Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Cleanse the goblet! fill the bowl! Life is short and life is sweet! The stars above that turn and roll, Like we beneath more great must creep. Fill the goblet! raise on high The foaming glass and pass the toast; The spheres that circle in the sky Are filled with creatures like our host. Day, the Day is breaking; light Leaps along the world in waves ! Skyward mark the Dawn that bright Proclaims an end to wine and staves. In the grey dawn just outside, Work for each is calling fast! Quaff once more to life and pride ! Joy is sweet but will not last. Love and wine, sweet sleep and kisses, Through the night we chase away! Love, sweet love, with all its blisses, Must away at dawn of day. Hark ! the Watchman of the skies— Herald Mercury on the hill— Calls " The Day, the Day doth rise, All the joys of night to kill." I Heard the Roll of the Cosmos! And I saw the Scheme Divine! I heard the Planets answer! And I knew the Answer mine! What though we pass and repass, And circle still the Sphere ? The gods we knew in the grass, As gods will reappear! The fish that swim in the sea, Planned the Scheme Divine ! And the buds that grow in the tree, Burst into Life in the mine ! The men we pass and repass, As gods forethought and planned! And the ether ere it was gas, Had the system seen and scanned. A cry we hear in the darkness— A Mariner overboard— What matter if he bless, Or curse the overlord ? His Fate is come upon him— Out of deep, to deep he goes— We shall meet him in the tempest, That over our quarter blows. On ! on, with Life and the Living ! Why care we for the dead ? Since each to each must be giving, Water or wine or bread ! It is better to laugh with the laughers! Than weep with them that are sad! If strengt...