And hopeful faces look upon and greet
This last of all your lovers, and to meet
Her kiss, the Comforter's, your spirit lean....
The ways of Death are soothing and serene.
W. E. HENLEY.
RONDEL.
I love you dearly, O my sweet!
Although you pass me lightly by,
Although you weave my life awry,
And tread my heart beneath your feet.
I tremble at your touch; I sigh
To see you passing down the street;
I love you dearly, O my sweet!
Although you pass me lightly by.
You say in scorn that love's a cheat,
Passion a blunder, youth a lie.
I know not. Only when we meet
I long to kiss your hand and cry,
"I love you dearly, O my sweet,
Although you pass me lightly by."
JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY.
TWO RONDELS.
I.
When on the mid sea of the night,
I waken at thy call, O Lord.
The first that troop my bark aboard
Are darksome imps that hate the light,
Whose tongues are arrows, eyes a blight--
Of wraths and cares a pirate horde--
Though on the mid sea of the night
It was thy call that waked me, Lord.
Then I must to my arms and fight--
Catch up my shield and two-edged sword,
The words of him who is thy word:
Nor cease till they are put to flight:--
Then in the mid sea of the night
I turn and listen for thee, Lord.
II.
There comes no voice from thee, O Lord,
Across the mid sea of the night!
I lift my voice and cry with might:
If thou keep silent, soon a horde
Of imps again will swarm aboard,
And I shall be in sorry plight
If no voice come from thee, O Lord,
Across the mid sea of the night.
There comes no voice; I hear no word!
But in my soul dawns something bright:--
There is no sea, no foe to fight!
Thy heart and mine beat one accord:
I need no voice from thee, O Lord,
Across the mid sea of the night.
GEORGE MACDONALD.
RONDELS.
I.
The lilacs are in bloom,
All is that ever was,
And Cupids peep and pass
Through the curtains of the room.
Season of light perfume,
Hide all beneath thy grass.
The lilacs are in bloom,
All is that ever was.
Dead hopes new shapes assume;
Town belle and country lass
Forget the word "Alas,"
For over every tomb
The lilacs are in bloom.
II.
Summer has seen decay
Of roses white and red,
And Love with wings outspread
Speeds after yesterday.
Blue skies have changed to grey,
And joy has sorrow wed:
Summer has seen decay
Of roses white and red.
May's flowers outlast not May;
And when the hour has fled,
Around the roses dead
The mournful echoes say--
Summer has seen decay.
GEORGE MOORE.
TO A BLANK SHEET OF PAPER.
Paper, inviolate, white,
Shall it be joy or pain?
Shall I of fate complain,
Or shall I laugh to-night?
Shall it be hopes that are bright?
Shall it be hopes that are vain?
Paper, inviolate, white,
Shall it be joy or pain?
A dear little hand so light,
A moment in mine hath lain;
Kind was its pressure again--
Ah, but it was so slight!
Paper, inviolate, white,
Shall it be joy or pain?
COSMO MONKHOUSE.
RONDEL.
Kiss me, sweetheart; the Spring is here
And Love is Lord of you and me.
The blue-bells beckon each passing bee;
The wild wood laughs to the flowered year:
There is no bird in brake or brere,
But to his little mate sings he,
"Kiss me, sweetheart; the Spring is here,
And Love is Lord of you and me!"
The blue sky laughs out sweet and clear,
The missel-thrush upon the tree
Pipes for sheer gladness loud and free;
And I go singing to my dear,
"Kiss me, sweetheart; the Spring is here,
And Love is Lord of you and me."
JOHN PAYNE.
"BEFORE THE DAWN."
Before the dawn begins to glow,
A ghostly company I keep;
Across the silent room they creep,
The buried forms of friend and foe.
Amid the throng that come and go,
There are two eyes that make me weep;
Before the dawn begins to glow,
A ghostly company I keep.
Two dear dead eyes. I love them so!
They shine like starlight on the deep;
And often when I am asleep
They stoop and kiss me, bending low,
Before the dawn begins to glow.
SAMUEL MINTURN PECK.
RONDEL.
Oh, say not ye that summer's over
When birds within the wood stop singing!
While hands still touch in desperate clinging,
Some ghost of hope in hearts must hover;
Though died the dream of loved and lover,
While yet the marriage bells were ringing.
Oh, say not ye that summer's over
When birds within the wood stop singing!
Their vanished hopes may none recover
In some new day, new morrow bringing?
And shall we see no buds fresh springing
Upon the stalks of last year's clover?
Oh, say not ye that summer's over
When birds within the wood stop singing!
MAY PROBYN.
FROM THEODORE DE BANVILLE.
I.
NIGHT.
We bless the coming of the Night,
Whose cool sweet kiss has set us free,
Life's clamour and anxiety
Her mantle covers out of sight.
All eating cares have taken flight,
The scented air is wine to me;
We bless the coming of the Night,
Whose cool sweet kiss has set us free.
Rest now, O reader, worn and white,
Driven by some divinity,
Aloft, like sparkling hoar frost see,
A starry ocean throb in light,
We bless the coming of the Night.
II.
THE MOON.
The moon, with all her tricksy ways,
Is like a careless young coquette,
Who smiles, and then her eyes are wet,
And flies or follows or delays.
By night, along the sand-hills' maze,
She leads and mocks you till you fret.
The moon with all her tricksy ways,
Is like a careless young coquette.
As oft she veils herself in haze,
A cloak before her splendour set;
She is a silly charming pet,
We needs must give her love and praise,
The moon with all her tricksy ways.
ARTHUR REED ROPES.
RONDEL.
Oh, modern singers! ye who vote
Our times for song unfit,
Your Pegasus is smooth of coat,
And patient of the bit;
But lost the freedom of his throat,
And dulled his prairie wit,
Oh, modern singers, ye who vote
Our times for song unfit,
If kin, fame, critics, age, you quote
As fain to thwart and twit,
Just try to feel your wings, and float
Above the scornful kit:-
Oh, modern singers, ye who vote
Our times for song unfit!
EMILY PFEIFFER.
COME, LOVE, ACROSS THE SUNLIT LAND.
(Rondel.)
Come, Love, across the sunlit land,
As blithe as dryad dancing free,
While time slips by like silvery sand
Within the glass of memory.
Ere Winter, in his reckless glee,
Blights all the bloom with ruthless hand,
Come, Love, across the sunlit land,
As blithe as dryad dancing free.
And all the years of life shall be
Like peaceful vales that wide expand
To meet a bright, untroubled sea
By radiant azure arches spanned;
Come, Love, across the sunlit land
As blithe as dryad dancing free.
CLINTON SCOLLARD.
UPON THE STAIR I SEE MY LADY STAND.
(Rondel.)
Upon the stair I see my lady stand,
Her hair is like the gleaming gold of dawn,
And, like the laughing sunbeam on the lawn,
The radiant smile by which her lips are spanned.
A chiselled marvel seems her slender hand
What time she waves it ere my steps are gone;
Upon the stair I see my lady stand,
Her hair is like the gleaming gold of dawn.
Through the green covert that the breeze has fanned
She fleets as graceful as the flexile fawn;
She is the star to which my soul is drawn
When shadows drive the daylight from the land.
Upon the stair I see my lady stand,
Her hair is like the gleaming gold of dawn.
CLINTON SCOLLARD.
I HEARD A MAID WITH HER GUITAR.
(Rondel.)
I heard a maid with her guitar
Who played, like Orpheus, to the wind,
And sent forth rhythmic notes afar
From out an arbor vine-entwined.
She knew the God of love was blind,
And left her white heart-gates ajar--
I heard a maid with her guitar
Who played, like Orpheus, to the wind.
But ah! Love's ears are keen as are
The ears of shy, pool-haunting hind,
And when she closed her bosom's bar
She found the god was there enshrined;
I heard a maid with her guitar
Who played, like Orpheus, to the wind.
CLINTON SCOLLARD.
VALENTINE.
Awake, awake, O gracious heart,
There's some one knocking at the door;
The chilling breezes make him smart;
His little feet are tired and sore.
Arise, and welcome him before
Adown his cheeks the big tears start:
Awake, awake, O gracious heart,
There's some one knocking at the door.
'Tis Cupid come with loving art
To honour, worship, and implore;
And lest, unwelcomed, he depart
With all his wise mysterious lore,
Awake, awake, O gracious heart,
There's some one knocking at the door!
FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN.
LOVE'S CAPTIVE.
I hide her in my heart, my May,
And keep my darling captive there!
But not because she'd fly away
To seek for liberty elsewhere,
For love is ever free as air!
And as with me her love will stay,
I hide her in my heart, my May,
And keep my darling captive there.
Our love is love that lives for aye
Enchained in fetters strong and fair,
So evermore, by night and day,
That we our prisoned home may share,
I hide her in my heart, my May,
And keep my darling captive there.
C. H. WARING.
LOVE.
Looks that love not are silver-cold--
Gold the glory of love-sweet eyes!
Hearts are wide as the boundless skies
Full of loves--like the stars--untold!
Love by love should be bought and sold.
Other payments are shams and lies!
Looks that love not are silver-cold--
Gold the glory of love-sweet eyes!
Many loves will a great heart hold--
Foolish often, but often wise;
_Some_ of silver, but _one_ of gold,--
Life's great treasure, and crowning prize.
Looks that love not are silver-cold--
Gold the glory of love-sweet eyes--
C. H. WARING.
RONDEL.
The larch has donned its rosy plumes,
And hastes its emerald beads to string:
The warblers now are on the wing.
Across the pathless ocean-glooms,
Through tender grass and violet blooms,
I move along and gaily sing.
The larch has donned its rosy plumes,
And hastes its emerald beads to string.
Nature with beauteous tints illumes
The fields and groves of budding Spring,
Loud voices from afar to bring;
And my glad Muse its song resumes--
The larch has donned its rosy plumes,
And hastes its emerald beads to string.
RICHARD WILTON.
BENEDICITE.
O all ye Green Things on the Earth,
Bless ye the Lord in sun and shade;
To whisper praises ye were made,
Or wave to Him in solemn mirth.
For this the towering pine had birth,
For this sprang forth each grassy blade;
O all ye Green Things on the Earth,
Bless ye the Lord in sun and shade.
Ye wayside weeds of little worth,
Ye ferns that fringe the woodland glade,
Ye dainty flowers that quickly fade,
Ye steadfast yews of mighty girth:
O all ye Green Things on the Earth,
Bless ye the Lord in sun and shade!
RICHARD WILTON.
RONDELETS.
"Which way he went?"
I know not--how should I go spy
Which way he went?
I only know him gone. "Relent?"
He never will--unless I die!
And then, what will it signify
Which way he went?
Say what you please,
But know, I shall not change my mind!
Say what you please,
Even, if you wish it, on your knees--
And, when you hear me next defined
As something lighter than the wind,
Say what you please!
MAY PROBYN.
MIGHT LOVE BE BOUGHT.
Might Love be bought, I were full fain
My all to give thy love to gain.
Yet would such getting profit naught;
Possession with keen fears were fraught,
Would make even love's blisses vain.
For who could tell what god might deign
His golden treasures round thee rain,
Till ruin on my hopes were brought,
Might Love be bought.
Better a pensioner remain
On thy dear grace, since to attain
To worthiness in vain I sought.
Thy kindness hath assurance wrought
Could never be between us twain
Might Love be bought.
ARLO BATES.
IN THY CLEAR EYES.
In thy clear eyes, fairest, I see
Sometimes of love a transient glow;
But ere my heart assured may be,
With cold disdain thou mockest me:
Hope fades as songs to silence flow.
Ah! most bewitching, mocking she,
Fairer than poet's dream may show,
The glance of scorn how can I dree
In thy clear eyes?
Life is so brief, and to and fro,
Like thistledown above the lea,
Fly on poor days; why then so slow
To bend from pride? Let us bliss know
Ere age the light dims ruthlessly
In thy clear eyes.
ARLO BATES.
THE SWEET, SAD YEARS.
The sweet sad years; the sun, the rain,
Alas! too quickly did they wane,
For each some boon, some blessing bore;
Of smiles and tears each had its store,
Its chequered lot of bliss and pain.
Although it idle be and vain,
Yet cannot I the wish restrain
That I had held them evermore,
The sweet sad years!
Like echo of an old refrain
That long within the mind has lain,
I keep repeating o'er and o'er,
"Nothing can e'er the past restore,
Nothing bring back the years again,
The sweet sad years!"
REV. CHARLES D. BELL, D.D.
A WISH.
Fain would I pass from all the pain,
The aching heart and weary brain,
From gnawing grief and withering care,
And passion rising to despair,
From love dissatisfied and vain.
From tears that burn the cheeks they stain,
And hopes that droop like flowers in rain,
From sorrows that turn grey the hair,
Fain would I pass!
Beyond the silent, soundless main,
Where the long lost are found again,
Where summer smiles for ever fair,
Where skies are pure, divine the air,
Where love and joy eternal reign,
Fain would I pass!
REV. CHARLES D. BELL, D.D.
TO A DOLEFUL POET.
Why are you sad when the sky is blue?
Why, when the sun shines bright for you,
And the birds are singing, and all the air
So sweet with the flowers everywhere?
If life hath thorns, it has roses too.
Be wise and be merry. 'Tis half untrue
Your doleful song. You have work to do.
If the work be good, and the world so fair,
Why are you sad?
Life's sorrows are many, its joys so few!
Ah! sing of the joys! Let the dismal crew
Of black thoughts bide in their doleful lair,
Give us glad songs; sing us free from care.
Gladness maketh the world anew,
Why are you sad?
_An Answer._
Why am I sad when the sky is blue,
You ask, O friend, and I answer you--
I love the sun and balmy air,
The flowers and glad things everywhere.
But if life is merry, 'tis earnest too.
And the earnest hour, if hope be true,
Must be solemn or sad; for the work we do
Is little and weak. Ask the world so fair
Why I am sad.
For me glad hours are nowise few,
But life is so serious-ship and crew
Bound such a voyage to death's dark lair.
My work is my happy song: but care
Still steals on the quiet hour anew
And makes it sad.
H. COURTHOPE BOWEN.
"HIS POISONED SHAFTS."
His poisoned shafts, that fresh he dips
In juice of plants that no bee sips,
He takes, and with his bow renown'd
Goes out upon his hunting ground,
Hanging his quiver at his hips.
He draws them one by one, and clips
Their heads between his finger tips,
And looses with a twanging sound
His poisoned shafts.
But if a maiden with her lips
Suck from his wound the blood that drips,
And drink the poison from the wound,
The simple remedy is found
That of their deadly terror strips
His poisoned shafts.
ROBERT BRIDGES.
TO HOMER.
All down the years thy tale has rolled--
A brilliant streak of burnished gold
Old Homer, near we seem to thee,
As roving over vale and sea
Thou tellest of thy hero bold!
For we too wonder, as of old
Thy hero did. The fates are doled
To us the same, both serf and free,
All down the years.
None other yet has ever told
So sweet a tale; as we unfold
Thy mystic page we find the key
Of human sorrow, guilt and glee,
Which ever comes our souls to mould
All down the years.
JOHN MALCOLM BULLOCH.
SEPTEMBER.
The Summer's gone--how did it go?
And where has gone the dogwood's show?
The air is sharp upon the hill,
And with a tinkle sharp and chill
The icy little brooklets flow.
What is it in the season, though,
Brings back the days of old, and so
Sets memory recalling still
The Summer's gone?
Why are my days so dark? for lo!
The maples with fresh glory glow,
Fair shimmering mists the valleys fill,
The keen air sets the blood a-thrill-
Ah! now that _you_ are gone, I know
The Summer's gone.
H. C. BUNNER.
LES MORTS VONT VITE.
_Les morts vont vite!_ Ay for a little space
We miss and mourn them, fallen from their place;
To take our portion in their rest are fain;
But by-and-by, having wept, press on again,
Perchance to win their laurels in the race.
What man would find the old in the new love's face?
Seek on the fresher lips the old kisses' trace,
For withered roses newer blooms disdain?
_Les morts vont vite!_
But when disease brings thee in piteous case,
Thou shalt thy dead recall, and thy ill grace
To them for whom remembrance plead in vain.
Then, shuddering, think, while thy bedfellow Pain
Clasp thee with arms that cling like Death's embrace:
_Les morts vont vite!_
H. C. BUNNER.
"IN LOVE'S DISPORT."
In love's disport, gay bubbles blown
On summer winds light-freighted flown:
A child intent upon delight
The painted spheres would keep in sight,
Dissolved too soon in worlds unknown.
Lo! from the furnace mouth hath grown
Fair shapes, as frail; with jewelled zone,
Clear globes where fate may read aright
In love's disport.
O frail as fair! though in the white
Of flameful heat with force to fight,
Art thou by careless hands cast down
Or killed, when frozen hearts disown
The children born of love and light
In love's disport.
WALTER CRANE.
"WHAT MAKES THE WORLD?"
What makes the world, Sweetheart, reply?
A space of lawn, a strip of sky,
The bread and wine of fellowship,
The cup of life for love to sip,
A glass of dreams in Hope's blue eye
So let the days and hours go by,
Let Fortune flout, and Fame deny,
With feathered heel shall fancy trip--
What makes the world?
The wealth that never in the grip
Of blighting greed shall heedless slip,--
When bought and sold is liberty,
With worth of life and love gone by--
What makes the world?
WALTER CRANE.
"O FONS BANDUSIÆ."
O babbling Spring, than glass more clear,
Worthy of wreath and cup sincere,
To-morrow shall a kid be thine
With swelled and sprouting brows for sign,--
Sure sign!--of loves and battles near.
Child of the race that butt and rear!
Not less, alas! his life-blood dear
Must tinge thy cold wave crystalline,
O babbling Spring!
Thee Sirius knows not. Thou dost cheer
With pleasant cool the plough-worn steer,--
The wandering flock. This verse of mine
Will rank thee one with founts divine;
Men shall thy rock and tree revere,
O babbling Spring!
AUSTIN DOBSON.
"ON LONDON STONES."
On London stones I sometimes sigh
For wider green and bluer sky;--
Too oft the trembling note is drowned
In this huge city's varied sound;--
"Pure song is country-born,"--I cry.
Then comes the spring,--the months go by,
The last stray swallows seaward fly;
And I--I too!--no more am found
On London stones!
In vain! the woods, the fields deny
That clearer strain I fain would try;
Mine is an urban Muse, and bound
By some strange law to paven ground;
Abroad she pouts;--she is not shy
On London stones!
AUSTIN DOBSON.
A RONDEAU TO ETHEL.
"In teacup-times!" The style of dress
Would suit your beauty, I confess;
BELINDA-like, the patch you'd wear;
I picture you with powdered hair,--
You'd make a charming Shepherdess!
And I--no doubt--could well express
SIR PLUME'S complete conceitedness,--
Could poise a clouded cane with care
"In teacup-times!"
The parts would fit precisely--yes:
We should achieve a huge success!
You should disdain and I despair,
With quite the true Augustan air;
But ... could I love you more, or less,--
"In teacup-times?"
AUSTIN DOBSON.
TO A JUNE ROSE.
O royal Rose! the Roman dress'd
His feast with thee; thy petals press'd
Augustan brows; thine odour fine,
Mix'd with the three-times-mingled wine,
Lent the long Thracian draught its zest.
What marvel then, if host and guest
By Song, by Joy, by Thee caress'd,
Half-trembled on the half-divine,
O royal Rose!
And yet--and yet--I love thee best
In our old gardens of the West,
Whether about my thatch thou twine,
Or Her's, that brown-eyed maid of mine,
Who lulls thee on her lawny breast,
O royal Rose!
AUSTIN DOBSON.
"WITH PIPE AND FLUTE."
With pipe and flute the rustic Pan
Of old made music sweet for man;
And wonder hushed the warbling bird,
And closer drew the calm-eyed herd,--
The rolling river slowlier ran.
Ah! would,--ah! would, a little span,
Some air of Arcady could fan
This age of ours, too seldom stirred
With pipe and flute!
But now for gold we plot and plan;
And from Beersheba unto Dan,
Apollo's self might pass unheard,
Or find the night-jar's note preferred ...
Not so it fared, when time began
With pipe and flute!
AUSTIN DOBSON.
"IN AFTER DAYS."
In after days, when grasses high
O'er-top the stone where I shall lie,
Though ill or well the world adjust
My slender claim to honoured dust,
I shall not question nor reply.
I shall not see the morning sky,
I shall not hear the night-wind sigh,
I shall be mute, as all men must
In after days!
But yet, now living, fain were I
That some one then should testify,
Saying--_He held his pen in trust
To Art, not serving shame or lust._
Will none?... Then let my memory die
In after days!
AUSTIN DOBSON.
"IN VAIN TO-DAY."
In vain to-day I scrape and blot:
The nimble words, the phrases neat,
Decline to mingle and to meet;
My skill is all forgone, forgot.
He will not canter, walk, or trot,
My Pegasus; I spur, I beat
In vain to-day.
And yet 'twere sure the saddest lot
That I should fail to leave complete
One poor ... the rhyme suggests "conceit!"
Alas! 'tis all too clear I'm not
In vein to-day.
AUSTIN DOBSON.
"WHEN BURBADGE PLAYED."
When Burbadge played, the stage was bare
Of fount and temple, tower and stair;
Two backswords eked a battle out;
Two supers made a rabble rout;
The Throne of Denmark was a chair!
And yet, no less, the audience there
Thrilled through all changes of Despair,
Hope, Anger, Fear, Delight, and Doubt,
When Burbadge played!
This is the Actor's gift; to share
All moods, all passions, nor to care
One whit for scene, so he without
Can lead men's minds the roundabout,
Stirred as of old those hearers were,
When Burbadge played!
AUSTIN DOBSON.
OLD BOOKS ARE BEST.
(To J. H. P.)
Old books are best! With what delight
Does "Faithorne fecit" greet our sight;
On frontispiece or title-page
Of that old time, when on the stage
"Sweet Nell" set "Rowley's" heart alight!
And you, O friend, to whom I write,
Must not deny, e'en though you might,
Through fear of modern pirates' rage,
Old books are best.
What though the print be not so bright,
The paper dark, the binding slight?
Our author, be he dull or sage,
Returning from that distant age
So lives again, we say of right:
Old books are best.
BEVERLY CHEW.
A COWARD STILL.
A coward still: I've longed to fling
My arms about you, and to bring
My beating heart so near to thine,
That it might learn all thought of mine,
And closer to me cling.
But ere I dared do anything,
My trembling courage took to wing,
And left its bold design,
A coward still.
Poor heart: these words for ever ring,
Fair dame wins not the faint fearing;
Tho' secretly it may repine
The loss that would make life divine,
Yet it must be content to sing,
A coward still.
JOHN CAMERON GRANT.
RONDEAUX OF CITIES.
I.
(Rondeau à la Boston.)
A cultured mind! Before I speak
The words, sweet maid, to tinge thy cheek
With blushes of the nodding rose
That on thy breast in beauty blows,
I prithee satisfy my freak.
Canst thou read Latin and eke Greek?
Dost thou for knowledge pine and peak?
Hast thou, in short, as I suppose,
A cultured mind.
Some men require a maiden meek
Enough to eat at need the leek;
Some lovers crave a classic nose,
A liquid eye, or faultless pose;
I none of these, I only seek
A cultured mind.
II.
(Rondeau à la New York.)
A pot of gold! O mistress fair,
With eyes of brown that pass compare,
Ere I on bended knee express
The love which you already guess,
I fain would ask a small affair.
Hast thou, my dear, an ample share
Of this world's goods? Wilt thy papa[9]
Disgorge, to gild our blessedness,
A pot of gold?
Some swains for mental graces care;
Some fall a prey to golden hair;
I am not blind, I will confess,
To intellect or comeliness;
Still let these go beside, _ma chère_,
A pot of gold.
III.
(Rondeau à la Philadelphia.)
A pedigree! Ah, lovely jade!
Whose tresses mock the raven's shade,
Before I free this aching breast,
I want to set my mind at rest;
'Tis best to call a spade a spade.
What was thy father ere he made
His fortune? Was he smeared with trade,
Or does he boast an ancient crest--
A pedigree?
Brains and bright eyes are overweighed,
For wits grow dull and beauties fade;
And riches, though a welcome guest,
Oft jar the matrimonial nest;
I kiss her lips who holds displayed
A pedigree.
IV.
(Rondeau à la Baltimore.)
A pretty face! O maid divine,
Whose vowels flow as soft as wine,
Before I say upon the rack
The words I never can take back,
A moment meet my glance with thine.
Say, art thou fair? Is the incline
Of that sweet nose an aquiline?
Hast thou, despite unkind attack,
A pretty face?
Some sigh for wisdom; Three, not nine,
The Graces were. I won't repine
For want of pedigree, or lack
Of gold to banish Care the black,
If I can call forever mine
A pretty face.
ROBERT GRANT.
[9] Pronounced _papaire_.
COULD SHE HAVE GUESSED.