Yellow Nineties 2.0 The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, Volume 6 July 1895 <editor>Lorraine Janzen Kooistra</editor> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <p> <date>2020</date> </p> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt> <idno>YBV6_26po</idno> <publisher>Yellow Nineties 2.0</publisher> <pubPlace>Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities</pubPlace> <address> <addrLine>English Department</addrLine> <addrLine>350 Victoria Street,</addrLine> <addrLine>Toronto ON,</addrLine> <addrLine>M5B 2K3</addrLine> <addrLine>Canada</addrLine> </address> <availability> <p>Usable according to the Creative Commons License <ref target="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike</ref>.</p> </availability> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <biblStruct> <monogr> <editor> <persName>Henry Harland</persName> </editor> <author>Rose Haig Thomas</author> <title>Mars John Lane London Copeland & Day Boston July 1895 Thomas, Rose Haig. "Mars." The Yellow Book, vol. 6, July 1895, pp. 249-252. Yellow Book Digital Edition, edited by Dennis Denisoff and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2010-2014. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Edition, 2020. https://1890s.ca/YBV6_thomas_mars/

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Mars <lb/>A Medley By Rose Haig Thomas NOT this cold grey world for me With its dull monotony Of sombre land and sea. No ! a mad career In another sphere, Rather than linger here. Then heigh for rosy Mars ! The king of all the stars ! Where prisms play Pranks with the day— There would I stay, Where light is dark, and darkness bright, And wisdom folly, weakness might. Where right is wrong, and wrong made right, Where night is day, and day is night, And the night glows rich with a warm red light. So 250 Mars So heigh for rosy Mars The king of all the stars ! Where purple fish leap in a scarlet sea, In sportive play ; Where deep waves roll, wine-red as Burgundy. Throughout the day Across the blazing heavens sails an azure sun ; How his cerulean shades Melt into mauve among the rosy blades ! And blood-red trees their golden shadows write Over the violet glades. There winged beings green as malachite Flit in and out the cooling turquoise light At the high noon. And when the sun sets deeply darkly blue, Bathing the bloody blades in opal dew, Falls on a scarlet world a golden night, Wherein slow riseth into sight No pale-faced moon. With giddy circlings, a strange steel-blue And star-shaped satellite Whirls through the golden blare. As nervous starfish shun the touch, So shoot her shrinking fingers forth, Point East and South, point West and North, Her mazy moving radiants such A thousand changes wear. They flash from her steely shield Like a myriad scimitars, As she laces her golden field With By Rose Haig Thomas 251 With its splutter of blue black stars. Thus is the gamut set From palest orange unto purplest jet. Then the malachite beings grow glittering bronze With feeling, with passion, agleam, aglow, In touch with their molten rosy world. Green fire flashes from their jewelled breasts, Where flame a thousand ages, Whilst their broad pinions spread, quiver to the quill. Forth from each beauteous head leap forked tongues ; A rushing sound as music of a stream Stirs the still air with sweet strange speech That writes its meanings on the atmosphere. The flashing hieroglyphics scintillate, Among the purple shades, fork-lightning quick. Between the waving wings The younger beings feel and see and hear, And on their brains the branded image sinks Of quiv'ring naked knowledge newly born. The seeming solid ground uncertain heaves, Stretching to slender threads the pliant chain, The easy fetters of a lessened gravity. These buoyant beings rise and madly dance Wide stepping as the winds,, their waving wings Mingling in one green cloud, Which bronzing in the golden night Drifts out of sight.

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Gone 252 Mars Gone is the scarlet sea, The azure day, And my rainbow reverie Fades into grey.