1914, and Other Poems

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="poem"><span class="i0 headstyle">MUTABILITY</span></div> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">They say there's a high windless world and strange,<br/></span> <span class="i1">Out of the wash of days and temporal tide,<br/></span> <span class="i1">Where Faith and Good, Wisdom and Truth abide,<br/></span> <span class="i0"><i>&AElig;terna corpora</i>, subject to no change.<br/></span> <span class="i0">There the sure suns of these pale shadows move;<br/></span> <span class="i1">There stand the immortal ensigns of our war;<br/></span> <span class="i1">Our melting flesh fixed Beauty there, a star,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And perishing hearts, imperishable Love....<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"><span class="i0">Dear, we know only that we sigh, kiss, smile;<br/></span> <span class="i1">Each kiss lasts but the kissing; and grief goes over;<br/></span> <span class="i1">Love has no habitation but the heart.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Poor straws! on the dark flood we catch awhile,<br/></span> <span class="i1">Cling, and are borne into the night apart.<br/></span> <span class="i1">The laugh dies with the lips, 'Love' with the lover.<br/></span></div> </div> <div class="poem"><span class="i0 headstyle4"><span class="smcap">South Kensington&mdash;Makaweli</span>, 1913</span></div> <hr class="large" /><p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 39-40]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>OTHER POEMS</h2> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />