Above the drowned ages
A wind of wooing blows: --

The red rose woos the lotos,
The lotos woos the rose . . .

The lotos conquered Egypt.
The rose was loved in Rome.

Great India crowned the lotos:
(Britain the rose's home).

Old China crowned the lotos,
They crowned it in Japan.

But Christendom adored the rose
Ere Christendom began . . .

The lotos speaks of slumber:
The rose is as a dart.

The lotos is Nirvana:
The rose is Mary's heart.

The rose is deathless, restless,
The splendor of our pain:

The flush and fire of labor
That builds, not all in vain. . . .

The genius of the lotos
Shall heal earth's too-much fret.

The rose, in blinding glory,
Shall waken Asia yet.

Hail to their loves, ye peoples!
Behold, a world-wind blows,

That aids the ivory lotos
To wed the red red rose!

King Arthur's Men Have Come Again
[Written while a field-worker in the Anti-Saloon League of Illinois.]

King Arthur's men have come again.
They challenge everywhere

The foes of Christ's Eternal Church.
Her incense crowns the air.

The heathenknighthood cower and curse
To hear the bugles ring,

BUT SPEARS ARE SET, THE CHARGE IS ON,
WISE ARTHUR SHALL BE KING!

And Cromwell's men have come again,
I meet them in the street.

Stern but in this -- no way of thorns
Shall snare the children's feet.

The reveling foemen wreak but waste,
A sodden poisonous band.

FIERCE CROMWELL BUILDS THE FLOWER-BRIGHT TOWNS,
AND A MORE SUNLIT LAND!

And Lincoln's men have come again.
Up from the South he flayed,

The grandsons of his foes arise
In his own cause arrayed.

They rise for freedom and clean laws
High laws, that shall endure.

OUR GOD ESTABLISHES HIS ARM
AND MAKES THE BATTLE SURE!

Foreign Missions in Battle Array
An endless line of splendor,

These troops with heaven for home,
With creeds they go from Scotland,

With incense go from Rome.
These, in the name of Jesus,

Against the dark gods stand,
They gird the earth with valor,

They heed their King's command.
Onward the line advances,

Shaking the hills with power,
Slaying the hidden demons,

The lions that devour.
No bloodshed in the wrestling, --

But souls new-born arise --
The nations growing kinder,

The child-hearts growing wise.
What is the final ending?

The issue, can we know?
Will Christ outlive Mohammed?

Will Kali's altar go?
This is our faith tremendous, --

Our wild hope, who shall scorn, --
That in the name of Jesus

The world shall be reborn!
Star of My Heart

Star of my heart, I follow from afar.
Sweet Love on high, lead on where shepherds are,

Where Time is not, and only dreamers are.
Star from of old, the Magi-Kings are dead

And a foolish Saxon seeks the manger-bed.
O lead me to Jehovah's child

Across this dreamland lone and wild,
Then will I speak this prayer unsaid,

And kiss his little haloed head --
"My star and I, we love thee, little child."

Except the Christ be born again to-night
In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,

The world will never see his kingdom bright.
Stars of all hearts, lead onward thro' the night

Past death-black deserts, doubts without a name,
Past hills of pain and mountains of new sin

To that far sky where mystic births begin,
Where dreaming ears the angel-song shall win.

Our Christmas shall be rare at dawning there,
And each shall find his brother fair,

Like a little child within:
All hearts of the earth shall find new birth

And wake, no more to sin.
Look You, I'll Go Pray

Look you, I'll go pray,
My shame is crying,

My soul is gray and faint,
My faith is dying.

Look you, I'll go pray --
"Sweet Mary, make me clean,

Thou rainstorm of the soul,
Thou wine from worlds unseen."

At Mass
No doubt to-morrow I will hide

My face from you, my King.
Let me rejoice this Sunday noon,

And kneel while gray priests sing.
It is not wisdom to forget.

But since it is my fate
Fill thou my soul with hidden wine

To make this white hour great.
My God, my God, this marvelous hour

I am your son I know.
Once in a thousand days your voice

Has laid temptation low.
Heart of God

O great heart of God,
Once vague and lost to me,

Why do I throb with your throb to-night,
In this land, eternity?

O little heart of God,
Sweet intruding stranger,

You are laughing in my human breast,
A Christ-child in a manger.

Heart, dear heart of God,
Beside you now I kneel,

Strong heart of faith. O heart not mine,
Where God has set His seal.

Wild thundering heart of God
Out of my doubt I come,

And my foolish feet with prophets' feet,
March with the prophets' drum.

The Empty Boats
Why do I see these empty boats, sailing on airy seas?

One haunted me the whole night long, swaying with every breeze,
Returning always near the eaves, or by the skylight glass:

There it will wait me many weeks, and then, at last, will pass.
Each soul is haunted by a ship in which that soul might ride

And climb the glorious mysteries of Heaven's silent tide
In voyages that change the very metes and bounds of Fate --

O empty boats, we all refuse, that by our windows wait!
With a Bouquet of Twelve Roses

I saw Lord Buddha towering by my gate
Saying: "Once more, good youth, I stand and wait."

Saying: "I bring you my fair Law of Peace
And from your withering passion full release;

Release from that white hand that stabbed you so.
The road is calling. With the wind you go,

Forgetting her imperiousdisdain --
Quenching all memory in the sun and rain."

"Excellent Lord, I come. But first," I said,
"Grant that I bring her these twelve roses red.

Yea, twelve flower kisses for her rose-leaf mouth,
And then indeed I go in bitter drouth

To that far valley where your river flows
In Peace, that once I found in every rose."

St. Francis of Assisi
Would I might wake St. Francis in you all,

Brother of birds and trees, God's Troubadour,
Blinded with weeping for the sad and poor;

Our wealthundone, all strict Franciscan men,
Come, let us chant the canticle again

Of mother earth and the enduring sun.
God make each soul the lonely leper's slave;

God make us saints, and brave.
Buddha

Would that by Hindu magic we became
Dark monks of jeweled India long ago,

Sitting at Prince Siddartha's feet to know
The foolishness of gold and love and station,

The gospel of the Great Renunciation,
The ragged cloak, the staff, the rain and sun,

The beggar's life, with far Nirvana gleaming:
Lord, make us Buddhas, dreaming.

A Prayer to All the Dead Among Mine Own People
Are these your presences, my clan from Heaven?

Are these your hands upon my wounded soul?
Mine own, mine own, blood of my blood be with me,

Fly by my path till you have made me whole!
To Reformers in Despair

'Tis not too late to build our young land right,
Cleaner than Holland, courtlier than Japan,

Devout like early Rome, with hearths like hers,
Hearths that will recreate the breed called man.

Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket
I am unjust, but I can strive for justice.

My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness.
I, the unloving, say life should be lovely.

I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
Man is a curious brute -- he pets his fancies --

Fighting mankind, to win sweet luxury.

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• eternal [i´tə:nəl] a.永远的；永恒的 (初中英语单词)
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• christ [kraist] n.基督 int.天啊! (初中英语单词)
• tremendous [tri´mendəs] a.可怕的；巨大的 (初中英语单词)
• rejoice [ri´dʒɔis] v.(使)高兴；欢庆 (初中英语单词)
• wisdom [´wizdəm] n.智慧，聪明，才智 (初中英语单词)
• marvelous [´mɑ:viləs] (=marvellous) a.奇异的 (初中英语单词)
• haunted [´hɔ:tid] a.常出现鬼的，闹鬼的 (初中英语单词)
• glorious [´glɔ:riəs] a.光荣的；辉煌的 (初中英语单词)
• passion [´pæʃən] n.激情；激怒；恋爱 (初中英语单词)
• valley [´væli] n.谷；河谷；流域 (初中英语单词)
• wealth [welθ] n.财富，财产 (初中英语单词)
• lonely [´ləunli] a.孤独的；无人烟的 (初中英语单词)
• prince [´prins] n.王子；亲王；君主 (初中英语单词)
• holland [´hɔlənd] n.荷兰 (初中英语单词)
• luxury [´lʌkʃəri] n.奢侈(品)；享受 (初中英语单词)
• incense [´insens, in´sens] n.香(气) vt.激怒 (高中英语单词)
• heathen [´hi:ðən] n.异教徒 (高中英语单词)
• onward [´ɔnwəd] ad.&a.向前(的) (高中英语单词)
• temptation [temp´teiʃən] n.引诱，诱惑(物) (高中英语单词)
• disdain [dis´dein] vt.&n.藐视，轻视 (高中英语单词)
• strict [strikt] a.严厉的；精确的 (高中英语单词)
• gospel [´gɔspəl] n.福音；信条；真理 (高中英语单词)
• ragged [´rægid] a.衣服破烂的 (高中英语单词)
• socialist [´səuʃəlist] n.社会主义者 (高中英语单词)
• strive [straiv] vi.争取；努力；奋斗 (高中英语单词)
• poisonous [´pɔizənəs] a.有毒的；讨厌的 (英语四级单词)
• bouquet [bu:´kei] n.花束；恭维话 (英语四级单词)
• towering [´tauəriŋ] a.高耸的；强烈的 (英语四级单词)
• unjust [ʌn´dʒʌst] a.不公平(正)的 (英语四级单词)
• unkind [,ʌn´kaind] a.不客气的；不和善的 (英语四级单词)
• christendom [´krisəndəm] n.基督教徒 (英语六级单词)
• knighthood [´naithud] n.骑士的地位(资格) (英语六级单词)
• bloodshed [´blʌdʃed] n.流血；杀人 (英语六级单词)
• mystic [´mistik] a.神秘的；难以理解的 (英语六级单词)
• calling [´kɔ:liŋ] n.点名；职业；欲望 (英语六级单词)
• imperious [im´piəriəs] a.傲慢的；紧急的 (英语六级单词)
• weeping [´wi:piŋ] a.&n.哭泣(的) (英语六级单词)
• undone [,ʌn´dʌn] a.未完成的，没有做的 (英语六级单词)
• enduring [in´djuəriŋ] a.持久的 (英语六级单词)
• foolishness [´fu:liʃnis] n.愚蠢 (英语六级单词)