ISBN: 9780217290920

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1913. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... A BACKWARD LOOK AS I sat smoking, alone, yesterday, L And lazily leaning back in my chair, Enjoying myself in a general way-- Allowing my thoughts a holiday From weariness, toil and care,-- My fancies--doubtless, for ventilation-- Left ajar the gates of my mind,-- And Memory, seeing the situation, Slipped out in the street of Auld Lang Syne-- Wandering ever with tireless feet Through scenes of silence, and jubilee Of long-hushed voices; and faces sweet Were thronging the shadowy side of the street As far as the eye could see; Dreaming again, in anticipation, The same old dreams of our boyhood''s days That never come true, from the vague sensation Of walking asleep in the world''s strange ways. Away to the house where I was born! And there was the selfsame clock that ticked From the close of dusk to the burst of morn, When life-warm hands plucked the golden corn And helped when the apples were picked. And the chany dog on the mantel-shelf, With the gilded collar and yellow eyes, Looked just as at first, when I hugged myself Sound asleep with the dear surprise. And down to the swing in the locust-tree, Where the grass was worn from the trampled ground, And where Eck Skinner, Old Carr, and three Or four such other boys used to be Doin'' sky-scrapers, or whirlin'' round: And again Bob climbed for the bluebird''s nest, And again had shows in the buggy-shed Of Guymon''s barn, where still, unguessed, The old ghosts romp through the best days dead! And again I gazed from the old schoolroom With a wistful look, of a long June day, When on my cheek was the hectic bloom Caught of Mischief, as I presume-- He had such a partial way, It seemed, toward me.--And again I thought Of a probable likelihood to be Kept in after school--for ... Edmund Henry Eitel, Books, Fiction and Literature, The Complete Works Of James Whitcomb Riley (volume 1); In Which The Poems, Including A Number Heretofore Unpublished, Are Arranged Books>Fiction and Literature Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE FLYING ISLANDS OF THE NIGHT ACT I Place?The Flying Islands Scene I. Spirkland. Time, Moondawn. Interior Court of Krung. A vast, pendant star burns dimly in dome above throne. Crestillomeem discovered languidly reclining at foot of empty throne, an overturned goblet lying near, as though just drained. The Queen, in seeming dazed, ecstatic state, raptly gazing upward, listening. Swarming forms and features in air above, seen eeriely coming and going, blending and intermingling in domed ceiling-spaces of court. Weird music. Mystic, luminous, beautiful faces detached from swarm, float singly forward, ?tremulously, and in succession, poising in mid-air and chanting. First Face And who hath known her?like as 7 Have known her since the envying sky Filched from her cheeks its morning hue, And from her eyes its glory, too, Of dazzling shine and diamond-dew. Second Face 7 knew her?long and long before High Eo loosed her palm and thought: "What awful splendor have I wrought To dazzle earth and Heaven, too!" Third Face I knew her?long ere Night was o'er? Ere Eo yet conjectured what To fashion Day of?ay, before He sprinkled stars across the floor Of dark, and swept that form of mine, E'en as a fleck of blinded shine, Back to the black where light was not Fourth Face Ere day was dreamt, I saw her face Lift from some starry hiding-place Where our old moon was kneeling while She lit its features with her smile. Fifth Face I knew her while these islands yet Were nestlings?ere they feathered wing, Or e'en could gape with them or get Apoise the laziest-ambling breeze, Or cheep, chirp out, or anything! When Time crooned rhymes of nurseries Above them?nodded, dozed and slept, And knew it not, till, wakening, The morning stars agreed to ...<

ISBN: 0217290922

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