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UNA URQUHART. PAGE 279
I know nothing else of Gaelic or English verse by this young writer. "An Old Tale of Three," as it appears here, is a rendering of the original by Miss Fiona Macleod.
LOST LOVE. PAGE 280
The author of this poem is unknown. The original is in the Gaelic of the Western Isles, and is one of the several fugitive songs rescued by Thomas Pattison. The version given here, however, is not identical with his, the first and last quatrains having been added by another hand.
CONTEMPORARY ANGLO-CELTIC POETS
GEORGE MEREDITH. PAGE 283
SEBASTIAN EVANS. PAGE 292
Lordly banners, waving to the stars, Flap upon the night-wind, heavy with the dew, Trustful youth is wending to the wars, Strong in ancient faith to battle with the new.
Lordly banners, trodden in the clay, Lie upon the mountain dank with other dew, Hapless Youth hath lost the bloody day, Ancient faith is feeble, stronger is the new.
Lordly banners, other than of yore, Flap upon the night-wind, heavy with the dew: Youth to battle girdeth him once more, New and Old are feeble,--mighty is the True!
EBENEZER JONES. PAGE 293
EMILY DAVIS . PAGE 296
ERNEST RHYS. PAGE 297
CONTEMPORARY ANGLO-CELTIC POETS
THOMAS EDWARD BROWN. PAGE 307
HALL CAINE. PAGE 309
CONTEMPORARY ANGLO-CELTIC POETS
ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER COUCH. PAGE 317
ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER. PAGE 319
RICCARDO STEPHENS. PAGE 321
Dr Stephens is a Cornishman settled in Edinburgh, where he practises as a physician. He has not, as yet, published any of his poems in book form; but, none the less, has won reputation by his exceedingly vigorous and individual poems. He has written several "Castle Ballads" --poems suggested by legendary episodes connected with Edinburgh Castle, or perhaps only vaguely influenced by that romantically picturesque and grand vicinage--for Dr Stephens is one of the many workers, thinkers, and dreamers who congregate in the settlement founded by Professor Patrick Geddes on the site of Allan Ramsay's residence--"New Edinburgh," as University Hall is sometimes called, an apt name in more ways than one. Dr Stephens is a poet of marked originality, and his work has all the Celtic fire and fervour, with much of that sombre gloom which is held to be characteristically Cornish. "Hell's Piper" has lines in it of Dantesque vigour, as those which depict, among "the shackled earthquakes," the "reeking halls of Hell," and the torture-wrought denizens of that Inferno. "The Phantom Piper" will never be forgotten by any one who has once read and been thrilled by this highly-imaginative poem.
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY BRETON
THE POOR CLERK PAGE 331
THE CROSS BY THE WAY . PAGE 332
THE SECRETS OF THE CLERK, AND LOVE SONG. PAGES 335-337
HERV? NO?L LE BRETON. PAGE 338
THE BURDEN OF LOST SOULS.
This is our doom. To walk for ever and ever The wilderness unblest, To weary soul and sense in vain endeavour And find no coign of rest;
To feel the pulse of speech and passion thronging On lips for ever dumb, To gaze on parched skies relentless, longing For clouds that will not come;
Thirsty, to drink of loathsome waters crawling With nameless things obscene, To feel the dews from heaven like fire-drops falling, And neither shade nor screen;
To fill from springs illusive riddled vessels, Like the Dana?des, To grapple with the wind that whirls and wrestles, Knowing no lapse of ease;
To weave fantastic webs that shrink and crumble Before they leave the loom, To build with travail a?ry towers that tumble And temples like the tomb;
To watch the stately pomp and proud procession Of splendid shapes and things, And pine in silent solitary session Because we have no wings;
To woo from confused sleep forlorn the dismal Oblivion of despair; To seek in sudden glimpse of dreams abysmal Sights beautiful and rare, And waking, wild with terror, see the vision Cancelled in swift eclipse, Mocked by the pallid phantoms of derision, With spectral eyes and lips;
To turn in endless circles round these purlieus With troops of spirits pale, Whose everlasting song is like the curlew's, One ceaseless, changeless wail.
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM. PAGE 342
LECONTE DE LISLE. PAGE 344
LEO-KERMORVAN. PAGE 348
LOUIS TIERCELIN. PAGE 351
THE CELTIC FRINGE
BLISS CARMAN. PAGE 355
ELLEN MACKAY HUTCHINSON. PAGE 361
HUGH M'CULLOCH. PAGE 364
DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT. PAGE 365
THOMAS D'ARCY M'CGEE. PAGE 366
MARY C. G. GILLINGTON AND ALICE E. GILLINGTON. PAGES 368-373
FOOTNOTES:
Apropos, let me quote a word or two from Dr Douglas Hyde: "We all remember the inimitable felicity with which that great English-speaking Gael, Sir Walter Scott, has caught," &c. "Both the Buccleugh Scots, and the other four branches of the name, were originally Gaelic-speaking Celts."
"Failte do Mharcus Latharna 's do 'Mhnaoi oig Rioghail."
Published by Mr Fisher Unwin at a shilling. The reader will have to discount Mr Brooke's over-emphasis on the word Irish, which he frequently uses instead of Celtic, even when alluding to Scoto-Celtic literature and influence.
Readers should obtain Dr Hyde's "Three Sorrows of Story-Telling" , wherein the beautiful old tale of Deirdr? is re-told by one who is at once a poet and a scholar.
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