Houp-la! What have we To do with the way Of the Pharisee? We go or we stay Here we are free Merry or grim As the mood may be,— Free as the whim Of a spook on a spree,- Wholly available, Here is the real, Here the ideal; Laughable hardship Glory of bardship World's bloom and world's blot; The shock and the jostle, The mock and the push, But hearts like the throstle A-joy in the bush; Wits that would merrily Laugh away wrong, Throats that would verily Melt Hell in Song. With the comrade heart For the joy of wine But the comrade heart Shall outlast art And a woman's love The fame thereof. But wine for a sign Then up and away We should be decenter? Midnights of revel, And noondays of song! Go to the Devil! I tell you that we, We are in verity Free! Free to rejoice In blisses and beauties! Free as the voice Of the wind as it passes! In the weft of the grasses! Free as the word Of the sun to the sea- TO MR. LAWRENCE BY JOHN MILTON Lawrence of vertuous Father vertuous Son, Now that the Fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day; what may be won From the hard Season gaining: time will run On smoother, till Favonius re-inspire The frozen earth; and cloth in fresh attire The Lillie and Rose, that neither sow'd nor spun. What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, TO CYRIACK SKINNER BY JOHN MILTON Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench And what the Swede intend, and what the French. INTO THE TWILIGHT BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Out-worn Heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; |