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Page 230 - I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter. Up vistaed hopes I sped; And shot, precipitated, Adown Titanic glooms of chasmed fears, From those strong Feet that followed, followed after. But with unhurrying chase, And unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, They beat — and a Voice beat More instant than the Feet — "All things betray thee, who betrayest Me.
Page 230 - I pleaded, outlaw-wise, By many a hearted casement, curtained red, Trellised with intertwining charities (For, though I knew His love Who followed, Yet was I sore adread Lest, having Him, I must have naught beside); But, if one little casement parted wide, The gust of His approach would clash it to: Fear wist not to evade, as Love wist to pursue.
Page 179 - I say unto thee, when thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest : but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thine hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest * 2 Peter i. 12-15. not. This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God.
Page 15 - ... wrath out there. Laughing by and chaffing by, frolic in the smiles of them, On the road, the white road, all the afternoon; Strangers in a strange land, miles and miles and miles of them, Battle-bound and heart-high, and singing this tune: It's a long way to Tipperary, It's a long way to go; It's a long way to Tipperary, And the sweetest girl I know. Goodbye, Piccadilly, Farewell, Leicester Square: It's a long, long way to Tipperary, But my heart's right there.
Page 92 - ... ruined; the bits of furniture, gathered at slow intervals, the strictest necessaries first, then the few witnesses of a late-won prosperity — an arm-chair, an escritoire — all broken, thrown down, insulted . . ." He went forth to explore further. Speaking of himself as "the Ancient," he writes : "He found a street of villas, each overlooking the valley, and each with a pretty garden ; all empty. It was easy to enter, for the Germans had been there, and had broken the doors open. From one...
Page 89 - ... language that English women would have been shy of." "I said, 'Devils ; what do you call it ? That filth ..." German officers had left their imprint there. In the poorer sections of the village, where German privates had been quartered, — "There was the same ruin, and havoc, and filth, and devilment ; only more crowded, and more striking, and more visibly damnable for being crammed into so much smaller spaces and for being the ruin of a poorer, slower effort at decency and order and comfort....
Page 89 - ... crowded, and more striking, and more visibly damnable for being crammed into so much smaller spaces and for being the ruin of a poorer, slower effort at decency and order and comfort. The garments were sadder, I think, because they had cost so much less money, so much more time, so much more labor. There was little here that had been superfluous ; little that had stood for sheer ornament ; by slow degrees the things that make the difference between poverty and ease of life had been earned and...
Page 89 - ... sheer ornament; by slow degrees the things that make the difference between poverty and ease of life had been earned and added to the home. All alike, now, lay soiled, battered, trampled, derided, desecrated. Children's garments, fashioned by tired hands after the children had been laid to bed ; men's garments patched and mended, with frugal care ; the mother's own fete-clothes, saved from year to year, and never despised as out of fashion; all dragged about, fouled, torn, ruined ; the bits of...
Page 93 - ... enter, for the Germans had been there, and had broken the doors open. From one to another the Ancient passed, finding in each the same ruin, havoc, spoiling, desecration, filth, and shame ; you would say that bands of malevolent apes had been holding spiteful, senseless, ingeniously destructive Carnival there ; as though, long kept under by the superiority of Man, they had seized a moment of anarchy for revenge — not revenge of an injury, but of Man's hated superiority. So they had outraged...