Rainbow-eyed and frail and gallant and slender,

Dreaming of pirate-isles in a jewelled main.

III

Up the Canongate climbeth, cleft asunder

Raggedly here, with a glimpse of the distant sea

Flashed through a crumbling alley, a glimpse of wonder,

Nay, for the City is throned on Eternity!

Hark! from the soaring castle a cannon's thunder

Closeth an hour for the world and an æon for me,

Gazing at last from the martial heights whereunder

Deathless memories roll to an ageless sea.

IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE

Three long isles of sunset-cloud,

Poised in an ocean of gold,

Floated away in the west

As the long train southward rolled;

And through the gleam and shade of the panes,

While meadow and wood went by,

Across the streaming earth

We watched the steadfast sky.

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