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Transcribed from the 1921 Chatto and Windus edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
Contents:
NOT I, AND OTHER POEMS
I. Some like drink
II. Here, perfect to a wish
III.
As seamen on the seas
IV. The pamphlet here presented
MORAL EMBLEMS: A COLLECTION OF CUTS AND VERSES
I. See how the children in the print
II. Reader,
your soul upraise to see
III. A PEAK IN DARIEN - Broad-gazing on
untrodden lands
IV. See in the print how, moved by whim
V.
Mark, printed on the opposing page
MORAL EMBLEMS: A SECOND COLLECTION OF CUTS AND VERSES
I. With storms a-weather, rocks-a-lee
II. The careful
angler chose his nook
III. The Abbot for a walk went out
IV.
The frozen peaks he once explored
V. Industrious pirate!
see him sweep
A MARTIAL ELEGY FOR SOME LEAD SOLDIERS
For certain soldiers lately dead
THE GRAVER AND THE PEN: OR, SCENES FROM NATURE, WITH APPROPRIATE VERSES
I. PROEM - Unlike the common run of men
II.
THE PRECARIOUS MILL - Alone above the stream it stands
III.
THE DISPUTATIOUS PINES - The first pine to the second said
IV.
THE TRAMPS - Now long enough had day endured
V. THE
FOOLHARDY GEOGRAPHER - The howling desert miles around
VI.
THE ANGLER AND THE CLOWN - The echoing bridge you here may see
MORAL TALES
I. ROBIN AND BEN: OR, THE PIRATE AND THE APOTHECARY
- Come, lend me an attentive ear
II. THE BUILDER’S
DOOM - In eighteen-twenty Deacon Thin
Some like drink
In
a pint pot,
Some like to think;
Some not.
Strong Dutch cheese,
Old Kentucky rye,
Some like these;
Not
I.
Some like Poe,
And others like Scott,
Some like Mrs. Stowe;
Some
not.
Some like to laugh,
Some like to cry,
Some like chaff;
Not
I.
Here, perfect
to a wish,
We offer, not a dish,
But just the platter:
A
book that’s not a book,
A pamphlet in the look
But not
the matter.
I own in disarray:
As to the flowers of May
The frosts
of Winter;
To my poetic rage,
The smallness of the page
And
of the printer.
As seamen on
the seas
With song and dance descry
Adown the morning breeze
An
islet in the sky:
In Araby the dry,
As o’er the sandy
plain
The panting camels cry
To smell the coming rain:
So all things over earth
A common law obey,
And rarity
and worth
Pass, arm in arm, away;
And even so, to-day,
The
printer and the bard,
In pressless Davos, pray
Their sixpenny
reward.
The pamphlet
here presented
Was planned and printed by
A printer unindented,
A
bard whom all decry.
The author and the printer,
With various kinds of skill,
Concocted
it in Winter
At Davos on the Hill.
They burned the nightly taper;
But now the work is ripe -
Observe
the costly paper,
Remark the perfect type!
See how the children
in the print
Bound on the book to see what’s in ‘t!
O,
like these pretty babes, may you
Seize and apply this volume
too!
And while your eye upon the cuts
With harmless ardour
opes and shuts,
Reader, may your immortal mind
To their sage
lessons not be blind.
Reader,
your soul upraise to see,
In yon fair cut designed by me,
The
pauper by the highwayside
Vainly soliciting from pride.
Mark
how the Beau with easy air
Contemns the anxious rustic’s
prayer,
And, casting a disdainful eye,
Goes gaily gallivanting
by.
He from the poor averts his head . . .
He will regret
it when he’s dead.
Broad-gazing
on untrodden lands,
See where adventurous Cortez stands;
While
in the heavens above his head
The Eagle seeks its daily bread.
How
aptly fact to fact replies:
Heroes and eagles, hills and skies.
Ye
who contemn the fatted slave
Look on this emblem, and be brave.
See in the print
how, moved by whim,
Trumpeting Jumbo, great and grim,
Adjusts
his trunk, like a cravat,
To noose that individual’s hat.
The
sacred Ibis in the distance
Joys to observe his bold resistance.
Mark, printed
on the opposing page,
The unfortunate effects of rage.
A man
(who might be you or me)
Hurls another into the sea.
Poor
soul, his unreflecting act
His future joys will much contract,
And
he will spoil his evening toddy
By dwelling on that mangled body.
With storms a-weather,
rocks a-lee,
The dancing skiff puts forth to sea.
The lone
dissenter in the blast
Recoils before the sight aghast.
But
she, although the heavens be black,
Holds on upon the starboard
tack,
For why? although to-day she sink,
Still safe she sails
in printer’s ink,
And though to-day the seamen drown,
My
cut shall hand their memory down.
The careful angler
chose his nook
At morning by the lilied brook,
And all the
noon his rod he plied
By that romantic riverside.
Soon as
the evening hours decline
Tranquilly he’ll return to dine,
And,
breathing forth a pious wish,
Will cram his belly full of fish.
The Abbot for
a walk went out,
A wealthy cleric, very stout,
And Robin has
that Abbot stuck
As the red hunter spears the buck.
The djavel
or the javelin
Has, you observe, gone bravely in,
And you
may hear that weapon whack
Bang through the middle of his back.
Hence
we may learn that Abbots should
Never go walking in a wood.
The frozen peaks
he once explored,
But now he’s dead and by the board.
How
better far at home to have stayed
Attended by the parlour maid,
And
warmed his knees before the fire
Until the hour when folks retire!
So,
if you would be spared to friends,
Do nothing but for business
ends.
Industrious pirate!
see him sweep
The lonely bosom of the deep,
And daily the
horizon scan
From Hatteras or Matapan.
Be sure, before that
pirate’s old,
He will have made a pot of gold,
And will
retire from all his labours
And be respected by his neighbours.
You
also scan your life’s horizon
For all that you can clap your
eyes on.
For certain
soldiers lately dead
Our reverent dirge shall here be said.
Them,
when their martial leader called,
No dread preparative appalled;
But
leaden-hearted, leaden-heeled,
I marked them steadfast in the field.
Death
grimly sided with the foe,
And smote each leaden hero low.
Proudly
they perished one by one:
The dread Pea-cannon’s work was
done!
O not for them the tears we shed,
Consigned to their
congenial lead;
But while unmoved their sleep they take,
We
mourn for their dear Captain’s sake,
For their dear Captain,
who shall smart
Both in his pocket and his heart,
Who saw
his heroes shed their gore,
And lacked a shilling to buy more!
Unlike the common
run of men,
I wield a double power to please,
And use the
GRAVER and the PEN
With equal aptitude and ease.
I move with that illustrious crew,
The ambidextrous Kings of
Art;
And every mortal thing I do
Brings ringing money in the
mart.
Hence, in the morning hour, the mead,
The forest and the stream
perceive
Me wandering as the muses lead -
Or back returning
in the eve.
Two muses like two maiden aunts,
The engraving and the singing
muse,
Follow, through all my favourite haunts,
My devious
traces in the dews.
To guide and cheer me, each attends;
Each speeds my rapid task
along;
One to my cuts her ardour lends,
One breathes her magic
in my song.
Alone above the
stream it stands,
Above the iron hill,
The topsy-turvy, tumble-down,
Yet
habitable mill.
Still as the ringing saws advance
To slice the humming deal,
All
day the pallid miller hears
The thunder of the wheel.
He hears the river plunge and roar
As roars the angry mob;
He
feels the solid building quake,
The trusty timbers throb.
All night beside the fire he cowers:
He hears the rafters jar:
O
why is he not in a proper house
As decent people are!
The floors are all aslant, he sees,
The doors are all a-jam;
And
from the hook above his head
All crooked swings the ham.
‘Alas,’ he cries and shakes his head,
‘I see
by every sign,
There soon all be the deuce to pay,
With this
estate of mine.’
The first pine
to the second said:
‘My leaves are black, my branches red;
I
stand upon this moor of mine,
A hoar, unconquerable pine.’
The second sniffed and answered: ‘Pooh!
I am as good a
pine as you.’
‘Discourteous tree,’ the first replied,
‘The
tempest in my boughs had cried,
The hunter slumbered in my shade,
A
hundred years ere you were made.’
The second smiled as he returned:
‘I shall be here when
you are burned.’
So far dissension ruled the pair,
Each turned on each a frowning
air,
When flickering from the bank anigh,
A flight of martens
met their eye.
Sometime their course they watched; and then -
They
nodded off to sleep again.
Now long enough
had day endured,
Or King Apollo Palinured,
Seaward he steers
his panting team,
And casts on earth his latest gleam.
But see! the Tramps with jaded eye
Their destined provinces
espy.
Long through the hills their way they took,
Long camped
beside the mountain brook;
’Tis over; now with rising hope
They
pause upon the downward slope,
And as their aching bones they rest,
Their
anxious captain scans the west.
So paused Alaric on the Alps
And ciphered up the Roman scalps.
The howling desert
miles around,
The tinkling brook the only sound -
Wearied
with all his toils and feats,
The traveller dines on potted meats;
On
potted meats and princely wines,
Not wisely but too well he dines.
The brindled Tiger loud may roar,
High may the hovering Vulture
soar;
Alas! regardless of them all,
Soon shall the empurpled
glutton sprawl -
Soon, in the desert’s hushed repose,
Shall
trumpet tidings through his nose!
Alack, unwise! that nasal song
Shall
be the Ounce’s dinner-gong!
A blemish in the cut appears;
Alas! it cost both blood and tears.
The
glancing graver swerved aside,
Fast flowed the artist’s vital
tide!
And now the apologetic bard
Demands indulgence for his
pard!
Poem: VI - THE ANGLER AND THE CLOWN
The echoing bridge
you here may see,
The pouring lynn, the waving tree,
The eager
angler fresh from town -
Above, the contumelious clown.
The
angler plies his line and rod,
The clodpole stands with many a
nod, -
With many a nod and many a grin,
He sees him cast his
engine in.
‘What have you caught?’ the peasant cries.
‘Nothing as yet,’ the Fool replies.
Come, lend me
an attentive ear
A startling moral tale to hear,
Of Pirate
Rob and Chemist Ben,
And different destinies of men.
Deep in the greenest of the vales
That nestle near the coast
of Wales,
The heaving main but just in view,
Robin and Ben
together grew,
Together worked and played the fool,
Together
shunned the Sunday school,
And pulled each other’s youthful
noses
Around the cots, among the roses.
Together but unlike they grew;
Robin was rough, and through
and through
Bold, inconsiderate, and manly,
Like some historic
Bruce or Stanley.
Ben had a mean and servile soul,
He robbed
not, though he often stole.
He sang on Sunday in the choir,
And
tamely capped the passing Squire.
At length, intolerant of trammels -
Wild as the wild Bithynian
camels,
Wild as the wild sea-eagles - Bob
His widowed dam
contrives to rob,
And thus with great originality
Effectuates
his personality.
Thenceforth his terror-haunted flight
He
follows through the starry night;
And with the early morning breeze,
Behold
him on the azure seas.
The master of a trading dandy
Hires
Robin for a go of brandy;
And all the happy hills of home
Vanish
beyond the fields of foam.
Ben, meanwhile, like a tin reflector,
Attended on the worthy
rector;
Opened his eyes and held his breath,
And flattered
to the point of death;
And was at last, by that good fairy,
Apprenticed
to the Apothecary.
So Ben, while Robin chose to roam,
A rising chemist was at home,
Tended
his shop with learnèd air,
Watered his drugs and oiled his
hair,
And gave advice to the unwary,
Like any sleek apothecary.
Meanwhile upon the deep afar
Robin the brave was waging war,
With
other tarry desperadoes
About the latitude of Barbadoes.
He
knew no touch of craven fear;
His voice was thunder in the cheer;
First,
from the main-to’-gallan’ high,
The skulking merchantmen
to spy -
The first to bound upon the deck,
The last to leave
the sinking wreck.
His hand was steel, his word was law,
His
mates regarded him with awe.
No pirate in the whole profession
Held
a more honourable position.
At length, from years of anxious toil,
Bold Robin seeks his
native soil;
Wisely arranges his affairs,
And to his native
dale repairs.
The Bristol Swallow sets him down
Beside
the well-remembered town.
He sighs, he spits, he marks the scene,
Proudly
he treads the village green;
And, free from pettiness and rancour,
Takes
lodgings at the ‘Crown and Anchor.’
Strange, when a man so great and good
Once more in his home-country
stood,
Strange that the sordid clowns should show
A dull desire
to have him go.
His clinging breeks, his tarry hat,
The way he swore, the way
he spat,
A certain quality of manner,
Alarming like the pirate’s
banner -
Something that did not seem to suit all -
Something,
O call it bluff, not brutal -
Something at least, howe’er
it’s called,
Made Robin generally black-balled.
His soul was wounded; proud and glum,
Alone he sat and swigged
his rum,
And took a great distaste to men
Till he encountered
Chemist Ben.
Bright was the hour and bright the day
That threw
them in each other’s way;
Glad were their mutual salutations,
Long
their respective revelations.
Before the inn in sultry weather
They
talked of this and that together;
Ben told the tale of his indentures,
And
Rob narrated his adventures.
Last, as the point of greatest weight,
The pair contrasted their
estate,
And Robin, like a boastful sailor,
Despised the other
for a tailor.
‘See,’ he remarked, ‘with envy, see
A man
with such a fist as me!
Bearded and ringed, and big, and brown,
I
sit and toss the stingo down.
Hear the gold jingle in my bag -
All
won beneath the Jolly Flag!’
Ben moralised and shook his head:
‘You wanderers earn
and eat your bread.
The foe is found, beats or is beaten,
And,
either how, the wage is eaten.
And after all your pully-hauly
Your
proceeds look uncommon small-ly.
You had done better here to tarry
Apprentice
to the Apothecary.
The silent pirates of the shore
Eat and
sleep soft, and pocket more
Than any red, robustious ranger
Who picks his farthings hot
from danger.
You clank your guineas on the board;
Mine are
with several bankers stored.
You reckon riches on your digits,
You
dash in chase of Sals and Bridgets,
You drink and risk delirium
tremens,
Your whole estate a common seaman’s!
Regard
your friend and school companion,
Soon to be wed to Miss Trevanion
(Smooth,
honourable, fat and flowery,
With Heaven knows how much land in
dowry),
Look at me - Am I in good case?
Look at my hands,
look at my face;
Look at the cloth of my apparel;
Try me and
test me, lock and barrel;
And own, to give the devil his due,
I
have made more of life than you.
Yet I nor sought nor risked a
life;
I shudder at an open knife;
The perilous seas I still
avoided
And stuck to land whate’er betided.
I had no
gold, no marble quarry,
I was a poor apothecary,
Yet here
I stand, at thirty-eight,
A man of an assured estate.’
‘Well,’ answered Robin - ‘well, and how?’
The smiling chemist tapped his brow.
‘Rob,’ he replied,
‘this throbbing brain
Still worked and hankered after gain.
By
day and night, to work my will,
It pounded like a powder mill;
And
marking how the world went round
A theory of theft it found.
Here
is the key to right and wrong:
Steal little, but steal all day
long;
And this invaluable plan
Marks what is called the
Honest Man.
When first I served with Doctor Pill,
My hand
was ever in the till.
Now that I am myself a master,
My gains
come softer still and faster.
As thus: on Wednesday, a maid
Came
to me in the way of trade.
Her mother, an old farmer’s wife,
Required
a drug to save her life.
‘At once, my dear, at once,’
I said,
Patted the child upon the head,
Bade her be still
a loving daughter,
And filled the bottle up with water.’
‘Well, and the mother?’ Robin cried.
‘O she!’ said Ben - ‘I think she died.’
‘Battle and blood, death and disease,
Upon the tainted
Tropic seas -
The attendant sharks that chew the cud -
The
abhorred scuppers spouting blood -
The untended dead, the Tropic
sun -
The thunder of the murderous gun -
The cut-throat crew
- the Captain’s curse -
The tempest blustering worse and
worse -
These have I known and these can stand,
But you -
I settle out of hand!’
Out flashed the cutlass, down went Ben
Dead and rotten, there
and then.
In eighteen-twenty
Deacon Thin
Feu’d the land and fenced it in,
And laid
his broad foundations down
About a furlong out of town.
Early and late the work went on.
The carts were toiling ere
the dawn;
The mason whistled, the hodman sang;
Early and late
the trowels rang;
And Thin himself came day by day
To push
the work in every way.
An artful builder, patent king
Of all
the local building ring,
Who was there like him in the quarter
For
mortifying brick and mortar,
Or pocketing the odd piastre
By
substituting lath and plaster?
With plan and two-foot rule in hand,
He
by the foreman took his stand,
With boisterous voice, with eagle
glance
To stamp upon extravagance.
For thrift of bricks and
greed of guilders,
He was the Buonaparte of Builders.
The foreman, a desponding creature,
Demurred to here and there
a feature:
‘For surely, sir - with your permeession -
Bricks
here, sir, in the main parteetion. . . . ’
The builder goggled,
gulped, and stared,
The foreman’s services were spared.
Thin
would not count among his minions
A man of Wesleyan opinions.
‘Money is money,’ so he said.
‘Crescents are
crescents, trade is trade.
Pharaohs and emperors in their seasons
Built,
I believe, for different reasons -
Charity, glory, piety, pride
-
To pay the men, to please a bride,
To use their stone, to
spite their neighbours,
Not for a profit on their labours.
They built to edify or bewilder;
I build because I am a builder.
Crescent
and street and square I build,
Plaster and paint and carve and
gild.
Around the city see them stand,
These triumphs of my
shaping hand,
With bulging walls, with sinking floors,
With
shut, impracticable doors,
Fickle and frail in every part,
And
rotten to their inmost heart.
There shall the simple tenant find
Death
in the falling window-blind,
Death in the pipe, death in the faucet,
Death
in the deadly water-closet!
A day is set for all to die:
Caveat
emptor! what care I?’
As to Amphion’s tuneful kit
Thebes rose, with towers encircling
it;
As to the Mage’s brandished wand
A spiry palace
clove the sand;
To Thin’s indomitable financing,
That
phantom crescent kept advancing.
When first the brazen bells of
churches
Called clerk and parson to their perches,
The worshippers
of every sect
Already viewed it with respect;
A second Sunday
had not gone
Before the roof was rattled on:
And when the
fourth was there, behold
The crescent finished, painted, sold!
The stars proceeded in their courses,
Nature with her subversive
forces,
Time, too, the iron-toothed and sinewed,
And the edacious
years continued.
Thrones rose and fell; and still the crescent,
Unsanative
and now senescent,
A plastered skeleton of lath,
Looked forward
to a day of wrath.
In the dead night, the groaning timber
Would
jar upon the ear of slumber,
And, like Dodona’s talking oak,
Of
oracles and judgments spoke.
When to the music fingered well
The
feet of children lightly fell,
The sire, who dozed by the decanters,
Started,
and dreamed of misadventures.
The rotten brick decayed to dust;
The
iron was consumed by rust;
Each tabid and perverted mansion
Hung
in the article of declension.
So forty, fifty, sixty passed;
Until, when seventy came at last,
The
occupant of number three
Called friends to hold a jubilee.
Wild
was the night; the charging rack
Had forced the moon upon her back;
The
wind piped up a naval ditty;
And the lamps winked through all the
city.
Before that house, where lights were shining,
Corpulent
feeders, grossly dining,
And jolly clamour, hum and rattle,
Fairly
outvoiced the tempest’s battle.
As still his moistened lip
he fingered,
The envious policeman lingered;
While far the
infernal tempest sped,
And shook the country folks in bed,
And
tore the trees and tossed the ships,
He lingered and he licked
his lips.
Lo, from within, a hush! the host
Briefly expressed
the evening’s toast;
And lo, before the lips were dry,
The
Deacon rising to reply!
‘Here in this house which once I
built,
Papered and painted, carved and gilt,
And out of which,
to my content,
I netted seventy-five per cent.;
Here at this
board of jolly neighbours,
I reap the credit of my labours.
These
were the days - I will say more -
These were the grand old days
of yore!
The builder laboured day and night;
He watched that
every brick was right:
The decent men their utmost did;
And the house rose - a pyramid!
These
were the days, our provost knows,
When forty streets and crescents
rose,
The fruits of my creative noddle,
All more or less upon
a model,
Neat and commodious, cheap and dry,
A perfect pleasure
to the eye!
I found this quite a country quarter;
I leave
it solid lath and mortar.
In all, I was the single actor -
And
am this city’s benefactor!
Since then, alas! both thing and
name,
Shoddy across the ocean came -
Shoddy that can the eye
bewilder
And makes me blush to meet a builder!
Had this good
house, in frame or fixture,
Been tempered by the least admixture
Of
that discreditable shoddy,
Should we to-day compound our toddy,
Or
gaily marry song and laughter
Below its sempiternal rafter?
Not
so!’ the Deacon cried.
The mansion
Had marked his fatuous expansion.
The years
were full, the house was fated,
The rotten structure crepitated!
A moment, and the silent guests
Sat pallid as their dinner vests.
A
moment more and, root and branch,
That mansion fell in avalanche,
Story
on story, floor on floor,
Roof, wall and window, joist and door,
Dead
weight of damnable disaster,
A cataclysm of lath and plaster.
Siloam did not choose a sinner -
All were not builders at
the dinner.
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