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And the tulip-flowers in the garden-bed
Have a glory still;
When the world of toil and the world of ease
Are alike at rest;
I can hear him play in the belt of trees
Where the fields slope west.
And the notes run high and the notes run low
In a rambling stream ;
Like an old voice calling from long ago,
A dream of a dream.
His eyes are afire with the secret light
Of a land unknown,
And the tree-stems echo his footsteps’ flight
Upon moss and stone.
There is no more staying nor rest for me
When his flute is heard.
It is out, out, out to the melody
Without sign or word.
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And the tulip-flowers in the garden-bed
Have a glory still;
When the world of toil and the world of ease
Are alike at rest;
I can hear him play in the belt of trees
Where the fields slope west.
And the notes run high and the notes run low
In a rambling stream ;
Like an old voice calling from long ago,
A dream of a dream.
His eyes are afire with the secret light
Of a land unknown,
And the tree-stems echo his footsteps’ flight
Upon moss and stone.
There is no more staying nor rest for me
When his flute is heard.
It is out, out, out to the melody
Without sign or word.
40
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| Works by selected Scottish authors > Violet Jacob > Verses > (52) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/129138841 |
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| Description | By Violet Jacob. |
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| Shelfmark | T.9.f |
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| Description | Violet Jacob (1863-1946) was born into an aristocratic family who had lived at the House of Dun near Montrose since the 15th century. Her classic novel of the 1745 Jacobite rising, 'Flemington” (1911), was highly regarded by John Buchan and is still in print. Jacob had a deep appreciation of the Angus dialect and countryside, and this is evident in her celebrated Scots language poetry in volumes such as 'Song of Angus' (1915). |
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| Description | A selection of classic out-of-copyright Scottish poetry, prose and children’s stories from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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