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- 5. ISBN 978-3-86395-095-8 Universitätsverlag Göttingen Universitätsverlag Göttingen The implementation of open access policies in Europe is a socio-technical under- taking whereby a wide range of stakeholders work together to bring out the be- nefits of open access for European and global research. This work provides a unique overview of national awareness of open access in 32 European countries involving all EU member states and in addition, Norway, Iceland, Croatia, Switzerland and Turkey. It describes funder and institutional open access mandates in Europe and national strategies to introduce and implement them. An overview of the current European repository infrastructures is given, including institutional and disciplinary reposito- ries, national repository networks, information portals and support networks. This work also outlines OpenAIREplus, a continuation project which aims to widen the scope of OpenAIRE by connecting publications to contextual information, such as research data and funding information. Opportunities for collaboration in order to achieve European and global synergies are also highlighted. The OpenAIRE project, a joint collaboration among 38 partners from 27 European countries, has built up a network of open repositories providing free online access to knowledge produced by researchers receiving grants from the European Commissi- on or the European Research Council. It provides support structures for researchers, operates an electronic infrastructure and a portal to access all user-level services and works with several subject communities. Birgit Schmidt is affiliated with Goettingen State and University Library. Iryna Kuchma is affiliated with EIFL. Birgit Schmidt and Iryna Kuchma IMPLEMENTING OPEN ACCESS MANDATES IN EUROPE OpenAIRE Study on the Development of Open Access Repository Communities in Europe Birgit Schmidt and Iryna Kuchma Implementing Open Access Mandates in Europe oa-mandates_cover_121113.indd 1 12.11.2012 14:46:32
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- 11. Contents Table of Figures 8 List of Abbreviations 8 1 About the Authors 9 Summary 11 2 Introduction 13 3 Open Access Policies 17 3.1 Research funders’ policies 19 3.1.1 European Commission 19 3.1.2 European Research Council 21 3.1.3 Other research funders’ policies 23 3.2 Institutional open access policies and mandates 27 3.3 Other organisations and initiatives 30 3.3.1 European University Association 30 3.3.2 League of European Research Universities 32 3.3.3 eurohorcs and European Science Foundation 35 3.4 Publishers’ policies 37 3.4.1 Related projects 40 4 Implementation 49 4.1 ec, erc and research areas 52 4.2 National Contact Points 54 4.3 Research managers and administrators 56 4.4 European countries 57 4.4.1 National research environments 59 4.4.2 National awareness of open access, mandates and repositories 60 4.4.3 Conclusions on funder and institutional oa mandates in Europe 89 5
- 12. 4.4.4 Summary of strategies 90 4.4.5 Evaluation and update of strategies 93 4.5 Repository infrastructures in Europe 95 4.5.1 Openaire Guidelines 96 4.5.2 Disciplinary repositories and networks 97 4.5.3 Openaire Orphan Repository 100 4.5.4 Networks of repositories 101 4.6 Advocacy and support networks 101 4.6.1 National networks 101 4.6.2 coar 102 4.6.3 eifl 103 4.6.4 sparc Europe 104 4.6.5 Knowledge Exchange’s open access working group 104 4.7 Publishers and journals 105 4.7.1 Publisher-assisted deposit 106 4.7.2 Openaire compliance of publishers and journals 110 4.8 Other Stakeholders 112 4.8.1 unesco 112 4.8.2 Disciplinary scholarly societies 115 4.8.3 Younger researchers 116 4.8.4 Food and Agriculture Organization 118 4.8.5 General public 119 5 Conclusions and Roadmap 123 6 References 125 6.1 Articles and reports 125 6.2 Databases 130 6.3 Policies and Declarations 130 6.4 Presentations 133 7 Annex 1: European Policies on Open Access 135 7.1 erc Scientific Council Guidelines for Open Access (17 December 2007) 135 7.2 ec Special Clause 39 137 7.3 Open Access Guidelines for researchers funded by the erc (June 2012) 138 6
- 13. 7.4 ec Open Access policy for Horizon 2020 140 8 Annex 2: National Open Access Desks (noads) 143 9 Annex 3: Tables 145 9.1 Table 1: Funder and institutional oa mandates in Europe 145 9.2 Table 2: Repositories in European countries 150 9.3 Table 3: National networks of repositories 151 9.4 Table 4: Information portals and support networks 153 10 Glossary 157 Notes 161 7
- 14. Table of Figures Figure 3-1 Open Access Mandates in Europe (as of 2012-08-25) 18 Figure 3-2 Growth of oa Mandates (based on ROARMAP, as of 2012-08-25) 18 Figure 4-1 Stakeholders 49 Figure 4-2 Ongoing sc39 projects 51 Figure 4-3 Finalized sc39 projects 51 List of Abbreviations ec European Commission erc European Research Council esf European Science Foundation etd Electronic theses and dissertations eu European Union eua European University Association eurohorcs European Heads of Research Councils fp7 Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission ipr Intellectual Property Rights leru League of European Research Universities noads National Open Access Desks oa Open Access sc39 Special Clause 39, compare Annex 1 ssh Social Sciences and Humanities stm Science, Technology and Medicine 8
- 15. 1 About the Authors Dr Birgit Schmidt is Scientific Manager of the European Openaire project and coordinates international and national projects and initiatives in the Electronic Publishing unit at Goettingen State and University Li- brary (peer, oapen, open-access.net, oa Statistics, among others). From December 2009 to March 2012 she served as Executive Director of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (coar). She is an active member of coar’s working group Repository Content and the multi- stakeholder Open Access Agreements and Licenses Task Force. With a background in Mathematics and a postgraduate degree in Library and In- formation Science, she has worked on long term archiving of digital ob- jects, open access publication models and service development. Iryna Kuchma coordinates Eastern European activities of the Open- aire project and is the eifl Open Access programme manager. Her re- sponsibilities include advocacy of open access to research results and sup- port in developing open access policies, training and support in setting up open repositories, organizing workshops and other knowledge sharing and capacity building events. She also chairs coar’s working group Repository and Repository Networks Support & Training; is a member of IFLA’s Open Access Taskforce, PLoS International Advisory Group, NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations) Board of Directors,DSpaceCommunityAdvisoryTeamandE-LIS AdvisoryBoard. In 2009-2010 she was a Steering Committee (and Task Group) member, InterAcademy Panel on International Issues (IAP) Programme on Digital Knowledge Resources and Infrastructure in Developing Countries. She has also served on the Access to Learning Award (ATLA) Committee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Library Initiative. 9
- 17. Summary The Openaire project supports the implementation of Europe’s open ac- cess policies as outlined in the European Research Council’s Guidelines for Open Access and the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme (fp7) Open Access Pilot. This work highlights existing open access policies in Europe and pro- vides an overview of publishers’ self-archiving policies. It also highlights the strategies needed to implement these policies. It provides a unique overview of national awareness of open access in 32 European countries involving all eu member states and in addition, Norway, Iceland, Croatia, Switzerland and Turkey. Moreover, it describes funder and institutional open access mandates in Europe and national strategies to introduce and implement them. An overview is provided of the repository infrastructure currently in place in European countries, including institutional and disci- plinary repositories, national repository networks and national open ac- cess information portals and support networks. There are robust regional and national networks of open access advo- cates representing libraries and some research discipline communities. More than half of the European countries covered in this work have al- ready established national repository infrastructures. In some of these countries, the fp7 Open Access Pilot was the catalyst for discussions about funders’ open access policies and the development of national re- search infrastructures (e.g. in Bulgaria, Estonia and Slovenia). In its efforts to reach out to research institutions, researchers, project co- ordinators and publishers in the individual European countries, Open- aire is facilitated by a network of National Open Access Desks (noads). The noads also provide support to institutions in developing their open access policies: in implementing the European Commission’s Open Ac- cess Pilot and the erc’s Guidelines on Open Access, in building synergies within institutional open access policies, and in making repositories and open access journals compliant with Openaire’s requirements for meta- data harvesting (as laid out in the Openaire Guidelines). 11
- 18. Among the outreach and dissemination strategies tried thus far, some have already been identified as particularly successful. These include the early outreach to researchers (i.e. when a fp7-funded project is launched), the active involvement of fp7 National Contact Points (ncps), personal interaction with repository managers and the sharing of success stories to encourage new developments. The main issues that still need to be re- solved in the coming years include the effective promotion of open access among research communities and support in copyright management for researchers and research institutions as well as intermediaries such as li- braries and repositories. This work also outlines the continuation project, Openaireplus which aims to grow the scope of Openaire in terms of open access publications, and in addition connect these publications to other contextual informa- tion, such as research data and funding information. Opportunities for Openaire to cooperate with other stakeholders in order to achieve Euro- pean and global synergies are also highlighted. Such stakeholders include research communities and/or publishers, the international Confederation of Open Access Repositories (coar), the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (sparc) Europe, Electronic Information for Li- braries (eifl), unesco, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), international oa publishers, disciplinary scholarly societies and young re- searchers’ organisations. 12 summary
- 19. 2 Introduction Openaire,1 which stands for Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe, is a three-year project (2009-2012) that aims to develop a net- work of open repositories providing free online access to knowledge pro- duced by researchers receiving grants from the European Commission (ec) or the European Research Council (erc). The main goal of Open- aire, which is funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Pro- gramme (fp7), is to support the Open Access Pilot launched by the ec in August 2008. In this pilot, researchers who receive fp7 grants in the fields of health, energy, the environment, information & communication tech- nologies, research infrastructures, social sciences & humanities, and sci- ence in society are required to deposit their full-text research publications in an institutional or disciplinary open access repository that is made available worldwide. This represents around 20% of all projects funded by fp7. Openaire’s three main objectives are to: – build support structures for researchers in depositing fp7- and erc- funded research publications through the establishment of a Euro- pean Helpdesk and by reaching out to all European member states via 27 National Open Access Desks (noads); – establish and operate an electronic infrastructurefor handling peer-re- viewed articles as well as other important forms of publications (pre- prints or conference publications). This is achieved through the Openaire portal that is the gateway to all user-level services offered, including access (search and browse) to scientific publications and other value-added functionalities (post authoring tools, monitoring tools through analysis of document, and usage statistics); – work with several subject communities to explore the requirements, practices, incentives, workflows, data models and technologies for de- positing, accessing and otherwise managing research data sets in their various forms. 13
- 20. The main challenges in the course of the implementation process are: – making the ec/erc’s policies known to researchers and project coordi- nators of all research areas involved and making them aware of their contractual obligation to honour these policies, – supporting researchers and institutions with the depositing process through a network of open access experts: the National Open Access Desks (noads); – enhancing the repository network by introducing rules for grant re- porting in repositories that would support the linking of publications and projects (the Openaire Guidelines); – involving and engaging all stakeholders in the implementation process and further facilitating the workflows for researchers, research ad- ministrators, repository managers and scholarly publishers. To ensure that support is provided to researchers and institutions, the Openaire project has developed a Europe-wide helpdesk system based on a network of national and regional open access desks in 32 countries (launched in March 2010 with 27 countries, extended by five more coun- tries by August 2012). On 2 December 2010, the Openaire e-Infrastruc- ture for repository networks was launched, which includes a repository fa- cility for researchers who do not have access to an institutional or disci- pline-specific repository. In order to explore the status quo of open access policies and repository- based infrastructures, a country perspective was chosen for this work. The current and envisioned role of other transnational stakeholders are also described in this work, including the first steps that Openaire has taken to involve them in promoting the implementation of the eu’s open access policies. The project is due to finalise in late 2012. Openaire will have come far to motivate repositories to engage with the Openaire infrastructure. However, take up of ‘compliant’ repositories has been slow. Reasons for this have been identified as repository manager time restrictions, and lack of ‘value’ in compliancy when the number of fp7 publications in reposito- ries is low. Openaire has done much to promote repository compliancy, however the weak sc39 mandate has also been a barrier to raising open ac- cess publication numbers: Persuading fp7 project participants to deposit 14 introduction
- 21. final project publications is a challenge which the Openaire community is dealing with by sending strong incentives for open access and clear workflows for deposit.2 Openaire has also successfully worked with open access publishers to connect their publication lists to the information space3. Copernicus pub- lications are now searchable via the Openaire portal and, as an added benefit, the publisher is also aware of the fp7-funded publications they have published. Launch of the Openaireplus project In December 2011 an extension project, Openaireplus, was launched. Retaining its cross-disciplinary scope the project aims to enrich the schol- arly process by providing links from the publication to contextual infor- mation such as related datasets, project details and author information. It is looking to expand to other funding streams (beyond fp7) and bring in a wider set of publications. All the DRIVER repositories will be assimilated. It will carry out a series of studies, such as data licensing issues and pro- totypes for ‘enhanced publications’. Openaire’s Europe-wide community remains the same and the outreach and open access advocacy of the noads will be extended to cover promotion of good research data man- agement across Europe and beyond. Some of the tasks of noads will be to identify data initiatives in their regions. These could be data repositories, either institutional or subject-specific, with a view to linking research out- puts with the Openaire information space. Another activity will be exam- ining other funding streams in Europe and working with Openaire to identify publications funded outside fp7. Above all, discovery, visibility and reuse of research data will be promoted. Support for open science and the infrastructures that facilitate the reuse and visibility of research output have been made clear at eu policy and funding level. The ec’s next funding programme, Horizon 2020 (2014- 2020) will ensure its commitment to open access, re-use of research out- put, and interoperability between e-infrastructures will be supported4. Openaire will be thus well placed as a future open access publication infrastructure that provides a bridge to rapidly growing data infrastruc- tures. 15 Launch of the OpenAIREplus project
- 22. Methodology Data for this work was gathered through desk research—including de- tailed country reports on open access developments collected by Open- aire5 and related websites and literature—and through documents and presentations provided for Openaire meetings such as the general assem- bly and the launch event held on 1 and 2 December 2010 in Ghent. For spe- cific questions, answers from the noads were directly sought. An update of the data was conducted in June-August 2012. 16 introduction
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- 24. TO HIPPOLYTUS It is too late to part. I dreamed a dream That love had loosed me, that no more your name Should vex my soul, for very pride and shame I hid you out of mind; I said, The stream Has grown too wide between us, it would seem To sunder even memory. Your fame Rang hollow on my ear, and then you came And love laughed for the lie he would redeem. It is too late. Love will not let me go. The bare suns burn me, and the strong winds blow; I take them fearlessly, for I am wise At last; for being yours I must be brave, Tho’ you give nothing, still am I your slave, The light within my heart your eyes, your eyes.
- 25. THE GARDEN HEDGE I live in a beautiful garden, All joyous with fountains and flowers; I reck not of penance or pardon, At ease thro’ the exquisite hours. My blossoms of lilies and pansies, Pale heliotrope, rosemary, rue, All lull me with delicate fancies As shy as the dawn and the dew. But the ghost—Gods—the ghost in the gloaming, How it lures me with whispers and cries, How it speaks of the wind and the roaming, Free, free, ’neath the Romany skies. ’Tis the hedge that is crimson with roses, All wonderfully crimson and gold, And caged in my beautiful closes I know what it is to be old.
- 26. THE SLAVE WOMAN Her eyes are dark with unknown deeps, Old woes and new despair, Her shackled spirit feels the thong That breaks her body bare. The savage master of her days Who mocks her passive pain, How should he know her scorn of him. Indifferent to the stain? For in her heart she sees the glow Of sacrificial fires, A priestess of a mystic rite Performed on nameless pyres. The incident of shame and toil She takes with idle breath, For she remembers Africa, And what to her is death?
- 27. SONG The sky is more blue than the eyes of a boy, A riot of roses entangles the year; Ah, come to me, run to me, fill me with joy, Dear, dear, dear. The air is a passion of perfume and song, The little moon swings up above, look above, I cannot wait longer, I’ve waited so long, Love, love, love.
- 28. SANS-JOY Hide your eyes, Angels, beneath your gold phylacteries, Israfel will charm you with the magic of his song: Yet you will not smile for him, by reason of your memories, For Lucifer is absent, and the cry goes up, How long! For his expiation you would give your dreams and destinies, Paradise is clouded by the measure of your pain; Hide your eyes, Angels, beneath your gold phylacteries, Till the jasper gates swing wide to bring him home again.
- 29. OUT OF THE JUNGLE Out of the jungle he came, he came, Man of the lion’s breed, His heart was fire and his eyes were flame, And he piped on a singing reed. Spring was sweet and keen in his blood, Singing, he sought his mate, The wife for the life and time of his mood, Formed for his needs by fate. Over his reed he piped and sang, His eyes were the eyes of a man, But the jungle knew how his changes rang, For his heart was the heart of Pan.
- 30. IN PORT Wave buffeted and sick with storm, The ships came reeling in, The harbour lights were kind and warm, And yet, so hard to win. Like wings, the tired sails fluttered down, While night began to fall, Then came, sea-scarred, toward the town, The smallest ship of all. At last in harbour, safe and still, No more she need be brave, No more she’d meet the winds’ rough will, The wanton of each wave. The harbour lights! but where the moon Should murmur blessings bright, Clouded instead the dread typhoon, That thundered down the night. What curse the luring harbour bore Of false security; The port held desolation more Than boasted all the sea. When morning came with leering lip, What death lay on her breast, And oh! the little weary ship Was wrecked with all the rest.
- 32. SONNY BOY (A bust by H. F.) Grave as a little god, erect and wise, He dares the years that open to his gaze. Brave in his charming beauty, he portrays A bright eternal youth, and in his eyes Sweet moons that are no more. No sad surprise Has gloomed the gay adventure of his ways, And from the flower-lit meadow of the days He leaps clean-hearted to life’s enterprise.
- 33. SUNRISE There was a cry from the sky, A cry at night; It wakened the breeze in the trees When the moon was white; And I, only I, Adrift on life’s terrible seas, Read the cry aright. Pennants of gold were unrolled, They told of sun; Night’s pain with the dark and the rain, Was over and done. The travail of old Had passed from the mother again, And the fight was won. There was a cry from the sky, And my soul was torn With a passion divine, as of wine, From the breast of morn; For I, only I, Knew the cry as the signal and sign That love was born.
- 34. DEAD LADIES Thais and Lalage, your eyes are closed, Phryne, Aholibah, your lips are dust. Your tinkling feet are idle and composed, All your gold beauty vanished into rust. Nor Dionysian mysteries taught you this, Since the gold serpent was your seal and sign; Tho’ deathless be the imprint of your kiss, The lips that redden are not yours, but mine. How you would scorn us, Lalage, the lure Of your mad moments, us, the motley crew; Yet shall your beauty only so endure Imperishable, that we sing of you.
- 35. WHEN TRISTAN SAILED When Tristan sailed from Ireland Across the summer sea, How young he was, how debonnaire, How glad he was and free. Why should he know the gales would blow, The skies be black above, How should he dream his port was Death, And Doom, whose name is Love? The Lady Iseult, sweet as prayer, We hardly dare to pray, Pearl-pale beneath her shadow hair, Grows fairer day by day, The ichor gains her spring-kissed veins, Her skies the eyes of youth. How should she dream the ichor Love, Was hellebore in truth? So Tristan sailed from Ireland As youth must always sail; He quaffed the cup, nor asked the wine; He dared, nor feared to fail. And be it poison, be it life, Or wrecks that strew the shore, Tristan set forth! nor ask the end, Else youth shall sail no more.
- 36. THE BATTLE Ah, never, never, never! for the flag Is twined about my body, and my back Is braced against the wall! I know the lack Of crust and water, and a man might brag For fighting thus, yet—how a soul may lag, For want of just so little, when the rack Of hopeless strife from dawn to bivouac Finds the foe now who storms the utmost crag. Never surrender! You who storm my heart Till I am faint with love and hunger, all Starved for your lips—how can I say “depart”? And yet—drag up the sword again—and thrust! Ah, Love, mine enemy—I will not fall Until my honour’s flag and I are dust.
- 37. RECOMPENSE Those who ask for a star Often receive but a stone, Yet they asked for a star, Does the high thought not atone? I, who asked but a stone, A plaything of azure or red, May I count it for gain That I won a star instead?
- 38. THE LOTUS EATERS We have no rain, we have no sun, We only watch the moments run Like little adders thro’ the leaves, Lost ere their flitting has begun. The cool light airs that fan our brow, What aromatic sweets they know! The tall tired trees that make our sky Are lapped in spices as they bow. The bright-eyed flowers that form our bed, Like eager jewels, blue and red, Seem brimmed with gay immortal life, Yet we dream on when they are dead.
- 39. LOST APHRODITE The gods upon the hills no more are seen, Couched on the virginal green, No more their cry upon the silence grieves, The shadow of dark leaves. The blazonry of Spring must now abate, Without the purple state Of Aphrodite, amorous and frail, Cinctured with lilies pale. She who was love and every man’s desire, Now only can inspire, The mutual love of mortals, and alone Like wind her plaints are blown. About the unregarding world her hands Yearn forth across the lands Once passionate with her lovers, but in vain, They will not come again! She who was Aphrodite, tho’ she gives Love to each heart that lives, Gives and receives not. She, of love the breath, Doomed now with utter death.
- 40. THE FOOLS On the wrist a paroquet, Motley on the shoulder, We exist for joy of life, Never growing older. Dancing down the lane of years, Rosy garlands trailing, Who would pause for time or tears, Barren days bewailing. Brighter burden never were Than the smiles we scatter, Loving deeds and laughing love, This is our great matter. And the wise who scorn our bells Mate with melancholy, We are wiser than the wise, Holding hands with folly.
- 41. THE AWAKENING Perhaps the world is tired of pageantries, And all the weary women called the Hours, Jaded with jewels, shall exchange for flowers Their badge of pride. In violet harmonies, With sweet blue veils of silence o’er their eyes, They shall return to Spring’s most languorous bowers; And Light and Beauty shall come down as showers Releasing life from all its pedantries. Only the bloomy purple hill to see Thro’ half-closed lids, and only to be blind With asphodils! Shall these things ever be? Surely the time is ripe to live for this Dawn, springing radiant from her sleep to find A world of lovers waiting for her kiss.
- 42. THE DARK WOMAN My dark, wild woman of the braes, I know your heart, I know your ways, I know the raw, sweet food you taste, I love the colours ’round your waist. Ribbons of green and gold you wear, Threaded about your shadowy hair, My colours—and your eyes are mine, Dark as the deeps of love—and wine. I wake with you at budding Dawn, Leaving this life of dew-spread lawn, To join your spirit in the wild, Your brother, lover, or your child. Take me upon your savage breast, Teach me your calms and your unrest. Take me, I know the jungle cry, Teach me your love, or let me die.
- 43. SUMMER SONG My heart’s a yellow butterfly That flutters down the road; A beggar, tricksy, dancing thing That scorns a fixed abode. The aigrette of the thistle bloom Becomes the swinging sign Of merry hostelries, where I May pause awhile and dine. The sky is lapis lazuli Bestrewn by clouds of pearl,— Who would not be a butterfly Instead of just a girl?
- 44. SERAPHIS He tasted dragon’s blood From the dark dragon tree, In those far islands where the mood Is faery-like and free. With cinnamon and nard His strange gay clothes were sweet, His lips were fanciful with fard, Red flames played ’round his feet. Sharp dancing pointed flames, Detached as butterflies, He called them all by secret names, They were his ecstasies. No love, no maiden bright Might woo him from his swoon, For he had tasted strange delight In lands beyond the moon.
- 45. VENGEMENT What was his offense to you, You who sit thro’ dreamless days, Sifting thro’ your fingers slim Ashes in a porphyry vase? Hatred makes your eyes grow hard, As you conjure forth his name From the dust that was his face, From the heart that was his flame. Then she, lifting heavy eyes, Spoke: “When this man walked the world Him I loved, he loved not me; So his days to death I hurled. “Dying, then, he touched my hand, Smiled and whispered, ‘I forgive’; This his vengeance on my soul, I must hate him while I live.”
- 46. AUTUMN LOVE I Once I could love this season of the year, And watch the calm and delicate decline Of Summer gladly; I could see the pine Deep green on bluest sky, and laugh for cheer Of very living. Yet I’d fain appear Th’ unhurried gourmet, tasting of my wine, Lingering o’er memories of the purpled vine, Loath for each passing moment. Ah, my dear, Now like a careless child, I toss the hours Over my shoulder, I forget the sun, The dewy dawn, the white moon and the flowers. Like a tired pilgrim with his goal in view, Looking not right nor left, I run, I run To that bright day of days that brings me you. II I feel as murderers feel, who, having slain Their love, laugh with red hands and do not care. I took sweet Summer by her lovely hair, Bent her white throat, and gladly saw the stain Crimson her green leaf-gown of hill and plain. I would not wait for her last kiss, nor spare One splendid flying hour, for chill and fair Autumn, my love, comes near me thro’ the rain. Pale with mysterious wonder, her deep eyes Are wells of wisdom; fugitive, astray
- 47. From a blue land that dreams beyond the skies. ’Tis done. I lay young Summer on her pyre, And turning, burn thro’ distance to the day That brings me to the lips of my desire.
- 48. THE WITCH Whence came the fire in her eyes, eyes of a beast in the jungle, Desperate, golden and green, wild as a river in spate? Her long lithe limbs were brown, and she took the world as a leopard, Grave, disdainful and strong, takes of his prey without hate. Glamourie slept in her eyes, terribly calm in the tumult, Hidden and secret and sweet was the smile of her crimson mouth. A marigold wound in her hair, she swayed like wind in the desert, Burning and thrilling to thirst the hearts that dream of the South. Whence came the fire in her eyes? I, only I, knew the secret, The thing that hung on her breast, hid by her stormy hair, Amber drops on a string, her talisman, witches’ amber, Golden, yellow and brown, that only a witch may wear.
- 49. THE MAN The flame is spent, I can no more Hold the tall candle by your door. Too often have I watched to see Your lagging steps come home to me. The Tyrian traders taught me this. They came, perfumed with ambergris, With amethystine robes, and hair Curled by the kisses of salt air. They mocked me for my weary hands, Holding your light as love demands, They sang the lure of poppied sleep, Their lips were warm, their eyes were deep. The flame is spent! Your pale weak face Must seek another resting place. Win me, and hold me now who can! The Tyrian trader was a man!
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