And touched with faery from her fatal birth;
For many summers she was hardly shy,
Not clouded with her hovering destiny,
But only wild as any woodland thing,
That comes at even to a trodden spring;
And scarce she seemed of any settled mood,
That lights the peaceful hills of maidenhood,
But shifted strangely on the whimsy air,
Not quiet nor contented anywhere.
She gathered sunshine in an earthen cruse,
And thought to keep it for her own sweet use;
Or fluttered flowers from her window high,
And wept upon them when they would not fly;
And when she found the brownish mignonette
Had blossomed where a little seed was set,
She planted her rag playmate in the sun,
Because she wanted yet another one;
And when she heard the enraptured sparrow sing,
She clamoured for a song from everything.
For many years she was as strange and free,
As a pine linnet in a cedar tree.
Her folk thought: She is very wild and odd,
But she is good, we’ll wait and trust in God.
O love, that watched the weird and charméd child,
Change from her airy fancies sweet and mild,
Like a blue brook that clears a meadow spring,
And threads the barley where the bobolinks sing,
Then wimples by the roots of dusky firs,
And gathers darkness in those deeps of hers,
Then makes an arrowy movement through a pass,
Where rocks are crannied with the clinging grass,
Then falls, almost dissolved in silver rain,
She gathers deeply to a pool again;
But something wild in her new spirit lies,
She never can regain her limpid eyes:
O love, alas! ’twas ever so to be,
When streams set out to reach the bitter sea.
It was a time within the early spring,
Before the orchards had done blossoming,
Before the kinglet on his northern search,
Had ceased his timorous piping in the birch,
When streams were bright before the coming leaves
And gurgled like the swallows in the eaves,
She wandered led by fancy to this place,
And looked upon the water’s crystal face;
She saw--what thing of beauty or of awe
I know not, no one knoweth what she saw.
But ever after she was constant here,
As silent as her shadow in the mere,
Sitting upon a stone which many feet
Had grooved and trodden for the water sweet,
And leaning gravely on her slanted arm,
Her fingers buried in the gravel warm,
She gazed and gazed and did not speak or sigh,
As if this gazing was her destiny.
They led her nightly from the magic pool,
Before the shadows grew too deep and cool;
They thought to win her from the liquid spell,
And tried to tease the elfin maid to tell,
What was the charm that led her to the spring;
But all their words availed not anything.
Then gazed they on the surface of the pool
To read the reason of such subtle rule;
Their eyes were overclouded, they could see
(Who had drawn water there perpetually)
Nothing but water in a depth serene,
With a few moony stones of palish green.
They thought perchance it was her face she saw
And answered, beauty unto beauty’s law,
But when they showed her image in a glass,
She was not cured and nothing came to pass;
So then they left her to her own strange will,
And here she stayed when the fair pool was still.
But when the wind would hurl the heavy rain,
She peered out sadly from her window-pane;
And when the night set wildly close and deep,
She took her trouble down the dale of sleep:
But when the night was warm and no dew fell,
She waked and dreamed beside the starlit well.
Then came a change, each day some offering
She laid beside the clear soft flowing spring;
And there she found them at the break of morn,
And everything would take away forlorn;
Until beside the unconscious spring was laid
Each treasure held most precious by a maid.
After, she offered flowers and often set
A bowlful of the pleasant mignonette,
And starred the stones with the narcissus white,
And pansies left athinking all the night,
Then ruffled dewy dahlias, and at last,
When sundown told the summer-time had passed,
The stainéd asters; but from day to day,
Sadly she took the untouched flowers away.
With autumn and the sounding harvest flute,
She brought her timid god the heavy fruit;
But found it still and cool at early dawn,
Beaded with dew upon the crispy lawn.
At last one eve she placed an apple here,
Smooth as a topaz and as golden clear,
Scented like almonds, with a flesh like dew
And luscious-sweet as honey through and through.
She left it sadly on the sleepy lawn,
But when she came again her apple gold was gone.
Day after day for days she mutely strove,
Not to be separate from her placid love;
Perchance she thought that, breaking through the spell,
Her shadow-god, deep in the tranquil well,
Had taken her last gift;--no man may know;
Her fancies merged with all mute things that go
The poppied path, dreams and desires foredone,
The unplucked roses of oblivion.
But now she searched for words that would express
Something of all her spirit’s loneliness;
And formed a liquid jargon, full of falls
As weird and wild as ariel madrigals;
Our human tongue was far too harsh for this,
Or her slight spirit bore too great a bliss;
But always grew she very faint and pale,
Day after day her beauty grew more frail,
More mute, more eerie, more ethereal;
Her soul burned whitely in its waning shell.
Then came the winter with his frosty breath
And made the world an image of white death,
And like to death he found the charméd child;
Yet could not kill her with his bluster wild.
Only in his first days she went about,
And sadly hearkened to his hearty shout;
From windows where the wizard frost had traced
Moth-wings of rime with silver ferns inlaced,
She saw her pool set coldly in the drift,
Where in the autumn she had left her gift,
Capped with a cloud of silver steam or smoke,
That hovered there whether she dreamed or woke;
And often stealing from her early sleep,
She watched the light cloud in the midnight deep,
Waver and blow beneath the moon’s white globe,
Shivering and whispering in her chilly robe.
At last she would not look or speak at all,
And turned her large eyes to the shaded wall.
Now she is dead, they thought; but never so,
She died not when the winter winds did blow;
She was a spirit of the summer air,
She would not vanish at the year’s despair.
At length the merry sun grew warm and high,
And changed the wildwood with his alchemy;
The violet reared her bell of drooping gold,
And over her the robin chimed and trolled.
When the first slender moon of May had come,
That finds the blithe bird busy at his home,
They missed the spirit maiden from the room,
That now was sweet with light and spring perfume,
And called her all the echoing afternoon;
She answered not, but when the growing moon
Went down the west with the last bird awing,
They found her dead beside her darling spring.
This is her tale, her murmurous monument
Flows softly where her fragile life was spent,
Not grooved in brass nor trenched in pallid stone,
But told by water to the reeds alone.
She cometh here sometimes on summer eves,
Her quiet spirit lingers in the leaves,
And while this spring flows on, and while the wands
Sway in the moonlight, while in drifting bands,
The thistledown blows gleaming in the air,
And dappled thrushes haunt the precinct fair;
She will return, she will return and lean
Above the crystal in the covert green,
And dream of beauty on the shadow flung
Of irised distance when the world was young.
Let us be gone; this is no place for tears,
Let us go slowly with the guardian years;
Let us be brave, the day is almost done,
Another setting of the pleasant sun.
Printed by T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to Her Majesty,
at the Edinburgh University Press.
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LIST OF BOOKS
MAY 1893.
MESSRS. METHUEN’S
ANNOUNCEMENTS
=Gladstone.= THE SPEECHES AND PUBLIC ADDRESSES OF THE RT. HON. W. E.
GLADSTONE, M.P. With Notes. Edited by A. W. HUTTON, M.A. (Librarian
of the Gladstone Library), and H. J. COHEN, M.A. With Portraits.
_8vo. Vol. IX. 12s. 6d._
Messrs. METHUEN beg to announce that they are about to issue, in
ten volumes 8vo, an authorised collection of Mr. Gladstone’s
Speeches, the work being undertaken with his sanction and under his
superintendence. Notes and Introductions will be added.
_In view of the interest in the Home Rule Question, it is proposed
to issue Vols. IX. and X., which will include the speeches of the
last seven or eight years, immediately, and then to proceed with
the earlier volumes. Volume X. is already published._
=Henley & Whibley.= A BOOK OF ENGLISH PROSE. Collected by W. E.
HENLEY and CHARLES WHIBLEY. _Crown 8vo._
[_October._
Also small limited editions on Dutch and Japanese paper. 21_s._ and
42_s._ _net_.
A companion book to Mr. Henley’s well-known _Lyra Heroica_. It is
believed that no such collection of splendid prose has ever been
brought within the compass of one volume. Each piece, whether
containing a character-sketch or incident, is complete in itself.
The book will be finely printed and bound.
=Henley.= ENGLISH LYRICS. Selected and Edited by W. E. HENLEY. In Two
Editions:
A limited issue on hand-made paper. _Large crown 8vo. 10s. 6d.
net._
A small issue on finest large Japanese paper. _Demy 8vo. 42s. net._
The announcement of this important collection of English Lyrics
will excite wide interest. It will be finely printed by Messrs.
Constable & Co., and issued in limited editions.
=Cheyne.= FOUNDERS OF OLD TESTAMENT CRITICISM: Biographical,
Descriptive, and Critical Studies. By T. K. CHEYNE, D.D., Oriel
Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at Oxford. _Large
crown 8vo. 7s. 6d._
[_Ready._
This important book is a historical sketch of O.T. Criticism in the
form of biographical studies from the days of Eichhorn to those of
Driver and Robertson Smith. It is the only book of its kind in
English.
=Prior.= CAMBRIDGE SERMONS. Edited by C. H. PRIOR, M.A., Fellow and
Tutor of Pembroke College. _Crown 8vo. 6s._
[_October._
A volume of sermons preached before the University of Cambridge by
various preachers, including the Archbishop of Canterbury and
Bishop Westcott.
=Collingwood.= JOHN RUSKIN: His Life and Work. By W. G. COLLINGWOOD,
M.A., late Scholar of University College, Oxford, Author of the
‘Art Teaching of John Ruskin,’ Editor of Mr. Ruskin’s Poems. _2
vols. 8vo. 32s._
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on India paper. £3, 3_s._ _net_.
[_All sold._
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[_All sold._
This important work is written by Mr. Collingwood, who has been for
some years Mr. Ruskin’s private secretary, and who has had unique
advantages in obtaining materials for this book from Mr. Ruskin
himself and from his friends. It contains a large amount of new
matter, and of letters which have never been published, and is, in
fact, as near as is possible at present, a full and authoritative
biography of Mr. Ruskin. The book contains numerous portraits of
Mr. Ruskin, including a coloured one from a water-colour portrait
by himself, and also 13 sketches, never before published, by Mr.
Ruskin and Mr. Arthur Severn. A bibliography is added.
_The First Edition having been at once exhausted, a Second is now
ready._
‘No more magnificent volumes have been published for a long time
than “The Life and Work of John Ruskin.” In binding, paper,
printing, and illustrations they will satisfy the most fastidious.
They will be prized not only by the band of devotees who look up to
Mr. Ruskin as the teacher of the age, but by the many whom no
eccentricities can blind to his genius....’--_Times._
‘It is just because there are so many books about Mr. Ruskin that
these extra ones are needed. They survey all the others, and
supersede most of them, and they give us the great writer as a
whole.... He has given us everything needful--a biography, a
systematic account of his writings, and a bibliography.... This
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‘The record is one which is well worth telling; the more so as Mr.
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deservedly read.’--_St. James’s Gazette._
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‘It is not likely that much will require to be added to this record
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books about one of the noblest lives of our century. The volumes
are exceedingly handsome, and the illustrations very
beautiful.’--_Glasgow Herald._
‘It is indeed an excellent biography of Ruskin.’--_Scotsman._
=John Beever.= PRACTICAL FLY-FISHING, Founded on Nature, by JOHN
BEEVER, late of the Thwaite House, Coniston. A New Edition, with a
Memoir of the Author by W. G. COLLINGWOOD, M.A., Author of ‘The
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chapter on Char-Fishing, by A. and A. R. SEVERN. With a specially
designed title-page. _Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d._
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is now issued with a Memoir of the Author by W. G. Collingwood.
=Hosken.= VERSES BY THE WAY. BY J. D. HOSKEN.
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[_October._
A Volume of Lyrics and Sonnets by J. D. Hosken, the Postman Poet,
of Helston, Cornwall, whose interesting career is now more or less
well known to the literary public. Q, the Author of ‘The Splendid
Spur,’ etc., will write a critical and biographical introduction.
=Oscar Browning.= GUELPHS AND GHIBELLINES: A Short History of
Mediæval Italy, A.D. 1250-1409. By OSCAR BROWNING, Fellow and Tutor
of King’s College, Cambridge. _Crown 8vo. 5s._
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[_October._
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beyond all cavilling, that in its way it also is a medium for
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=Henley.= LYRA HEROICA: An Anthology selected from the best English
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=Ibsen.= BRAND. A Drama by HENRIK IBSEN. Translated by WILLIAM
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COHEN, M.A. With Portraits. _8vo. Vol. X. 12s. 6d._
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=Wells.= THE TEACHING OF HISTORY IN SCHOOLS. A Lecture delivered at
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