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Corydon:
An Elegy
by
Bliss Carman
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VESPERUM AND E TENEBRIS
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Mr. Bliss Carman is engaged in writing a trilogy
on the death of Matthew Arnold. The first part,
“Death in April,” appeared in the
Atlantic Monthly for April 1889. The
second part, “Midsummer Land,” has
just appeared in England in the Universal
Review, accompanied by a beautiful full page
engraving of Matthew Arnold. The third part, “Autumn
Guard,” is not yet finished.
Mr.
Carman has lately been appointed to the staff
of the New York Independent, as editor
in charge of the department that deals with
contributed articles. We extend our hearty congratulations
on his success in obtaining so important a position
on a periodical so widely circulated as the
Independent.
University Monthly
Volume 9, Page 73
March, 1890
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Call
to me, thrush,
When day grows dim,
When death is near
And night is warm.
Stir the keen hush
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On twilight’s
rim,
When my own star
Is white and clear.
Fly low to brush
Mine eyelids grim,
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Where
sleep and storm
Have set their bar,
For time shall crush
Spring balm for him,
Stark on his bier
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fault or harm,
Who once, as flush
Of dream might skim
The dusk, afar
In sleep shall hear
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Thy
song’s cool rush
With calm rebrim
The world, and scar
The gloom with cheer.
Then, Heartsease, hush:
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If sense
grow dim,
Desire shall steer
Us home from far!
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Call
to me, thrush,
When night grows dim,
When dreams unform,
And death is far.
When hoar dews flush
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The
dawn’s rathe brim,
Wake me to hear
Thy wild wood charm,—
As a lone rush
Astir in the slim
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White
stream where sheer
Blue mornings are.
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