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A Long Vacation Pastoral	A
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VII	B
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Vesper adest juvenes consurgite Vesper Olympo	C
Expectata diu vix tandem lumina tollit	D
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For she confessed as they sat in the dusk and he saw not her blushes	E
Elspie confessed at the sports long ago with her father she saw him	F
When at the door the old man had told him the name of the bothie	G
Then after that at the dance yet again at a dance in Rannoch	H
And she was silent confused Confused much rather Philip	C
Buried his face in his hands his face that with blood was bursting	I
Silent confused yet by pity she conquered her fear and continued	D
Katie is good and not silly be comforted Sir about her	J
Katie is good and not silly tender but not like many	K
Carrying off and at once for fear of being seen in the bosom	L
Locking up as in a cupboard the pleasure that any man gives them	M
Keeping it out of sight as a prize they need be ashamed of	B
That is the way I think Sir in England more than in Scotland	D
No she lives and takes pleasure in all as in beautiful weather	J
Sorry to lose it but just as we would be to lose fine weather	J
And she is strong to return to herself and feel undeserted	D
Oh she is strong and not silly she thinks no further about you	N
She has had kerchiefs before from gentle I know as from simple	A
Yes she is good and not silly yet were you wrong Mr Philip	C
Wrong for yourself perhaps more than for her	J
But Philip replied not	D
Raised not his eyes from the hands on his knees	O
And Elspie continued	D
That was what gave me much pain when I met you that dance at Rannoch	H
Dancing myself too with you while Katie danced with Donald	D
That was what gave me such pain I thought it all a mistaking	I
All a mere chance you know and accident not proper choosing	I
There were at least five or six not there no that I don't say	P
But in the country about you might just as well have been courting	I
That was what gave me much pain and you won't remember that though	G
Three days after I met you beside my uncle's walking	I
And I was wondering much and hoped you wouldn't notice	Q
So as I passed I couldn't help looking You didn't know me	K
But I was glad when I heard next day you were gone to the teacher	J
And uplifting his face at last with eyes dilated	D
Large as great stars in mist and dim with dabbled lashes	R
Philip with new tears starting	I
You think I do not remember	J
Said suppose that I did not observe Ah me shall I tell you	N
Elspie it was your look that sent me away from Rannoch	H
It was your glance that descending an instant revelation	S
Showed me where I was and whitherward going recalled me	K
Sent me not to my books but to wrestlings of thought in the mountains	T
Yes I have carried your glance within me undimmed unaltered	D
As a lost boat the compass some passing ship has lent her	J
Many a weary mile on road and hill and moorland	D
And you suppose that I do not remember I had not observed it	D
O did the sailor bewildered observe when they told him his bearings	U
O did he cast overboard when they parted the compass they gave him	F
And he continued more firmly although with stronger emotion	S
Elspie why should I speak it you cannot believe it and should not	D
Why should I say that I love which I all but said to another	J
Yet should I dare should I say O Elspie you only I love you	N
First and sole in my life that has been and surely that shall be	K
Could O could you believe it O Elspie believe it and spurn not	D
Is it possible possible Elspie	C
Well she answered	D
And she was silent some time and blushed all over and answered	D
Quietly after her fashion still knitting Maybe I think of it	D
Though I don't know that I did and she paused again but it may be	K
Yes I don't know Mr Philip but only it feels to me strangely	K
Like to the high new bridge they used to build at below there	V
Over the burn and glen on the road You won't understand me	K
But I keep saying in my mind this long time slowly with trouble	A
I have been building myself up up and toilfully raising	I
Just like as if the bridge were to do it itself without masons	T
Painfully getting myself upraised one stone on another	J
All one side I mean and now I see on the other	J
Just such another fabric uprising better and stronger	J
Close to me coming to join me and then I sometimes fancy	K
Sometimes I find myself dreaming at nights about arches and bridges	E
Sometimes I dream of a great invisible hand coming down and	D
Dropping the great key stone in the middle there in my dreaming	I
There I felt the great key stone coming in and through it	D
Feel the other part all the other stones of the archway	P
Joined into mine with a strange happy sense of completeness But dear me	K
This is confusion and nonsense I mix all the things I can think of	B
And you won't understand Mr Philip	C
But while she was speaking	I
So it happened a moment she paused from her work and pondering	I
Laid her hand on her lap Philip took it she did not resist	D
So he retained her fingers the knitting being stopped But emotion	S
Came all over her more and yet more from his hand from her heart and	D
Most from the sweet idea and image her brain was renewing	I
So he retained her hand and his tears down dropping on it	D
Trembling a long time kissed it at last And she ended	D
And as she ended uprose he saying What have I heard Oh	G
What have I done that such words should be said to me Oh I see it	D
See the great key stone coming down from the heaven of heavens	T
And he fell at her feet and buried his face in her apron	S
But as under the moon and stars they went to the cottage	W
Elspie sighed and said Be patient dear Mr Philip	C
Do not do anything hasty It is all so soon so sudden	S
Do not say anything yet to any one	S
Elspie he answered	D
Does not my friend go on Friday I then shall see nothing of you	N
Do not I go myself on Monday	K
But oh he said Elspie	C
Do as I bid you my child do not go on calling me Mr	J
Might I not just as well be calling you Miss Elspie	C
Call me this heavenly night for once for the first time Philip	C
Philip she said and laughed and said she could not say it	D
Philip she said he turned and kissed the sweet lips as they said it	D
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But on the morrow Elspie kept out of the way of Philip	C
And at the evening seat when he took her hand by the alders	T
Drew it back saying almost peevishly	A
No Mr Philip	C
I was quite right last night it is too soon too sudden	S
What I told you before was foolish perhaps was hasty	K
When I think it over I am shocked and terrified at it	D
Not that at all I unsay it that is I know I said it	D
And when I said it felt it But oh we must wait Mr Philip	C
We mustn't pull ourselves at the great key stone of the centre	J
Some one else up above must hold it fit it and fix it	D
If we try ourselves we shall only damage the archway	P
Damage all our own work that we wrought our painful upbuilding	I
When you remember you took my hand last evening talking	I
I was all over a tremble and as you pressed the fingers	T
After and afterwards kissed it I could not speak And then too	N
As we went home you kissed me for saying your name It was dreadful	A
I have been kissed before she added blushing slightly	K
I have been kissed more than once by Donald my cousin and others	T
It is the way of the lads and I make up my mind not to mind it	D
But Mr Philip last night and from you it was different quite Sir	J
When I think of all that I am shocked and terrified at it	D
Yes it is dreadful to me	K
She paused but quickly continued	D
Smiling almost fiercely continued looking upward	D
You are too strong you see Mr Philip just like the sea there	V
Which will come through the straits and all between the mountains	T
Forcing its great strong tide into every nook and inlet	D
Getting far in up the quiet stream of sweet inland water	J
Sucking it up and stopping it turning it driving it backward	D
Quite preventing its own quiet running and then soon after	J
Back it goes off leaving weeds on the shore and wrack and uncleanness	T
And the poor burn in the glen tries again its peaceful running	I
But it is brackish and tainted and all its banks in disorder	J
That was what I dreamt all last night I was the burnie	S
Trying to get along through the tyrannous brine and could not	D
I was confined and squeezed in the coils of the great salt tide that	D
Would mix in itself with me and change me I felt myself changing	I
And I struggled and screamed I believe in my dream It was dreadful	A
You are too strong Mr Philip I am but a poor slender burnie	S
Used to the glens and the rocks the rowan and birch of the woodies	T
Quite unused to the great salt sea quite afraid and unwilling	I
Ere she had spoken two words had Philip released her fingers	T
As she went on he recoiled fell back and shook and shivered	D
There he stood looking pale and ghastly when she had ended	D
Answering in hollow voice	T
It is true oh quite true Elspie	C
Oh you are always right oh what what have I been doing	I
I will depart to morrow But oh forget me not wholly	K
Wholly Elspie nor hate me no do not hate me my Elspie	C
But a revulsion passed through the brain and bosom of Elspie	C
And she got up from her seat on the rock putting by her knitting	I
Went to him where he stood and answered	D
No Mr Philip	C
No you are good Mr Philip and gentle and I am the foolish	H
No Mr Philip forgive me	K
She stepped right to him and boldly	K
Took up his hand and placed it in hers he dared no movement	D
Took up the cold hanging hand up forcing the heavy elbow	G
I am afraid she said but I will and kissed the fingers	T
And he fell on his knees and kissed her own past counting	I
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But a revulsion wrought in the brain and bosom of Elspie	C
And the passion she just had compared to the vehement ocean	S
Urging in high spring tide its masterful way through the mountains	T
Forcing and flooding the silvery stream as it runs from the inland	D
That great power withdrawn receding here and passive	B
Felt she in myriad springs her sources far in the mountains	T
Stirring collecting rising upheaving forth outflowing	I
Taking and joining right welcome that delicate rill in the valley	K
Filling it making it strong and still descending seeking	I
With a blind forefeeling descending ever and seeking	I
With a delicious forefeeling the great still sea before it	D
There deep into it far to carry and lose in its bosom	L
Waters that still from their sources exhaustless are fain to be added	D
As he was kissing her fingers and knelt on the ground before her	J
Yielding backward she sank to her seat and of what she was doing	I
Ignorant bewildered in sweet multitudinous vague emotion	S
Stooping knowing not what put her lips to the hair on his forehead	D
And Philip raising himself gently for the first time round her	J
Passing his arms close close enfolded her close to his bosom	L
As they went home by the moon Forgive me Philip she whispered	D
I have so many things to think of all of a sudden	S
I who had never once thought a thing in my ignorant Highlands	T

Arthur Hugh Clough

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