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 AUG 8 1903 
 
 Copyne^t Entry 
 
 CUSs"^XXaN«. 
 
 COPY B. 
 
 
 PRINTED 4T THE GORHAM PRESS, BOSTON 
 
inscribed with love to 
 The Rev. William James Martindale, D. D. 
 
I 
 
 Athwart a mystic, many-stringed harp 
 
 A spirit sweeps his magic hand, and sounds 
 
 Escape as wild and weird as any song 
 
 That pagan priest or sibyl ever sang ; 
 
 That harp so strange and many cycles old, 
 
 Doth yield sweet strains of joy and sobs of woe ; 
 
 From year to year the spirit thrums the chords 
 
 All palpitant with life, nor ever sleeps, 
 
 Nor does he weary grow with ceaseless toil ; 
 
 High souls athrob with holy life do hear 
 
 The notes from far away, and clearly see 
 
 That He who smites the harp God's angel is, 
 
 And that the instrument is human life. 
 
8 A PILGRIM JEW 
 
 II 
 
 I stood once in the far-off Orient, 
 At close of garish day and bowed my soul 
 Before the God of life to think and pray ; 
 The sky broke into astral bloom, and winds 
 Played * * Hide and Seek ' ' among the dewy leaves. 
 Disporting gaily with the grass and flowers, 
 And fondly toying ebon locks that wreathed 
 An infant sleeper's face, aglow with smiles ; 
 And thus I came upon the sleeping child 
 Who woke and grew puissant with the years. 
 
A PILGRIM JEW 
 
 III 
 
 When, swifter than the shuttles fly, time brought 
 To man's estate, this child of destiny, 
 I saw him boldly stride away with staff 
 In hand for distant lands across the sea ; 
 The gladd'ning glow of Oriental skies 
 Flings crimson on his smooth and swarthy cheek, 
 And, as the withered fields drink rain, his eyes 
 Drink splendor in ; — such is the Pilgrim Jew. 
 His quest is for the things that others seek, — 
 The things for which most men do live and die ; 
 He seeks to find the Holy Grail of joy, 
 And drink from fountains that will satisfy 
 The body's thirst, and slake the thirst of soul. 
 The genius of his race flows in his veins 
 Today. Like eagles lithe and strong of wing, 
 God made the Jewish race to front the storm. 
 
A PILGRIM JEW 
 
 IV 
 
 The Jew is still the wonder of the age ; 
 Within the fabric of the world's close mesh, 
 And with the mystic warp and woof of life 
 Like wizard has this man his fiber wrought, 
 And spun the thread from his own sturdy soul, 
 And subtile mind ; thro' civic life doth run 
 The current of his blood, and hist'ry's page, 
 In every new and every ancient land, 
 Doth hold the fadeless, fixed, Semitic stamp. 
 Compeer of pioneers in Art, State craft. 
 And in the musty lore of Science old 
 His strong and world-enlight'ning thoughts still 
 
 reign ; 
 The Hebrew is the Phoenix of the race ; 
 From out the ashes of his life consumed, 
 He boldly rises, and a victor goes 
 
A PILGRIM JEW II 
 
 To mew his youth when all men think him dead, 
 
 And shoots forth, javelin-like his mighty thought ; 
 
 He stands aloof, yet penetrates the mass, 
 
 Distinct, persistently his potent self ; 
 
 His ethnic immortality astounds 
 
 The world, but Israel's God works His high wilL 
 
12 A PILGRIM JEW 
 
 Of flawless life let not the Gentile prate, 
 
 Till he has swept away from his door-step 
 
 A thousand sins that blight and blind his race ; — 
 
 Proud healer, wouldst thou heal the Jew ? then let 
 
 The Jew's Jehovah heal sin's wound in thee. 
 
 The critic's charge would fly like boomerang 
 
 Flung swiftly from the savage hunter's hand, 
 
 To smite upon the guilty breast of him 
 
 Who brings the charge of crime, did he but see 
 
 As far within the secrets of his life 
 
 As he would have his erring brother think 
 
 The critic's eye can surely see in Jews. 
 
A PILGRIM JEW 13 
 
 VI 
 
 If trees are known by kinds of fruits they bear, 
 Then know the Jewish trunk by that which loads 
 Its boughs. Good trees cannot bear evil fruit, 
 Nor evil trees bear that which wholesome is; 
 '' The father of the faithful seed " was sprung 
 From Jewish tree, as was the meekest man 
 On earth, who climbed the mount and talked with 
 
 God; 
 One brightest star of woman's world was sprung 
 From Hebrew stock — the noble Esther, queen ; 
 An ancient bard his lyre smote, till flowed 
 From throbbing chords rare melody of song, 
 Thro' lengthened years, 'mid sobs and sighs of woe, 
 Or ringing notes of Great Messiah's reign ; 
 The singer of the Jews whose matchless strains 
 Float down the tide of ever-flowing years. 
 
14 A PILGRIM JEW ' 
 
 Has sung the messages of highest heaven 
 To soothe the aching hearts of dying men ; 
 And when in battle's front, for truth and right, 
 Strong soldiers have lost heart, and ready were 
 To quit the field, again he smote his harp, 
 When swooning hope revived in victory ; 
 In silence sad his tongue would closely cleave 
 To palate of his unreplying mouth. 
 And naught of skill his strong right arm would 
 
 know. 
 Did he forget his dear Jerusalem. 
 Amid devouring flames walked forth three men 
 Whose hero-hearts beat high with Hebrew blood ; 
 So true were they that God an angel sent 
 Thro* rifted sky, to hold the hot hell-hounds 
 At bay with might of heaven's mastery. 
 Behold the hero of the Sanhedrim ; 
 
A PILGRIM JEW i^ 
 
 The gathered might of many men did dwell 
 In him who fought the beasts at Ephesus ; 
 His grasp held firm the helm of God's young 
 
 church, 
 And when at last the angry gleaming sword 
 Leaped swiftly from the sheath to drink his blood, 
 The opening heav'ns disclosed to him a crown. 
 And angels bore him to his lofty throne. 
 The stuff that God makes manhood of is spun, 
 Not from the robes of kings, nor regal crowns, 
 But from the drapery of truth and light. 
 Fresh wove in heav'n ; — nor high, nor low, nor 
 
 rich, 
 Nor poor, nor Gentile, nor the Jew can claim 
 Monopoly on wealth of character. 
 
i6 A PILGRIM JEW ' 
 
 VII 
 
 As touching crimes that guilty Jews have wrought 
 
 Some others' hands are crimson dyed with gore ; 
 
 For sin is sin, in Gentile, Jew or bond, 
 
 Or Scythian, or free, — the kind is one. 
 
 Who knows but Gentile would have wrought the 
 
 crime 
 That Judas did, had Gentile felt the gyves 
 That traitor thralled, as captive slave of hell ? 
 The scorpion of dire remorse did sting 
 The writhing soul of that despairing man. 
 And this, I ween, would be his plaint, could tongue 
 Give speech to mortal anguish and despair : — 
 ** My soul has run the grim gauntlet of grief 
 To find more woe, unsoothed by help or hope ; 
 The deed I've done, none can undo, nor change 
 The act that seals my double doom. Remorse 
 
A PILGRIM JEW 17 
 
 Thrusts me with hell-tipped spears of agony ; 
 The lust for gold my spirit starved, and darkened 
 Life's brief day with rayless gloom ; — the sky 
 That over-domed me once with friendly glow 
 Of sun, or moon, or stars, now covers me 
 With deepening night no light shall ever break; 
 When my lips kissed the face of Him, my Friend, 
 Who went the length of love to rescue me. 
 He spake, and asked, ' Dost thou betray thy Lord, 
 And with a traitor's kiss ? ' His look slew me, — 
 It was the lonely look of outraged love ; 
 Alas, the kiss I gave that sweet-souled man, 
 'Twas false, and filled my soul with wordless woe. 
 Oh, if those eyes on me once more could look, 
 If his own voice o'erfull with love's pure rhythm 
 Could call once more with matchless melody, — 
 Call back to me the sweet repose of youth. 
 And innocence again, — life's holy morn ; — 
 And if his lips so heaven-clean could kiss 
 This burning sin from off my soul, — to me 
 That kiss were bliss as sweet as angels know." 
 
i8 A PILGRIM JEW 
 
 VIII 
 
 The whole wide world is debtor to the Jew ; 
 
 Had not a Jew, heroic, strong, and sent 
 
 Of Heaven, and faithful to His mission 
 
 Left His high throne to drink our cup of woe. 
 
 We had not found the long way back to God. 
 
 O'er all the world hung darkest night, and man, 
 
 In dire distress and pain, aloud did cry 
 
 For light to shine away the deep'ning gloom ; 
 
 On high the pleading call was heard, and Jove 
 
 Threw splendor on the ebon sky, and hung 
 
 A stellar flame above the holy couch 
 
 Of that sweet Babe Divine whose life should live 
 
 In human flesh, and who should die the death 
 
 Of man, and yet whose life should deathless be, — 
 
 The one exhaustless fount of life to men ; 
 
 And swift He grew to be a high-souled man. 
 
^ A PILGRIM JEW 19 
 
 Clean-handed, heaven-true, and one with God ; 
 A brother to the sons of men, enclothed 
 With mortal flesh, God's life in humankind ; 
 He came in closest touch with earthly pain, 
 His guileless lips with eager love did drink, 
 And drain to utmost depths the chalices 
 Of earthly states, all over-full with woe; 
 The common folk heard Him with bounding joy, 
 And drank sweet solace from His sinless lips ; 
 False men heard his true speech and awe-struck 
 
 stood 
 Before the matchless splendor of His life ; 
 Thus from a soul sick unto death, He spake 
 The messages of life and peace to all ; 
 A homeless wanderer, and spent with toil, 
 In weariness that never found a name. 
 He pleaded with a weary world to find 
 
20 A PILGRIM JEW 
 
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 Repose upon his grief-enravished heart ; 
 Dost think thy chalice bitter, friend ? No dregs 
 Of sorrow's cup instilled by earthly pain 
 Have touched thy mortal lips, like those that pressed 
 The lips of Christ on Calv'ry's brow that day. 
 When rocks were rent, and earthly hopes all died, 
 And frowning clouds shut out the smile of heav'n— 
 When God's own face obscured from view, en- 
 hanced 
 The woe of Him who bore the woes of men. 
 
A PILGRIM JEW 21 
 
 IX 
 
 But whither went the wayfarer we saw 
 
 With staff in hand come from the distant land, 
 
 Gray Orient, to youthful Occident ? 
 
 Acclimated is he, but Hebrew bides ; 
 
 As sweet as breath of morn in fragrant spring, 
 
 And full of melting melody as are 
 
 The songs of happy birds at summer's dawn, 
 
 Is this sojourner's love for kith and kin ; 
 
 The spendthrift splendor of the mid-day sun 
 
 Were but the shade of night to him, should die 
 
 That love which in his breast is quenchless flame ; 
 
 Along the rural lanes he wends his way 
 
 Thro' honey-scented winds from smiling fields, 
 
 And orchards sweet, and gardens all abloom ; 
 
 He goes in search of some congenial toil, 
 
 In village, or in fevered city life ; 
 
22 A PILGRIM JEW 
 
 Beneath the spreading trees he met one day, 
 At noon, by cooling springs, a Gentile friend ; 
 And when in fountains from the hills they laved 
 With healing balm their travel-blistered feet, 
 And quaffed, each one the crystal draught of health, 
 Hand clasped in hand, fast friends they pledged to 
 
 be; 
 In this league-love, arm-locked they went their 
 
 way 
 Across the dale, to fmd Jehovah's seat; 
 And having reached the temple door, it swung 
 Full wide, and both went in the fane to pray ; 
 The Jew and Gentile prayed, and thus began. 
 As one: — '' Our Father, God who art in Heav'n: " 
 The closing hymn was David's Shepherd Psalm. 
 Nearby that sacred place the Gentile found 
 
A PILGRIM JEW 23 
 
 His home, and lived and died a ripened man. 
 The Pilgrim Jew pursued his weary way, 
 Long miles to meet the test of all his life ; 
 The self-same test that many mighty kings 
 Stood not, but, failing, slipped from manhood's 
 
 tree, 
 And fell as autumn leaves in pelting rain ; 
 A Gentile maid enamored with the youth. 
 And, passion-blind, would lure his heart with love; 
 She hunted him both night and day as men 
 In heated chase pursue the fleeing hart ; 
 At last alone she found him wrapped in thought, 
 By lone sequestered brook where tangled vines 
 Threw shade, and where the thrushes came to sing ; 
 Upon him unawares she stole, and wreathed 
 His neck with rounded arms; as lips pressed lips, 
 And soul to soul leaped swift as flame to flame ; 
 
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24 A PILGRIM JEW 
 
 Her white breast heaved as silver sea when kissed 
 By wooing moon, and tides embrace the beach ; 
 Her breath smote on his swarthy cheek a flame 
 That swept his soul as fire-storms sweep the 
 
 plain ; — 
 He felt his spirit swooning into bliss, 
 But like the rush of winds through mountain gorge, 
 His mighty manhood's strength came back to him, 
 When like the whipped and tethered hound, passion 
 Slept, and he stood prince and proud victor ; 
 His way he went, from her's afar, her life 
 Pursuing him, as rill the hillside's slope; 
 Within the city's edge their ways diverged. 
 And thus he slipped the luring leash of love. 
 
A PILGRIM JEW 25 
 
 The Pilgrim learned to love an aged Jew 
 Who had his home within the city's bound. 
 Wherein he, too, had found abiding place ; 
 The aged Jew loved also this strong youth 
 And asked him to his home to be his guest ; 
 Love has a way to reach love's happy end. 
 Which none but love and lovers understand. 
 The aged sire and youth did slowly walk 
 Till, halting near an open gate, he bade 
 His friend warm welcome to his cheerful home ; 
 In waiting still the loving father stood, 
 For that accustomed greeting at the gate ; 
 His daughter came, whose every pose was grace, 
 Came tripping down the lawn to meet her sire ; 
 Her hair like tangled threads from night's black robe 
 Curled round her soft and snowy swan-like neck ; 
 Her cheeks were kissed to crimson by the dawn. 
 
26 A PILGRIM JEW 
 
 Her lips were full and round and red as wine, 
 Upon her maiden soul hung virtue's robe, 
 Pinned fast by golden rays flung down from heav'n; 
 Her lyric laugh like song of nightingale 
 In dulcet ripples rolled upon the air. 
 And from her heart a mystic arrow flew. 
 That swiftly smote the youth to his life's core; 
 Yet strange to say no blood left that sweet wound, 
 But issued thence instead, a man's whole soul ; 
 And like two honey drops in hearts of blooms, 
 Two lover's lives were evermore made one ; 
 On speedy wings flew by the golden days, 
 But even time is slow when eager love 
 Must wait love's blissful consummation seal ; 
 The songful soul of her he fondly loved 
 Broke out in lays of love at even time. 
 And often with the waking birds, she sang 
 With lute-like voice this song at dewy dawn : — 
 
A PILGRIM JEW 27 
 
 ** When crimson-lipped morning breaths love to 
 
 the flowers, 
 And the Goddess of Dawn rides forth from her 
 
 bowers ; 
 When Aurora the sleeping earth wakes with a kiss, 
 Enrobing her verdure in billows of bliss ; 
 When chalices fragrant in garden or hedge, 
 Are laden with dew till it slips o'er the edge. 
 And sprinkles the grasses in baptism sweet, 
 A chrism so pure that for angels 'twere meet. 
 
28 A PILGRIM JEW ' 
 
 ** When blossom-cups brimming with dew- 
 waters, spill 
 Their over-full fragrance on valley or hill, 
 When soft-singing birds in the musical dawn 
 Proclaim to the earth that her darkness is gone ; 
 When nature enswathed in a sweet mellow light, 
 Spreads out to my vision such ravishing sight — 
 Then I know that bleak winter has fled long ago 
 To his frost-draped house in the ice and the 
 snow/' 
 
A PIL GRIM JEW 29 
 
 XI 
 
 One long year passed, and wedding bells out- 
 flung 
 Their silv'ry notes across the vernal lea, 
 While side by side with firm clasped lover's hands 
 Love's vows were sealed beneath the orange 
 
 bloom, 
 And Hymen's Hymn glad youthful voices sang. 
 
jo A PILGRIM JEW 
 
 XII 
 
 A sweet twelve-month and more, these hearts 
 
 were wed, 
 And growing love had blossomed into bliss ; 
 An earthly Paradise their home had seemed, — 
 A fitting place forever to abide ; 
 But life and love do ever richer grow 
 When heaven's law is followed to the end : 
 One silent night when all the world reposed 
 From care and toil, regaining much spent strength, 
 In slumbrous calm, to meet the morrow's task, 
 The stillness of that hopeful home was broke 
 By infant voice that filled and gently thrilled 
 Two youthful hearts with sweeter sounds than 
 
 strains 
 Of lyre or lute could ever be to man ; 
 No printed page records the word the babe 
 
A PILGRIM JEW 
 
 1 
 
 Outbreathed that night with eloquence of life, 
 
 But wedded love did all its meaning feel ; 
 
 Soft infant hands erased the sense of pain, 
 
 And time seemed merged in one resplendent day; 
 
 But fled the fleeting years to half a score ; 
 
 And father's heart and mother's heart were wove 
 
 Entire in that of their glad, growing boy ; 
 
 The night was long to them because it hid 
 
 His face ; the morning seemed for long to wait 
 
 Behind the hills to halt his waking smile ; 
 
 Nor half so sweet was carrolling of birds. 
 
 As was the mellow music of his voice. 
 
 And all that gave him joy, to them was joy, 
 
 And all that gave him pain, to them was pain ; 
 
 With sacred bands of love the three were bound, 
 
 And who would dare to break the tender tie ? 
 
 Envenomed winds from some bad land blew death 
 
32 A PILGRIM JEW __ 
 
 Thro' lattice work across his youthful veins ; 
 
 And like siroccos o'er Sicilian sands 
 
 That blow their blist'ring breath till bright leaves 
 
 fade, 
 Or blossoms droop beneath their dreadful heat, 
 Thus faded fast, and drooped, this human bloom, 
 Beneath the dreadful fever's burning blast ; 
 As sinks the red sun in the sea to hide 
 Away from gaze of men, the stainless soul 
 Of that pure boy in silence took his leave 
 And left two bleeding hearts engulfed with woe. 
 
A PILGRIM JEW 3j 
 
 XIII 
 
 Full soon the winged years to fifty flew, 
 
 But both were leal, and these were golden years; 
 
 What God by love had joined in one, no man 
 
 By hate or lust or legal trick could part ; 
 
 All honor give the Jew for loyal love — 
 
 For teaching Gentiles 'round the rolling earth. 
 
 The stainless sanctity of human homes. 
 
 LofC. 
 
^ A PILGRIM JEW 
 
 XIV 
 
 Once more as in the days of yore they stand 
 At Hymen's altar and renew their vows, — 
 The ever holy troth of wedded love ; 
 Young men and maidens sang for them this song, 
 Beneath the fragrant boughs of evergreen : — 
 
 *The flowers of love for fifty years 
 
 Have bloomed for us together, 
 'Mid songs and sighs, 'mid smiles and tears 
 
 In storms and sunny weather ; 
 
 Nor tempest nor shadow nor sorrow norlpain 
 Can sever love's loyal link in twain : — 
 The sun may fade and the stars may fall, 
 But our love will outlast them all — 
 We are sweethearts forever. 
 
A PILGRIM JEW 3? 
 
 Fifty years have frosted our hair, 
 Since we were joined together ; 
 Time's plow has cut the furrows of care, 
 
 But could not break love's tether. 
 At bridal altar so long ago, 
 I held her hand as pure as snow ; — 
 Other loves have chilled and died. 
 With heartless groom or faithless bride, 
 But ours abides forever/' 
 
36 A PILGRIM JEW ' 
 
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 XV 
 
 The months flew by and brought the dismal day, 
 
 When she on whom this faithful man bestowed 
 
 His life so far away in youthful years, 
 
 Must shift the fleshly robe, and then depart ; 
 
 On pinions swift the spirit faster fled 
 
 Than beam of sun, and this was her last word : — 
 
 **A thick'ning mist my vision dims, and shuts 
 
 The light of morning out with night's deep shade ; 
 
 Sweet faces dear to me do now escape 
 
 My view ; — I am alone, nay, nay, — behold, 
 
 Some One is with me still ; and tho* 1 die, 
 
 I know I live ; tho' pulses cease, my soul 
 
 Breathes finer air than e'er on earth it knew ; 
 
 I find my spirit far afield in realms 
 
 Where sight fails not, nor shadows ever fall ; 
 
 Untrammeled now, my soul a freedom feels 
 
A PILGRIM JEW j7 
 
 Beyond my fondest hope, or sweetest dream ; 
 If this be death, then what, my raptured soul. 
 Is life : This still is life, and death the key 
 To richer life, and heaven's high emprise ; 
 Far vaster than the ocean's bound doth swell 
 Within my soul life's solemn, soundless sea ; 
 'Tis not the flow of passion's rising tide. 
 Nor yet of full, and strong impulse of life, 
 But consciousness of love so vast, and strength, 
 That one, to compass it, an age must grow. 
 The infinite doth circumscribed appear, 
 When on the finite over-long men gaze ; 
 Horizons mark the bounds of mortal sight, 
 But lines like these ne'er fixed the ken of souls; 
 Life must defeat the tyrant Death, and wrench ' 
 The potent scepter from his icy hand ; 
 
28 A PILGRIM JEW ' 
 
 It will be so some day when he that hath 
 The power of death shall fail and shall be slain 
 By Prince of Life whose might shall conquer him. 
 A corn of wheat falls on the ground and dies, 
 But from death's sleep it wakes with fairer form, 
 And more'abundant life than it had known ; 
 Thus must it be that each true life, in form 
 Renewed, shall still live on despite the shock 
 And chill of death — shall live, and ne'er shall die. 
 And thus the night of doubt away hath flown 
 Before theorising day of faith's bright hope ; 
 Against the front of dark despair and death, 
 This new life hurls its great and growing might,— 
 Nor can it be that death ends all, but He 
 Who all things did begin shall end all death." 
 
A PILGRIM JEW 39 
 
 XVI 
 
 Between two walls of bloom they lowered her 
 To sweet repose within the hilFs embrace — 
 A grassy hill that slopes to meet the dawn ; 
 The aged Pilgrim's heart went down with her 
 Upon that fragrant couch of summer bloom ; — 
 The sweet apocalypse of love once broke 
 Upon the soul can never wholly fade. 
 
40 A PILGRIM JEW^ 
 
 XVII 
 
 Again one balmy morn in June I stood 
 
 Upon the hill ; the Pilgrim at my side 
 
 Was mute, and thro' the dimming tears he gazed 
 
 Upon a grass-grown grave and heaved a sigh 
 
 From deeps of love as fresh and true as joys 
 
 He knew in manhood's bright and happy morn ; 
 
 The sleeper there beneath the grass had been 
 
 Full fifty years ago the mourner's bride ; 
 
 The lover's holy reverie was broke 
 
 By happy song : — a singing lark had perched 
 
 Near by upon a bush that drooped with bloom, 
 
 And with his music filled the home of death ; — 
 
 He seemed to sing of vernal vales where trees 
 
 Of life do bloom, where death comes not, nor foe 
 
 To mar the bliss of reunited love ; 
 
 The sweet- voiced bird, its errand done, took wing 
 
A PILGRIM JEW 4, 
 
 And flew away, but with the wrinkled man, 
 Grief-worn, the deathless song of hope abides. 
 
42 A PILGRIM JEW 
 
 XVIII 
 
 Then twilight came with soothing sleep, and 
 
 sealed 
 With noiseless touch the wayworn traveler's eyes; 
 -An angel's fingers loosed the silver chord, 
 When lo, the alabaster box was broke, 
 And issued forth the Pilgrim's fragrant soul ; 
 Like scented cloud of incence from the fires 
 Of holy altars rose that life to God, 
 And swinging wide, the glowing gates of morn 
 Admitted him to love's unfading day, 
 And crowning bliss of great Jehovah's smile. 
 
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