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W. 1*K g jM WW Bry i w»r»^"'" -■ mm zsz A IV/ wm J-C^ V BEL / Madeline AND OTHER POEMS BY JAMES McCARROLL IVrril A J'OA'TA'A/J' OF THE AUTIION AND AN INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES LOTIN HILDRETH CHICAGO, NEW YORK, & SAN FRANCISCO BELFORD, CLARKE & COMPANY Publishers lx)NDON ; J. H. Drane, Paternoster Row, % ■ "iiliiVllipPliPMIIIpPPI Wf C 2.7 Hi 70839 coi'VkicnT, 1889, By Belior,,, Ci.arkk & Co --i- ,..,, j | ffn-,-"ii')- i,\ INTRODUCTION. '■ If to absorb through the spiritual senses all that is good and precious in our common life and the visible world about us and give it back in clear and tender music, is to be a poet, then James McCarroll, whose collected verse is here for the tirst time presented to the public, is one of the truest poets that ever touched the lyre of gold. His long and useful career has not been passed in the quiet gardens of the Academy, or in the seclusion of tiie scholar's cloister, but in the very market- place of life, among the busiest toilers of the world. From a very early age he has been connected with the press, and probably has the honorable distinction of having edited or been connected with more newspapers, jour- nals, and magazines than any other man in America. Twenty years ago, the Buffalo Courier spoke of him as "the veteran etlitor. " He was editor and proprietor of the Peterborough Chronicle in 1841, and many other papers still flourishing in various parts of the country owe their success, "and, in not a few instances, their very existence, to his efforts. He was for many years surveyor of the port of Toronto, and has occupied other important public positions under the Canad.an Government. While filling these positions, and in tue course of his many public lectures and concert pcrforrr;- ances — for he is a celebrated flautist and musician as VI INTKODUCTJON. well as a composer of rare talent — he made the acquaint- ance of a host of famous people, both in political life and in artistic circles ; amon^ others, Jenny Lind, Lucca, Sir Jules Benedict, Vieuxtemps, Wieniawski, Ole IJulI, Catherine Hayes, Maurice Strakosch, Arabella (ioddard, Madam Anna Bishop, llerr (iriebel, (.'arl Formes, etc. Not a few of these actjuaintances ripened into lasting friendships, and many a one whose name the world delights to honor will recognize among the pieces com- prised in this volume, songs sung or verses recited at social gatherings where the genial and witty poet was a central figure. As a young girl sings at her daily task merely because the music within her heart overflows at her lips unaware, James McCarroll has written his poems in the midst of unceasing and, too often, uncongenial and vexatious occupation. Amid the thunder of the presses and the myriad-voiced confusion of public office life he has found a quiet place within himself, full of flowers and sunlight, the notes of birds and the murmur of streams, into which no jar or clamor of the world could enter, and where these tissues of song were woven into nn- perishable beauty. That he has not before brought these scattered sprays into one bouquet has not been from lack of the appreciation of others, but from the indiffer- ence with which so many makers of song regard their works when once completed and sewt forth into the world. James McCarroU's verse is essentially optimistic. That dark philosophy which sees in Beauty only the i^teiibMlitauU- IXTRODVCriOX. vH masked skull, and places in the haiuls of Time only the houi-glass and the scythe, has no )>lace in his art. lie has that happy faculty, which is ilenied to most of us whose eyes have yrown purblind with tears shed over wasted hopes, vanished friendships, and the many wronj^s of time, of seeini^ the world as a rose-j^arden, darkened, it may he, at intervals by brief April showers but for the most i)art baskin i.. ^ i ? i i.iiS.A(iK. Madeline i Kd^jar A. I'oc 9 'i'lif First IJiith 10 (ftTiuaii Studfiit's Song 12 Why Diisi Tliuu Tarry ? 14 Lines — On viewing an exquisite- ly painted portrait of the l)eau- tifiil Mrs. Rol)ert Belford... 16 Christmas Chimes 17 The (Ireat Iron Cyclops 21 A Royal Kace 23 The I'earl 25 The Maniac's Invocation' 26 "Only a Woman's Hair." 28 To the Right Hand 30 To Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes — On hearing of the celebra- tion of his seventy -sixth birth- day 41 A June Idyl 42 Yes, yes, you are "A King" - Inscribed to Longfellow 44 Serenade 46 Idolatry 48 The Victor 51 The Waif 53 To- 54 The April Shower 56 C;od Help Her 58 PAOE. To the New Moon 60 Winter 62 The Husbandman 63 The Angels of the Blind 64 One I lope 66 A Father to His Sleeping Child. 68 The Storm F'iend 69 Oliver Wendell Holmes 73 Creation 74 Mon bijou 76 Fragment 77 Tyre 79 Lost 81 The DrearnvT 83 ( I rand O/c ! un- . . , 85 Morn 87 The Spell 88 Tennyson 90 The Prisoner 91 The Humming Bird 94 Bearla F\-ine 96 Lines 98 Ah! Yes— Ah! Yes 100 The Storm 103 The Belle 104 'Tis All but a Dream, at the Best 105 The Requiem 107 Mirage. . . 109 CONTENTS. PAGE. The First Kiss in Dawn 112 Lines — Inscribed to His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales 113 "The Irish Wolf" 116 Whene'er I come 118 Clouds 119 The Church of Humanity .... izo Impromptu — Her Eyes 121 Ocean 122 Idyl 124 To Music 1 26 Amen.... 127 Song 129 Address 130 Swallows 133 The Quandary 134 The Fatal Cape 135 The Vesper Hymn , 136 February 138 At Last ! At Last ! 140 Song 142 Christmas 143 Our Work 145 The Angel of the Brook 147 Her Tongue 148 The Woods 149 The Bewildered River 150 The Poet 152 Eyes 153 "Tee Weet" 155 The Magic Mirror 157 The Visitor 159 PAGE. Lines 161 "Totty " 162 Joussef's Soliloquy in the Storm 164 Morn * i68 Resurgam 169 The ' • Bridge of Sighs " 1 70 The Spirit of Light 173 Autumn- Song 175 The Cray Liiniet 176 Assorted Cems 1 78 To Bacchus 179 Evening. 180 Tear Me From Her ? 181 Song 182 Found Drowned ! 183 Thanksgiving 185 To The Sea. 186 Too Late 188 The Cynosure i8g Ever With Thee 190 Autumn 191 Gold 193 Impromptu 194 Unborn 195 " Come Out from Among Them" 196 The Enchantress 198 Gold 199 Invocation 203 Lines : Be Still as the Grave . . 205 Spring 207 " How Long, O Lord ? " 208 Come! 210 ifl glSQH^F .j^^^fff^S*^ -.«*p6iywW»^^ ■••^ '■■•y- -^p CONTENTS. XI [96 198 99 103 05 07 08 10 PACIE. The Tenant 211 Spring 213 The Olden Melody 214 Noon and Midnij^ht 216 Child of the (Jolden Hair 218 The Spectre 220 Night 221 Song of the Sale 223 The Six Hundred 226 National Music 229 The Forbidden Path 231 Impromptu on a IJeautiful Butterfly 232 Lines 233 A Hero of a Hundred Fights.. 234 Tiie Storm Star 237 To An Embalmed Humming Bird 242 The Primrose 244 Buried Flowers 245 Clouds 246 Mis:^ Nightingale 247 Up iii the Morn 248 The Kerry Girl 250 The Fisherman's Song 252 Life's Turnpike Gate 254 The Convolvulus 256 Turkish Maiden's Song 257 Lines — Written at Peterbor- ough, Canada 258 Truth 260 Nectar 263 HUMOROUS. PAGE. The Rape of Thalia 267 Not Mal-de-Mer : — Greeting . . 273 Kitty Clare 274 Impromptu 275 Serenade 278 Biddy Maguire 279 Asinus ad Lyram ! 281 Ino and Bacchus 283 The Devotee 284 Boston Tea-Party No. 2 285 An Easy Lesson in Humor and Versification 287 Early Joys 290 Kate Rooney 292 Hunted I )own 293 Mick Grady 296 Hint for January 298 Retaliation 299 Matrimony 300 The Rainbow 302 The Reason Why 304 Kitty Lynch 3°^ Paddy Blake's "Pinnance".. 308 Impromptu 31° Misplaced Confidence 311 Kitty Fitzibbon 313 ScHjuential 3'^ To Belva L 3'8 An Aspiration 319 Not An Original 320 "^^•mwmif •Wf mmm -M»»- "**•*■ ^i #' i a l i »i fflj» 4l^'i% . ^ MADELINE. Beside a summer river that was flowing^ Clear, cool and gently through a sunny vale, As though it were a liquid west-wind blowing A sort of luscious, lazy, silvery gale Between two odorous banks with cowslips glowing In knots of tangled gold, deep tinged and pale. And morn-tipt daisies sprinkling brakes of wildwood, The fairy haunts of memory, love and childhood, There in a nook with wonderous beauty beaming — A mine of woodland jewels lit with showers That left the shaded dell with incense teeming As though it were the passion time of flowers — A nook where Autumn dozed in golden dreaming And blue-eyed spring came in her first bright hours, Tripping along to robin-red-breast measures, Beneath a fragrant store of primrose treasures — —» .-Tk •- '" ^iite*;mii^. mmm Tm^pi ^' •-••••• 0:3 ^^^^ 2 MADELINE. A sylvan temple on whose emerald altar Sweet Nature spread her offerings to the sun, While thrilled the raptures of her warbling psalter, Not doling out her riches, one by one With a spare hand that ever seemed to falter ; IJut letting them in wild profusion run, As though her lap were heaped with each rare token, And on that spot her apron strings had broken. Be patient ! In that dewy glimpse of Eden Stood a sweet little gipsy of a cot, White as a dove, low-eaved and woodbine laden, A sort of thatch and stone, " forget-me-not " — But first' I should have r.poken of the maiden, The living charm — the bright, I don't know what — Young Madeline, poor Lady Bertha's daughter. The spirit of diat grove and shining water — Young Madeline who from each dazzling shoulder Seemed ready to shake out a golden ph me. With which 'twere almost strange not to behold her, Such nameless lustre mingled with \ r bloom ; But, then, one other touch too bright would mould her And seal the lovely incarnation's doom ; For heaven would see where it o'erstepped its duty Antl draw her back within its lines of beauty. — ^ -»■- MADELINE. Young Madeline that struck you with such wonder- That laughed all fabled loveliness to scorn, When e'er she drew her casement bars asunder And waged her eye and cheek against the morn ; The bright, ineffable, angelic blunder, So strange ii was that she was earthly born : But yet, not strangest, for in her was given The surest hostage of our claims on heaven. Entranced and lost while on each feature dwelling, And so bewildered by her radiant form, The gaze felt description but mere spelling Through the mysterious volume, soft and warm ; Her lips, her throat, her snowy bosom swelling. Her hair as dark as midnight in a storm, Were all the sweetest, whitest, richest, rarest, Till she was called " Young Madeline the fairest." But there was one who studied those pure pages With all the ardor of his heart and brain. Who could have pondered o'er them through long ageSj And still enraptured turned to them again To drink afresh the lore that tottering sages With scanty locks declare to be in vain : Young Edward, from Lord Harold's distant towers — A minstrel of most courtly speech and powers. 4 MADELIA^E. 'Twas on a balmy evening' while decoying The silvery tenants from that lovely stream, And in the fulness of his youth enjoying- A sort of calm, delicious, waking dream, That Madeline, at once the spell destroying, Burst on his vision like a sudden beam : She, too, by chance, along the banks was straying, Listening to what the gentle tide was saying. They glanced each at the other's matchless splendor, She, at his godlike form and sculptured face. He, at the wondrous charms that seemed to lend her The last transcendent touch of earthly grace. And in ethereal beauty heaven-ward send her ; But instantly she hastened to retrace The path to where her snow-white cot was gleaming, And left him now, at least, securely dreaming. With pallid cheek, next morn when day was dawning She left her pillow that was sorely tossed, And sat beneath the f -agrant woodbine-awning, In strange sad reveries, and silence lost ; And, when poor Carlo came up to her fawning. She said she'd pat him, but her sleep was cross'd With dreams, that came in spite of all her wishes. " Of naughty sportsmen, fishing rods, and fishes." ^f^. . /H. .I •'T^. ^ MADELIXE. The pulses of her inmost soul's devotion, Unconsciously had just begun to play, Like his who set them all in such wild motion. And ^vho a^jain miti^ht never pass that way : In truth, she launched out on so vast an ocean That she sat dreaming through the live-long day, Until once more at eve she sought the river For the sweet calm its music used to give her. 'Twas fate ! young Edward soon was close beside her. Though on her arm the lady Bertha hung, And did with matron glances gently chide her For the surprise that half escaped her tongue ; But she had native modesty to guide her ; And Edward's glance was on the waters flung ; For he, of course, was quite absorbetl in fishing ; While she to see one caught was only wishing. Soon o'er the waves, the silken line was tightening. And suddenly, before the maiden's view. The rod was arched, antl up the stream like lightning A shining creature in its terror flew. Its ardent scales the purple waters brightening As out they flashed in many a changing hue, Until at last, it was securely lying Upon the bank, among the cowslips, dying. i..ii.iaRiii.«p rr^"-"'-'-^^ 6 MADELINE. The youthful sportsman played his part so featly, That lady Bertha covered him with praise ; But soon she found she had not done discreetly ; F'or Madeline's fair face was in a blaze, At words that fell upon her ear so sweetly, And left her tremblinj^ with averted jj;-azc ; 'Till she, to hide the tale lier cheek was tellings, Had almost turned alone towards her dwellingf. The tish, he was, in sooth, a royal fellow ; His sides were argent, deepening into gokl ; And all be-dropt with crimson and with yellow His ernerald back blazed forth, a thousand fold. His head was ruby-tintetl, dark and mellow, In truth, he was so glorious to behold. That Madeline took courage from her mother, And cried : " oh ! do. sir, try and catch another." He bowed, and with some pleasant words, and smiling, Again the line flew from the giddy reel ; But this time, all in vain the fly's beguiling, No fish approach its barbed sting of steel •, But though not dreaming of a touch defihng Her flowing veil, before which he could kneel, He, somehow flurried by the words she uttered. Caught it as on the balmy breeze it fluttered, "9 «M«i MADELIXE. She, laughing, clapped her liatids in sportive wonder Till her j^enimcd tuii^ers into lij^htninj^ Hashe«l, liecausc that he should make so (lueer a blunder, And stand before her pleadinj^f and abashed ; But soon he pinched the veil and hook asunder, And his lithe rod into the current d.ished ; Ihit as the gauze back to her shoulders dantjletl, She wished it had not been so slij^htly tangled. That eve. young Madeline heard fond words si)oken, Such as till then \\W(\ never reached her ear ; And when the minstrel won her heart's first token — A trembling kiss, a raptured vow and tear — He ever after came, with faith unbroken, And sang her the sweet songs she loved to. hear ; And told her tales of proud Lord Harold's splendor, From whom she prayed all angels to defend her. And, sometimes, when he caught her softly bending To press the slumbering Bertha's withered cheek, He felt his soul with all her being blending ; And when his glowing tongue found words to speak, He'd bless her for such gentle, tearful tending On those chained footsteps, now become so weak. And tell her that Lord Harold loved sincerely, A mother, too, such as she loved so dearly. 8 MADEL/XE. But, when at last he found her truth undying — Though she believed that he was poor in store — One morn he came with blazoned banners Hying, And stood, confessed, Lord Harold, at her door ; And on her pure and generous soul relying, He clasped her to his noble breast once more. And bore her off a bride to those proud towers That rose among a wilderness of bowers. it-igftsswsiaium, EDUAN A. POE. EDGAR A. POE. The ghoul sits by his phuidcrcd grave, Aiui gii.'iws his bleoiling licart and skull ! While scarce a hand is stretchetl to save All that was once so beautiful. His lone remains are dragged about Through vulgar mire, and scorned and scoffed ; The tire-work of his life gone out, The blackened torch is held aloft. What though his wondrous soul was thrt)ngcd With pulses choked with fire and flame .'' Such regal madness scarce belonged To any other human name. In whom had such extremes e'er met ? To whom such light and darkness given ? Though hell had his lost feet beset, His head blazed in the light of heaven. iA |t JO /■///•; J'lKST HATir, THE FIRST HATH.* Ontp: more God leans against the purple bars That close the rosy portalr. of the day, Till, slowly throuj^h a mist of fad in j^ stars, before His shinin