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A Long Vacation Pastoral	A
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VIII	B
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Jam veniet virgo jam dicetur hymen us	C
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But a revulsion again came over the spirit of Elspie	D
When she thought of his wealth his birth and education	E
Wealth indeed but small though to her a difference truly	F
Father nor mother had Philip a thousand pounds his portion	E
Somewhat impaired in a world where nothing is had for nothing	G
Fortune indeed but small and prospects plain and simple	A
But the many things that he knew and the ease of a practised	H
Intellect's motion and all those indefinable graces	I
Were they not hers too Philip to speech and manner and movement	H
Lent by the knowledge of self and wisely instructed feeling	G
When she thought of these and these contemplated daily	F
Daily appreciating more and more exactly appraising	G
With these thoughts and the terror withal of a thing she could not	H
Estimate and of a step such a step in the dark to be taken	E
Terror nameless and ill understood of deserting her station	E
Daily heavier heavier upon her pressed the sorrow	J
Daily distincter distincter within her arose the conviction	E
He was too high too perfect and she so unfit so unworthy	F
Ah me Philip that ever a word such as that should be written	E
It would do neither for him nor for her she also was something	G
Not much indeed it was true yet not to be lightly extinguished	H
Should he he she said have a wife beneath him herself be	F
An inferior there where only equality can be	F
It would do neither for him nor for her	K
Alas for Philip	D
Many were tears and great was perplexity Nor had availed then	L
All his prayer and all his device But much was spoken	E
Now between Adam and Elspie companions were they hourly	F
Much by Elspie to Adam enquiring anxiously seeking	G
From his experience seeking impartial accurate statement	H
What it was to do this or do that go hither or thither	K
How in the after life would seem what now seeming certain	E
Might so soon be reversed in her quest and obscure exploring	G
Still from that quiet orb soliciting light to her footsteps	M
Much by Elspie to Adam enquiring eagerly seeking	G
Much by Adam to Elspie informing reassuring	G
Much that was sweet to Elspie by Adam heedfully speaking	G
Quietly indirectly in general terms of Philip	D
Gravely but indirectly not as incognisant wholly	F
But as suspending until she should seek it direct intimation	E
Much that was sweet in her heart of what he was and would be	F
Much that was strength to her mind confirming beliefs and insights	N
Pure and unfaltering but young and mute and timid for action	E
Much of relations of rich and poor and of true education	E
It was on Saturday eve in the gorgeous bright October	K
Then when brackens are changed and heather blooms are faded	H
And amid russet of heather and fern green trees are bonnie	F
Alders are green and oaks the rowan scarlet and yellow	J
One great glory of broad gold pieces appears the aspen	E
And the jewels of gold that were hung in the hair of the birch tree	F
Pendulous here and there her coronet necklace and ear rings	O
Cover her now o'er and o'er she is weary and scatters them from her	K
There upon Saturday eve in the gorgeous bright October	K
Under the alders knitting gave Elspie her troth to Philip	D
For as they talked anon she said	H
It is well Mr Philip	D
Yes it is well I have spoken and learnt a deal with the teacher	K
At the last I told him all I could not help it	H
And it came easier with him than could have been with my father	K
And he calmly approved as one that had fully considered	H
Yes it is well I have hoped though quite too great and sudden	E
I am so fearful I think it ought not to be for years yet	H
I am afraid but believe in you and I trust to the teacher	K
You have done all things gravely and temperate not as in passion	E
And the teacher is prudent and surely can tell what is likely	F
What my father will say I know not we will obey him	P
But for myself I could dare to believe all well and venture	K
O Mr Philip may it never hereafter seem to be different	H
And she hid her face	Q
Oh where but in Philip's bosom	R
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After some silence some tears too perchance Philip laughed and said to her	K
So my own Elspie at last you are clear that I'm bad enough for you	S
Ah but your father won't make one half the question about it	H
You have he'll think me I know nor better nor worse than Donald	H
Neither better nor worse for my gentlemanship and bookwork	G
Worse I fear as he knows me an idle and vagabond fellow	J
Though he allows but he'll think it was all for your sake Elspie	D
Though he allows I did some good at the end of the shearing	G
But I had thought in Scotland you didn't care for this folly	F
How I wish he said you had lived all your days in the Highlands	T
This is what comes of the year you spent in our foolish England	H
You do not all of you feel these fancies	U
No she answered	H
And in her spirit the freedom and ancient joy was reviving	G
No she said and uplifted herself and looked for her knitting	G
No nor do I dear Philip I don't myself feel always	V
As I have felt more sorrow for me these four days lately	F
Like the Peruvian Indians I read about last winter	K
Out in America there in somebody's life of Pizarro	J
Who were as good perhaps as the Spaniards only weaker	K
And that the one big tree might spread its root and branches	W
All the lesser about it must even be felled and perish	X
No I feel much more as if I as well as you were	K
Somewhere a leaf on the one great tree that up from old time	Y
Growing contains in itself the whole of the virtue and life of	B
Bygone days drawing now to itself all kindreds and nations	Z
And must have for itself the whole world for its root and branches	W
No I belong to the tree I shall not decay in the shadow	J
Yes and I feel the life juices of all the world and the ages	W
Coming to me as to you more slowly no doubt and poorer	K
You are more near but then you will help to convey them to me	F
No don't smile Philip now so scornfully While you look so	J
Scornful and strong I feel as if I were standing and trembling	G
Fancying the burn in the dark a wide and rushing river	K
And I feel coming unto me from you or it may be from elsewhere	K
Strong contemptuous resolve I forget and I bound as across it	H
But after all you know it may be a dangerous river	K
Oh if it were so Elspie he said I can carry you over	K
Nay she replied you would tire of having me for a burden	E
O sweet burden he said and are you not light as a feather	K
But it is deep very likely she said over head and ears too	S
O let us try he answered the waters themselves will support us	C
Yea very ripples and waves will form to a boat underneath us	C
There is a boat he said and a name is written upon it	H
Love he said and kissed her	K
But I will read your books though	J
Said she you'll leave me some Philip	D
Not I replied he a volume	A2
This is the way with you all I perceive high and low together	K
Women must read as if they didn't know all beforehand	H
Weary of plying the pump we turn to the running water	K
And the running spring will needs have a pump built upon it	H
Weary and sick of our books we come to repose in your eyelight	H
As to the woodland and water the freshness and beauty of Nature	K
Lo you will talk forsooth of things we are sick to the death of	B
What she said and if I have let you become my sweetheart	H
I am to read no books but you may go your ways then	L
And I will read she said with my father at home as I used to	H
If you must have it he said I myself will read them to you	H
Well she said but no I will read to myself when I choose it	H
What you suppose we never read anything here in our Highlands	T
Bella and I with the father in all our winter evenings	O
But we must go Mr Philip	D
I shall not go at all said	H
He if you call me Mr Thank heaven that's over for ever	K
No but it's not she said it is not over nor will be	F
Was it not then she asked the name I called you first by	B2
No Mr Philip no you have kissed me enough for two nights	N
No come Philip come or I'll go myself without you	H
You never call me Philip he answered until I kiss you	H
As they went home by the moon that waning now rose later	K
Stepping through mossy stones by the runnel under the alders	N
Loitering unconsciously Philip she said I will not be a lady	F
We will do work together you do not wish me a lady	F
It is a weakness perhaps and a foolishness still it is so	N
I have been used all my life to help myself and others	N
I could not bear to sit and be waited upon by footmen	L
No not even by women	L
And God forbid he answered	H
God forbid you should ever be aught but yourself my Elspie	D
As for service I love it not I your weakness is mine too	H
I am sure Adam told you as much as that about me	F
I am sure she said he called you wild and flighty	F
That was true he said till my wings were clipped But my Elspie	D
You will at least just go and see my uncle and cousins	N
Sister and brother and brother's wife You should go if you liked it	H
Just as you are just what you are at any rate my Elspie	D
Yes we will go and give the old solemn gentility stageplay	F
One little look to leave it with all the more satisfaction	L
That may be my Philip she said you are good to think of it	H
But we are letting our fancies run on indeed after all it	H
May all come you know Mr Philip to nothing whatever	K
There is so much that needs to be done so much that may happen	L
All that needs to be done said he shall be done and quickly	F
And on the morrow he took good heart and spoke with David	H
Not unwarned the father nor had been unperceiving	G
Fearful much but in all from the first reassured by the Tutor	K
And he remembered how he had fancied the lad from the first and	H
Then too the old man's eye was much more for inner than outer	K
And the natural tune of his heart without misgiving	G
Went to the noble words of that grand song of the Lowlands	N
Rank is the guinea stamp but the man's a man for a' that	H
Still he was doubtful would hear nothing of it now but insisted	H
Philip should go to his books if he chose he might write if after	K
Chose to return might come he truly believed him honest	H
But a year must elapse and many things might happen	L
Yet at the end he burst into tears called Elspie and blessed them	C2
Elspie my bairn he said I thought not when at the doorway	D2
Standing with you and telling the young man where he would find us	N
I did not think he would one day be asking me here to surrender	K
What is to me more than wealth in my Bothie of Tober na vuolich	X

Arthur Hugh Clough

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