Madonna, Madonnina Sat by the grey road-side, Saint Joseph her beside, And Our Lord at her breast; Oh they were fain to rest,

A laggard in the rear of time’s sw… And one who loiters on an aimless… Through lands he knows not; lured… In secret paths where silence hold… And rust ascending wings. Roads m…

Great Kings were dust and all the… Did my harp’s taut and burnished s… The fragrance of dead ladies’ love… Blew never down but for my lute.

Still as On windless nights The moon-cast shadows are, So still will be my heart when I Am dead.

THE old Old winds that blew When chaos was, what do They tell the clattered trees that… Should weep?

Oh me, Was there a time When Paradise knew Eve In this sweet guise, so placid and

Never the nightingale, Oh, my dear, Never again the lark Thou wilt hear; Though dusk and the morning still

Is it as plainly in our living sho… By slant and twist, which way the…

The cold With steely clutch Grips all the land. .alack The little people in the hills Will die!

As I went, as I went Over the mountains, I heard, I heard, Through cloud-wreath and mist, A hound that was baying -

No guile? Nay, but so strangely He moves among us. . Not this Man but Barabbas! Release to us Barabbas!

What words Are left thee then Who hast squandered on thy Forgetfulness eternity’s I Love?

Too far afield thy search. Nay, t… At thine own elbow potent Memory… Thy double, and eternity is cupped In the pale hollow of those ghostl…

‘There’s be no roof to shelter you… You’ll have no where to lay your h… And who will get your food for you… Star-dust pays for no man’s bread. So, Jacky, come give me your fidd…

You nor I nor nobody knows Where our daily-taken breath Vanisheth and vanisheth: Where our lost breath’s flying goe… You nor I nor nobody knows.