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Title: A happy New Year, and other verses

Author: Charles Edward de la Poer Beresford

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A HAPPY NEW YEAR

AND OTHER VERSES

A Happy New Year

AND OTHER VERSES

BY

C. E. DE LA POER BERESFORD

ETON COLLEGE

SPOTTISWOODE & CO., LTD.

1913

TO MY DEAR WIFE

OLD PLACE, 1913

My thanks are due to the Editors, “Blackwood’s Magazine,” “Country Life,” “The Londonderry Sentinel,” for their kindness in allowing me to reprint verses that have appeared in their publications.

Contents

PAGE

A Happy New Year

1

Cradle Song

2

Queen Tamara’s Castle

3

Ulster’s Prayer

4

Dark Donegal

5

Hy-Brasail

7

Bálor of the Great Blows

9

The Garden

11

A Song of Spring

12

The Miráge on Kizil Koom

13

A Dream of Samarkánd

15

At Santa Sophia, Constantinople

21

The Hill Cities

22

Florence from San Miniato

23

The Thames

24

In Te, Domine, spero

26

To Miss X. de C. on her Birthday

27

Londonderry City Election, 1885

28

Londonderry City Election, 1913

29

To M. S.

30

The Song of Timùr the Lame

31

Catullus, Carmina xxxi., l. 12 to end

32

Catullus, Carmina lxxvi. (Si qua recordanti)

33

The Fisherman’s Dream

34

The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers at Pieters’, February, 1900

36

Senlac

39

Christmas-tide

46

A Happy New Year.

TO the young, to the brave and the strong,

Before whom the future outspreads

As a board all light-handed to sweep,

The unknown, and the right and the wrong,

A Happy New Year!

To the good, to the tender and true,

Who have stood by our side on the path

Of life’s follies and troubles and cares,

The path that we all must pursue,

A Happy New Year!

For the old, for the frail and the weak,

To whom mem’ry calls up in a dream

The never attained might have been,

We with love and affection bespeak

A Happy New Year!

Cradle Song.

(Imitated from the Russian.)

SLEEP! Babyónka,[A] sleep!

By thy side Bábochka[B] watches.

Round the house the wind blows high,

Soars the eagle in the sky,

Hark, I hear the woodcock cry.

Sleep, my darling, sleep!

O’er thy slumbers Saints are watching.

Sleep! Babyónka, sleep!

Bábochka will rock thy cradle.

Wind that rushes through the trees,

Eagle soaring o’er the breeze,

Woodcock whistling in the reeds,[C]

Bring my darling sleep!

Babyónka dear, the Saints are watching.

Sleep! my darling, sleep!

Bábochka Babyónka watches.

Wind and eagle, woodcock brown,

All of them come rushing down

To the cot where baby slumbers.

They have brought Babyónka sleep.

O’er thy slumbers Saints are watching.

Queen Tamara’s Castle.

(Translated from Lermontof.)

IN Dariel’s rocky gorges deep,

Where Terek’s water madly moves,

There is a castle on the steep,

The scene of Queen Tamára’s loves.

She seemed to play an angel’s part;

Black as a demon’s was her heart.

The weary traveller from below

Looked on Tamára’s window-glow,

And gazing on the twinkling light,

Went in to sup and pass the night.

But as the rays of rosy dawn

Gilded the mountains in the morn,

Silence fell on Tamára’s halls,

And Terek’s madly rushing wave

A mangled corpse bore to its grave.

Ulster’s Prayer.

O GOD, who once in ages past

Savedst from the fierce Red Sea

And Ramses’ chariots following fast

Thy sons who sang to Thee:

Turn Thee again, Lord of the Saints,

Unto our suppliant side,

Who humbly beg Thy help against

Those who Thy faith deride.

’Gainst those who that pure faith can turn

To dogma harsh and strict,

From which all who its errors spurn

Are cast off derelict;

We, as our fathers prayed before,

Fighting for faith and home,

Beseech Thee for Thy help once more

Against the wiles of Rome.

Dark Donegal.

THE ocean is dashing

Its waves o’er the strand

That shelters Sheep Haven

With hillocks of sand.

M‘Swyne’s Gun is winding

His horn o’er the lea,

Atlantic is grinding

The dust of the sea.

It cuts from the fields,

Lough, haven, and bay,

And dark Donegal yields

To its constant sword-play.[D]

Through infinite inlets

It pours willy-nilly,

Into Ness and Mulroy,

Sheep Haven and Swilly.

Atlantic was born

Bluff, boisterous, coy;

It may storm at the Horn

When it coos at Mulroy.

The ocean is silent,

Or noisy or sullen;

It may sleep at Melmore,

Or rage at Rathmullan.

The ghosts of Saldanha[E]

Still walk at Port Salon;

The bones of the Spaniards

Lie deep off the Aran.

In spite of these mem’ries,

Or because of them all,

The breeze carries gladness

Over dark Donegal.

Dunfanaghy, September 2, 1913.

Hy-Brasail.

NEAR where Horn its dark head

Rears o’er the deep ocean,

And the sea-birds whirl round

In a constant commotion,

Where loving Atlantic

Outstretches its arms,

Four islands romantic

Lie, lost in their charms.

The farthest is Tory,

Rough, rocky and stern,

Inishbeg, Inishbofin,

Inishdoe, as you turn

Your rapt gaze to the west,

Orange, rose-red, or grey,

Stretch, three islands at rest

In the calm of the bay.

And beyond them, most blest

Of a realm without guile,

In the sunshine and rest

Lies Hy-Brasail, the isle

Of the angels and saints,

So lovely and dim,

Where the sea’s white foam breaks

On its far distant rim.

The peasant who heard of

This wonderful isle

Set sail to the west

With a confident smile.

The dream of Hy-Brasail

Within his heart burned,

He was lost in the sea

And never returned.

Londonderry, September 10, 1913.

Bálor of the Great Blows.

HAVE ye read of the past in folios at Dublin

Of Firwolgs, and of Pechts, and of red-headed Danes,

And Fomors from Tory, who people went troublin’,

Stealing woman and child, binding Irish in chains?

Well, ’tis of these wild times and Ulster romantic,

O’erspread by dark forests through which the elk called,

And of rude pagan tribes, some dwarf, some gigantic,

That I tell in this rhyme so poor and so bald.

In a deep gloomy glen near Muckish’s mountain,

Where the mist rolls in clouds and the waterfalls foam,

From out of the cloud-rack, as out of a fountain;

Himself saw a quare sight as he rode his horse home.

In the glen at the mouth of a black souterrain

(Where Crocknálarágagh looks down upon Tory,

The island where Bálor of the Great Blows did reign)

Shane O’Dugan beheld what I tell in my story.

A woman as lovely as dead Ethné the Fair,

With twelve ladies in waiting all clothed in gold,

The Chief, MacKineely, and a boy with red hair,

Came out the cave-dwelling and walked o’er the fold.

Now the red-pate is changed into Bálor the King,

All bent on the murder of brave MacKineely;

And although through the valley his daughter’s shrieks ring,

He cuts off his head on the stone Clough-an-neely.

Fierce King Bálor would fain kill his young grandsons too,

But the Princess resolves with her children to fly,

And the eldest grows into a young farrier, who

Thrusts a red-heated iron in Bálor’s one eye.

The wounded King calls to his one grandson, “Asthore!”

Whilst forth from the sore wound rushes water like oil,

From Falcarragh the whole way right up to Gweedore,

Till it forms a lough three times as deep as Lough Foyle!

The Garden.

I KNOW a garden sheltered from the north

And east by lichened walls and stately trees

Facing the south in rows are bursting forth

Masses of bright flowers, fertilised by bees;

In it from early morn, with spade and hoe,

A good man trenches, digs, and plants, that things may grow.

I would my mind were like that garden fair—

A fruitful soil touched by the spade of God!

No weeds of prejudice might grow up there,

No tares of ignorance disgrace the sod,

But Wisdom, glad of such a soil and ground,

Would plant her flowers therein—to scatter fragrance round.

1904

A Song of Spring.

IT was Spring, joyous Spring,

When each bud had just unfolden,

From its bursting calyx golden,

All the greenery of Spring,

When I heard the cuckoo sing,

Cuckoo! cuckoo! cuckoo!

It was Spring, joyous Spring,

When the shepherd on the wold,

Having tended well the fold,

Saw the meek-eyed ewes well-sheltered

’Gainst the hail and rain that peltered

On the downs, in the Spring!

It was Spring, joyous Spring,

And the black thorn and the white,

Breaking forth from out the night

And the dark of Winter’s gloom,

Raced the chestnuts into bloom

With the leaves, in gentle Spring.

It was Spring, joyous Spring,

When from bush and bough and tree

Burst a song of joy to Thee,

Who hast made the lark that singeth,

And the earth whose produce bringeth

Forth in Spring:

When I heard the cuckoo sing,

Cuckoo! cuckoo! cuckoo!

April, 1896.

The Miráge on Kizil Koom.

WHERE the hot sun o’er Caspian’s reedy shore

In a red ball of fire descends in gloom,

I trod the desert’s silent, sandy floor,

Called by the Turkománs the Kizil Koom.

No grass, no flower relieves the rusty sheen,

Perhaps an antelope goes rushing through

The rare sage-brush; no water there is seen,

Save where the fell miráge distracts the view.

And that miráge! At first a little cloud,

From which green trees and silvery lakes arise,

Where white felucca sails deceive the crowd

Of weary travellers, and fool their eyes.

Ah! what art thou, miráge? What have I seen?

“I am the many things of which you dream”

“At morn of life, but never hold at e’en.”

“I am the hopes with which your fancies teem!”

“I am the scholar’s prize, the high degree;”

“The sword of steel at side, the fox’s brush;”

“The little cross of bronze, the prized V.C.;”

“The thundering sound of steeds, the warrior’s rush!”

“I am the heart’s desire, the lover bold;”

I am the silken gown, the judge’s chair

I am the battle won; the book well sold

Coronet; Ermine! Castle in the air!”

Ah! Kizil Koom, Red Sand, what more dost say

In thy miráge to travellers o’er thy floor?

“I teach content to those who through the way

Of life well spent have passed, and dream no more.”

A Dream of Samarkánd.

BETWEEN the mountains of Alai

And Tian-Shan’s heavenly chain

Lies the home of the Zagatai,

Fergána’s fruitful plain.

First of the towns whose domes and wall

Deck that illustrious land

Stands the lame Timùr’s capital,

His best-loved Samarkánd.

I stood inside a shattered room,

Stricken by earthquakes rife,

That Timùr raised above the tomb

Of Ming’s fair daughter-wife.

Daughter of China’s Bógdu-Khan,

Wife of the great Timùr,

Who ’twixt them ruled the vast inland

From Red Sea to Amùr.

Above an arch a double dome

Bites in the clear blue sky

(Bramanté’s famous fane at Rome

Seems scarce so broad and high).

Above the dome a crescent bright

Watched sleepy Samarkánd,

Asleep to-day, but wide awake

When Timùr ruled the land.

Sure, such a tomb was never raised

By widower to wife!

Nor Akhbar brave nor Shah Jehán

Did thus weld bricks to life.

The Tâj, in marble shining bright

By Agra’s sun-baked walls,

Must yield the palm for sheer delight

To Bibi-Khánim’s halls.

The sun shines through the double dome,

Lighting its inner skin,

It shows the remnant of the stair

That upwards led within,

From which the muezzin, climbing slow,

To shout the evening prayer,

Could see the Rigistán below,

Shir-Dár and Tilla-Kare.

I seemed to see the cliffs at Kesh,

Whence came the great Amìr,

From whose red rift the Zarafshán

Sends forth its waters clear.

I seemed to see the Tatar horde,

Under Toktámish brave,

Beaten and drowning in the ford

That crosses Kubán’s wave.

I saw the Mogul army move

To conquer Hindostán;

Its serried, strong divisions prove

The master mind of man.

Ninety-two thousand fretting steeds

Rush down from hill to plain;

Timùr descends the khud by ropes,

Five times let down again.

The Mongols march upon Attock

And cross the rivers five,

Timùr joins forces at Multán

With all his sons alive;

His armies then invest Batnir,

They come to Delhi’s towers,

Mahmud Sultán gives battle there,

Timùr his standard lowers.

Asia, from Irtish to Ormùz

O’er-run by Timùr’s bands,

Irán, Turán and Ind had felt

The weight of Mongol hands.

Aleppo taken by the horde,

Timùr fresh laurels culls,

And covers Baghdad’s reeking sward

With pyramids of skulls.

Now on Angóra’s fateful plain

The “Lightning” Bayazet

Urges his Turks to fight, in vain,

’Gainst Mongol and kismet.

’Twas told that Bayazet was caged

Just like a timid deer,

But Timùr never warfare waged

On captives of his spear.

From all these scenes of lust and blood

I turn to Samarkánd,

Where Zarafshán’s refreshing flood

Gives life unto the land.

Here Timùr mosque and palace built

Around a sheltered pool,

Set in a field with arbours gilt,

And called it Khân-i-Gùl.

Thousands of guests were bid to share

The great Amìr’s largesse,

The Guilds and Trades were gathered there,

The wronged received redress.

Here, in his coat of mail of steel,

Timùr, ’midst his sepoys,

From Russ, and France, and far Castille,

Received the Grand Envoys.

Six grandsons of the Great Amìr

Wed brides of princely rank,

Nine times the brides their dresses change,

Nine times their handmaids thank.

Each time each bride is fresh arrayed,

Fall to the ground in showers

Rubies and diamonds, which the maid

Keeps as her bridal flowers!

I see Timùr, one boot, one glove,

And with his lint-white hair,

Delighted on his chess-board move

Fifty-six pieces fair.

The blood-red ruby in his ear

Trembles before my view,

But when his rage the stone shakes there,

’Fore God! the world shakes too.

At last the Mogul Emperor

Invades far-off Cathay,

He starts, the tired conqueror,

Marching ten miles a day,

Crosses Syr-Dária’s solid stream,

And stops at Otrár, when

He sees the blade of Àzrael gleam

At three-score years and ten.

Come with me to the Gùr-Amir,

Within whose simple walls

Over a six-foot block of jade

A horsehair standard falls.

Beneath the dark and polished stone

Descends a bare brick stair,

Leading to Tamerlane’s own tomb,

Nor pomp nor state is there.

Beneath the fluted, darkened dome,

Where dimly seen in gloom,

Surrounded by an Arab text,

Hangs Timùr’s tattered plume,

Outside the simple marble rail

Engraved with Timùr’s name,

The passing pilgrim cannot fail

To muse on Timùr’s fame.

At Santa Sophia, Constantinople.

(A Fragment.)

THERE is the altar, there is the wall,

Disfigured by Méhemet’s hand:

We should raise the Cross of Christ in the hall

Where the Turkish banners stand;

And the tones of “Te Deum,” quenched in blood,

Should resound again in the land.

The Hill Cities.

ALL along the line of mountains

That begin at Narni’s towers,

Stand the grey and brown hill cities,

’Midst the sunshine and the showers.

Each a tower of strength itself,

Well walled and machicolated,

Or for Ghibelline or Guelph,

Each ’twixt each interpolated;

Now for Kaiser, now for Pope,

Narni, Terni, and Spoleto.

From its crag or hilly slope

Tremi faces Montefalco,

By Topino sits Foligno,

Assisi of the stony street,

Almost at its base is Spello

Where the chalk and limestone meet.

Here the rain-clouds veil the mountain,

Here the sunbeams chase the sleet,

And the rivers fill the fountain

Grey in proud Perugia’s street.

Perugia, April, 1912.

Florence from San Miniato.

BENEATH my feet the smokeless city fair:

Duomo and Giotto’s noble tower arise

Like sentinels o’er Florence! In the air

Something, not mist, but silvery vapour, lies.

Up a steep hill climbs famous Fiésole

From out the dark woods of Domenico,

Close to Arno’s bank is Santa Crocé,

Where lies at rest great Michael Angelo.

And through the landscape, winding softly there,

Arno betwixt his buttressed banks doth run

Solemn and silent, steely bright and fair,

Towards Carrara’s rocks, and setting sun.

The Thames.

I LOVE thy banks the best, O silent Thames,

At morning time,

When fogs steal o’er them, and with ruddy flames

The still weak sun

Bursts, now and then, at moments through the mist

And sudden flies,

Leaving the landscape which his beams have kissed,

Cold and forlorn;

And then, again returning to the fight,

The God of morn

Dispels the clouds, and bathes in trembling light

Thy banks so gay.

Or struggling with the clouds, now here, now there,

O’erpowers them, and ushers in the day.

I love thy banks again, O merry Thames,

Ambient and gay,

When lowing herds graze in thy meads, or lie

With whisk of tail

In the long grass, half hidden by the glazed

And heated air,

And chew the cud half-silent or half-dazed.

How deadly still

Is the full tide of noon, when beasts and birds

Alike repose,

And from the sullen shade not e’en a bee

Or dragon-fly

Breaks the hour’s silence! Then the cirrus clouds,

Wind-chas’d and heavy, roll or stagger by.

I love thy banks at all times, silver Thames,

But certes the least

When huge waves suddenly immerse their sides,

And from the East,

With sound of harp, or flute, and megaphones,

Young men and maids

On steamers Allah’s Holy Name invoke

In raucous tones

No Moslem knows, and call me curious names,

And drink, and smoke

Not nargiléhs, but strong cigars, whose whiff

Borne on the air,

Shocks my olfactory nerves, and makes me sick,

Sick of them all, the Thames, the whole affair!

In Te, Domine, spero.

’Tis said that as the sinner dies

Around him hover shadowy forms,

Reflecting in his glassy eyes

Some cloudy visions in Death’s storms.

When on the hard-fought battle plain

Gushes forth hot the bright red blood

From out the bullet wound’s blue stain,

With throbs that show the arterial flood;

The shadowy forms may still be near

Just where his body stains the sod,

As sure of death but void of fear

The man commends his soul to God.

The half-forgotten youthful days,

His father’s voice, his mother’s tears,

Come back to him as whilst he prays

Dark Azraël’s rustling wings he hears.

Lost and forgotten, far from home

(The stretcher-bearers pass him by)

He dies alone: no, not alone,

The shadowy forms are watching nigh.

So ends the sinner. As he dies

The shadowy forms (his own good deeds)

Are wafted onward to the skies

To plead for him in heavenly meads.

To Miss X. de C. on her Birthday.

O’ER this your natal day may angels watch and love preside,

Your path with flowers be strewn and all betide

To make your ways below, in joy begun,

Run on through smiling fields till life be done.

Londonderry City Election, 1885.

Chas. E. Lewis, Q.C. (C.) 1824.

Justin McCarthy (P.) 1795.

TO the black North, to Derry fair, a great “Historian” came,

Backed by the strength of all his clan, by Parnell’s mighty name,

His was the task, by wiles or force, to wrest the Virgin Crown

From the proud city by the Foyle, of siege’s great renown.

In vain the Separatist force, for naught their trumpets blown,

Derry has shown that she prefers a “history” of her own!

Coblentz, December 1885.

Londonderry City Election, 1913.

Hogg (N.) 2699.

Colonel Pakenham (C.) 2642.

FLOW, Foyle, full of tears, not water, on to the main,

Past the wreck of the Boom, past Culmore, past MacGilligan,

Take to the ocean, wind-swept and wave-tossed,

Our story of pain.

Close gates, so heavy and ancient, brave Prentice boys,

Shut out the sea, shut off England, shut out the Union.

Shut out all links with our Empire, our trade and communion,

Our hopes and our joys!

Blow, black from the North, cold wind from Malin Head!

Take to our comrades in Leinster, in Connacht, in Munster,

The tale of our struggle, our work, our disaster

Our honour is dead.

January 31, 1913.

To M. S.

(A Fragment.)

SAPPHO, your wild songs to the wind,

The wild west wind,

Recall an island to my mind,

All mist-enshrined,

Girt round with waves that break with force,

Fearful, yet kind.

Sappho, your sad songs to the sea,

The southern sea,

Bring back sweet mem’ries of the waves,

The waves to me,

And wild swans flying o’er the white

Sands, by the sea.

Sappho, the finest of your songs,

“Hark to the rain!”

Sends shivering through and through my heart

Its sad refrain,

Just as a broken lute-string strikes

A soul in pain!

The Song of Timùr the Lame.

(Imitated from the Persian)

LISTEN to me, my nightingale,

My darling, my light, and my rose!

I am sick of war and carnage,

I long for peace and repose.

My scimetar’s flash in the light

Is not so bright as thy glances,

And the beams ’neath thine eyelids bright

Shame the flash of my spearmen’s lances.

Catullus, Carmina xxxi., l. 12 to end.

“Salve, o venusta Sirmio, atque hero gaude,

Gaudete vos, O Lydiae lacus undae,

Ridete quicquid est domi cachinnorum.”

“Hail, lovely Sirmio, and rejoice in me,

Rejoice, O tumbling Lydian waves, and see

In all my home peal out the laughter free!”

Catullus, Carmina lxxvi. (Si qua recordanti).

“If pleasure can to man have come

From his good deeds already done,

From sacred faith, from plight maintained,

From compact never yet profaned;

All these remain in store for thee

And fruits of thy lost love shall be.

Catullus, for long years to come

Thy breast shall be their only home!”

* * * *

O gods, if ye can pity me

Or mortal agony can see,

If only once I have been pure,

Tear out this cursed plague impure,

Which creeping through my frame at rest

Has chased all gladness from my breast.

* * * *

Just gods! for sake of my own weal

I pray you that this wound may heal!

The Fisherman’s Dream.

WHERE the light clouds o’er Etna’s summit sleep

And the dread winged Harpies vigil keep,

Dark as the polished stone the blue wave falls,

Weaving a canopy o’er Neptune’s halls.

Over his work the tired fisher nods

And in his dreams beholds the ancient gods.

Whilst gentle sleep his wearied senses numbs,

Swift in his trance fair Aphrodite comes;

Light falls her footstep on the billowy wave,

Softly she smiles upon her willing slave;

Blue as the ether in the heights above,

Radiant her eyes, all beaming o’er with love;

Pink as the coral in the ocean foam,

Parted, her lips invite him to her home;

And like the algae in the deep sea trove

Wavy her tresses in the zephyrs move;

Whilst her soft whispers all his fears allay,

Thus love’s fair goddess beckons him away.

“Come with me, fisher, leave thy dreary toil,

Fly from thy cares to Candia’s blessed soil;

’Neath Ida’s mount far from the sun’s fierce rays,

In a cool grot we’ll pass the sweltering days,

And when the moon shines on the silver sea,

Drawn by my doves thou’lt float along with me;

Hid in my cave shalt taste all love’s delights,

Whilst joyous days succeed the tranquil nights.”

Ah! shun her glances, danger lurketh there:

Thus did her charms full often slaves ensnare.

So young Adonis, who ne’er loved before,

Fleeing her wiles, fell to the tusked boar,

And Mars, the vengeful, direful, God of War,

By Vulcan’s net trapped, all Olympus saw!

Rather let Juno, who befriends pure loves,

Drive from thy side the siren and her doves.

Think of thy home in Baïa’s beauteous bay,

Where sits thy wife, thy children joyous play,

And of the taper by the Virgin’s shrine

Lit as a safeguard for their weal and thine.

Frightened he wakes, he starts, he rubs his eyes,

Chased by the light the feckless phantom flies:

Vanished the temptress, all his senses seem

Once more his own; but Santos! what a dream!

Ashbrook, 1885.

The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers at Pieters’, February, 1900.

I STOOD on the glacis at Pieters’

And read there the word “Inniskilling,”

Written red in the blood of soldiers as brave

As e’er took Her Majesty’s shilling.

I stood ’midst the ghosts of our children,

Whose corpses beneath me were lying;

And it seemed that I heard o’er the wind of the velt

Their voices come solemnly sighing.

They were taught from boyhood, these heroes,

To fear neither rifle nor cannon;

They were taught first by Perry M‘Clintock,

Bob Ellis and fiery Buchanan.

They rushed like the stream from the mountain,

Or the wind o’er the Lakes of Fermanagh,

And they fell like the leaves in the cold autumn blast,

Or the drops pouring over the fountain.

Ah! Mother of God! but I see them

Stagger. Thackeray! Davidson! more!

And who is the next, thrusting on thro’ the smoke?

It is he! ’Tis ma bouchal asthore!

His eye has the look of the eagle,

His shout tops the musketry’s roar,

Ah! now he’ll be in with the bay’net:

No, he falls!—He is shot by a Boer.

We think of you children of Ulster,

All unknown, yet so splendidly brave;

And although the remains of our dear ones

Lie senseless and cold in the grave,

Their mem’ries live now and for ever,

Though their bones turn to dust ’neath the sod;

For the spirit and soul of the soldier

Rise like sweet-smelling incense to God.

As I glanced over kopje and stone

On the scene of this terrible drama,

Past my eyes, other scenes, from the distant black North,

Rolled on like a vast panorama.

Such sights ere he gasped his last breath

Perhaps appeared to the brave Fusilier,

As at Thackeray’s word he rushed forward to death

With a bound and a heart-stirring cheer!

The dark clouds hang over a valley,

The brown water rushes down foaming,

The light from the cabin-door shines like a spark

On the hill in the mists of the gloaming.

The heather waves sweet in the wind

That sweeps o’er the steep slopes of Sâwel;

The crooked-beaked eagle swoops down on the hind,

Whilst the cock-grouse lies low for a marvel.

For thus, as we come to the entrance

Of that lane that knows of no turning,

Whether bullets are hissing, or rotten decks breaking,

Or fever our wasted frame burning,

The sights and the sounds of the home that we love

O’er our minds come back hurriedly streaming,

And we see in our dreams our long lost ones above,

As Azraël’s death-blade is gleaming.

* * * *

I stood ’midst the ghosts of our children,

Whose corpses beneath me were lying;

And it seemed that I heard o’er the wind of the velt

Their voices come solemnly sighing.

Petersburg, October, 1901.

Senlac.

GUILLAUME, fils naturel d’Arlette,

Fit jurer une fois à Bayeux

A Harold, le blond comte anglais,

Sur les plus précieuses réliques

Et aussi devant tous ses preux

Toute loyauté et feauté.

Harold jura qu’il l’aiderait

A prendre à lui la succession

(Enfin, donc, quand le temps viendrait)

Du roi saxon le fainéant,

Qu’il se mettrait de son côté

Et de ses forces il l’aiderait.

Édouard le Confesseur mourut

En grande odeur de saincteté,

Le Comte Harold vite accourut

(Mil soixante-six, et cinq janvier).

Lui roi d’Angleterre fut élu

Et par Ealdred couronné.

Contre lui bientôt guerre à mort

Northumberland a déclaré;

Ne voulant point tenter cette guerre,

Qui lui allait à contre-cœur,

Du Comte Edwin et Comte Morkère

Harold épousa la jeune sœur.

Guillaume, tout furieux, à Rouen

Prépare vite une expédition,

Appelle à lui le grand Lanfranc,

Evesque lombard, et Hildebrand,

Assemble une armée de Français,

Flamands, Italiens et Bretons,

Et des gens de tous les païs

De Pouille, et de Sicile, Normands.

Je dis moults barons, moulte canaille,

Des hommes sans nom et sans carrière,

Les longues lances, la vieille féraille,

Sous le grand drapeau de Saint-Pierre.

Faut savoir que cette compagnie,

Ou plutôt bande d’aventuriers,

Dont oncques ne virent France de leur vie,

Furent bels et bons nommés Français,

Tandis que Danois et Saxons

Qu’Harold noblement commandait,

Ceux de Sussesse et Saint-Edmond,

Reçurent pour eux le nom d’Anglais.

Les Français traversèrent La Manche

Et descendirent en Angleterre

Près d’Hastings, pendant qu’à l’arme blanche

Harold tua Tostique, son frère.

Parlons donc de l’armée anglaise.

Victorieuse à Stamford-le-Pont,

Elle poussa fortement vers le camp

Ou plutôt position française.

S’arrêtant à deux lieues de là,

Harold envoya des espions,

Qui lui rapportèrent la nouvelle

“Plus prêtres que soldats entre Normands.”

Rit bien et long le roi anglais:

“Ceux que vous vîtes si bien rasés

Ne sont ni prêtres ni gens mal-nés,

Ce sont de vaillans Chevaliers.”

De Conches, de Toarz, Montgomméri

A l’extrême gauche étaient rangés;

A droite, de Fergert, Améri

Poitevins et Bretons commandaient;

Au centre, l’Evesque de Bayeux,

Grand et majestueux Odon;

Puis Guillaume, avec tous ses preux;

Ainsi se rangèrent les Normands.

Brave Taillefer, le Menestrel,

Le premier coup de sabre donnant,

Le premier tomba de sa selle,

Chantant la chanson de Roland.

Fils-Osbert et Montgomméri

Attaquèrent sur la droite anglaise,

Avec Boulogne et Berri,

En partant de la gauche française.

De l’autre flanc, Alain Fergert,

Barons de Maine et d’Améri

Se ruèrent sur la haute terre

Retranchée de gros pilotis,

Où l’étendard au dragon d’or

Flottait dessus les écussons

Plantés en ligne, et juste derrière

Brillaient les hâches-d’armes des Saxons.

Les hommes de Boulogne et de Poix

Suivaient le Baron d’Améri

Et donnèrent rudement maintes fois

Sur la ligne des gros pilotis.

Mais sous les coups terribles des hâches

Et testes et bras tombaient par terre;

A vrai dire n’y avait point de lâches,

Car corps-à-corps se fit la guerre.

Tout de même dans le vaste fossé

Bien des chevaliers sans chevaux

De coups de hâche furent assommés,

En tâchant de sortir de l’eau!

Troublés, et même un peu confus,

Les écuyers aux destriers,

Voyant ainsi tuer les preux,

S’écriaient: “Fuyez donc, fuyez!”

Mais le dur évesque de Bayeux

Arriva bientôt au galop,

“Holà!” dit-il; “splendeur de Dieu!

Faites face à l’ennemi, salops!”

Donc piquant fort des éperons

Et frappant fortement de sa masse,

Poussant toujours son cheval blanc,

Le brave évesque se faisait place.

Le terrible combat rageait

Du matin jusques après-midi;

Les Normands tous criaient, “Dex aie!”

Les Saxons criaient fort aussi.

Vu que les flêches de nos archers

N’atteignirent point à l’ennemi,

Tous derrière leurs remparts courbés,

Guillaume à ses gens commanda

De tirer haut dans l’air les flêches.

Arriva donc comme il pensa,

Même sans pratiquer de brêche!

Le roi Harold et Gyrt, son frère,

Ensemble bravement se battaient

En haut du grand rempart de terre

De gros pilotis couronné.

Une flêche, qui semble tomber du ciel

Et dans sa chute descendante vire,

Atteignit Harold près de l’œil.

Le roi tout hardiment retire

De la blessure le bois cassé.

Il tombe, se tenant à demi

Evanoui sur son bouclier.

L’ange gardien des Saxons frémit!

Sur toute la ligne des Français

Se fit un mouvement en arrière;

C’était le moment des Anglais,

Qui sautèrent par-dessus barrière.

Ils criaient hautement en revanche,

“A quoi bon, imbéciles, de fuir?

A moins de sauter par La Manche

Vous ne reverrez point Saint-Cyr.”

Arrive Sieur de Montgomméri,

“Frappez, François! à nous le jour;

Frappez! frappez! frappez!” il crie:

Les coups Normands redoublent d’ardeur!

Les Saxons, eux aussi frappent fort,

Poussés sur Senlac-la-Colline,

Se battaient toujours corps-à-corps,

Quoique prévoyant leur ruine.

L’on vit d’Auviler et d’Onbac,

Saint-Clair, Fils-Ernest, Mortemer,

Poussant les premiers vers Senlac,

Fils-Ernest tombant mort à terre.

Harold trois fois blessé est mort

Et Gyrt est tué par Guillaume,

Chancelle le fameux dragon d’or,

Et tombe, le symbole du royaume.

Fut ainsi que tomba le sort!

Guillaume rendit grâces à Dieu,

Pleura la perte de ses deux frères,

Remercia encore ses preux.

Il donna au Grand Dieu la gloire

Et fit planter les léopards

Qui flottèrent avec la victoire

Où gisait sale le dragon d’or.

D’Harold parmi tous les blessés

Fut impossible de connaître corps,

Mais Edith la Belle a trouvé

Son amant vivant, hélas! mort.

J’ai tâché, chers et bons amis,

En réduisant ce rondelai

En termes tout simples, où il s’agit

De coups de lance, et coups d’épée,

De faire à tout le monde comprendre,

Marins, soldats, hommes, femmes, enfance,

Qu’il faut garder et pas rendre

Notre souveraine independence!

Une île n’est jamais à l’abri

D’un coup de main bien préparé:

Donc, sans négliger votre marine,

Veillez toujours sur votre armée.

Christmas-tide.

SILENTLY the snowflakes fall

O’er the black and hardened ground;

Radiant crystals form a pall,

Stretching far and wide around.

From the Ice-King’s glitt’ring halls

Bitterly the north wind blows;

Heap the logs within your walls,

All the doors and windows close.

Many a hundred years ago,

On this very Christmas Day,

In a manger mean and low

Christ, the son of Mary, lay.

Let our ways this Christmas-tide

Follow in His steps above!

Poor he lived and poor he died,

All His doctrine was of love.

Ours to soothe the aching heart,

Ours to charity bestow,

Ours His knowledge to impart

To the suffering ones below!

May that charity ne’er fail,

May those good deeds never cease,

Till our bark shall lower sail

In the haven where is peace!

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COLCHESTER AND LONDON

FOOTNOTES:

[A] Babyónka, baby.

[B] Bábochka, little woman, mother.

[C] The sandbanks in the Oka and Volga are strewn with small white shells, and partly covered with sweet-smelling dock leaves; they swarm with landrails and woodcock. (D. Grigorovitch.)

[D] The Rev. William Hamilton, D.D., born in Londonderry in December 1757, Rector of Clondevaddock, on Mulroy Bay, gives several instances of the encroachment of the sea sand on fertile and inhabited land. The town of Bannow in Wexford was a flourishing borough in the early part of the seventeenth century, while in his day the site was marked only by a few ruins, appearing above heaps of barren sand. Ulster Folk Lore, E. Andrews.

[E] H.M.S. “Saldanha,” wrecked in Ballymastocker Bay, 1813.

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Table of Contents

A Happy New Year AND OTHER VERSES

Contents

A Happy New Year.

Cradle Song. (Imitated from the Russian.)

Queen Tamara’s Castle. (Translated from Lermontof.)

Ulster’s Prayer.

Dark Donegal.

Hy-Brasail.

Bálor of the Great Blows.

The Garden.

A Song of Spring.

The Miráge on Kizil Koom.

A Dream of Samarkánd.

At Santa Sophia, Constantinople. (A Fragment.)

The Hill Cities.

Florence from San Miniato.

The Thames.

In Te, Domine, spero.

To Miss X. de C. on her Birthday.

Londonderry City Election, 1885.

Londonderry City Election, 1913.

To M. S. (A Fragment.)

The Song of Timùr the Lame. (Imitated from the Persian)

Catullus, Carmina xxxi., l. 12 to end.

Catullus, Carmina lxxvi. (Si qua recordanti).

The Fisherman’s Dream.

The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers at Pieters’, February, 1900.

Senlac.

Christmas-tide.

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