familiar lose the sweet amnio; //Grown'.'to-'.thcir measure, love must turn his , - ' • gaze. . ,-. - ' :■-■ To some now splendour, somo diviner Rnliero. :. .' A ' ''Ijut-'invthe'' blue night of your endlesssoul' 1 New.stars:globe ever as tho old aro scanned; • - Goal- yhere Jove <. : wiU,- •. you rcoch a further goal And the now love is ever lovo for you. :Love/needs 'a thousand lpves, for ever hoiy, : . And■,finds:.theni--in' the JiolloW.'of your hand.: -.r, v " -r-Tho late : Richard Hovoy. . . Men - make them fire's on the, hearth ' • )Each'. under , his roof-tree, '■ ... And-the .Pour Winds that rulo the earth ' They/blow, the smokes to .me.. . ; ; .Across'the high hills and the sea . -And nil the: changeful -shies, ■ Thfli.Eour Winds'blow the smoke to mo <• • : , Till the tears ara. in/piy cyqs. .1 . . /"' " "-V'-'' '■ i'■ . ' V ;-:' - ' ' ' . tJntil the tears aro-in my eyes : ~ And my ,heart is . broke; '. For .thinking" on old. memories | ; .-That gather in tho smoke. With every shift of every-wind v _ . The homesick . memories come, : jFiom ovpry quarter ot mankind Where I have made me a home. . Four, times a-fire against the cold : . Andi;a : ;'roof:- agaiust'-the ,rain—. . . . . : Sorrow./fourfold and joy fourfold - • The Pour bring again 1' ■ ; How can :I-'answer ,which is bestOf all the -fires that burn? . - ■ I have ibeen too often ho6t ; or guest \ At every fito 111 turn < —Kudyard Kipling. CORNISH WIND. % There is a wind in Cornwall that I know . 1 l''iom any other/wind, because it smells 1 -. ' .Of- the warm honey'breath 'of;, heather-bells-. .. -'. And ofthe'sea's salt;-and'these-meet' and floy :With'such'-sweet' savour ih' siich 'sharpness met .That.tho astonished sense in ecstasy '. -; Tastes the ripe earth and the unvmtaged- 6ea. : Wind-, out qf Cornwall, wind, if 1 forget: V'. Not in ; the tunnelled • streets where scarce men bicatlie .. . - Tho'air they, live by, but wherever seas' ißloisomun'f.Vfoam,//wherever,, merchant: bees Volubly'traffic .'upon any heath: /.y : : . .v. S^lf-Jvforgetrshainejme! or. if ;I''fin'd .V- ■ .;'; ( :-,;A- , ;:wind ; 'i!iV]Jngland ; 'like/my.V.pprnii8li;'^na. ; -'.V': ' ' —Aitbur Sjmoiiß. THE GONDOLA 01' LONDON. ■■■.; Give to me, Love, our London town,! : v -'.Now; when the hovering night comesulown, -. 1 What-it away thero still be day?■ >.\VNaked; sky- over-silver;reaches,''::' -. ; .-" .: : . .''l3ronzS.:.ot\:bracken/and;' gold .of .beeches? Give : ine. the woven-shadows, brown,'' -v.'-'/' r ,.:,;'i3hot.:',withi the'lights-, of /Loudon: twn.%'{. Ours.,is.a,gondola':as dim,- ; Secret, ■-and' bold- as e'er could swim, r/ Shunning^a.'moo'ii 'that-shiiled!too soon-r-' ; > 1; V; - Blacky the' boat over black abysses-7-; \'i;'.' -Harbouring- rapture, '- ciiHMhiiig/kisses,V'. ;': .:Ixiyers-i.that'laughed 'at- -Fortune's: frown:--''.- {■■ . There—as we do in London town.' . ■ TuDfi of/the-jiugllng bellß arid 'fleet-. '■ -./ : - Tap of the hofii's ;ii) an empty street— -.'j .sljip frjoiii f'pprtj will slip;-' v , : / ' Out.'; : we glidp .;td thei storm's'-commotion, "-/? .Koar of- a swift tumultuous ocean, ■ . i Sui-ge /of' faces .'.that, gljmmoi-' and. drown, • V :■ Foam .on ; the sea of London town. . . : . ■VV" Ever the hurrying faccs pas?, ... Phantom-dim .;t|irough'a . rain-blurred glassWlnch .of,the-swarm'.will heed if warm , '.- Hfjo. 'n jon? ' Here] if.-hps ;! sliould; aiul".fi(id- you/- •' Mouth..and.cheek-.ot you;-.hair.and-gown? ■ . Give.;me'my Love in LondonJown! '• —Margaret -It.: Woods -m "Poems Old and New." LOVE'S' LII'ETIME. 7 -. " V < : J I;. •- •-V " One summer have we found,/wherein to hold ,: Lo.ve's. lifotime,. onceo .to< learn ,and. nndotstond ' • Tho wprld,together,/where:.tho heavy.gold • , : Oi' the year s crooning' droops upon ,tho laiid. / Were.iit,not,well to die ( /fo,knotv,no.more, . -• ' '-f'ho .while .-unweariedlpassipii - still is" ours, ■V.The;: pause yancl'i around 'the ;door.; / ,-. The .spell of v sun, the breath of burning -A Between ; the:-bitterness'tof 'yesterday,. Andthat - which comes' with, yet' iiniittered . . .word,- - • is :'.. ' The many, deaths behijid . upon -the way, ; V .And '.thoge in.' wait:.-beforp;; ' qntouched, - un-> J -:Vstirred?,:; ; .-v\v.v'-'V';:; So.might wo never, w,heh no year.nvails" ■. ;; comfort,' lose',' the, gloiy. once ;'our own,.' .f "O r -.see tho coldness of the light which pales , ( To . winter, -brood m l . silence'o'er the throne- , —Ethol.T. Atkinson in "A Garden of Shadows