Gilbert Parker

“ But you'll hunger for the hearthstone where, a child,
you used to lie—
You'll be comin' back, my darlin'!
And when your foot is weary, and when your heart is sore,
And you come back to the moor that spreads beyand
your father's door,
There'll be many an ancient comrade to greet you on
the shore—
At your comin' back, my darlin' !
Ah, the hillock cannot cover, and the grass it cannot hide
The love that never changeth, whatever wind or tide;
And though you'll not be seein', we'll be standin' by
your side—
You'll be comin' back, my darlin'! ”

“ When thou comest to the safe tent of the good comrade, abide there till thy going forth with a stedfast mind; and if, at the hospitable fire, thou hast learned the secret of a heart, thou shalt keep it holy, as the North Wind the trouble of the Stars. ”

“ EYES LIKE THE SEA Eyes like the sea, look up, the beacons brighten,
Home comes the sailor, home across the tide!
Back drifts the cloud, behold the heavens whiten,
The port of Love is open, he anchors at thy side. ”

“ And when within our little but your fingers draw the blind,
We'll loiter by the fire that love has made.
AT SEA Through the round window above, the deep palpable blue,
The wan bright moon, and the sweet stinging breath of the sea ”

“ EMBERS ROSLEEN WILL YOU COME BACK HOME? MARY CALLAGHAN AND ME KILDARE YOU'LL TRAVEL FAR AND WIDE FARCALLADEN RISE GIVE ME THE LIGHT HEART WHERE SHALL WE BETAKE US? NO MAN'S LAND AT SEA ATHENIAN EYES LIKE THE SEA UNDER THE CLIFF OPEN TRY GATE SUMMER IS COME O FLOWER OF ALL THE WORLD WAS IT SOME GOLDEN STAR? ”

“ They have soaked the sea, and have braved the sky,
And laughed at the Conqueror Worm.
They reck not beast and they fear no man,
They have trailed where the panther glides;
On the edge of a mountain barbican,
They have tracked where the reindeer hides—
And these are for thee, O England!
They have freed your flag where the white Pole-Star
Hangs out its auroral flame ”

“ Shure, a woman's but a woman—so I took the Ser-
geant's shillin',
For the pride o' me was hurted—shall I never see
her more?
She turned her face away from me, and black as night
the land became;
Her eyes were jewels of the sky, the finest iver seen;
She left me for another lad, he was a lad of life and
fame,
And the heart of me was hurted—but there's none
that's like Rosleen!"
WILL YOU COME BACK HOME? Will you come back home, where the young larks are
singin'? ”

“ Close up! 'Tis comrades evermore!
And Captains, our dear Captains, standing steady,
Aged with battle, but ever young with love,
Tramping the zones round, high have we hung your virtues,
Like shields along the wall of life, like armaments above:
Like shields your love, our Captains, like armaments your
virtues,
No rebel lives among us, we are yours ”

“ Shure, the longest day has endin', and the wildest storm
has fallin'—
There's a young gossoon in yander, and he sits upon
my knee;
There's a churchful for the christenin'—do you hear
the imp a-callin'?
He's the pride of Mary Callaghan and me.
KILDARE He's the man that killed Black Care,
He's the pride of all Kildare;
Shure the devil takes his hat off whin he comes:
'Tis the clargy bow before him,
'Tis the women they adore him,
And the Lord Lieutenant orders out the drums—
For his hangin', all the drums,
All the drums! ”

“ Max Muller, and has made many friends, and "The Crowning" was the Coronation ode of 'The People', which gave a prize, too ample I think, for the best musical setting of the lines. Many of the other pieces in 'Embers' have been set to music by distinguished composers like Sir Edward Elgar, who has made a song-cycle of several, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Mr. Arthur Foote, Mrs. Amy Woodforde Finden, Robert Somerville, and others. The first to have musical setting was "You'll Travel Far and Wide," to which in 1895 Mr. Arthur Foote gave fame as "An Irish Folk Song." ”

“ THE COURIER STAR CONTENTS CONTENTS THE WORLD IN MAKING HEW O SON OF MAN AT THE END OF THE WORLD WAYFARERS THE RED PATROL THE YELLOW SWAN THE HEART OF THE PIONEER THE NORTH TRAIL ALONE THE SCARLET HILLS THE WOODSMAN LOVER QUI VIVE THE LITTLE HOUSE SPINNING FLY AWAY, MY HEART SUZON MY LITTLE TENDER HEART THE MEN OF THE NORTH THE CROWNING CLOSE UP W. E. H. WHEN BLOWS THE WIND Volume 2. ”

“ IN CAMDEN TOWN JEAN A MEMORY IN CAMP AT JUNIPER COVE JUNIPER COVE TWENTY YEARS AFTER LISTENING NEVERTHELESS ISHMAEL OVER THE HILLS THE DELIVERER THE DESERT ROAD A SON OF THE NILE A FAREWELL FROM THE HAREM AN ARAB LOVE SONG THE CAMEL-DRIVER TO HIS CAMEL THE TALL DABOON THERE IS SORROW ON THE SEA THE AUSTRALIAN STOCKRIDER THE BRIDGE OF THE HUNDRED SPANS NELL LATORE INTRODUCTION I had not intended that Embers should ever be given to the public, but friends whose judgment I respect have urged me to include it in the subscription edition at least, and with real reluctance I have consented. ”

“ Inniskillen;
'Twould make your heart lep up to see her trippin'
down the glen;
There's not a lad of life and fame that wouldn't take
her shillin'
And inlist inside her service-did ye hear her laugh-
in' then? ”