The New Morning: Poems

by Alfred Noyes

ALFRED NOYES

NEW YORK

FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1918, by
Alfred Noyes

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Copyright, 1919, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company

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All rights reserved, including that of translation
into foreign languages

DEDICATION

[TO THE MEMORY OF
SIR CECIL SPRING-RICE]

I.

STEADFAST as any soldier of the line

He served his England, with the imminent death

Poised at his heart. Nor could the world divine

The constant peril of each burdened breath.

England, and the honour of England, he still served

Walking the strict path, with the old high pride

Of those invincible knights who never swerved

One hair's breadth from the way until they died.

Quietness he loved, and books, and the grave beauty

Of England's Helicon, whose eternal light

Shines like a lantern on that road of duty,

Discerned by few in this chaotic night.

And his own pen, foretelling his release,

Told us that he foreknew "the end was peace."

II.

Soldier of England, he shall live unsleeping

Among his friends, with the old proud flag above;

For even today her honour is in his keeping.

He has joined the hosts that guard her with their love.

They shine like stars, unnumbered happy legions,

In that high realm where all our darkness dies.

He moves, with honour, in those loftier regions,

Above this "world of passion and of lies":

For so he called it, keeping his own pure passion

A silent flame before the true and good;

Not fawning on the throng in this world's fashion

come and see what all might see who would.

Soldier of England, brave and gentle knight,

The soul of Sidney welcomes you tonight.

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[CONTENTS]

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DEDICATION: To the Memory of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice			[v]
	"The Avenue of the Allies"		[3]
	On the Western Front		[8]
	Victory		[10]
AMERICAN POEMS, 1912–1917
	Republic and Motherland		[19]
	The Union		[22]
	Ghosts of the New World		[24]
	The Old Meeting House		[27]
	Princeton		[30]
	Beethoven in Central Park		[34]
SONGS OF THE TRAWLERS AND SEA POEMS
	The People's Fleet		[37]
	Kilmeny		[38]
	Cap'n Storm-along		[40]
	The Big Black Trawler		[42]
	Namesakes		[44]
	Wireless		[46]
	Fishers of Men		[48]
	An Open Boat		[50]
	Peace in a Palace		[52]
	The Vindictive		[55]
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
	The Chimney-sweeps of Cheltenham		[61]
	To a Successful Man		[66]
	The Old Gentleman With the Amber Snuffbox		[68]
	What Grandfather Said		[71]
	Memories of the Pacific Coast		[75]
	Nippon		[77]
	The Humming Birds		[79]
	Lines for a Sun-dial		[81]
	The Realms of Gold		[82]
	Compensations		[85]
	Dead Man's Morrice		[87]
	The Old Fool in the Wood		[90]
	A New Madrigal To an Old Melody		[ 91]
	The Lost Battle		[94]
	Riddles of Merlin		[96]
	The Symphony		[ 98]
	Peace		[ 99]
	The Open Door		[100]
	Immortal Sails		[102]
	The Matin-song of Friar Tuck		[103]
	Five Criticisms		[105]
	The Companions		[114]
	The Little Roads		[116]
	Sunlight and Sea		[118]
	The Road Through Chaos		[121]
	The Night of the Lion		[123]
	The War Widow		[126]
	The Bell		[128]
	Slave and Emperor		[132]
	On a Mountain-top		[134]
EARLY POEMS
	The Phantom Fleet		[139]
	Michael Oaktree		[147]
TOUCHSTONE ON A BUS
	Touchstone on a Bus		[159]
	I	The New Duckling	[160]
	II	The Man Who Discovered the Use a Chair	[161]
	III	Cotton-wool	[164]
	IV	Fashions	[166]
EPILOGUE
	The Reward of Song		[171]

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