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    The New World
    The New World
    The New World
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    The New World

    By Witter Bynner

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The New World - Witter Bynner

      The Project Gutenberg eBook of The New World, by Witter Bynner

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      Title: The New World

      Author: Witter Bynner

      Release Date: January 7, 2009 [eBook #27731]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: UTF-8

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NEW WORLD***

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      The New World

      BY WITTER BYNNER

      AN ODE TO HARVARD

      AND OTHER POEMS

      TIGER

      THE LITTLE KING

      THE NEW WORLD

      IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS

      The New World

      by WITTER BYNNER

      NEW YORK

      MITCHELL KENNERLEY

      1918

      COPYRIGHT 1915 BY

      MITCHELL KENNERLEY

      The greater part of this poem was delivered before the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in June, 1911; several passages from it have appeared in Poetry, and others in The Bellman, the Boston Evening Transcript and the American Magazine.

      Printed in America

      To

      Celia

      The New World

      I

      Celia was laughing. Hopefully I said:

      "How shall this beauty that we share,

      This love, remain aware

      Beyond our happy breathing of the air?

      How shall it be fulfilled and perfected?...

      If you were dead,

      How then should I be comforted?"

      But Celia knew instead:

      He who finds beauty here, shall find it there.

      A halo gathered round her hair.

      I looked and saw her wisdom bare

      The living bosom of the countless dead.

      ... And there

      I laid my head.

      Again when Celia laughed, I doubted her and said:

      "Life must be led

      In many ways more difficult to see

      Than this immediate way

      For you and me.

      We stand together on our lake’s edge, and the mystery

      Of love has made us one, as day is made of night and night of day.

      Aware of one identity

      Within each other, we can say:

      ‘I shall be everything you are.’...

      We are uplifted till we touch a star.

      We know that overhead

      Is nothing more austere, more starry, or more deep to understand

      Than is our union, human hand in hand.

      .... But over our lake come strangers—a crowded launch, a lonely sailing boy.

      A mile away a train bends by. In every car

      Strangers are travelling, each with particular

      And unkind preference like ours, with privacy

      Of understanding, with especial joy

      Like ours. Celia, Celia, why should there be

      Distrust between ourselves and them, disunity?

      .... How careful we have been

      To trim this little circle that we tread,

      To set a bar

      To strangers and forbid them!—Are they not as we,

      Our very likeness and our nearest kin?

      How can we shut them out and let stars in?"

      She looked along the lake. And when I heard her speak,

      The sun fell on the boy’s white sail and her white cheek.

      I touch them all through you, she said. "I cannot know them now

      Deeply and truly as my very own, except through you,

      Except through one or two

      Interpreters.

      But not a moment stirs

      Here between us, binding and interweaving

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