LITMIR.BIZ

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066236335

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       PRELUDE.

       THE ASCENT OF MAN.

       PART I.

       THE ASCENT OF MAN. PART II.

       THE ASCENT OF MAN. PART III.

       POEMS OF THE OPEN AIR.

       LOVE IN EXILE.

       WORKS BY MATHILDE BLIND.

       Poetry.

       Prose Fiction.

       Monographs.

       OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

       THE PROPHECY OF SAINT ORAN,

       THE HEATHER ON FIRE

       TARANTELLA

PRELUDE.

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      WINGS.

      Ascend, oh my Soul, with the wings of the lark ascend!

       Soaring away and away far into the blue.

       Or with the shrill seagull to the breakers bend,

       Or with the bee, where the grasses and field-flowers blend,

       Drink out of golden cups of the honey-dew.

      Ascend, oh my Soul, on the wings of the wind as it blows,

       Striking wild organ-blasts from the forest trees,

       Or on the zephyr bear love of the rose to the rose,

       Or with the hurricane sower cast seed as he goes

       Limitless ploughing the leagues of the sibilant seas.

      Ascend, oh my Soul, on the wings of the choral strain,

       Invisible tier above tier upbuilding sublime;

       Note as it scales after note in a rhythmical chain

       Reaching from chaos and welter of struggle and pain,

       Far into vistas empyreal receding from time.

      Ascend! take wing on the thoughts of the Dead, my Soul,

       Breathing in colour and stone, flashing through epic and song:

       Thoughts that like avalanche snows gather force as they roll,

       Mighty to fashion and knead the phenomenal throng

       Of generations of men as they thunder along.

THE ASCENT OF MAN.

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PART I.

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      As compressed within the bounded shell

       Boundless Ocean seems to surge and swell,

       Haunting echoes of an infinite whole

       Moan and murmur through Man's finite soul.

      CHAUNTS OF LIFE.

      I.

      Struck out of dim fluctuant forces and shock of electrical vapour,

       Repelled and attracted the atoms flashed mingling in union primeval,

       And over the face of the waters far heaving in limitless twilight

       Auroral pulsations thrilled faintly, and, striking the blank heaving surface,

       The measureless speed of their motion now leaped into light on the waters.

       And lo, from the womb of the waters, upheaved in volcanic convulsion,

       Ribbed and ravaged and rent there rose bald peaks and the rocky

       Heights of confederate mountains compelling the fugitive vapours

       To take a form as they passed them and float as clouds through the azure.

       Mountains, the broad-bosomed mothers of torrents and rivers perennial,

       Feeding the rivers and plains with patient persistence, till slowly,

       In the swift passage of æons recorded in stone by Time's graver,

       There germ grey films of the lichen and mosses and palm-ferns gigantic,

       And jungle of tropical forest fantastical branches entwining,

       And limitless deserts of sand and wildernesses primeval.

      II.

      Lo, moving o'er chaotic waters,

       Love dawned upon the seething waste,

       Transformed in ever new avatars

       It moved without or pause or haste:

       Like sap that moulds the leaves of May

       It wrought within the ductile clay.

      And vaguely in the pregnant deep,

       Clasped by the glowing arms of light

       From an eternity of sleep

       Within unfathomed gulfs of night

       A pulse stirred in the plastic slime

       Responsive to the rhythm of Time.

      Enkindled in the mystic dark

       Life built herself a myriad forms,

       And, flashing its electric spark

       Through films and cells and pulps and worms,

       Flew shuttlewise above, beneath,

       Weaving the web of life and death.

      And multiplying in the ocean,

       Amorphous, rude, colossal things

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