Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure

W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall

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THE CONFUSED DAWN.

THOUGHTS, MOODS AND IDEALS.

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Title: Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure Author: W.D. Lighthall Release Date: January 6, 2005 [EBook #14616] Language: English

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Dedicated to My Friends.

THOUGHTS, MOODS AND IDEALS Crimes of Leisure by W.D. LIGHTHALL, ADVOCATE. Montreal: "WITNESS" PRINTING HOUSE, ST. JAMES STREET 1887

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NATIONAL HYMN.

To Thee whose smile is might and fame,  A nation lifts united praise And asks but that Thy purpose frame  A useful glory for its days. We pray no sunset lull of rest,  No pomp and bannered pride of war; We hold stern labor manliest,  The just side real conqueror. For strength we thank Thee: keep us strong,  And grant us pride of skilful toil; For homes we thank Thee: may we long  Have each some Eden rood of soil.

Thou hearest!—Lo, we feel our love  Of loyal thoughts and actions free Toward all divine achievement move,  Ennobled, blest, ensured, by Thee.

O, keep our mothers kind and dear,  And make the fathers stern and wise; The maiden soul preserve sincere,  And rise before the young man's eyes. Crush out the jest of idle minds,  That know not, jesting, when to hush; Keep on our lips the word that binds,  And teach our children when to blush. Forever constant to the good  Still arm our faith, thou Guard Sublime, To scorn, like all who have understood,  The atheist dangers of the time.

AT VENICE Lo! Venice, gay with color, lights and song,  Calls from St. Mark's with ancient voice and strange: I am the Witch of Cities! glide along  My silver streets that never wear by change Of years: forget the years, and pain, and wrong, And every sorrow reigning men among.  Know I can soothe thee, please and marry thee To my illusions. Old and siren-strong,  I smile immortal, while the mortals flee  Who whiten on to death in wooing me.

CANADA NOT LAST.

(DANTE—INFERNO, CANTO I.)

" O mystic Lady; Thou in whom alone  Our human race surpasses all that stand In Paradise the nearest round the throne!  So eagerly I wait for thy command That to obey were slowthough ready done. " How oft I read. How agonized the turning,  In those my earlier days of loss and pain,— Of eyes to space and night as though by yearning—  Some wall might yield and I behold again A certain angel, fled beyond discerning;  In vain I chafed and sought—alas, in vain, From spurring though my heart's dark world returned  To Dante's page, those wearied thoughts of mine; Again I read, again my longing burned.—  A voice melodious spake in every line, But from sad pleasure sorrow fresh I learned:  Strange was the music of the Florentine.

AT ROME End of desire to stray I feel would come  Though Italy were all fair skies to me, Though France's fields went mad with flowery foam  And Blanc put on a special majesty. Not all could match the growing thought of home Nor tempt to exile. Look I not on ROME—  This ancient, modern, mediæval queen— Yet still sigh westward over hill and dome,  Imperial ruin and villa's princely scene  Lovely with pictured saints and marble gods serene.

O DONNA DI VIRTU!

REFLECTION Rome, Florence, Venice—noble, fair and quaint,  They reign in robes of magic round me here; But fading, blotted, dim, a picture faint,  With spell more silent, only pleads a tear. Plead not! Thou hast my heart, O picture dim!  I see the fields, I see the autumn hand Of God upon the maples! Answer Him  With weird, translucent glories, ye that stand Like spirits in scarlet and in amethyst! I see the sun break over you; the mist  On hills that lift from iron bases grand  Their heads superb!—the dream, it is my native land. [Footnote A: "Sovra'l bel fiume d'Arno la gran villa."— Dante. ]

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LINES ON HEINE.

I saw a crowded circus once:  The fool was in the middle. Loud laughed contemptuous Common-sense  At every frisk and riddle.

I see another circus now—  (The world a circus call I), — But in the centre laughs the sane;  Round sit the sons of folly.

IMITATED FROM THE JAPANESE.

"  ……………………..  I have forgotten to forget."—Japanese Song.  Tr. by R.H. Stoddard.

The morning flies, the evening dies;  The heat of noon, the chills of night, Are but the dull varieties  Of Phoebus' and of Phoebe's flight— Are but the dull varieties  Of ruined night and ruined day; They bring no pleasure to mine eyes,  For I have sent my soul away.

I am the man who cannot love,  Yet once my heart was bright as thine, The suns that rove, the moons that move,  No longer make its chambers shine; No more they light the spirit face  That lit my night and made my day; No maiden feet with mine keep pace  For I have sent my soul away.

O, lost! I think I see thee stand,  By Mary's ivied chapel door, Where once thou stood'st, and with thy hand  Wring pious pain, as once before. Impatient, crude philosopher,  I scorned thy gentle wisdom's ray. All vain thy moistened eyelids were;  I sent my soul and thee away.

A causeless wrath, a mood of pride,  Some tears of thine, and all was done; On alien plains I travelled wide  And thou wert soon a veiléd nun. Not long a veiléd nun, but soon  Unveiled of linen and of clay; But I am March while thou art June,  For I have sent my soul away.

And now when I would love thee well,  There sits alone within my breast Calm guilt that dare not from its hell  Look up and wish the thing thou art. I see a dreadful gulf of fright  Beneath my falling life; and gray, Thy light becomes the ghost of light  Above it as it falls away.

I have a life, a voice, a form,  A skilful hand to lift and turn, I have emotions like a storm,  A brain to throb, a heart to burn;

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CLOUD Once again, a little space, Meet we in this Alpine place, Before you leap adown the vale Or I along my pathway sail.

WIND Nay, I haste. A trifle wait; I exceed my usual gait. Ha! this hill-top is sublime, But it makes me pant to climb.

The past is past, and o'er its woe  It is no comfort to repine; But I would wage my life to know  Thy feet in heaven keep pace with mine. I have no hope, I will not weep,  The only wish that wish I may Is this, that I may find asleep  The soul I thought I sent away.

WIND Then let our little bell of time Ring onward with a chatty chime— How we have fled o'er earth and sky, And what you saw and what saw I.

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THE KNIGHT ERRANT.

CLOUD TO WIND O blow, blow high, for I descend; Friend must go to meet his friend, If to earth you tie your feet You and I will never meet.

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RANDOLPH Off to the world; I cannot stay— That world I have so often viewed Here from this upper solitude— This bulwark barring strife and trade. Love calls me off. I love a maid, Loving her silently and long, Learning for her to hate the wrong,  Learning for her to seek the right, To hew at sloth and faint resolve And thoughts that round but self revolve, And pray for grace and virtue—wings That bear men to the highest things,  Enwrapt and rising into light. For her, for her, O Cloud and Wind!

RANDOLPH This is my father's mail indeed, Bequeathed with message to his son: "Stand straight in it and yield to none."

WIND But whither off and why away?

WIND We are they.

CLOUD, (echoing)  We are they. But whither now doth Randolph stray, And why the mail, and why the steed?

CLOUD Ah, yes, I catch the gleam of mail.

RANDOLPH O speak again ye voicéd ghosts! I heard afar your cheerful boasts. And, if I doubt not, ye are they That here have met me many a day.

WIND Your life, though, drinks not half the wine Of active gladness that doth mine; I spread my wings and stretch my arms Over a dozen hedgéd farms; I breast steep hills, through pine-groves rush, Rock birds' nests, yet no fledgling crush, Tossing the grain-fields everywhere, The trees, the grass, the school-girl's hair, Whirling away her laugh the while— (We breezes love the children's smile); And then I lag and wander down Among the roofs and dust of town, Bearing cool draughts from lake and moor To fan the faces of the poor, While sick babes, stifled half to death, Grow rosy at my country breath. I lent a shoulder to your ship; I moaned with that sad hermit's lip; I helped disperse the dragon's mist; And some bell's voice, 'twas yours I wist, I handed up to winds on high Who wing a loftier flight than I. But, hark! a rider leaves the vale.

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RANDOLPH So would my guardian have it be, So flowed his constant voice to me, Of those to make me one, he sought, Who watch from mountain towers of thought, Or wandering into paths apart Pursue the lonely star of art.

CLOUD You mortals are a curious race— More whirled by passions, hot in chase Of passions, than myself am whirled When tempests tug me o'er the world; I cannot understand your ways. We clouds live our divinest days Beneath great sunny depths of sky, High above all that you think high, Drifting through sunset's surf of gold, Dawn-lakes and moonlight's clear waves cold, In realms so distant, chill and lone, That Love, impatient, leaves the throne To meditative Amity.

WIN

CLOUD Yet if you seek and cannot find Or fail to work what you designed, Be it but as the steadfast sun Who bright or dim his course doth run, And last doth reach as far a spot Whether he seems to shine or not.

RANDOLPH The height, the fynial of my aim Is to be worthy of her name .

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