of God's blue calm glassed in a virgin pond. 

  Prowler of obscene streets that riot reek along, And aisles with incense numb and gardens mad with rose, Monastic cells and dreams of dim brocaded lawns, 

 Death, which has set the calm of Time upon his song, Surely upon his soul has kissed the same repose In some fair heaven the Christ has set apart for Fauns. 

DISTILLATION.

 They that eat the uncrushed grape Walk with steady heels: Lo, now, how they stare and gape Where the poet reels! He has drunk the sheer divine Concentration of the vine. 

A FRIEND'S WISH. To C. W. S.

To C. W. S.

 Give me your last Aloha, When I go out of sight, Over the dark rim of the sea Into the Polar night! 

 And all the Northland give you Skoal for the voyage begun, When your bright summer sail goes down Into the zones of sun! 

LAL OF KILRUDDEN.

 Kilrudden ford, Kilrudden dale, Kilrudden fronting every gale On the lorn coast of Inishfree, And Lal's last bed the plunging sea. 

 Lal of Kilrudden with flame-red hair, And the sea-blue eyes that rove and dare, And the open heart with never a care; With her strong brown arms and her ankles bare, God in heaven, but she was fair, That night the storm put in from sea? 

 The nightingales of Inishkill, The rose that climbed her window-sill, The shade that rustled or was still, The wind that roved and had his will, And one white sail on the low sea-hill, Were all she knew of love. 

 So when the storm drove in that day, And her lover's ship on the ledges lay, Past help and wrecking in the gray, And the cry was, "Who'll go down the bay, With half of the lifeboat's crew away?" Who should push to the front and say, "I will be one, be others who may," But Lal of Kilrudden, born at sea! 

 The nightingales all night in the rain, The rose that fell at her window-pane, The frost that blackened the purple plain, And the scorn of pitiless disdain At the hands of the wolfish pirate main, Quelling her great hot heart in vain, Were all she 

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