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OUR LITERARY LOBBY
THE CELTIC MAGIC..
THE CHINA MAIL.
William Butler Yeats, our greatest living. Irish. poot, gives, us & beauty typically Celtic. His poems have neither the Greek perfection of Watson's not the rich exotic glow
KOWLOON TEAMS,
Agnin, he given us, by, the g-E TO-DAYS FOOTBALL gestive use of a simile; all 'the loneliness and forlornucss of a fairy. okild, strayed into this world Ey mistake:---
The following teams have been selected to represent the Kowloon F.C. in their leigue game to-day :- "Her face was palean waters 1st Division v. Hongkong Club, on
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Kowloon, ground, at 4.15 p.m. ;- Stewart Wheeler and Knight; He has the power, too, of evoking Morton, MeKelvie and Pasco
2nd Division v. Club Reserves an Kowloon ground at 2.45 p.m. Bench; Guest and Urquhart A. W. Brown, Randle and Taylor; Hast, Millard Spary, W. H. Brown and Boamussen Reserve: Vickers.
of Flecker's. The beauty he gives a mood through symbole. Thus he Mason, Morrison, Cooke, Duncan Jus is a vague, tremulous thing, conveys to me how, in all great love, and Muir,
beauty made up of shadowy lands-is hidden fear for the safety of the capes, pale lights and dreaming beloved, a fear, unreasoning and waters. It has in it all of Celtic fantastical, yet very real to the weirdness and Celtic mystery-lover- mystery allied not to horror, but to an infinite, vague sadness, to what has been called the "Celtic melan- |choly'"*" All through his poerna rund o regret for the swift parsing of life, for the transiency of love and beauty; and, along with it, a yearn-
ing for impossible joy, for eternal. youth and laughter.",
The Celt sooks to escape from the world of reality to the world of dreams. Money and position and the things that others seek seem to him childish toys, as weighed against his own deep desire, for beauty. He is the typical' artist. He cries with Fergus:~~~
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"'A' wild and foolish labourer is
aking,
To do and do and do; andl never
dream."
All Celtic poetry is thus a poetry
"A pity beyond all telling
To hid in the heart of love. The folk who are buying and hell.
ing
The clouds, on their journey
above; f
The cold, wet winds over blowing
And the showy hazel grove Whore, mouse-grey waters are
flowing t Threaten the head that I love."
Thore is not a wand there which
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The following will represent the actually describes the lover's feel-Division League match with Kow- Hongkong Football Club in a 3nd ings. It is as though the poet said loon Reserves on Kowloon ground' to us, "Thus a man saw the world; to-day J, Wilson; D. Purves and infer from this his mood." It is a H. G. Howard D. Lyon, H. T. Buxton and J. Gardner; A., Fergu- new kind of art.
son, E. W. Railton (capt.), W. Yeats's way of describing Nature Stewart, A. Roberts and S. Barclay. is peculiarly his own. He endows Reserves: J. A. Douglas, V. Ram- woods, and rivere and seas with a say and B. Garrod,
of escape. And it is, too, a poetry semi-conscious life of their own, of quest, at seeking for au ideal- beauty--for the light that never after the manner of the ancient was on land or sea.” The poetry Pagan myths of his country. Thus
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of Yeats is essentially this. All bis he speaks, quite naturaly, of the The first type in woman's dominion poems are about people who were "passionate dawn,** tho en-Is the type that is passive and cold,
led to destruction by their dreams raptured quiet of the skies," the For her Northern lights flash in the He sings always of "the sad, the stars that laugh and sing alway," midnight lonely, the insatiable," of those
Who have sought more than is
in rain or dew,
Or in the sun and moon, or on the
carth."
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the dewdrops "listening for the Witbont ardour, passion or soul. sound of their own dropping." It is this closeness to Nature, this sense of akinness with her, and intuitive understanding of her life, which makes part of the "Celtic magic" in Yenta's poetry.
His favourite figure, in "the man who dreamed of Fairyland," who The "magic" also lies in the new beord the singing of the fairy people way he describes things. He aug. His even as he wandered by the sands gests rather than describes. at Lisadill, while his mind ran all scenery is left to the imagination; it on money, fears and cures," but is a dream-scenery, auftused with at that singing he was no more! "the light that never was on land wise."
Flecker leaves much to of sea. "L'amour de l'impossible" as an the imagination, but he at least artistic motif gives rise to lyrics of gives us the salient features of a a vagne, mournful beauty, saturated scene:→→ through and through with wistful- ness and yearning and world-weari- ness. The White Birde" is typical
"I would that we were, may be.
loved, white birds on the foun of the sea i
We tire of the flame of the inetcor before it can fade and flee; And the flame of the bloe star of twilight. hung low on the rim of the sky,
Hag awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may, not die."
Yonte's language has often been called "picturesque.' It is so, in the literal sense of the word, be- cause he never expresses thoughts in an abstract way, but always by means of concrete pictures. Thus, by means of a few salient details, he brings vividly before our mind the sad, hoopless, lifelong toil of the Irish peasant's wife —
Old mother, old mother, the
green dawn Brightens above you while
you
blow up the fire, And evening finds you spreading
the white cloth."
Just those few words, yet we feel as if we know that old woman, and We are sorry for her, and love her.
In the same magical way, Yesta
suggests to us in a metaphor the whole tragis history of Niam:-
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"The ship all black and the ship
all white
Met, like the meeting of day and
night,
Met, and there lay serene 'dark
green ..
A twilight vord of the sen
between."
That is a definite picture; there is no mistaking it. Yeats's lande capes, by contrast, are vague and shadowy; no, two people will see this scene in the same way-
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"We rode between day The seaweed-covered pillars," aud
the green' And Burging phosphorus: alone.
gave light
On our dark pathway, till s
countless flighter te
Of moonlit steps glimmered over
the pale tide Upon dark thrones."
That conveys no definite picture. but it opens up endless vistas to the imagination. That is the "Celtic magic"-to give us a new and beautiful world. The enchantment of it is ever fresh, because, for every mood we bring to it, we find in it eomething different.
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Then comes the slim, sensitive kind Volatile, full of sweet passian, Though her lights are obscured by
jealousy And satanic divination.
The third is the ubiquitous vampire That besiege, our uumortgaged
hearts. When with rouge and satin for an
empire She plays brainless cinema parts.
Then there's the sordid, practicable
type
Whose charms are sad na nocturne, And gabbles on womanly rights. She's suffragistic and out of recipe
But have you heard of the strutting
Вед
That cmws with the cock together, The wife who talks louder than
bushand
And cackles bin out of a feather? :)
There are many thousands and wil-
lions more
That spell up the word 'infernal, More mysterions than science galore So me for Mother Eternals".
H. 'M, SILVA. 17th November, 1923.
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