Each thing save one thing:—mid this strife diurnal
Of hourly change begot,
Love that is God-born, bides as God eternal,
And changes not;—
Nor means a tinseled dream pursuing lovers
Find altered by-and-bye,
When, with possession, time anon discovers
Trapped dreams must die,—
For he that visions God, of mankind gathers
One manlike trait alone,
And reverently imputes to Him a father's
Love for his son.
CONTENTS
["Ballad of the Double-Soul"]
[AUCTORIAL INDUCTION]
[BELHS CAVALIERS]
[BALTHAZAR'S DAUGHTER]
[JUDITH'S CREED]
[CONCERNING CORINNA]
[OLIVIA'S POTTAGE]
[A BROWN WOMAN]
[PRO HONORIA]
[THE IRRESISTIBLE OGLE]
[A PRINCESS OF GRUB STREET]
[THE LADY OF ALL OUR DREAMS]
["Ballad of Plagiary"]
BALLAD OF THE DOUBLE-SOUL
"Les Dieux, qui trop aiment ses faceties cruelles"—PAUL VERVILLE.
In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea,
And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place, and
this was the Gods' decree:—
"Lo, We have given to man five wits: he discerneth folly and sin;
He is swift to deride all the world outside, and blind
to the world within: