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IN LITERARY FIELDS.
A New Oakland Poet.
Ambrose Bicrce , the Snu Fraiioisco
satirist , who praises so much more in
frequently than he condemns , that his
commendation is desired by all young
writers , sent to the Washington Post ,
not very long ago , a poem written by
Mr. George Sterling , of this city. Its
subject was Memorial Day , and its
quality was so remarkable as to lead Mr.
Bierce to say of and its writer :
"George Sterling is a poet and a great
one one may safely stake on that all
the reputation for literary judgment
'that one may hope to have. Not 'for a
weary space' has any singer of English
struck and held a higher , purer note
than he in these noble lines. I would
rather have written them than to have
written Lowell's Commemoration Ode. "
That readers of the Enquirer may
understand upon what Mr. Bierce's
strong praise was based , the opening
stanzas of Mr. Sterling's "Memorial
Day , " which is unquestionably a flue
piece of work , are given herewith :
To each the city of his dreams ,
Far lifts the purple of her walls ,
And pure her domes eternal gleam
Above the promise of her halls.
Unto each soul her chosen ways
And travail upward from the night ;
Enough , that from her dark of days
She have in quest the trusted light.
Tlio' in futility she hold
To heights eternally afar ,
Eyes that the waited morning's gold
Bless never she hath stood a star.
Weary the ways whereon we strive
To heirdom of the ends of strife ;
Saber and cannon , lance and gyve
Prepare the after-peace r > f life.
Irrevocable , fraught with dread ,
The mandates of the cosmic plan
Await in traceries of red
The men that frame the House of Man.
Whereof as hold lies the stone ,
Deep in obscurities of dust ,
As that whereby the years shall own
The far fulfillment of the Trust.
( Ah , dream of unavailing eyesl
Ah , glory of the lucent cross !
By hope foreseen on future skies
To hush the memory of loss I
The cannon take their pall of rust ;
Its gentler harvests wait the sword ;
The deep of war's recurrent lust
Submissive to a deeper word. )
Aslhonored by that farther day
V * Shall be the warrior as the bard ;
\ v \ And equal , shall its wisdom say ,
The hands that build , the hands that guard.
And we , above the war-grown graves ,
Stand conscious of their homage duo.
We wonder where the cypress waves ,
Sad for the dead wo never know
From whom we gather , in regret ,
Tribute of unregretful breath ;
Of whom the panoply we sot
That molders on the road of Death.
Large writ in blood their annals burn ,
And hallowed through the morning star
Of Peace arise , and nations earn
The red affranchisement of War.
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