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POEMS BEFORE CONGRESS. 
 
POEMS BEFORE CONGRESS 
 
 BY 
 
 ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. 
 
 LONDON : 
 CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY. 
 
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 BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WIIITEFEIARS. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 These poems were written under the pressure of 
 the events they indicate, after a residence in Italy 
 of so many years, that the present triumph of great 
 principles is heightened to the writer's feelings by 
 the disastrous issue of the last movement, witnessed 
 from " Casa Guidi Windows " in 1849. Yet, if the 
 verses should appear to English readers too pun- 
 gently rendered to admit of a patriotic respect to 
 the English sense of things, I will not excuse 
 myself on such grounds, nor on the ground of my 
 attachment to the Italian people, and my admiration 
 of their heroic constancy and union. What I have 
 written has simply been written because I love truth 
 and justice quancl meme, — " more than Plato " and 
 Plato's country, more than Dante and Dante's 
 country, more even than Shakespeare and Shake- 
 speare's country. 
 
VI PREFACE. 
 
 And if patriotism means the flattery of one's 
 nation in every case, then the patriot, take it as 
 you please, is merely a courtier ; which I am not, 
 though I have written " Napoleon III. in Italy." 
 It is time to limit the significance of certain terms, 
 or to enlarge the significance of certain things. 
 Nationality is excellent in its place ; and the 
 instinct of self-love is the root of a man, which 
 will develope into sacrificial virtues. But all the 
 virtues are means and uses ; and, if we hinder their 
 tendency to growth and expansion, we "both destroy 
 them as virtues, and degrade them to that rankest 
 species of corruption reserved for the most noble 
 organisations. For instance, — non-intervention in 
 the affairs of neighbouring states is a high political 
 virtue ; but non-intervention does not mean, passing 
 by on the other side when your neighbour falls 
 among thieves, — or Phariseeism would recover it from 
 Christianity. Freedom itself is virtue, as well as 
 privilege ; but freedom of the seas does not mean 
 piracy, nor freedom of the land, brigandage ; nor 
 freedom of the senate, freedom to cudgel a dissident 
 member, nor freedom of the press, freedom to 
 calumniate and lie. So, if patriotism be a virtue 
 
PREFACE. Vll 
 
 indeed, it cannot mean an exclusive devotion to 
 one's country's interests, — for that is only another 
 form of devotion to personal interests, family 
 interests, or provincial interests, all of which, if 
 not driven past themselves, are vulgar and immoral 
 objects. Let us put away the little Pedlingtonism 
 unworthy of a great nation, and too prevalent 
 among us. If the man who does not look beyond 
 this natural life is of a somewhat narrow order, 
 what must be the man who does not look bej-ond 
 his own frontier or his own sea ? 
 
 I confess that I dream of the clay when an 
 Enolish statesman shall arise with a heart too 
 large for England, having courage in the face of 
 his countrymen to assert of some suggested policy, 
 — " This is good for your trade : this is neces- 
 sary for your domination ; but it will vex a people 
 hard by; it will hurt a people farther off ; it will 
 profit nothing to the general humanity : therefore, 
 away with it ! — it is not for you or for me." 
 When a British minister dares speak so, and 
 when a British public applauds him speaking, 
 then shall the nation be so glorious, that her 
 
Vlll PREFACE. 
 
 praise, instead of exploding from within, from loud 
 civic mouths, shall come to her from without, as 
 all worthy praise must, from the alliances she has 
 fostered, and from the populations she has saved. 
 
 And poets who write of the events of that time, 
 shall not need to justify themselves in prefaces, for 
 ever so little jarring of the national sentiment, 
 imputable to their rhymes. 
 
 Rome, February, 1860. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Page 
 
 Xapoleon III in Italy . 1 
 
 The Dance 21 
 
 A Tale of Yillafranca 26 
 
 A Court Lady 32 
 
 Ax August Voice 39 
 
 Christmas Gifts 46 
 
 Italy and the World 50 
 
 A Curse for a Nation 59 
 
POEMS BEFOKE CONGRESS. 
 
 NAPOLEON III IN ITALY. 
 
 i. 
 
 Emperor, Emperor ! 
 From tlie centre to the shore, 
 From the Seine back to the Rhine, 
 Stood eight millions up and swore 
 By their manhood's right divine 
 
 So to elect and legislate, 
 This man should renew the line 
 Broken in a strain of fate 
 And leagued kings at Waterloo, 
 When the people's hands let go. 
 
 Emperor 
 
 Evermore. 
 
NAPOLEON III IN ITALY. 
 
 II. 
 
 With a universal shout 
 They took the old regalia out 
 From an open grave that day ; 
 From a grave that would not close, 
 Where the first N" apoleon lay 
 
 Expectant, in repose, 
 As still as Merlin, with his conquering face 
 Turned up in its unquenchable appeal 
 To men and heroes of the advancing race, — 
 
 Prepared to set the seal 
 Of what has been on what shall be. 
 Emperor 
 Evermore. 
 
 in. 
 
 The thinkers stood aside 
 
 To let the nation act. 
 Some hated the new-constituted fact 
 Of empire, as pride treading on their pride. 
 Some quailed, lest what was poisonous in the past 
 Should graft itself in that Druidic bough 
 On this green now. 
 
 Some cursed, because at last 
 
NAPOLEON III IN ITALY. O 
 
 The open heavens to which they had look'd in vain 
 For many a golden fall of marvellous rain 
 
 Were closed in brass ; and some 
 Wept on because a gone thing could not come ; 
 And some were silent, doubting all things for 
 
 That popular conviction, — evermore 
 
 Emperor. 
 
 IV. 
 
 That day I did not hate 
 
 Nor doubt, nor quail nor curse. 
 
 I, reverencing the people, did not bate 
 
 My reverence of their deed and oracle, 
 
 Nor vainly prate 
 
 Of better and of worse 
 Against the great conclusion of their will. 
 
 And yet, voice and verse, 
 Which God set in me to acclaim and sing 
 Conviction, exaltation, aspiration, 
 We gave no music to the patent thing, 
 Nor spared a holy rhythm to throb and swim 
 
 About the name of him 
 Translated to the sphere of domination 
 
 By democratic passion ! 
 
 B 2 
 
NAPOLEON III IN ITALY. 
 
 I was not used, at least, 
 Nor can be, now or then, 
 To stroke the ermine beast 
 On any kind of throne, 
 (Though builded by a nation for its own), 
 And swell the surging choir for kings of men- 
 ' Emperor 
 Evermore.' 
 
 v. 
 
 But now, Napoleon, now 
 That, leaving far behind the purple throng 
 
 Of vulgar monarchs, thou 
 
 Tread'st higher in thy deed 
 
 Than stair of throne can lead, 
 
 To help in the hour of wrong 
 The broken hearts of nations to be strong, — 
 
 JSTow, lifted as thou art 
 
 To the level of pure song, 
 We stand to meet thee on these Alpine snows ! 
 And while the palpitating peaks break out 
 Ecstatic from somnambular repose 
 With answers to the presence and the shout, 
 
NAPOLEON III IN ITALY. O 
 
 We, poets of the people, who take part 
 With, elemental justice, natural right, 
 
 Join in our echoes also, nor refrain. 
 We meet thee, Napoleon, at this height 
 At last, and find thee great enough to praise. 
 Receive the poet's chrism, which smells heyond 
 
 The priest's, and pass thy. ways ; — 
 An English poet warns thee to maintain 
 God's word, not England's : — let His truth he true 
 And all men liars ! with His truth respond 
 To all men's lie. Exalt the sword and smite 
 On that long anvil of the Apennine 
 Where Austria forged the Italian chain in view 
 Of seven consenting nations, sparks of fine 
 
 Admonitory light, 
 Till men's eyes wink before convictions new. 
 Flash in God's justice to the world's amaze, 
 Sublime Deliverer ! — after many days 
 Found worthy of the deed thou art come to do — 
 Emperor 
 Evermore. 
 
 VI. 
 
 But Italy, my Italy, 
 Can it last, this gleam ? 
 
6 NAPOLEON III IN ITALY. 
 
 Can she live and be strong, 
 
 Or is it another dream 
 
 Like the rest we have dreamed so long ? 
 
 And shall it, must it be, 
 That after the battle-cloud has broken 
 She will die off again 
 Like the rain, 
 Or like a poet's song 
 Sung of her, sad at the end 
 Because her name is Italy, — 
 Die and count no friend ? 
 Is it true, — may it be spoken, — 
 That she who has lain so still, 
 With a wound in her breast, 
 And a flower in her hand, 
 And a grave-stone under her head. 
 While every nation at will 
 Beside her has dared to stand 
 And flout her with pity and scorn ? 
 Saying, ' She is at rest, 
 She is fair, she is dead, 
 And, leaving room in her stead 
 To Us who are later born, 
 This is certainly best I ' 
 
NAPOLEON III IN ITALY. 
 
 Saying, ' Alas, she is fair, 
 
 Very fair, but dead, 
 
 And so we have room for the race.' 
 
 — Can it be true, be true, 
 
 That she lives anew ? 
 
 That she rises up at the shout of her sons, 
 
 At the trumpet of France, 
 
 And lives anew ? — is it true 
 
 That she has not moved in a trance, 
 
 As in Forty- eight ? 
 
 When her eyes were troubled with blood 
 
 Till she knew not friend from foe, 
 
 Till her hand was caught in a strait 
 
 Of her cerement and baffled so 
 
 From doing the deed she would ; 
 
 And her weak foot stumbled across 
 
 The grave of a king, 
 
 And down she dropt at heavy loss, 
 
 And we gloomily covered her face and said, 
 
 ' We have dreamed the thing ; 
 
 She is not alive, but dead.' 
 
NAPOLEON III IN ITALY. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Now, shall we say 
 
 Our Italy lives indeed ? 
 
 And if it were not for the beat and bray 
 
 Of drum and trump of martial men, 
 
 Should we feel the underground heave and strain, 
 
 Where heroes left their dust as a seed 
 
 Sure to emerge one day ? 
 And if it were not for the rhythmic march 
 Of France and Piedmont's double hosts, 
 
 Should we hear the ghosts 
 Thrill through ruined aisle and arch, 
 Throb along the frescoed wall, 
 Whisper an oath by that divine 
 They left in picture, book, and stone, 
 That Italy is not dead at all ? 
 Ay, if it were not for the tears in our eyes, 
 These tears of a sudden passionate joy, 
 
 Should we see her arise 
 From the place where the wicked are overthrown, 
 
 Italy, Italy ? loosed at length 
 
 From the tyrants thrall, 
 Pale and calm in her strength ? 
 Pale as the silver cross of Savoy 
 
NAPOLEON III IN ITALY. 
 
 When the hand that bears the flag is brave, 
 And not a breath is stirring, save 
 
 What is blown 
 Over the war-trump's lip of brass, 
 Ere Garibaldi forces the pass ! 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Ay, it is so, even so. 
 
 Ay, and it shall be so. 
 Each broken stone that long ago 
 She flung behind her as she went 
 In discouragement and bewilderment 
 Through the cairns of Time, and missed her way 
 
 Between to-day and yesterday, 
 
 Up springs a living man. 
 And each man stands with his face in the light 
 
 Of his own drawn sword, 
 Ready to do what a hero can. 
 Wall to sap, or river to ford, 
 Cannon to front, or foe to pursue, 
 Still ready to do, and sworn to be true, 
 
 As a man and a patriot can. 
 Piedmontese, Neapolitan, 
 
10 NAPOLEON III IN ITALY. 
 
 Lombard, Tuscan, Homagnole, 
 
 Each man's body having a soul, — 
 
 Count how many they stand, 
 
 All of them sons of the land, 
 
 Every live man there 
 
 Allied to a dead man below, 
 
 And the deadest with blood to spare 
 
 To quicken a living hand 
 
 In case it should ever be slow. 
 
 Count how many they come 
 
 To the beat of Piedmont's drum, 
 
 "With faces keener and grayer 
 
 Than swords of the Austrian slayer, 
 
 All set against the foe. 
 
 ' Emperor 
 
 Evermore.' 
 
 IX. 
 
 Out of the dust, where they ground them, 
 Out of the holes, where thev do^sred them, 
 Out of the hulks, where they wound them 
 In iron, tortured and flogged them ; 
 Out of the streets, where they chased them, 
 
NAPOLEON III IN ITALY. 11 
 
 Taxed them and then bayonetted them, — 
 Out of the homes, where they spied on them, 
 (Using their daughters and wives), 
 Out of the church, where they fretted them, 
 Rotted their souls and debased them, 
 Trained them to answer with knives, 
 Then cursed them all at their prayers ! — 
 Out of cold lands, not theirs, 
 Where they exiled them, starved them, lied on them ; 
 Back they come like a wind, in vain 
 Cramped up in the hills, that roars its road 
 The stronger into the open plain ; 
 Or like a fire that burns the hotter 
 And longer for the crust of cinder, 
 Serving better the ends of the potter ; 
 Or like a restrained word of God, 
 Fulfilling itself by what seems to hinder. 
 ' Emperor 
 Evermore.' 
 
 Shout for France and Savoy ! 
 Shout for the helper and doer. 
 
12 
 
 NAPOLEON III IN ITALY. 
 
 Shout for the good sword's ring, 
 Shout for the thought still truer. 
 Shout for the spirits at large 
 Who passed for the dead this spring, 
 Whose living glory is sure. 
 Shout for France and Savoy ! 
 Shout for the council and charge ! 
 Shout for the head of Cavour ; 
 And shout for the heart of a King 
 That's great with a nation's joy. 
 Shout for France and Savoy ! 
 
 XI. 
 
 Take up the child, Macmahon, though 
 
 Thy hand be red 
 
 From Magenta's dead, 
 
 And riding on, in front of the troop, 
 
 In the dust of the whirlwind of war 
 Through the gate of the city of Milan, stoop 
 And take up the child to thy saddle-bow, 
 Nor fear the touch as soft as a flower 
 
 Of his smile as clear as a star ! 
 Thou hast a right to the child, we say, 
 
NAPOLEON III IN ITALY. 13 
 
 Since the women are weeping for joy as those 
 Who, by thy help and from this day, 
 
 Shall be happy mothers indeed. 
 They are raining flowers from terrace and roof : 
 
 Take up the flower in the child. 
 While the shout goes up of a nation freed 
 
 And heroically self-reconciled, 
 Till the snow on that peaked Alp aloof 
 Starts, as feeling God's finger anew, 
 And all those cold white marble fires 
 Of mounting saints on the Duomo-spires 
 
 Flicker against the Blue. 
 ' Emperor 
 Evermore.' 
 
 XII. 
 
 Ay, it is He, 
 Who rides at the King's right hand ! 
 Leave room to his horse and draw to the side, 
 Isor press too near in the ecstacy 
 Of a newly delivered impassioned land : 
 He is moved, you see, 
 
 He who has done it all. 
 
14 NAPOLEON III IN ITALY. 
 
 They call it a cold stern face ; 
 
 But this is Italy 
 Who rises up to her place ! — 
 For this he fought in his youth, 
 Of this he dreamed in the past ; 
 The lines of the resolute mouth 
 Tremble a little at last. 
 Cry, he has done it all ! 
 
 ' Emperor 
 
 Evermore/ 
 
 xnr. 
 
 It is not strange that he did it, 
 Though the deed may seem to strain 
 To the wonderful, unpermitted, 
 For such as lead and reign. 
 But he is strange, this man : 
 The people's instinct found him 
 (A wind in the dark that ran 
 Through a chink where was no door), 
 And elected him and crowned him 
 
 Emperor 
 
 Evermore. 
 
NAPOLEON III IN ITALY. 15 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Autocrat ? let them scoff, 
 
 Who fail to comprehend 
 That a ruler incarnate of 
 
 The people, must transcend 
 All common king-born kings. 
 These subterranean springs 
 A sudden outlet winning, 
 Have special virtues to spend. 
 The people's blood runs through him, 
 Dilates from head to foot, 
 Creates him absolute, 
 And from this great beginning 
 Evokes a greater end 
 To justify and renew him — 
 Emperor 
 Evermore. 
 
 XV. 
 
 What ! did any maintain 
 That God or the people (think !) 
 Could make a marvel in vain ? — 
 Out of the water- jar there, 
 Draw wine that none could drink ? 
 
16 NAPOLEON III IN ITALY. 
 
 Is this a man like the rest, 
 
 This miracle, made unaware 
 
 By a rapture of popular air, 
 
 And caught to the place that was best ? 
 
 You think he could barter and cheat 
 
 As vulgar diplomates use, 
 
 With the people's heart in his breast ? 
 
 Prate a lie into shape 
 
 Lest truth should cumber the road ; 
 
 Play at the fast and loose 
 
 Till the world is strangled with tape ; 
 
 Maim the soul's complete 
 
 To fit the hole of a toad ; 
 
 And filch the dogman's meat 
 
 To feed the offspring of God ? 
 
 XVI. 
 
 Nay, but he, this wonder, 
 He cannot palter nor prate, 
 Though many around him and under, 
 With intellects trained to the curve, 
 Distrust him in spirit and nerve 
 Because his meaning is straight. 
 
NAPOLEON III IN ITALY. 
 
 17 
 
 Measure him ere lie depart 
 "With those who have governed and led ; 
 Larger so much by the heart, 
 Larger so much by the head. 
 
 Emperor 
 
 Evermore. 
 
 xvir. 
 
 He holds that, consenting or dissident, 
 Nations must move with the time ; 
 Assumes that crime with a precedent 
 
 Doubles the guilt of the crime ; 
 — Denies that a slaver's bond, 
 
 Or a treaty signed by knaves, 
 (Quorum magna pars and beyond 
 Was one of an honest name) 
 Gives an inexpugnable claim 
 To abolishing men into slaves. 
 Emperor 
 Evermore. 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 He will not swasher nor boast 
 
 o» v 
 
 Of his country's meeds, in a tone 
 
18 NAPOLEON III IN ITALY. 
 
 Missuiting a great man most 
 
 If such should speak of his own ; 
 Nor will he act, on her side, 
 
 From motives baser, indeed, 
 Than a man of a noble pride 
 
 Can avow for himself at need ; 
 Never, for lucre or laurels, 
 
 Or custom, though such should be rife, 
 Adapting the smaller morals 
 
 To measure the larger life. 
 He, though the merchants persuade, 
 
 And the soldiers are eager for strife, 
 Finds not his country in quarrels 
 
 Only to find her in trade, — 
 While still he accords her such honor 
 
 As never to flinch for her sake 
 Where men put service upon her, 
 
 Found heavy to undertake 
 And scarcely like to be paid : 
 
 Believing a nation may act 
 
 Unselfishly — shiver a lance 
 (As the least of her sons may, in fact) 
 
 And not for a cause of finance. 
 Emperor 
 Evermore. 
 
NAPOLEON III IN ITALY. 
 
 XIX. 
 
 19 
 
 Great is he, 
 Who uses his greatness for all. 
 His name shall stand perpetually 
 
 As a name to applaud and cherish, 
 Not only within the civic wall 
 For the loval, but also without 
 For the generous and free. 
 Just is he, 
 Who is just for the popular due 
 
 As well as the private debt. 
 The praise of nations ready to perish 
 Fall on him, — crown him in view 
 Of tyrants caught in the net, 
 And statesmen dizzy with fear and doubt ! 
 And though, because they are many, 
 
 And he is merely one, 
 And nations selfish and cruel 
 Heap up the inquisitor's fuel 
 To kill the body of high intents, 
 And burn great deeds from their place, 
 Till this, the greatest of any, 
 May seem imperfectly done ; 
 
 Courage, whoever circumvents ! 
 
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20 NAPOLEON III IN ITALY. 
 
 Courage, courage, whoever is base ! 
 
 The soul of a high intent, be it known, 
 
 Can die no more than any soul 
 
 Which God keeps by him under the throne 
 
 And this, at whatever interim, 
 
 Shall live, and be consummated 
 
 Into the being of deeds made whole. 
 
 Courage, courage ! happy is he, 
 
 Of whom (himself among the dead 
 
 And silent), this word shall be said ; 
 
 — That he might have had the world with him, 
 
 But chose to side with suffering men, 
 
 And had the world against him when 
 
 He came to deliver Italy. 
 
 Emperor 
 
 Evermore. 
 
21 
 
 THE DANCE. 
 
 i. 
 
 You remember down at Florence onr Cascine, 
 
 Where the people on the feast-days walk and drive, 
 
 And, through the trees, long-drawn in many a green 
 way, 
 O'er-roofing hum and murmur like a hive, 
 The river and the mountains look alive ? 
 
 IL 
 
 You remember the piazzone there, the stand-place 
 Of carriages a-brim with Florence B eauties, 
 
 "Who lean and melt to music as the band plays, 
 Or smile and chat with some one who a-foot is, 
 Or on horseback, in observance of male duties ? 
 
22 
 
 THE DANCE. 
 
 III. 
 
 *Tis so pretty, in the afternoons of summer, 
 So many gracious faces brought together ! 
 
 Call it rout, or call it concert, they have come here, 
 In the floating of the fan and of the feather, 
 To reciprocate with beauty the fine weather. 
 
 IV. 
 
 While the flower-girls offer nosegays (because they too 
 Go with other sweets) at every carriage-door ; 
 
 Here, by shake of a white finger, signed away to 
 Some next buyer, who sits buying score on score, 
 Piling roses upon roses evermore. 
 
 v. 
 
 And last season, when the French camp had its station 
 In the meadow-ground, things quickened and grew 
 gayer 
 
 Through the mingling of the liberating nation 
 
 With this people ; groups of Frenchmen everywhere, 
 Strolling, gazing, judging lightly . . ' who was fair/ 
 
THE DANCE. 23 
 
 VI. 
 
 Then the noblest lady present took upon her 
 To speak nobly from her carriage for the rest ; 
 
 ' Pray these officers from France to do us honour 
 By dancing with us straightway/ — The request 
 Was gravely apprehended as addressed. 
 
 VII. 
 
 And the men of France bareheaded, bowing lowly, 
 Led out each a proud signora to the space 
 
 Which the startled crowd had rounded for them- 
 slowly, 
 Just a touch of still emotion in his face, 
 Not presuming, through the symbol, on the grace. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 There was silence in the people : some lips trembled, 
 But none jested. Broke the music, at a glance : 
 
 And the daughters of our princes, thus assembled, 
 Stepped the measure with the gallant sons of France. 
 Hush ! it might have been a Mass, and not a dance. 
 
24 THE DANCE. 
 
 IX. 
 
 And they danced there till the blue that overskied us 
 Swooned with passion, though the footing seemed 
 sedate ; 
 
 And the mountains, heaving mighty hearts beside us, 
 Sighed a rapture in a shadow, to dilate, 
 And touch the holy stone where Dante sate. 
 
 X. 
 
 Then the sons of France bareheaded, lowly bowing, 
 Led the ladies back where kinsmen of the south 
 Stood, received them ; — till, with burst of overflowing 
 Feeling . . . husbands, brothers, Florence's male 
 
 youth, 
 Turned, and kissed the martial strangers mouth to 
 mouth. 
 
 XI. 
 
 And a cry went up, a cry from all that people ! 
 
 — You have heard a people cheering, you suppose, 
 For the Member, mayor . . with chorus from the 
 steeple ? 
 
THE DANCE. 25 
 
 This was different : scarce as loud perhaps, (who 
 
 knows ?) 
 For we saw wet eyes around us ere the close. 
 
 XII. 
 
 And we felt as if a nation, too long borne in 
 
 By hard wrongers, comprehending in such attitude 
 
 That God had spoken somewhere since the morning, 
 That men were somehow brothers, by no platitude, 
 Cried exultant in great wonder and free gratitude. 
 
26 
 
 A TALE OF VILLAFRANCA. 
 
 TOLD IN TUSCANY. 
 
 I. 
 
 My little son, my Florentine, 
 Sit down beside my knee, 
 
 And I will tell you why the sign 
 Of joy which flushed our Italy, 
 
 Has faded since but yesternight ; 
 
 And why your Florence of delight 
 Is mourning as you see. 
 
 n. 
 
 A great man (who was crowned one day) 
 
 Imagined a great Deed : 
 He shaped it out of cloud and clay, 
 
A TALE OF VILLAFRANCA. 
 
 lie touched it finely till the seed 
 Possessed the flower : from heart and brain 
 He fed it with large thoughts humane, 
 
 To help a people's need. 
 
 in. 
 
 He brought it out into the sun — 
 They blessed it to his face : 
 
 ' great pure Deed, that hast undone 
 So many bad and base ! 
 
 generous Deed, heroic Deed, 
 
 Come forth, be perfected, succeed, 
 Deliver by God's grace. 
 
 IV 
 
 Then sovereigns, statesmen, north and south, 
 
 Hose up in wrath and fear, 
 And cried, protesting by one mouth, 
 
 ' What monster have we here ? 
 A great Deed at this hour of day ? 
 A great just deed — and not for pay ? 
 
 Absurd, — or insincere.' 
 
28 A TALE OF VILLAFRANCA. 
 
 * And if sincere, the heavier blow 
 In that case we shall bear, 
 
 For where *s our blessed ' status quo/ 
 Our holy treaties, where, — 
 
 Our rights to sell a race, or buy, 
 
 Protect and pillage, occupy, 
 And civilise despair ? ' 
 
 VI. 
 
 Some muttered that the great Deed meant 
 
 A great pretext to sin ; 
 And others, the pretext, so lent, 
 
 Was heinous (to begin). 
 Volcanic terms of ' great ' and ' just ? ' 
 Admit such tongues of flame, the crust 
 
 Of time and law falls in. 
 
 VII. 
 
 A great Deed in this world of ours ? 
 
 Unheard of the pretence is : 
 It threatens plainly the great Powers ; 
 
A TALE OF VILLAFBANCA. 29 
 
 Is fatal in all senses. 
 A just deed in the world ? — call out 
 The rifles ! be not slack about 
 
 The national defences. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 And many murmured, ' From this source 
 What red blood must be poured ! ' 
 
 And some rejoined, ' ? Tis even worse ; 
 What red tape is ignored ! ' 
 
 All cursed the Doer for an evil 
 
 Called here, enlarging on the Devil, — 
 There, monkeying the Lord ! 
 
 IX. 
 
 Some said, it could not be explained, 
 
 Some, could not be excused ; 
 And others, ' Leave it unrestrained, 
 
 Gehenna's self is loosed/ 
 And all cried, ' Crush it, maim it, gag it ! 
 Set dog-toothed lies to tear it ragged, 
 
 Truncated and traduced ! ' 
 
30 A TALE OF VILLAFRANCA. 
 
 But He stood sad before the sun, 
 (The peoples felt their fate). 
 
 ' The world is many, — I am one ; 
 My great Deed was too great. 
 
 God's fruit of justice ripens slow : 
 
 Men's souls are narrow ; let them grow 
 My brothers, we must wait.' 
 
 XI. 
 
 The tale is ended, child of mine, 
 Turned graver at my knee. 
 
 They say your eyes, my Florentine, 
 Are English : it may be : 
 
 And yet I 've marked as blue a pair 
 
 Following the doves across the square 
 At Venice by the sea. 
 
 XII. 
 
 Ah, child ! ah, child ! I cannot say 
 
 A word more. You conceive 
 The reason now, why just to-day 
 
A TALE OF VILLAFRANCA. 31 
 
 We see our Florence grieve. 
 Ah child, look up into the sky ! 
 In this low world, where great Deeds die, 
 
 What matter if we live ? 
 
32 
 
 A COURT LADY. 
 
 i. 
 
 Her hair was tawny with gold, her eyes with purple 
 
 were dark, 
 Her cheeks' pale opal burnt with a red and restless 
 
 spark. 
 
 ii. 
 
 Never was lady of Milan nobler in name and in race ; 
 Never was lady of Italy fairer to see in the face. 
 
 in. 
 
 Never was lady on earth more true as woman and 
 
 wife, 
 Larger in judgment and instinct, prouder in manners 
 
 and life. 
 
A COURT LADY. 33 
 
 IV. 
 
 She stood in tlie early morning, and said to her 
 
 maidens, 'Bring 
 That silken robe made ready to wear at the court of 
 
 the king. 
 
 ' Bring me the clasps of diamond, lucid, clear of the 
 mote, 
 
 Clasp me the large at the waist, and clasp me the 
 small at the throat. 
 
 VI. 
 
 1 Diamonds to fasten the hair, and diamonds to fasten 
 
 the sleeves, 
 Laces to drop from their rays, like a powder of snow 
 
 from the eaves. ' 
 
 VII. 
 
 Gorgeous she entered the sunlight which gathered her 
 up in a flame, 
 
 While, straight in her open carriage, she to the hos- 
 pital came. 
 
34 A COURT LADY. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 In she went at the door, and gazing from end to end, 
 'Many and low are the pallets, but each is the place of 
 a friend.' 
 
 IX. 
 
 Up she passed through the wards, and stood at a 
 
 young man's bed : 
 Bloody the band on his brow, and livid the droop of 
 
 his head. 
 
 ' Art thou a Lombard, my brother ? Happy art thou/ 
 
 she cried, 
 And smiled like Italy on him : he dreamed in her 
 
 face and died. 
 
 XI. 
 
 Pale with his passing soul, she went on still to a 
 
 second : 
 He was a grave hard man, whose years by dungeons 
 
 were reckoned. 
 
A COURT LADY. 35 
 
 XII. 
 
 Wounds in his body were sore, wounds in his life were 
 
 sorer. 
 ' Art thou a Komagnole ? ' Her eyes drove lightnings 
 
 before her. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 Austrian and priest had joined to double and tighten 
 
 the cord 
 Able to bind thee, strong one, — free by the stroke 
 
 of a sword. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 ' Now be grave for the rest of us, using the life over- 
 cast 
 
 To ripen our wine of the present, (too new,) in glooms 
 of the past/ 
 
 XV. 
 
 Down she stepped to a pallet where lay a face like 
 
 a girl's 
 Young, and pathetic with dying,— a deep black hole 
 
 in the curls. 
 
 d2 
 
36 A COURT LADY. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 ' Art thou from Tuscany, brother ? and seest thou, 
 
 dreaming in pain, 
 Thy mother stand in the piazza, searching the List of 
 
 the slain ? ' 
 
 XVII. 
 
 Kind as a mother herself, she touched his cheeks with 
 
 her hands : 
 ' Blessed is she who has borne thee, although she 
 
 should weep as she stands.' 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 On she passed to a Frenchman, his arm carried off by 
 
 a ball : 
 Kneeling, . . ' more than my brother ! how shall I 
 
 thank thee for all ? 
 
 XIX. 
 
 'Each of the heroes around us has fought for his 
 
 land and line, 
 But thou hast fought for a stranger, in hate of a wrong 
 
 not thine. 
 
A COURT LADY. 37 
 
 XX. 
 
 ' Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispos- 
 sessed. 
 
 But blessed are those among nations, who dare to 
 be strong for the rest ! ' 
 
 XXI. 
 
 Ever she passed on her way, and came to a couch 
 
 where pined 
 One with a face from Venetia, white with a hope out 
 
 of mind. 
 
 XXIL 
 
 Long she stood and gazed, and twice she tried at the 
 
 name, 
 But two great crystal tears were all that faltered and 
 
 came. 
 
 XXIII. 
 
 Only a tear for Venice ? — she turned as in passion 
 
 and loss, 
 And stooped to his forehead and kissed it, as if she 
 
 were kissing the cross. 
 
38 A COURT LADY. 
 
 XXIV. 
 
 Faint with that strain of heart she moved on then to 
 
 another, 
 Stern and strong in his death. 'And dost thou suffer, 
 
 my brother ? ' 
 
 XXV. 
 
 Holding his hands in hers : — ' Out of the Piedmont 
 
 lion 
 Cometh the sweetness of freedom ! sweetest to live 
 
 or to die on.' 
 
 XXVI. 
 
 Holding his cold rough hands, — ' Well, oh, well have 
 
 ye done 
 In noble, noble Piedmont, who would not be noble 
 
 alone.' 
 
 XXVII. 
 
 Back he fell while she spoke. She rose to her feet 
 
 with a spring, — 
 ' That was a Piedmontese ! and this is the Court of 
 
 the King.' 
 
39 
 
 AN AUGUST VOICE. 
 
 " Una voce augusta." — 
 
 MONITORE TOSCAKO. 
 
 You'll take back vour Grand Duke ? 
 
 I made the treaty upon it. 
 Just venture a quiet rebuke ; 
 
 DalT Ongaro write him a sonnet ; 
 Bicasoli gently explain 
 
 Some need of the constitution : 
 He'll swear to it over again, 
 
 Providing an ' easy solution.' 
 You'll call back the Grand Duke. 
 
 ii. 
 
 You'll take back your Grand Duke ? 
 
 I promised the Emperor Francis 
 To argue the case by his book, 
 
 And ask you to meet his advances. 
 
40 . AN AUGUST VOICE. 
 
 The Ducal cause, we know, 
 
 (Whether you or lie be the wronger) 
 Has very strong points ; — although 
 
 Your bayonets, there, have stronger. 
 You'll call back the Grand Duke. 
 
 in. 
 
 You'll take back your Grand Duke ? 
 
 He is not pure altogether. 
 For instance, the oath which he took 
 
 (In the Forty- eight rough weather) 
 He'd ' nail your flag to his mast/ 
 
 Then softly scuttled the boat you 
 Hoped to escape in at last, 
 
 And both by a ' Proprio motu.' 
 You'll call back the Grand Duke. 
 
 IV. 
 
 You'll take back your Grand Duke ? 
 
 The scheme meets nothing to shock it 
 In this smart letter, look, 
 
 We found in Radetsky's pocket ; 
 
AN AUGUST VOICE. 41 
 
 Where his Highness in sprightly style 
 Of the flower of his Tuscans wrote, 
 
 ' These heads be the hottest in file ; 
 Pray shoot them the quickest/ Quote, 
 
 And call back the Grand Duke. 
 
 V. 
 
 You'll take back your Grand Duke ? 
 
 There are some things to object to. 
 He cheated, betrayed, and forsook, 
 
 Then called in the foe to protect you. 
 He taxed you for wines and for meats 
 
 Throughout that eight years' pastime 
 Of Austria's drum in your streets — 
 
 Of course you remember the last time 
 You called back your Grand Duke. 
 
 VI. 
 
 You'll take back the Grand Duke ? 
 
 It is not race he is poor in, 
 Although he never could brook 
 
 The patriot cousin at Turin. 
 
42 . AN AUGUST VOICE. 
 
 His love of kin you discern, 
 
 By his hate of your flag and me — 
 
 So decidedly apt to turn 
 
 All colours at sight of the Three.* 
 
 You'll call back the Grand Duke. 
 
 VII. 
 
 You'll take back your Grand Duke ? 
 
 'Twas weak that he fled from the Pitti ; 
 But consider how little he shook 
 
 At thought of bombarding your city ! 
 And, balancing that with this, 
 
 The Christian rule is plain for us ; 
 . . Or the Holy Father's Swiss 
 
 Have shot his Perugians in vain for us. 
 You'll call back the Grand Duke. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Pray take back your Grand Duke. 
 
 — I, too, have suffered persuasion. 
 All Europe, raven and rook, 
 
 Screeched at me armed for your nation. 
 
 * The Italian tricolor : red, green, and white. 
 
AN AUGUST VOICE. 43 
 
 Your cause in my heart struck spurs ; 
 
 I swept such warnings aside for you : 
 My very child's eyes, and Hers, 
 
 Grew like my brother's who died for you. 
 You'll call back the Grand Duke ? 
 
 IX. 
 
 You'll take back your Grand Duke ? 
 
 My French fought nobly with reason, 
 Left many a Lombardy nook 
 
 Red as with wine out of season. 
 Little we grudged what was done there, 
 
 Paid freely your ransom of blood : 
 Our heroes stark in the sun there, 
 
 We would not recall if we could. 
 You'll call back the Grand Duke ? 
 
 You'll take back your Grand Duke ? 
 
 His son rode fast as he got off 
 That day on the enemy's hook, 
 
 When I had an epaulette shot off. 
 
44 AN AUGUST VOICE. 
 
 Though splashed (as I saw him afar, no, 
 
 Near) by those ghastly rains, 
 The mark, when you've washed him in Arno, 
 
 Will scarcely he larger than Cain's. 
 You'll call hack the Grand Duke. 
 
 xr. 
 
 You'll take hack your Grand Duke ? 
 
 'Twill he so simple, quite beautiful : 
 The shepherd recovers his crook, 
 
 . . If you should be sheep, and dutiful. 
 I spoke a word worth chalking 
 
 On Milan's wall — but stav, 
 Here's Poniatowsky talking, — 
 
 You'll listen to him to-day, 
 And call back the Grand Duke. 
 
 XII. 
 
 You'll take back your Grand Duke ? 
 
 Observe, there's no one to force it,- 
 Unless the Madonna, St. Luke 
 
 Drew for you, choose to endorse it. 
 
AN AUGUST VOICE. 45 
 
 i" charge you by great St. Martino 
 And prodigies quickened by wrong, 
 
 Remember your Dead on Ticino ; 
 Be worthy, be constant, be strong. 
 
 — Bah ! — call back the Grand Duke ! ! 
 
46 
 
 CHRISTMAS GIFTS. 
 
 a>s fiaaiXei, a>s Oecp, ws ueKpcp. 
 
 GREGORY NAZIANZEN. 
 
 The Pope on Christmas Day 
 
 Sits in St. Peter's chair ; 
 But the peoples murmur and say, 
 
 1 Our souls are sick and forlorn, 
 And who will show us where 
 
 Is the stable where Christ was born ? ' 
 
 ii. 
 
 The star is lost in the dark ; 
 
 The manger is lost in the straw ; 
 The Christ cries faintly . . hark ! . . 
 
 Through bands that swaddle and strangle- 
 But the Pope in the chair of awe 
 
 Looks down the great quadrangle. 
 
CHRISTMAS GIFTS. 47 
 
 III. 
 
 The magi kneel at his foot, 
 
 Kings of the east and west, 
 But, instead of the angels, (mute 
 
 Is the ' Peace on earth' of their song), 
 The peoples, perplexed and opprest, 
 
 Are sighing, ' How long, how long ? ' 
 
 IV. 
 
 And, instead of the kine, bewilder in 
 Shadow of aisle and dome, 
 
 The bear who tore up the children, 
 The fox who burnt up the corn, 
 
 And the wolf who suckled at Rome 
 Brothers to slay and to scorn. 
 
 v. 
 
 Cardinals left and right of him, 
 Worshippers round and beneath, 
 
 The silver trumpets at sight of him 
 Thrill with a musical blast : 
 
 But the people say through their teeth, 
 ' Trumpets ? we wait for the Last ! ' 
 
48 CHRISTMAS GIFTS. 
 
 VI. 
 
 He sits in the place of the Lord, 
 And asks for the gifts of the time ; 
 
 Gold, for the haft of a sword, 
 To win back Romagna averse, 
 
 Incense, to sweeten a crime, 
 And myrrh, to embitter a curse. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Then a king of the west said, ' Good ! — 
 I bring thee the gifts of the time ; 
 
 Red, for the patriot's blood, 
 Green, for the martyr's crown, 
 
 White, for the dew and the rime, 
 
 When the morning of God comes down.' 
 
 VIII. 
 
 — mystic tricolor bright ! 
 
 The Pope's heart qnailed like a man's 
 The cardinals froze at the sight, 
 
 Bowing their tonsures hoary : 
 And the eyes in the peacock -fans 
 
 Winked at the alien glory. 
 
CHRISTMAS GIFTS. 49 
 
 IX. 
 
 But the peoples exclaimed in hope, 
 * Now hlessed he he who has "brought 
 
 These gifts of the time to the Pope, 
 When our souls were sick and forlorn. 
 
 — And here is the star we sought, 
 To show us where Christ was born ! ' 
 
 E 
 
50 
 
 ITALY AND THE WOKLD. 
 
 i. 
 
 Florence, Bologna, Parma, Modena. 
 
 When you named them a year ago, 
 So many graves reserved hy God, in a 
 
 Day of judgment, you seemed to know, 
 To open and let out the resurrection. 
 
 ii. 
 
 And meantime (you made your reflection 
 If you were English), was nought to be done 
 
 But sorting sables, in predilection 
 For all those martyrs dead and gone, 
 
 Till the new earth and heaven made ready. 
 
 in. 
 
 And if your politics were not heady, 
 Violent, . . ' Good/ you added, ' good 
 
ITALY AND THE WORLD. 51 
 
 In all tilings ! mourn on sure and steady. 
 Churchyard thistles are wholesome food 
 For our European wandering asses. 
 
 IV. 
 
 ' The date of the resurrection passes 
 Human fore -knowledge : men unborn 
 
 Will gain by it (even in the lower classes), 
 But none of these. It is not the morn 
 
 Because the cock of France is crowing. 
 
 ' Cocks crow at midnight, seldom knowing 
 Starlight from dawn-light : 'tis a mad 
 
 Poor creature.' Here you paused, and growing 
 Scornful, . . suddenly, let us add, 
 
 The trumpet sounded, the graves were open. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Life and life and life ! agrope in 
 
 The dusk of death, warm hands, stretched out 
 For swords, proved more life still to hope in, 
 
 Beyond and behind, Arise with a shout, 
 Nation of Italy, slain and buried ! 
 
 E 2 
 
52 ITALY AND THE WORLD. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Hill to hill and turret to turret 
 
 Flashing the tricolor, — newly created 
 
 Beautiful Italy, calm, unhurried, 
 Rise heroic and renovated, 
 
 Rise to the final restitution. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Rise ; prefigure the grand solution 
 Of earth's municipal, insular schisms,- 
 
 Statesmen draping self-love's conclusion 
 In cheap, vernacular patriotisms, 
 
 Unable to give up Juda3a for Jesus. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Bring us the higher example ; release us 
 Into the larger coming time : 
 
 And into Christ's broad garment piece us 
 Rags of virtue as poor as crime, 
 
 National selfishness, civic vaunting. 
 
 x. 
 
 ISTo more Jew nor Greek then, — taunting 
 
 Nor taunted ; — no more England nor France ! 
 
ITALY AND THE WORLD. 53 
 
 But one confederate brotherhood planting 
 
 One flag only, to mark the advance, 
 Onward and upward, of all humanity. 
 
 XL 
 
 For civilisation perfected 
 
 Is fully developed Christianity. 
 ' Measure the frontier/ shall it be said, 
 
 ' Count the ships/ in national vanity ? 
 — Count the nation's heart-beats sooner. 
 
 XII. 
 
 For, though behind by a cannon or schooner, 
 
 That nation still is predominant, 
 Whose pulse beats quickest in zeal to oppugn or 
 
 Succour another, in wrong or want, 
 Passing the frontier in love and abhorrence. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 Modena, Parma, Bologna, Florence, 
 
 Open us out the wider way ! 
 Dwarf in that chapel of old St. Lawrence 
 
 Your Michel Angelo's giant Day, 
 With the grandeur of this Day breaking o'er us ! 
 
54 ITALY AND THE WORLD. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Ye who, restrained as an ancient chorus, 
 Mute while the coryphseus spake, 
 
 Hush your separate voices before us, 
 Sink your separate lives for the sake 
 
 Of one sole Italy's living for ever ! 
 
 XV. 
 
 Givers of coat and cloak too, — never 
 
 Grudging that purple of yours at the best,- 
 
 By your heroic will and endeavour 
 Each sublimely dispossessed, 
 
 That all may inherit what each surrenders ! 
 
 XVI. 
 
 Earth shall bless you, noble emenders 
 On egotist nations ! Ye shall lead 
 
 The plough of the world, and sow new splendours 
 Into the furrow of things, for seed, — 
 
 Ever the richer for what ye have given. 
 
 XVII. 
 
 Lead us and teach us, till earth and heaven 
 Grow larger around us and higher above. 
 
ITALY AND THE WORLD. 55 
 
 Our sacrament-bread has a bitter leaven ; 
 
 "We bait our traps with, the name of love, 
 Till hate itself has a kinder meaning. 
 
 XVIIL 
 
 Oh, this world : this cheating and screening 
 Of cheats ! this conscience for candle-wicks, 
 
 Not beacon-fires ! this over- weening 
 Of under-hand diplomatical tricks, 
 
 Dared for the country while scorned for the counter ! 
 
 XIX. 
 
 Oh, this envy of those who mount here, 
 And oh, this malice to make them trip ! 
 
 Rather quenching the fire there, drying the fount here, 
 To frozen body and thirsty lip, 
 
 Than leave to a neighbour their ministration. 
 
 XX. 
 
 I cry aloud in my poet-passion, 
 
 Viewing my England o'er Alp and sea. 
 
 I loved her more in her ancient fashion : 
 She carries her rifles too thick for me, 
 
 Who spares them so in the cause of a brother. 
 
56 ITALY AND THE WORLD. 
 
 XXI. 
 
 Suspicion, panic ? end this pother. 
 
 The sword, kept sheathless at peace-time, rusts. 
 None fears for himself while he feels for another : 
 
 The brave man either fights or trusts, 
 And wears no mail in his private chamber. 
 
 XXII. 
 
 Beautiful Italy ! golden amber 
 
 Warm with the kisses of lover and traitor ! 
 Thou who hast drawn us on to remember, 
 
 Draw us to hope now : let us be greater 
 By this new future than that old story. 
 
 XXIII. 
 
 Till truer glory replaces all glory, 
 
 As the torch grows blind at the dawn of day; 
 And the nations, rising up, their sorry 
 
 And foolish sins shall put away, 
 As children their toys when the teacher enters. 
 
 XXIV. 
 
 Till Love's one centre devour these centres 
 Of many self-loves ; and the patriot's trick 
 
ITALY AND THE WORLD. 57 
 
 To better his land by egotist ventures, 
 
 Defamed from a virtue, shall make men sick, 
 As the scalp at the belt of some red hero. 
 
 XXV. 
 
 For certain virtues have dropped to zero, 
 
 Left by the sun on the mountain's dewy side ; 
 
 Churchman's charities, tender as Nero, 
 Indian suttee, heathen suicide, 
 
 Service to rights divine, proved hollow : 
 
 XXVI. 
 
 And Heptarchy patriotisms must follow. 
 
 — National voices, distinct yet dependent, 
 Ensphering each other, as swallow does swallow, 
 
 With circles still widening and ever ascendant, 
 In multiform life to united progression, — 
 
 XXVII. 
 
 These shall remain. And when, in the session 
 Of nations, the separate language is heard, 
 
 Each shall aspire, in sublime indiscretion, 
 To help with a thought or exalt with a word 
 
 Less her own than her rival's honor. 
 
58 ITALY AND THE WORLD. 
 
 XXVIII. 
 
 Each Christian nation shall take upon her 
 The law of the Christian man in vast : 
 
 The crown of the getter shall fall to the donor, 
 And last shall be first while first shall be last, 
 
 And to love best shall still be, to reign unsurpassed. 
 
59 
 
 A CURSE FOE A NATION. 
 
 PROLOGUE. 
 
 I heard an angel speak last night, 
 
 And he said, ' Write ! 
 Write a Nation's curse for me, 
 And send it over the Western Sea/ 
 
 I faltered, taking up the word : 
 
 ' Not so, my lord ! 
 If curses must be, choose another 
 To send thy curse against my brother. 
 
 ' For I am bound by gratitude, 
 
 By love and blood, 
 To brothers of mine across the sea, 
 Who stretch out kindly hands to me.' 
 
60 A CURSE FOR A NATION. 
 
 'Therefore/ the voice said, 'shalt thou write 
 
 My curse to-night. 
 From the summits of love a curse is driven, 
 As lightning is from the tops of heaven.' 
 
 ' Not so/ I answered. ' Evermore 
 
 My heart is sore 
 For my own land's sins : for little feet 
 Of children bleeding along the street : 
 
 ' For parked- up honors that gainsay 
 
 The right of way : 
 For almsgiving through a door that is 
 Not open enough for two friends to kiss : 
 
 ' For love of freedom which abates 
 
 Beyond the Straits : 
 For patriot virtue starved to vice on 
 Self-praise, self-interest, and suspicion : 
 
 ' For an oligarchic parliament, 
 And bribes well-meant. 
 What curse to another land assign, 
 When heavy- souled for the sins of mine ? ' 
 
A CURSE FOR A NATION. 6] 
 
 ' Therefore/ the voice said, ' shalt thou write 
 
 My curse to-night. 
 Because thou hast strength to see and hate 
 A foul thing done within thy gate/ 
 
 'Not so/ I answered once again. 
 
 ' To curse, choose men. 
 For I, a woman, have only known 
 How the heart melts and the tears run down.' 
 
 ' Therefore/ the voice said, ' shalt thou write 
 
 My curse to-night. 
 Some women weep and curse, I say, 
 (And no one marvels,) night and day. 
 
 ' And thou shalt take their part to-night, 
 
 Weep and write. 
 A curse from the depths of womanhood 
 Is very salt, and bitter, and good/ 
 
 So thus I wrote, and mourned indeed, 
 
 What all may read. 
 And thus, as was enjoined on me, 
 I send it over the Western Sea. 
 
62 A CURSE FOR A NATION. 
 
 THE CURSE. 
 
 Because ye have broken your own chain 
 
 "With the strain 
 Of brave men climbing a Nation's height, 
 Yet thence bear down with brand and thong 
 On souls of others, — for this wrong 
 
 This is the curse. Write. 
 
 Because yourselves are standing straight 
 
 In the state 
 Of Freedom's foremost acolyte, 
 Yet keep calm footing all the time 
 On writhing bond-slaves, — for this crime 
 
 This is the curse. Write. 
 
 Because ye prosper in God's name, 
 
 With a claim 
 To honor in the old world's sight, 
 Yet do the fiend's work perfectly 
 In strangling martyrs, — for this lie 
 
 This is the curse. Write. 
 
A CURSE FOR A NATION. 63 
 
 II. 
 
 Ye shall watch while kings conspire 
 Round the people's smouldering fire, 
 
 And, warm for your part, 
 Shall never dare — shame ! 
 To utter the thought into flame 
 
 Which burns at your heart. 
 This is the curse. Write. 
 
 Ye shall watch while nations strive 
 With the bloodhounds, die or survive, 
 
 Drop faint from their jaws, 
 Or throttle them backward to death, 
 And only under your breath 
 
 Shall favor the cause. 
 
 This is the curse. Write. 
 
 Ye shall watch while strong men draw 
 The nets of feudal law 
 
 To strangle the weak, 
 And, counting the sin for a sin, 
 Your soul shall be sadder within 
 
 Than the word ye shall speak. 
 This is the curse. Write. 
 
64 A CURSE FOR A NATION. 
 
 When good men are praying erect 
 That Christ may avenge his elect 
 
 And deliver the earth, 
 The prayer in your ears, said low, 
 Shall sound like the tramp of a foe 
 
 That's driving you forth. 
 
 This is the curse. Write. 
 
 When wise men give you their praise, 
 They shall pause in the heat of the phrase, 
 
 As if carried too far. 
 When ye hoast your own charters kept true, 
 Ye shall hlush ; — for the thing which ye do 
 
 Derides what ye are. 
 
 This is the curse.' Write. 
 
 When fools cast taunts at your gate, 
 Your scorn ye shall somewhat ahate 
 
 As ye look o'er the wall, 
 For your conscience, tradition, and name 
 Explode with a deadlier blame 
 
 Than the worst of them all. 
 This is the curse. Write. 
 
A CURSE FOR A NATION. (J~ 
 
 Go, wherever ill deeds shall be done, 
 Go, plant your flag in the sun 
 
 Beside the ill-doers ! 
 And recoil from clenching the curse 
 Of God's witnessing Universe 
 
 With a curse of yours. 
 
 This is the curse. Write. 
 
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