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You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved. **Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts** **eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971** *****These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!***** Title: Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Vol. 2 Author: George MacDonald Release Date: February, 2006 [EBook #9984] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on November 5, 2003] Edition: 10 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WORKS OF GEORGE MACDONALD, VOL. 2 *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Jonathan Ingram, Charles M. Bidwell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE POETICAL WORKS OF GEORGE MACDONALD IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. 2 CONTENTS. PARABLES-- The Man of Songs The Hills The Journey The Tree's Prayer Were I a Skilful Painter Far and Near My Room Death and Birth Love's Ordeal The Lost Soul The Three Horses The Golden Key Somnium Mystici The Sangreal The Failing Track Tell Me Brother Artist After an Old Legend A Meditation of St Eligius The Early Bird Sir Lark and King Sun The Owl and the Bell A Mammon-Marriage A Song in the Night Love's History The Lark and the Wind A Dead House Bell upon Organ Master and Boy The Clock of the Universe The Thorn in the Flesh Lycabas BALLADS-- The Unseen Model The Homeless Ghost Abu Midjan The Thankless Lady Legend of the Corrievrechan The Dead Hand MINOR DITTIES-- In the Night The Giver False Prophets Life-Weary Approaches Travellers' Song Love is Strength Coming A Song of the Waiting Dead Obedience A Song in the Night De Profundis Blind Sorrow MOTES IN THE SUN-- Angels The Father's Worshippers A Birthday-Wish To Any One Waiting Lost but Safe Much and More Hope and Patience A Better Thing A Prisoner To My Lord and Master To One Unsatisfied To My God Triolet The Word of God Eine Kleine Predigt To the Life Eternal Hope Deferred Forgiveness Dejection Appeal POEMS FOR CHILDREN-- Lessons for a Child What makes Summer? Mother Nature The Mistletoe Professor Noctutus Bird-Songs Riddles Baby Up and Down Up in the Tree A Baby-Sermon Little Bo-Peep Little Boy Blue Willie's Question King Cole Said and Did Dr. Doddridge's Dog The Girl that Lost Things A Make-Believe The Christmas Child A Christmas Prayer No End of No-Story A THREEFOLD CORD-- Dedication The Haunted House In the Winter Christmas Day, 1878 The New Year Two Rondels Rondel Song Smoke To a Certain Critic Song A Cry From Home To My Mother Earth Thy Heart 0 Lord, how Happy No Sign November, 1851 Of One who Died in Spring An Autumn Song Triolet I See Thee Not A Broken Prayer Come Down A Mood The Carpenter The Old Garden A Noonday Melody Who Lights the Fire? Who would have Thought? On a December Day Christmas Day, 1850 To a February Primrose In February The True The Dwellers Therein Autumn's Gold Punishment Shew us the Father The Pinafore The Prism Sleep Sharing In Bonds Hunger New Year's Eve: A Waking Dream From North Wales: To the Mother Come to Me A Fear The Lost House The Talk of the Echoes The Goal The Healer Oh that a Wind A Vision of St. Eligius Of the Son of Man A Song-Sermon Words in the Night Consider the Ravens The Wind of the World Sabbath Bells Fighting After the Fashion of an Old Emblem A Prayer in Sickness Quiet Dead Let your Light so Shine Triolet The Souls' Rising Awake To an Autograph-Hunter With a Copy of "In Memoriam" They are Blind When the Storm was Proudest The Diver To the Clouds Second Sight Not Understood Hom II. v. 403 The Dawn Galileo Subsidy The Prophet The Watcher The Beloved Disciple The Lily of the Valley Evil Influence Spoken of several Philosophers Nature a Moral Power To June Summer On a Midge Steadfast Provision First Sight of the Sea On the Source of the Arve Confidence Fate Unrest One with Nature My Two Geniuses Sudden Calm Thou Also The Aurora Borealis The Human Written on a Stormy Night Reverence waking Hope Born of Water To a Thunder-Cloud Sun and Moon Doubt heralding Vision Life or Death? Lost and Found The Moon Truth, not Form God in Growth In a Churchyard Power Death That Holy Thing From Novalis What Man is there of You? O Wind of God Shall the Dead praise Thee? A Year-Song Song For where your Treasure is, there will your Heart be also The Asthmatic Man to the Satan that binds him Song-Sermon Shadows A Winter Prayer Song of a Poor Pilgrim An Evening Prayer Song-Sermon A Dream-Song Christmas, 1880 Rondel The Sparrow December 23, 1879 Song-Prayer December 27, 1879 Sunday, December 28, 1879 Song-Sermon The Donkey in the Cart to the Horse in the Carriage Room to Roam Cottage Songs-- 1. By the Cradle 2. Sweeping the Floor 3. Washing the Clothes 4. Drawing Water 5. Cleaning the Windows The Wind and the Moon The Foolish Harebell Song An Improvisation Equity Contrition The Consoler To ------. To a Sister The Shortest and Sweetest of Songs SCOTS SONGS AND BALLADS-- Annie she's Dowie O Lassie ayont the Hill! The bonny, bonny Dell Nannie Braw Ower the Hedge Gaein and Comin A Sang o' Zion Time and Tide The Waesome Carl The Mermaid The Yerl o' Waterydeck The Twa Gordons The Last Wooin Halloween The Laverock Godly Ballants-- 1. This Side an' That 2. The Twa Baubees 3. Wha's my Neibour? 4. Him wi' the Bag 5. The Coorse Cratur The Deil's Forhooit his Ain The Auld Fisher The Herd and the Mavis A Lown Nicht The Home of Death Triolet Win' that Blaws A Song of Hope The Burnie Hame The Sang o' the Auld Fowk The Auld Man's Prayer Granny Canty Time What the Auld Fowk are Thinkin Greitna, Father I Ken Something Mirls PARABLES _THE MAN OF SONGS._ "Thou wanderest in the land of dreams, O man of many songs! To thee what is, but looks and seems; No realm to thee belongs!" "Seest thou those mountains, faint and far, O spirit caged and tame?" "Blue clouds like distant hills they are, And like is not the same." "Nay, nay; I know each mountain well, Each cliff, and peak, and dome! In that cloudland, in one high dell, Nesteth my little home." _THE HILLS._ Behind my father's cottage lies A gentle grassy height Up which I often ran--to gaze Back with a wondering sight, For then the chimneys I thought high Were down below me quite! All round, where'er I turned mine eyes, Huge hills closed up the view; The town 'mid their converging roots Was clasped by rivers two; From, one range to another sprang The sky's great vault of blue. It was a joy to climb their sides, And in the heather lie! A joy to look at vantage down On the castle grim and high! Blue streams below, white clouds above, In silent earth and sky! And now, where'er my feet may roam, At sight of stranger hill A new sense of the old delight Springs in my bosom still, And longings for the high unknown Their ancient channels fill. For I am always climbing hills, From the known to the unknown-- Surely, at last, on some high peak, To find my Father's throne, Though hitherto I have only found His footsteps in the stone! And in my wanderings I did meet Another searching too: The dawning hope, the shared quest Our thoughts together drew; Fearless she laid her band in mine Because her heart was true. She was not born among the hills, Yet on each mountain face A something known her inward eye By inborn light can trace; For up the hills must homeward be, Though no one knows the place. Clasp my hand close, my child, in thine-- A long way we have come! Clasp my hand closer yet, my child, Farther we yet must roam-- Climbing and climbing till we reach Our heavenly father's home. _THE JOURNEY._ I. Hark, the rain is on my roof! Every murmur, through the dark, Stings me with a dull reproof Like a half-extinguished spark. Me! ah me! how came I here, Wide awake and wide alone! Caught within a net of fear, All my dreams undreamed and gone! I will rise; I will go forth. Better dare the hideous night, Better face the freezing north Than be still, where is no light! Black wind rushing round me now, Sown with arrowy points of rain! Gone are there and then and now-- I am here, and so is pain! Dead in dreams the gloomy street! I will out on open roads.