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Tell me, what can you see from your The maize, and the wheat, and the rye,

perch

Above there over the tower of the

church?

WEATHERCOCK.

And grind them into flour.

I look down over the farms;
In the fields of grain I see
The harvest that is to be,

I can see the roofs and the streets be- | And I fling to the air my arms,

low,

And the people moving to and fro,
And beyond, without either roof or

street,

The great salt sea, and the fishermen's

fleet.

I can see a ship come sailing in

For I know it is all for me.

I hear the sound of flails

Far off, from the threshing-floors In barns, with their open doors, And the wind, the wind in my sails, Louder and louder roars.

Beyond the headlands and harbor of I stand here in my place,

Lynn, And a young man standing on the deck,

With a silken kerchief round his neck.

Now he is pressing it to his lips,
And now he is kissing his finger-tips,
And now he is lifting and waving his
hand,

And blowing the kisses toward the
land.

MAIDEN.

Ah, that is the ship from over the sea,
That is bringing mylover back to me,
Bringing my lover so fond and true,
Who does not change with the wind
like you.

WEATHERCOCK.

I change with all the winds that blow,

t is only because they made me so, And people would think it wondrous strange,

If I, a Weathercock, should not change.

O pretty Maiden, so fine and fair, With your dreamy eyes and your golden hair,

When you and your lover meet to-day You will thank me for looking some other way.

THE WINDMILL

BEHOLD! a giant am I!

Aloft here in my tower,
With my granite jaws I devour

With my foot on the rock below,
And whichever way it may blow,

I meet it face to face

As a brave man meets his foe.

And while we wrestle and strive,

My master, the miller, stands And feeds me with his hands; For he knows who makes him thrive, Who makes him lord of lands.

On Sundays I take my rest;

Church-going bells begin
Their low, melodious din;
I cross my arms on my breast,
And all is peace within.

THE TIDE RISES, THE TIDE
FALLS

THE tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew
calls;

Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveller hastens toward the
town,

And the tide rises, the tide falls.

Darkness settles on roofs and walls, But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls;

The little waves, with their soft, white
hands,

Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.

The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls

Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;

The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveller to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls.

SONNETS

MY CATHEDRAL

LIKE two cathedral towers these stately pines

THE BURIAL OF THE POET

RICHARD HENRY DANA

IN the old churchyard of his native town,

And in the ancestral tomb beside the wall,

We laid him in the sleep that comes to all,

And left him to his rest and his re

nown.

Uplift their fretted summits tipped The snow was falling, as if Heaven

with cones;

The arch beneath them is not built

with stones,

Not Art but Nature traced these lovely lines,

And carved this graceful arabesque of vines;

dropped down

White flowers of Paradise to strew his pall;

The dead around him seemed to wake, and call

His name, as worthy of so white a

crown.

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BECALMED upon the sea of Thought,
Still unattained the land it sought,
My mind, with loosely hanging sails,
Lies waiting the auspicious gales.

On either side, behind, before,
The ocean stretches like a floor,
A level floor of amethyst,
Crowned by a golden dome of mist.

Blow, breath of inspiration, blow!
Shake and uplift this golden glow!
And fill the canvas of the mind
With wafts of thy celestial wind.

Blow, breath of song! until I feel
The straining sail, the lifting keel,
The life of the awakening sea,
Its motion and its mystery!

THE POET'S CALENDAR

JANUARY

JANUS am I; oldest of potentates; Forward I look, and backward, and below

I count, as god of avenues and gates,

The years that through my portals come and go.

I block the roads, and drift the fields

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