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    Challenge

    By Louis Untermeyer

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Challenge - Louis Untermeyer

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Challenge, by Louis Untermeyer

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      Title: Challenge

      Author: Louis Untermeyer

      Release Date: September 26, 2010 [EBook #34001]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHALLENGE ***

      Produced by Al Haines

      CHALLENGE

      By LOUIS UNTERMEYER

      NEW YORK

      THE CENTURY CO.

      1914

      Copyright, 1914, by

      THE CENTURY CO.

      Published, April, 1914

      CONTENTS

      I. SUMMONS

      SUMMONS

      PRAYER

      TO ARMS

      ON THE BIRTH OF A CHILD

      HOW MUCH OF GODHOOD

      THE GREAT CAROUSAL

      THANKS

      GOD'S YOUTH

      IN THE BERKSHIRE HILLS

      VOICES

      REVELATION

      AFFIRMATION

      DOWNHILL ON A BICYCLE

      MIDNIGHT—BY THE OPEN WINDOW

      THE WINE OF NIGHT

      II. INTERLUDES

      INVOCATION

      FEUERZAUBER

      SUNDAY NIGHT

      AT KENNEBUNKPORT

      IN A STRANGE CITY

      FOLK-SONG

      IN THE STREETS

      ENVY

      A BIRTHDAY

      LEAVING THE HARBOR

      THE SHELL TO THE PEARL

      THE YOUNG MYSTIC

      HEALED

      THE STIRRUP-CUP

      SPRING ON BROADWAY

      IN A CAB

      SUMMER NIGHT—BROADWAY

      HAUNTED

      ISADORA DUNCAN DANCING

      SONGS AND THE POET

      THE HERETIC

      I. BLASPHEMY

      II. IRONY

      III. MOCKERY

      IV. HUMILITY

      FIFTH AVENUE—SPRING AFTERNOON

      TRIBUTE

      III. SONGS OF PROTEST

      CHALLENGE

      CALIBAN IN THE COAL-MINES

      ANY CITY

      LANDSCAPES

      TWO FUNERALS

      SUNDAY

      STRIKERS

      IN THE SUBWAY

      BATTLE-CRIES

      A VOICE FROM THE SWEAT-SHOPS

      SOLDIERS

      PEACE

      THE DYING DECADENT

      FUNERAL HYMN

      PROTESTS

      For the privilege of reprinting many of the poems included in this volume, the author thanks the editors of The Century, Harper's, The Forum, The Masses, The Smart Set, The Independent, The American, The Delineator, The New Age, The Poetry Journal and other magazines.

      SUMMONS

      To Walter Lippmann

      SUMMONS

      The eager night and the impetuous winds,

      The hints and whispers of a thousand lures,

      And all the swift persuasion of the Spring

      Surged from the stars and stones, and swept me on...

      The smell of honeysuckles, keen and clear,

      Startled and shook me, with the sudden thrill

      Of some well-known but half-forgotten voice.

      A slender stream became a naked sprite,

      Flashed around curious bends, and winked at me

      Beyond the turns, alert and mischievous.

      A saffron moon, dangling among the trees,

      Seemed like a toy balloon caught in the boughs,

      Flung there in sport by some too-mirthful breeze...

      And as it hung there, vivid and unreal,

      The whole world's lethargy was brushed away;

      The night kept tugging at my torpid mood

      And tore it into shreds. A warm air blew

      My wintry slothfulness beyond the stars;

      And over all indifference there streamed

      A myriad urges in one rushing wave...

      Touched with the lavish miracles of earth,

      I felt the brave persistence of the grass;

      The far desire of rivulets; the keen,

      Unconquerable fervor of the thrush;

      The endless labors of the patient worm;

      The lichen's strength; the prowess of the ant;

      The constancy of flowers; the blind belief

      Of ivy climbing slowly toward the sun;

      The eternal struggles and eternal deaths—

      And yet the groping faith of every root!

      Out of old graves arose the cry of life;

      Out of the dying came the deathless call.

      And, thrilling with a new sweet restlessness,

      The thing that was my boyhood woke in me—

      Dear, foolish fragments made me strong again;

      Valiant adventures, dreams of those to come,

      And all the vague, heroic hopes of youth,

      With fresh abandon, like a fearless laugh,

      Leaped up to face the heaven's unconcern...

      And then—veil upon veil was torn aside—

      Stars, like a host of merry girls and boys,

      Danced gaily 'round me, plucking at my hand;

      The night, scorning its ancient mystery,

      Leaned down and pressed new courage in my heart;

      The hermit thrush, throbbing with more than Song,

      Sang with a happy challenge to the skies;

      Love, and the faces of a world of children,

      Swept like a conquering army through my blood—

      And Beauty, rising out of all its forms,

      Beauty, the passion of the universe,

      Flamed with its joy, a thing too great for tears.

      And, like a wine, poured itself out for me

      To drink of, to be warmed with, and to go

      Refreshed and strengthened to the ceaseless fight;

      To meet with confidence the cynic years;

      Battling in wars that never can be won,

      Seeking the lost cause and the brave defeat!

      PRAYER

      God, though this life is but a wraith,

      Although we know not what we use,

      Although we grope with little faith,

      Give me the heart to fight—and lose.

      Ever insurgent let me be,

      Make me more daring

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