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Title: The New Morning
Poems
Author: Alfred Noyes
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Language: English
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THE NEW MORNING
ALFRED NOYES

WORKS OF ALFRED NOYES
COLLECTED POEMS--_2 Vols._
THE LORD OF MISRULE
A
BELGIAN CHRISTMAS EVE
THE WINE-PRESS
WALKING

SHADOWS--_Prose_
TALES OF THE MERMAID TAVERN

SHERWOOD
THE ENCHANTED ISLAND AND OTHER
POEMS
DRAKE: AN ENGLISH EPIC
POEMS
THE
FLOWER OF OLD JAPAN
THE GOLDEN HYNDE
THE
NEW MORNING

THE NEW MORNING
Poems
by
ALFRED NOYES
[Illustration (publisher's logo)]
New York
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Publishers
Copyright, 1918, by
Alfred Noyes
Copyright, 1919, by
Frederick
A. Stokes Company
All rights reserved, including that of translation

into foreign languages
DEDICATION
TO THE MEMORY OF SIR CECIL
SPRING-RICE
I.
Steadfast as any soldier of the line
He served his England, with the
imminent death
Poised at his heart. Nor could the world divine
The
constant peril of each burdened breath.
England, and the honour of England, he still served
Walking the strict
path, with the old high pride
Of those invincible knights who never
swerved
One hair's breadth from the way until they died.

Quietness he loved, and books, and the grave beauty
Of England's
Helicon, whose eternal light
Shines like a lantern on that road of duty,

Discerned by few in this chaotic night.
And his own pen, foretelling his release,
Told us that he foreknew
"the end was peace."
II.
Soldier of England, he shall live unsleeping
Among his friends, with
the old proud flag above;
For even today her honour is in his keeping.

He has joined the hosts that guard her with their love.
They shine like stars, unnumbered happy legions,
In that high realm
where all our darkness dies.
He moves, with honour, in those loftier
regions,
Above this "world of passion and of lies":
For so he called it, keeping his own pure passion
A silent flame
before the true and good;
Not fawning on the throng in this world's
fashion
To come and see what all might see who would.
Soldier of England, brave and gentle knight,
The soul of Sidney
welcomes you tonight.
CONTENTS
PAGE
DEDICATION: TO THE MEMORY OF SIR CECIL

SPRING-RICE v
"THE AVENUE OF THE ALLIES" 3
ON THE WESTERN FRONT 8
VICTORY 10

AMERICAN POEMS, 1912-1917
REPUBLIC AND MOTHERLAND 19
THE UNION 22
GHOSTS OF THE NEW WORLD 24
THE OLD MEETING HOUSE 27
PRINCETON 30
BEETHOVEN IN CENTRAL PARK 34
SONGS OF THE TRAWLERS AND SEA POEMS
THE PEOPLE'S FLEET 37
KILMENY 38
CAP'N STORM-ALONG 40
THE BIG BLACK TRAWLER 42
NAMESAKES 44
WIRELESS 46
FISHERS OF MEN 48
AN OPEN BOAT 50
PEACE IN A PALACE 52
THE VINDICTIVE 55
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPS OF CHELTENHAM 61

TO A SUCCESSFUL MAN 66
THE OLD GENTLEMAN WITH THE AMBER SNUFFBOX 68
WHAT GRANDFATHER SAID 71
MEMORIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST 75
NIPPON 77
THE HUMMING BIRDS 79
LINES FOR A SUN-DIAL 81
THE REALMS OF GOLD 82
COMPENSATIONS 85
DEAD MAN'S MORRICE 87
THE OLD FOOL IN THE WOOD 90
A NEW MADRIGAL TO AN OLD MELODY 91
THE LOST BATTLE 94
RIDDLES OF MERLIN 96
THE SYMPHONY 98
PEACE 99
THE OPEN DOOR 100
IMMORTAL SAILS 102
THE MATIN-SONG OF FRIAR TUCK 103
FIVE CRITICISMS 105

THE COMPANIONS 114
THE LITTLE ROADS 116
SUNLIGHT AND SEA 118
THE ROAD THROUGH CHAOS 121
THE NIGHT OF THE LION 123
THE WAR WIDOW 126
THE BELL 128
SLAVE AND EMPEROR 132
ON A MOUNTAIN-TOP 134
EARLY POEMS
THE PHANTOM FLEET 139
MICHAEL OAKTREE 147
TOUCHSTONE ON A BUS
TOUCHSTONE ON A BUS 159
I THE NEW DUCKLING 160
II THE MAN WHO DISCOVERED THE USE A CHAIR 161
III COTTON-WOOL 164
IV FASHIONS 166
EPILOGUE
THE REWARD OF SONG 171

THE NEW MORNING
"THE AVENUE OF THE ALLIES"
This is the song of the wind as it came
Tossing the flags of the
nations to flame:
_I am the breath of God. I am His laughter.
I am His Liberty. That is
my name._
So it descended, at night, on the city.
So it went lavishing beauty and
pity,
Lighting the lordliest street of the world
With half of the
banners that earth has unfurled;
Over the lamps that are brighter than
stars.
Laughing aloud on its way to the wars,
Proud as America,
sweeping along
Death and destruction like notes in a song,
Leaping
to battle as man to his mate,
Joyous as God when he moved to
create,--
Never was voice of a nation so glorious,
Glad of its cause and afire
with its fate!
Never did eagle on mightier pinion
Tower