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Down on his knees he sinks, the stiff-necked King,
Stoops and kneels and grovels, chin to the mud.
Country Sentiment (1920)
I do not love the Sabbath,
The soapsuds and the starch,
The troops of solemn people
Who to Salvation march.
Country Sentiment (1920)
Kill if you must, but never hate:
Man is but grass and hate is blight,
The sun will scorch you soon or late,
Die wholesome then, since you must fight.
Country Sentiment (1920)
Then all you lovers have good heed
Vex not young Love in word or deed:
Love never leaves an unpaid debt,
He will not pardon nor forget.
Country Sentiment (1920)
He roars in his anger, he scratches, he looks not up.
Country Sentiment (1920)
Hate is a fear, and fear is rot
That cankers root and fruit alike,
Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not,
Strike with no madness when you strike.
Country Sentiment (1920)
Lovers to-day and for all time
Preserve the meaning of my rhyme:
Love is not kindly nor yet grim
But does to you as you to him.
Country Sentiment (1920)
And what of home — how goes it, boys,
While we die here in stench and noise?
Country Sentiment (1920)
Riding on the shell and shot.
He smites you down, he succours you,
And where you seek him, he is not.
Country Sentiment (1920)
Love, Fear and Hate and Childish Toys
Are here discreetly blent;
Admire, you ladies, read, you boys,
My Country Sentiment.
Country Sentiment (1920)
Now I begin to know at last,
These nights when I sit down to rhyme,
The form and measure of that vast
God we call Poetry, he who stoops
And leaps me through his paper hoops
A little higher every time.
Country Sentiment (1920)
Immeasurable at every hour:
He first taught lovers how to kiss,
He brings down sunshine after shower,
Thunder and hate are his also,
He is YES and he is NO.
Country Sentiment (1920)
I am an old man
With my bones very brittle,
Though I am a poor old man
Worth very little,
Yet I suck at my long pipe
At peace in the sun,
I do not fret nor much regret
That my work is done.
Country Sentiment (1920)
I am YES and I am NO,
Black as pitch and white as snow,
Love me, hate me, reconcile
Hate with love, perfect with vile,
So equal justice shall be done
And life shared between moon and sun.
Country Sentiment (1920)
Hate and Fear are not wanted here,
Nor Toys nor Country Lovers,
Everything they took from my new poem book
But the flyleaf and the covers.
Country Sentiment (1920)
If I were a young man
And young was my Lily,
A smart girl, a bold young man,
Both of us silly.
And though from time before I knew
She'd stab me with pain,
Though well I knew she'd not be true,
I'd love her again.
Country Sentiment (1920)
He is older than the seas,
Older than the plains and hills,
And older than the light that spills
From the sun's hot wheel on these.
He wakes the gale that tears your trees,
He sings to you from window sills.
Country Sentiment (1920)