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Flower o' the thorn

A book of wayside verse: By John Payne
Payne, John (1842-1916)

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[Flower o' the thorn]
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ARCADIA IN URBE.
  
INGATE.
  
THE LAND OF THE MORNING-CALM.
  
A FRIEND FROM OVERSEA.
  
THE STREETS IN FLOWER.
  
THE PEACOCK.
  
THE CANAL.
  
LIGHTED WINDOWS.
  
THE GODS IN VICTORIA PARK.
  
ON THE RAILWAY BRIDGE.
  
WIND, RAIN, SUN.
  
THE LILAC.
  
THE HUSH OF DUSK.
  
BIRDS IN SNOWTIME.
  
FELLOW-EXILES.
  
THE SPIRIT-HOUR.
  
A PAUSE OF PEACE.
  
MIST.
  
THE LIMES.
  
NOON.
  
CHRYSANTHEMUMS.
  
FACES.
  
ORGAN-DANCERS.
  
SUNDOWN.
  
SNOW FALLS.
  
PIGEONS.
  
LONDON LIGHTNING.
  
RHODODENDRONS.
  
THE CUCKOO'S CALL.
  
BELLS AT DAWN.
  
OUTGATE.
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SUN AND SHADOW.
  
[Out of the shadow into the sun]
  
THE OLD AND THE NEW.
  
THE SEVEN SPELLS.
  
THE AIM OF LIFE.
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BRITANNIA CORAM BARBARIS.
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[I.]
 II. 
II.
  
THE LEAVES' LESSON.
  
TIME AND HIS TENDERLINGS.
  
THE COMMON HOPE.
  
UNSEASONABLE SUMMER.
  
CORPOSANTS.
  
A VOICE FROM DREAMLAND.
  
SEA-DRIFT.
  
HOMING DREAMS.
  
MAY-MAGIC.
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VARIATIONS ON AN ALPINE THEME.
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I. THE HOPE OF THE HILLS.
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II. THE HUSH OF THE HILLS.
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III. THE HALLUCINATION OF THE HILLS.
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IV. THE HONOUR OF THE HILLS.
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V. THE HUNGER OF THE HILLS.
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VI. THE HORROR OF THE HILLS.
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VII. THE HALLOWING OF THE HILLS.
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MARTYRS OF HISTORY.
  
XIV. CAIN.
  
XV. JOAB.
  
XI. JESUS OF NAZARETH.
  
XVII. GALLIO .
  
XVIII. VASCO NUNEZ DE BALBOA.
  
XIX. DON QUIXOTE.
  
XX. RALEIGH.
  
XXI. A NAMELESS HERO.
  
VOCES VANAE.
  
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE.
  
THE HONEYSUCKLE.
  
THE SANCTUARY LAMPS.
  
QUEM DEUS VULT PERDERE.
  
DUO IN DESERTIS.
  
THE SOUL'S COLOUR.
  
OLD CYNICS AND NEW.
  
ANNUS VOLUBILIS.
  
THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES.
  
FREDERICK BURNABY.
  
FELIX, INFELIX.
  
PHANTOM QUEST.
  
NESSUN MAGGIOR DOLORE.
  
WALLS OF SEVERANCE.
  
DATUR HORA QUIETI.
  
RESURGENT SORROW.
  
LIFE TRIUMPHANT.
  
DIMENSIO QUARTA.
  
RONSARD TO HIS MISTRESS.
  
ÆTAS PERVERSA.
  
MELIUS SIC.
  
ABRANYI.
  
“NACH RAUM!”
  
LETHE.

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DIMENSIO QUARTA.

LENGTH, breadth and thickness! Take a two-foot rule
Here's length for Past and Future, New and Old,
Breadth for still-broadening Present, fold on fold,
And thickness, depth, to wit,—from June to Yule,
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High to low, reaching, throne to milking-stool,
From Hell's red gloom to Heaven's blithe blue and gold.
Here the world have we; in this triple mould
Life's things all fashioned are for sage and fool.
Yet that unsleeping somewhat in ourselves,
That never was contented with its lot,
Still seeks, upsoaring, through the wastes of Space,
Still in the sea dives, in the darkness delves
For some supernal sphere where Time is not,
Some realm unruled by Number and by Place.
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