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  1. $ PYTHONPATH=src lwrap python3 src/generate_unconditional_samples.py --model_name poetry
  2. WARNING: Logging before flag parsing goes to stderr.
  3. W1016 15:04:40.855283 140736097878912 deprecation_wrapper.py:119] From /Users/bb/ml/shawwn-gpt2/src/model.py:147: The name tf.AUTO_REUSE is deprecated. Please use tf.compat.v1.AUTO_REUSE instead.
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  15. Instructions for updating:
  16. Use `tf.cast` instead.
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  18. Instructions for updating:
  19. Use `tf.random.categorical` instead.
  20. W1016 15:04:44.850311 140736097878912 deprecation_wrapper.py:119] From src/generate_unconditional_samples.py:63: The name tf.train.Saver is deprecated. Please use tf.compat.v1.train.Saver instead.
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  22. W1016 15:04:45.013642 140736097878912 deprecation.py:323] From /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/training/saver.py:1276: checkpoint_exists (from tensorflow.python.training.checkpoint_management) is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
  23. Instructions for updating:
  24. Use standard file APIs to check for files with this prefix.
  25. ======================================== SAMPLE 1 ========================================
  26. the flourish of my bough--
  27. Tho' I know you would look always green--
  28. First swap wher'--of old cots, and a' old crock.
  29. ------------
  30. Come ben your gotons in yon ready-made,
  31. And seek at your lug an' when you are lyin';
  32. A ladle for wark is your bishoplip,
  33. And ane ane for wark is the ivy within,
  34. Just flappin' tiv it, ye'll see wha ye like,
  35. To wauk the next day, both late ane an' early.
  36. ------------
  37. Let not a' things be,Wal, frae me an' thine,
  38. Who're crooked and crooked, I guess, may ride;
  39. Since knaves are crooked, the same it is weel meet--
  40. Who think we are _used_ to be beatified.
  41. ------------
  42. Aifi'rish version of an old yet recent song is found in
  43. Under Rowland's authority, the title of "Hermann and
  44. Sir bask a while a Chief ass,
  45. Mruments suited well,
  46. An' blest a blaze to sing an' see the facts
  47. At the Twist o' acquaintance.
  48. An' be so good on pawpaw now,
  49. In hook or pan,
  50. As ither angler yit o' fav'rite hooks,
  51. Is the best we can.
  52. ------------
  53. When on you and me the ask is heard,
  54. We've a right to friend, clerk, or peasant, we're
  55. Quick as e'er the steps o' the Muse he left
  56. On the loadstone hill--
  57. Thro' the rowdy bush they roamed, and soon
  58. Came the Mole and boulders from Helicon--
  59. 'Twas the manner, though, of these unto me
  60. In the home of mind.
  61. ------------
  62. Says thedigger--"I can guess-whatCapit--"
  63. Says mamma--"aizzle--"what couldn' I do!
  64. I have got to watch--THAT? How d' ye hurry,
  65. That animal which now swims in the sea?--
  66. As I do, dissolute, a short highway
  67. Or two at stretch, will take my instructions
  68. To my uncle Bill--
  69. What next, we'll show him--_The docile man_
  70. Masks in the trench! If ever he find him,
  71. Come set some scores on him to attend him--
  72. As one-leg his kin'gin--which don't mope,
  73. But he can't explain.
  74. ------------
  75. Nor spurs he afterward, 'n he can't stand
  76. While one's the railroad-absorbs him with it,
  77. (His blouse he can't escape 'anse's high land's edge
  78. And haven't got sich fine-made omnisuter)--
  79. As it comes to pass
  80. That elephants by-gone things fall off in the grass,
  81. Such animals, God, are notroth'd to their sin
  82. If You momkey ponds their legs and their back hair in,
  83. From Oshk untied to seriousness they stick,
  84. And, making statement, (not a sermon, they want,)
  85. They will perish of our fault-whether they will.
  86. ------------
  87. O' marrying her--I have liked her so--
  88. (She kissed him once--she ca'd him Hope, and Trust, and Trust!)
  89. That is my secret--head--I wish that you
  90. Would be fern-stitched with her pretty pinky hood--
  91. And all that's in print--(a-holdin' up my lust,
  92. That revolutionary storm, perchance, will part from the dust!)
  93. I'm in some utmost haste--he'p them, youngobby--
  94. And 'pout, beller their pants, and call such music
  95. It taunts him--"_I like your breezes, and no other--
  96. The stuff of your breezes."_ "'I like your limes, son--
  97. You needn't take them _well_, you know my froadoes."
  98. ------------
  99. (Ah yes! 'tis the thing, as white hair, rough and hard,
  100. That's its equivalent in a white hair's colour),
  101. And Berge, the Pierre, that smart-licking Schiller,
  102. And inventor John Sforza,--and the prophet
  103. Whose heart and brains true topsy turquoise,
  104. Are captured now!--
  105. You say 'they mentioned one of the misses
  106. In better times! but few, you see, wereIndia
  107. With all the monkish, boorish smoky
  108. Getations from Camelot. She says--
  109. 'Are you?'--that habitually grows thick
  110. With clovers and careering bees, Divinely
  111. Thinking the opposition is divinely;
  112. But yet--
  113. ======================================== SAMPLE 2 ========================================
  114. ι.
  115. hra, the Philosophical Society in London receive
  116. Mistance ofandra, the Russell, and Greek],
  117. which was the scene of that meeting upon montain, the
  118. Meese, and by other treats deeply quoted,
  119. ------------
  120. interfere, probably in the early part of the play,
  121. and as the waiterpillars throweast and west that the
  122. figure of the figure, or rather a stave of blue in the
  123. scream; then simply require some explanation.]
  124. You are but, again, current appendages, the horse of the
  125. horse of the Duke of Glocester was wonted to start from
  126. the quick, as Hafiz, for one of his hack-hounds, all know him.]
  127. ------------
  128. We often think that, although many of the people of the
  129. day had drunk of it before, they would soon put an hour
  130. of baseness in the water, which we also have not yet
  131. reach'd.]
  132. ------------
  133. intended to call them the 'poet'odes of the 'genius', where
  134. Jalet, and Ovid, Mathrana, Andern, versgraver, and
  135. Shahite, and Hales, and Shakespeare; is all there is to
  136. be noticed. The pillow is nauseated of all monstrously
  137. furnishing slaughtered birds which devour life's matchless songs
  138. which fly at eternal light, to the falling of the light
  139. star, where Crabtree constellation closes its horns like a
  140. circle in the heavens, its heavy-sown orbit like a sphere of
  141. lofty planets, which descends down in its own furthest yellow
  142. combed through a mist. Theshared family sits on the car of
  143. would say that he shared a midnight life his whole day. A
  144. though along with him in a later on, yet, and only with his
  145. husbands, he must be kept strictly through his master till
  146. their lord's voice and their acts proclaim his faults.
  147. ------------
  148. disease, which during the next year was under the sun made the
  149. acquainted with the magi of heaven. Otto of Chester in its
  150. furniture at the building of the Chapel, where his prope unlearned
  151. thoughts were more carefully put in his sheets, and he found to
  152. figure a figure for the corpse, formerly carver, which drew great
  153. blows, with the witness of his enduring fame as he had uncleated
  154. all his noble life in mutual accusation. While the regeneration
  155. and regrets, to be scarred with their high epitaph, turned my
  156. sorrow into mourning, and set forth to weep as they were
  157. innocent, and mustard the Holy Bible, with positively black
  158. tenants for the death of the Prophets. They would have had
  159. lifting up the vulgar actors in perfect divisions, but they
  160. all the wicked Christians had taken up, and hauled them all to such
  161. spirits as it was natural to laugh, look, and woo,
  162. as we have seen, on occasion, if not of frankerity; but in
  163. singing some blind old gazerk, he would have judged a very
  164. poet. Ourellery he did not know for mere being this sacrifice
  165. ------------
  166. the press and excellent pen. Dover quietly and in silence
  167. in the Cursed Pots, which divides them from mankind in its
  168. subdivination of Morona, and, even though the bidder were yet
  169. fair, they could not get him leaving them to purchase what was.
  170. ------------
  171. _Anstius (a poem) a man Phineus who was Marcus Claudius_
  172. ------------
  173. DIANA, _a Berkper_; Cæsar, recognizing corner
  174. ------------
  175. FUDadium Tirabata. Naiad osiers
  176. Florentine intro.
  177. Nempe Fraticelli. Virg. _Carthus_. Deeds of the lawyer!
  178. zar of Nero. Messullus, the dead, perhaps, have relinquished their
  179. Italian rank, but death, not terror, breaks neither off the
  180. zac and the Roman Empedocles. When Latin and Latin both had
  181. been settled, the recital was written only in ahexameters, not
  182. perfect either for the rhyme on a broken line, or in a painted direction.
  183. The antagonists ofttimes took the _ mushamum_ and caprised
  184. quote out the most ancient Latin and mahogany of our
  185. English epaulettes on the Natrine massacre and their engine of the
  186. other. After the death of Sabellius the Roman poets were paid
  187. by Roman critics of due heroic and less modern studies
  188. of Besides worth than poetical license, and hence the present
  189. ------------
  190. But old Phæstus nourishes old age and give the other scope for
  191. still, the living were much improved, while virgins,
  192. year by year, would have all
  193. ======================================== SAMPLE 3 ========================================
  194.  
  195. comet's thought in women's faces.
  196. ------------
  197. Poor fool, he lies on some hard-fisted plan
  198. That steadily explores and mocks at Fate,
  199. Observing still how slow and tempest-beaten _man_
  200. Recoils upon his paunch the farthest rates;
  201. Desiring suns and moons rein-ready.
  202. ------------
  203. Whilst he the genial sunshine holds so fast
  204. Where the wind turns the salt snood salutes;
  205. He shames a vast rug's frozen breast.
  206. And hey ye, for your time of winter charge,
  207. Souls wandering to and fro with altering hearts,
  208. Who know you lave life in a little lightsome cask,
  209. Lord, fill thebowls with wine.
  210. ------------
  211. He is dead, but keeps man snugly there;
  212. His horns are clear and his sleep is sweet.
  213. His bright appreciation of good and ill
  214. pictured in countless pictures,
  215. He holds aloft, with eurocine to probing, still,
  216. The "tears he sheds" and the "heart that beats its beats
  217. Is satisfied that other men's atones!
  218. But o'er each head the moonlight gleams and glows
  219. As without frost or change of earth.
  220. ------------
  221. Ev'ry fibre matters,
  222. And some reflection:
  223. Atjun and hiberar! You majestic,
  224. Curious revolving revolution!
  225. You upheld the world from hold of time,
  226. Whilst the stormy salt-sea's billows ocean
  227. Heaving gently beneath your vast volcano,
  228. Ashes to the feet of the barbarian scion.
  229. To create a final principle unending
  230. And create too sure--for, Noah and that Noah--
  231. Fore-fathers of the fiery and the boiling--
  232. Fore-fathers of both nations,
  233. Fore-fathers of all nations,
  234. Fore-fathers of all nations,
  235. Fore-fathers of all nations,
  236. Fore-fathers of all nations,
  237. Fore-fathers of all nations,
  238. Fore-fathers of all nations,
  239. Fore-fathers of all nations,
  240. Fore-fathers of all nations!
  241. ------------
  242. Before you a strong plain opens,
  243. And borders it round and round.
  244. One street as the dove-frequented streets,
  245. And the battle-glints flicker and glance,
  246. Blent with the thrilling turmoil
  247. As you go through a study discourse,
  248. And with a distant whisper--
  249. ------------
  250. Wandering, wandering from room to room,
  251. Unheeding, and watching your brows,
  252. And feeling your meshes like lamps in a room.
  253. ------------
  254. Even so, forever! This room is an immense house.
  255. coping ascending from stair to stair,
  256. Clad you in woolen garments,
  257. Blossom and almond and bloom,
  258. Through the ancestral darkness
  259. Running light-hearted through itself,
  260. Threshold forever.... There you stand;
  261. The mantled mountains of rock and tree,
  262. The sea and the shore of mountains in appeal.
  263. ------------
  264. Then will you fall, fall into your rest,
  265. Falling into the idle dust,
  266. Noiseless and white, noiseless as the chaff
  267. That your womb reaps in its husk....
  268. They will point at you, plough them,
  269. Roughly, and drive you again....
  270. ------------
  271. Know we aught of loneliness in the eventide,
  272. Hard to the card coach or the draft.
  273. NothingElsewhere is or shall befall us,
  274. Deprive or flay us: this great street of yours
  275. Journeying, blighted into vermin-trees,
  276. Opens, and lies weariness
  277. And the wild war-drums on your breasts (rended in part).
  278. ------------
  279. So in advance of death of noiseless processions--
  280. Erect and sepultured, wild generation,
  281. You shall enter, focus, and grow older,
  282. To thrust this stage into the sea.
  283. I saw my Lady admiration, in
  284. A sea-blue day's superb excess
  285. Prattle: I saw Her from her play, her face,
  286. Though sometimes hurried with a smile,
  287. Look of her in the eyes of vivid youth;
  288. And in the liberal sovereign grace
  289. Of common things she worked,
  290. The lilac brigantines stole or wept them forth,
  291. And brought all painting into some immortal breast.
  292. ------------
  293. O heroes,always at war with souls,
  294. Shout on your spilled America,
  295. Urge on the triumph of their dooms,
  296. Vouchsafe when other mouths are breath
  297. To that unpolluted wickedness of death,
  298. That, killing the more souls and suffering time,
  299. Ye shall say: Lo, ages past
  300. When unleashed Europe leaped to pieces all,
  301. Like an all-finished fleets, borne to the sands
  302. Never so heavy nor so fair adrift
  303. As
  304. ======================================== SAMPLE 4 ========================================
  305. , and vainly, where he sat he guided
  306. Juan with Validean motion, but he first thought to give
  307. Pride, and the meaning of what he had done is well, for, after
  308. the attack, men would say that it was embarrassed him. At one
  309. figure scored he set up an axe for exultation of mass, and
  310. thundered in triumphal variety, as the result of opinion and
  311. information that was apparent to the village. Moreover, he whittled
  312. praised the dog as a dog not of the gentleman at first, but of
  313. his master compelled his noble master to appear. With "So
  314. ------------
  315. Lend me this! to give you something, and let me know!
  316. I shall now call you Martha, and bring in a word from her;
  317. then I devote her into order. I know where I am, she should
  318. ------------
  319. But now no more of this. Nothing further. And the ghost of
  320. death has now shouldered in cupboard and in deer-skin the body
  321. of Oberon. See also how he takes his seat in the cart.
  322. ------------
  323. He awakened the talk of the crowd riding home right gladly
  324. up and down his steps; after which he crossed the sea to the
  325. sea.
  326. ------------
  327. Swiftly he climbed up the river and was swallowed in the current
  328. of the sea, stopping to take his journey, then he got in a
  329. hurry to the sea and said to his boatman that he was on the
  330. bay.
  331. ------------
  332. They led him to his castle upon the morn of his life, where
  333. to lie down at night in the customary haven, after which he
  334. went on his way and accompanied him, when he reached the
  335. city of Queen Philistratus. By and by the Lady took him
  336. bitterly on board her--for the first time that he came to live
  337. with his herds and his flocks. When they had now won the
  338. reader's heart with pleasant knolas, and joined him with the
  339. ------------
  340. In ten days, after three days' fasting, on a fine October
  341. morning, which the new herdsman wore before him, he went to his
  342. What manner of life came of it then, and what deaths befell it,
  343. as it doth live from my breaking to this day?
  344. At the next month's end before the feast of Stephen and the paladins,
  345. then was food and drink to herarers; to assure him saved himself
  346. from the Cooking of his progenitor, but at that time he
  347. presently said to her, Hence, as hitherto I have been patient, you
  348. exports.
  349. ------------
  350. Sure your judgement at once was so bad--how can I have known it?
  351. Now, for my part, I answer you, say whatever you will, and possibly
  352. I proceed further on, and will not hide aught; but swear, I tell
  353. while I have cause to swear this-- amend everything from the beginning.
  354. At an earlier hour this year one of my century two and fifty
  355. hundred kind of shot had come forth from Paris with only disks
  356. of bullets reaching home, but had raised up the order of their
  357. ------------
  358. Those whom Charles waged were sober and certain of aim to defend
  359. their lives, for Holmes received them in the hands of Cleobulus
  360. Augustus Cinyras was rich in interest. Among his relatives,
  361. and their progeny was more than two hundred and brilliant,000 knights were
  362. inhabitants of Stranger settlements, but were able to advise against
  363. some against Grolyssian relatives, for the purpose of the matter
  364. of perilous expedition. Chieftains of Bruntia, the exception of
  365. detached stations, wereready assembled at Skanderfertz, and Leins's
  366. ------------
  367. The next thirty miles to this began with a strong run of eight
  368. ouple and twain, rolling like Banquo wind over the river.
  369. Many a man, ye see,rather exhausted the other. Meantime
  370. along by a fair company. The number of rounds as the horses were
  371. fire that he had at for others in the lumber of Thebes, goddess
  372. and horse. And in another place, taking names of foreigners, he
  373. seemed to be making them, while others were eating up his arrows, or
  374. in his contemplation, meditating comfort and help for their own
  375. feasts. Before the revolution ofseason by the calendar of
  376. orientation, the days of Hephaestus end. Among the Greeks named
  377. small by the name of Macistes is Colneus, a man chiefly, who is for
  378. campaigns on the town of the tenth generation, and mistress of thirty
  379. in each, for the latter he has fewereating and straining.
  380. Papyrus too was a peer of the gods,
  381. ======================================== SAMPLE 5 ========================================
  382. time.”
  383. ------------
  384. “More I'll not phase you in widow’d prise,
  385. For with my rolling eyes you gaze
  386. Beyond that arm, where vain I try,
  387. Where prickly masses shoot, and fly,
  388. Where’er one makes you bodder cry.”
  389. ------------
  390. Unknown, disheartened, unoffendowed
  391. Nature’shuge power, could not conceive,
  392. Which would fall full of years so low,
  393. And with its Babel deal and grow.
  394. She bade the dockyards spurn the lea,
  395. The pansied, Ibla, and eglantine;
  396. She pluck’d all appareles to her thatch,
  397. The yearling with his studious silver:
  398. The stars alone lent light to her,
  399. To vanquish bad or good commotion.
  400. “No more will set upon yourself despair,
  401. Or send you beauty’s dream upbraid;
  402. But who shall know the soul that’s born in air,
  403. As foss-born sailor down the tide
  404. Of a rough ocean pines by tide!
  405. ------------
  406. “Still may the printer, reeking ink—
  407. Closed in his pantry—pleod his scrip
  408. Where lodkeys hoist the clinking post—
  409. One of those Anachron thieves.”
  410. ------------
  411. Then smiling OMAN saw his shaving goal.
  412. How the two poets parted young ELUCAN!
  413. The narrative was told the week before;
  414. The book for three months past; the fourth still not.
  415. And then that sadder and strange affair.
  416. ------------
  417. When either poet had a common pen,
  418. It just appeared that verse should be the same;
  419. And several stanzas were in full to term
  420. “A silent, at this moment, melody”
  421. It was not becoming that his Summer's heat
  422. Existed with the liquid interspace.
  423. So lofty his original; for all
  424. That lay within him, or Diana’s Hall,
  425. Alas! it was the only thing he Burns
  426. Whispered that one was surely one or two;
  427. He wrote straight down the others, and ere long
  428. The workman from his furnace brought the fire;
  429. “ uber he loved if Party did the same,
  430. “ thwack his poet too much if not his flame:
  431. “If Trist his name, which he so well describes,
  432. “And would so call his glory, that at last
  433. For one expert, sad Superstition he
  434. At hispriced voice foretold his Callanthe,
  435. “The mighty call o’er all the wide world rang,
  436. And none could doubt the blessing this most blessed be,
  437. While Galen and Apollo wed the King.
  438. It was Ben Jonson’s phrase and not his boast,
  439. He chiefly held that natures looks and coons;
  440. But his invention was approved quite well,
  441. Until the summons came the ancient Hebes,
  442. And genius found that nature’s works were such
  443. That Freeland took it ill to make him stoop.
  444. So a mere Breit he fawned on unaware,
  445. And all which critics and the critic wear;
  446. Catiline and Goose and the Goose were stars
  447. In saving their own heads but little ken
  448. What language for a man such children means
  449. And a small town of yours with its immense domains;
  450. That his mind never reached the earth that rolls,
  451. And on that was a name known living place,
  452. Would therefore not be worth a moment’s space,
  453. And to speak science was too small a thing
  454. To answer or to parry the wing.
  455. Old Adam Brown, a lapwing cobbler’s son,
  456. Was a most bushel good at his employ;
  457. He rent no silkworms down, but got a broom
  458. And he loved to to his very life a shilling:
  459. He paddled along with his sheep, but he
  460. Was a boy what now we call Canadian tea.
  461. Indeed, his brain was proud, his frame was proud;
  462. ’Twas the only birds with learning laden,
  463. To swear by a flag without a star,
  464. By grass and cobwebs himself said nay,
  465. In a manner too his talkative insight
  466. Did his unlearned eyes ever turn awry;
  467. His blue-eyed ladies sate by on their shelves,
  468. When he fell into the Thames all silent,
  469. He roused no thought, he neither spoke nor rous'd,
  470. I wonder in what manner people talk,
  471. Their minds, or souls, or bodies, would attack
  472. Some secret cause, more rickety far than cash.
  473. It was a comical imagination,
  474. A more usual concern was _adme_ for sale.
  475. Of this or so a kind
  476. ======================================== SAMPLE 6 ========================================
  477.  
  478. Seal me to the core
  479. Of gods no more.
  480. ------------
  481. Across the stubble and the meadow-wall
  482. That skirts the river-let that skirts your stream
  483. For rising yet,
  484. The troubling note of living silence rings,
  485. And from the cot the heavy weeds I read
  486. To captivate a nation from its birth;
  487. But edged by all men's rights, the shame and sorrow--
  488. Alike a groan, in which all nations mourn--
  489. The stony grief and woe-- heading the way
  490. To the rough world's estrangement by the sorrow.
  491. ------------
  492. The wheels of fate
  493. Roll backward in the verge of life's events;
  494. The seat resigned of a weight so great,
  495. When the sad swallowing of the Future grips
  496. An indivisible and ending fate.
  497. Now, where you stand beneath a grassy mound
  498. Stand, overgrown with forest flowers of all
  499. That leaf can bend, down-climbing to the brink,
  500. To plunge the flood-gates of destruction in,
  501. Underfare a world that owns no law,
  502. Meet in a fugitive and prosperous birth;
  503. Far scattered, in a vaster deep immersed,
  504. Unresting, to the very depths forlorn,
  505. Clothed in a garment eider- Prometheus torn
  506. Of body and soul and shoulder; bowed and bowed
  507. In vain, nor touch his reeling throne inlaid
  508. With death around him. On him kingdoms frown
  509. And fertile facing!--fame the eagle flings
  510. With death, at judgment in that hour of need;
  511. And far in turbid bays the sunset gleams--
  512. The lightning and the thunder where it whirls
  513. Its weightless plumes, and yet whose far loud call
  514. Makes reverent pause, ye mailed men of war.
  515. ------------
  516. "He waits you, then ... we must not wait for _him_,--
  517. Would we had still not loved him without end;
  518. It is not possible, he guides us on;
  519. The Heavenly Bequest gives us the short hour
  520. More wings than faltering breath could send or lend."
  521. ------------
  522. That earnest smile had power and will to fall
  523. From the full moon,--as if it had not swerved
  524. In a moment's pause, when all life's flowers be
  525. Nipped to the last star-gossamer at call.
  526. Swift he made pause, in that great victory
  527. Where some new wonder lightened the obscure
  528. But twelve sad days that used to light the sod.
  529. Once more the gold of warranty burned
  530. In the blue sky; the front of the array
  531. Grew deadly white; in the still fervour flamed
  532. Laughter and blood; there smote the trenchant blade
  533. And lifeless spear; at last on the strong point
  534. Struck back the gleaming blade of miracle.
  535. ------------
  536. Here one fierce conflict seized on mortal arm.
  537. Here one fierce word set woman's pulses bound.
  538. Women, for one sole moment of man's life,
  539. Mingled with conquest, in the crash of war
  540. No more screen from the arrowy torrent's roar,
  541. Nor from the sloping pine shut leafless out
  542. The pitiless brood:--again on the brow,
  543. When the last skies on earth put on the sheaf
  544. Of idle spoil, blazed the Olympian will,
  545. And voices rose along the listening guard.
  546. ------------
  547. The lessening point of it was not to have
  548. Bear witness (so it whispered) that a creed
  549. ------------
  550. Nowise could type it any hour from the mind
  551. Of a slayer the lesser score runs to unhear
  552. The age-long years of war in the defiled.
  553. forgot the gods; if vexed with fears,
  554. The god hath palsied this imperial bird,
  555. The livid legend of his only son,
  556. Who hath not heart, nor glory in his heart,
  557. Divine-embracing. Suddenly White Moon
  558. Came through the drifting smoke to greet the dawn
  559. Of triumph, and to temples lit with steel
  560. The Temple of the God, where holy zeal
  561. Above the thunder of the Chaos fell;
  562. From golden East and snows of sullen North
  563. Fled like a wind, the sky at random torn,
  564. And fain he wist not what the day-god was;
  565. But, gliding past, the Sea that toppling came
  566. Ere man could say, 'This world is our today;'
  567. Dawned upon sunset, and the purple grip
  568. Of all the trees with tossing water-trees;
  569. Not even the eagle bent so low before
  570. The altar-lights that show man's purposes
  571. And color's wont to lead him through the day.
  572. Ah the anguish of it that the gods have sent!
  573. Men saw it through the boltings of a cloud,
  574. That darkly beat against the stubborn heart
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  576. ,
  577. Mysterious Pedant, yonder be the fight;
  578. What were the bravest and the last, iffriends,
  579. By flight prepared, or by disgrace untaught
  580. To wound the noblest breast, or slack one's tongue?
  581. Soon as our truce appears, I then decide;
  582. The foes are scattered, but the war gleams forth.
  583. Yet these, yourselves'd, are brothers who, august,
  584. Would say, by virtue of the godhead joined.
  585. This day, Troy's proud Bellona shall pay due
  586. To Folio's troops, and join them there in arms.
  587. Here, therefore, let us two admit our aid,
  588. And hero-like encounter fierce assault."
  589. Fear and illusion spread his wings already
  590. O'er all the Trojans; they, with ease, stood off
  591. Their arms, and unguents, in their bucklers strong;
  592. And well-greav'd Grecians, lances, lances, darts,
  593. Battle or death despising, to their feet
  594. Recounting, and the multitude in heart,
  595. So well their mutual end the Dardan pierced.
  596. Vain hope! if we should meet, on the wide main,
  597. irresistible despair;
  598. Nor may we part till sad necessity
  599. Befit the flight of fear; but, as I judge,
  600. If Trojan else remain, then we may feel
  601. For ever and lamented Troy in fire,
  602. Nor lose the memory of this pursuit;
  603. But when Antilochus with all his fleet
  604. Shall to o'erthrow, and of that evil fame
  605. Which in the long-wind'd summer-season, rage
  606. The winter,--’mid their sable tents, approach
  607. (’Tis clear that ten, and twenty, had a name
  608. ’Mous’d seven times by a name ’mong goddesses,)
  609. The Trojan, so by woes urged, of the womb
  610. Aided not; they fury thought to find
  611. The sturdy armies, and their front to earth
  612. In cloth of gold, upheld the stubborn fight;
  613. And copious gifts (from Hector) thus resound.
  614. Ye sons of bold Pelasgus! of some stock
  615. (Not Danymedes match'd with him in arms)
  616. Yet wast thou not inglorious to disperse
  617. Our shining buckler, nor was Telamon
  618. (Such was our youth, all in one night, to deeds
  619. Heroic hurl’d) himself in furious fight.
  620. Now council summon’d, we dispense alone
  621. Of the arrived Ægisthus; first to wit
  622. And advice flows Troy. Whoe’er thy peril was
  623. Born to contend for this insulting host,
  624. ’Tis come; their strength no more shall render fail;
  625. And, equal-mastered in the race, thine aim
  626. Shall assoil the nations to thy fate!
  627. We, arm’d with bows, and thund’ring arrows, we
  628. Thy place possess; apportion to the spear."
  629. Thus charged the dauntless hero; Chromius turns
  630. His friend to flight, and through the files succeeds
  631. A brave and gallant host. Doubt succeeds;
  632. The courage of the Grecians numbers claim’d
  633. Their utmost might; they, undismay’d, retire,
  634. Allow’d the hindmost, most their friend and fame
  635. To win, their safety, and the prelude found.
  636. Then Dolon thus: "Stern power! who warms the most,
  637. Prison our numbers down; so many slain,
  638. Ill-fated Greeks! These numbers, charged with odds,
  639. Are zeal’d for slaughter, and to Hector yield.
  640. To whom the monarch of the fields, replied:
  641. Let each man aim to wound the sacred wall
  642. Or slaughter Ajax, or despoil the dead:
  643. But Jove the spirit of all-seeing Jove
  644. In Ilium own’d the courage and the rage:
  645. Let each resist, nor reach the other’s wall.
  646. But bid the hindmost, whom he summons up,
  647. Incite him, if he may, to bear away
  648. His weapon or his lance, and at one blow
  649. Add this, or that, or something yet bestowed,
  650. If to escape, adoring to his sire."
  651. ------------
  652. Thus spoke the chief. The very assent
  653. Deep weigh’d the matter on his haughty soul,
  654. Who, deaf to his command, his speech refus’d;
  655. He gnash’d his teeth, and thus he speaks in turn:
  656. "Too vent’st thou, friend! thy swelling grief restrain,
  657. And leave the prey, Virginiaathed in arms,
  658. To toil in vain, and
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  660. your kings[O] ostensibly to pray:
  661. T� be more plucked as fate inspires,
  662. But shall some victim victim feed unfeign'd atones,
  663. Or raise his tearful cheeks together with their joys:
  664. Let this be found in contemplation to her mind,
  665. Nor all the main,
  666. To whom so quaintly thou art friendship's glory--prithee tell.
  667. Tell me, my love, wouldst thou an escort have,
  668. To meet one beauteous blisse apart, apart?--
  669. Let from the world's extent that we have cares,
  670. But one heart strong, and take another for our own:
  671. In thee if nought are left which will be ours,
  672. Our hearts, soon parted, will be never on the wing:
  673. So may our footsteps see not weary days,
  674. 'Till the last echo of thy heart be gone--
  675. May Eve, and we together ne'er beheld
  676. Partome thy farewell dance, nor once beheld
  677. Thy form return along the fluid floor,
  678. As when we went beneath the somber skies.
  679. We'll make a wow for thy dear mother dead:
  680. She will not, will not, will not let me go;
  681. And when I join with thee, then God forbid
  682. To further us two wandering ones, my dear!
  683. The web of grief that time may not undo,
  684. Flutt'ring new joys, new sorrows knit in twine:
  685. Thou wilt not, will not, will not let me go;
  686. But, join'd with one now with another's air,
  687. Patient perhaps, and prattling of its woes,
  688. A fresh young heart rejoiced my bosom's share,
  689. But when, my madam, I had torn thy love,
  690. And fix'd thy peace, and sin'd within thy breast,
  691. Fondly I'd clasp thee to my heart again,
  692. In all but love, then should it cease to pain:
  693. No, never shall it then come into play,
  694. To dispute our love, to war and to devour,
  695. To tread the paths that were so dear to thee,
  696. Nor simply up to re-won victory:
  697. The widow, and the orphan wage their strife
  698. In blood and fruitless tears, and drive for food;
  699. Without them bleeds a mother for her life,
  700. Upon her sons they take the glorious food,
  701. They are the toys of all the worlds our life,
  702. And which, as life, seem'd worthier to look on;
  703. And thus when somewhat short their sympathy,
  704. They little think what others did, than they
  705. Who open not their hearts to seraphs dear,
  706. And earth's plain breast less joyfully should bear;
  707. Who leave rich fruits when call'd on to unfold
  708. Without their coin, to pamper in the gold.
  709. Thus when Saturnia spoke my soul was quite
  710. Devoted to her prayer, and scarce could bend
  711. The smiling head of Demos, from the sight
  712. Took ye this view the sweetness of the spring,
  713. Nor could, nor could I, cannot enter or unite:
  714. And not that she could beautify the Throng,
  715. Or grace the silken lyre with more ethereal
  716. Than her own branches of the laurel-tree.
  717. O! the deep heart, the soul itself shall feel,
  718. And he shall learn that liberty is Greece,
  719. Accusing of its patron-saint amiss.
  720. ------------
  721. How easy 't is to doubt where every means are tried
  722. By charges like the most recorded accident,
  723. All cases often own weak hands are tamed:
  724. Their images you'll find arerists, of men they're used.
  725. O! by all Thraldom wielded, 'tis the greatest woe,
  726. Who for dull pleasure, gain or loss admits no end,
  727. While some remunerating fool thinks short to crown
  728. His own prime ignorance, my lord, of mankind's friend,
  729. Or wishes truth, not worth, to make more friends than one;
  730. By Hannibal, the mighty coffee-wool of Rome,
  731. Which thus he builds for greater sweating than his own.
  732. But such the say--his life 'tis pressing to his end;
  733. How quick the stage runs to her theatre or stage,
  734. Most lewd he hates to lack one true-true applause:
  735. Besides, refer himself aside to his own age,
  736. Till he ten thousand flung away for years,
  737. Dull as old Dusanos, to his vices urged;
  738. His works a load of thought and noble deeds infect;
  739. His throne a shameful waste, his pension void of wealth;
  740. His most obedient slaves with foolish triumph thrust,
  741. Assumed by all perjur'd wits, that force not shoveller:
  742. Yet such as doth Rebellion itself make.
  743. Then first these mould'ries after oneness grow,
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  745. Fitzperare; truly, we often tried
  746. To hang a sailor on his longer stays,
  747. And view his boat at sea; since then indeed,
  748. Since morning broke, to find a narrow pebble dry,
  749. And fail to turn the paint be there no more,
  750. So to lay out to build a boat, and in,
  751. ------------
  752. That service I should fear, and leave in haste,
  753. Than to make this fantastic crime reveal
  754. And choose the trick if in my work I did
  755. Aught to conceal, in presence of all time
  756. We enter on life's stream. I tell you truth,
  757. And have been very jealous to you all,
  758. Though I felt devilish, and could, even swear,
  759. As you felt Lion's heart through lungs and hair,
  760. Haply, if in my house, and could, I'd fly
  761. To reach you there.' Then Lancelot to avenge
  762. The shoot of Diocle, nor to move him back
  763. Was slow, nor causeless nor so very slow;
  764. ------------
  765. And full, in full assurance of the proof
  766. (The accusation cannot clear it in),
  767. A battle raging loud, if any sight
  768. Of human kind out of our eyes should see,
  769. As Beatrice saw, through agony,
  770. An old man founding towers in France,
  771. And setting on a field his keening eye.
  772. ------------
  773. 'Remember, first' cried Arthur, 'well I can--
  774. Then Arthur made a halt and gazed about.
  775. He must have seen himself--was I to strike?--
  776. Or one fantastic engine working round
  777. Wasting the nursery, or was it a rune
  778. Brooding its rage upon the citadel
  779. All over, that blew out the fire to flame,
  780. Each vest and couch illumined and alive?...
  781. ------------
  782. 'O, Lancelot du Lake,' the man pursued
  783. Wonderfully, 'what call of man and beast
  784. Do mortals make of?' and he thought the shape
  785. Where sculptured like a rising hand of God
  786. On earthly faces and on holy hearts,
  787. The name of knighthood in the voice and face
  788. Of him in whom Geraint and Leto first,
  789. And after, Merlin's friend and battle-rout--
  790. Though I how humibly he yet might tell
  791. Of other hints--were all eludes of those
  792. Delights, the remnant and the prodigal;
  793. The teacher as he carved her by the hand
  794. With absent letters, and the younker's wail
  795. Sent up by hands unseen from out his heart,
  796. Had thought of all the shining straw that drew
  797. Lyonilius to the exorcist that laid
  798. Scatheless about him. 'Go,' he said; 'go there.'
  799. The shadows cried, 'Go'--and the light of day
  800. When the faint colours like obscured light moved slow
  801. Into the purple in the darkening east,
  802. And issuing unseen in cloudy folds,
  803. Revealed the knights and ladies stared in love
  804. Beneath the winking moon, no more he knew
  805. The dreams that thronged his brain. For on a day,
  806. Suddenly, all along the silent west,
  807. He saw the tinkle of the path below;
  808. And from within (those memories without name)
  809. Sprang with the winds a great sound as of a clap
  810. Through the pine forests, piercing his new heart
  811. Till both the shadowy summits burst and fade
  812. In mists of rosy glory round it--such,
  813. Such cowering shadows, Vivien, shield and sword
  814. From the imprisoned as it was of eggs,
  815. Whereby he stoops and crosses till he dies.
  816. ------------
  817. She saw the rest of the terrestrial flowers
  818. Lying beneath the withered sprays and treen-saved grass.
  819. And all about her was the faint free air
  820. Sighing to one another or to many voices.
  821. And Vivien, moving, gazed with half-closed eyes,
  822. And saw those two--who would not one path see
  823. Half past or future--women, maids and men,
  824. The late lords and the prince, the king, the prince--
  825. Shining in lighter loveliness of joy
  826. Above the three. 'Twixt them it seemed a sight
  827. As when a bird obeys or flits and flies
  828. From leaf, with dawn, and flies--and melts away;
  829. And suddenly the place was suddenly
  830. Transfigured with a softened majesty.
  831. ------------
  832. And in the stillness of the strange, calm night,
  833. When mortals gaze on spectres of the dead
  834. And lonely figures haunted in the glass,
  835. And by some unseen hand are overthrown
  836. The thought of one they worshipped, yet no less
  837. Wreck of a shadow; there was one whom past
  838. Pre-Fulcims in enchanted turrets of the tower
  839. Could light but cannot dim: like one
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  841. patient.
  842. ------------
  843. He is musing on many meadows whereon, neck and foot,
  844. A wild-thrush uttering sweet, "And to thee, sweet maiden, soon,
  845. ------------
  846. Now wot ye the wight can make life of fallow-flower?
  847. Moreover loose mercy within unseen fingers?
  848. Or leavened me lately each morn, and be healed of my pain?
  849. Or is my hold of a fast-swellingfeathered strain?
  850. Or dost thou w'ave baccy of joy as I swim in with thee?
  851. Or is my fettered brine 'gainst a doublet yet wrecked
  852. From a hand as thy mother did once a-glow,
  853. Or beholding the surge as it gushed and the tear
  854. Shuddered as the wind gan fall above thee?
  855. I view thee close, yet abides it
  856. By lions, as well as hiss breeding thee.
  857. ------------
  858. Say art thou dark? are there none to tell eyes, youth?
  859. Or doth earth, heaven, or other spring might with thee dew?
  860. List to Lady Minot' bid ever a tramp?
  861. Answer, O thou dread Gabriel, and be not still.
  862. For love marred is the root and the branch of the tree
  863. Is thine, and not soon a leaf on the bough to be spying,
  864. But ever, in lips when the world is a-teasing,
  865. Grows mayower like to mankindlings, nay all;
  866. But nothing ever was ever so mean or so wicked
  867. ------------
  868. "Because thy will implies for any one of me,
  869. I do at all times to serve thee everywhere
  870. So that thine equal footsteps shall not be slack
  871. In venturing, nor broad shall be their snares for thee;
  872. But as a fir and pine in sapling boughs shalt be,
  873. So will I part for thee from thy flame-chariot
  874. And day will follow day; but now shalt thou fight
  875. With spear resolve: yea, smoother and dearlier fight
  876. As man by man will pine for thee. I will make thee
  877. Ready in love. If other gods might take thee
  878. And give thee back, the eagle would not miss;
  879. But if another than before bade in slow wise
  880. If--whom women aldermen do praise for their love!--
  881. I never knew thee fair, nor saw thee arm
  882. Encountering me, though I had heard thy name
  883. Through all my lonesome days; but this I say
  884. As soon as we anticipate thee; 'tis well
  885. A lover may entice him with more riches
  886. Than e'er his lady-love gave long ago;
  887. Enough is given to hold up the state
  888. By marriage bound, to keep a free estate,
  889. To equip and elevated men, firm law,
  890. And sweet austerity--now further wed,
  891. Feelrynge the rank blood flush through many a wound,
  892. Hear how befell me that I was not born
  893. To shed for him redemption, that is close
  894. To hell! Though mad all rages, to2 _must_ I say,
  895. For lordly sake maist mercy when king Be counselled."
  896. ------------
  897. Lord Beuno, certainly for the love-giver
  898. Of such poor women as his love wide granted,
  899. Yea, let not souls that were but heirs of fire,
  900. Not gems, turn now and come unto the ills of life,
  901. Have Leto's substance, or there's not a stone
  902. And ten of them so safely decked or brought
  903. That shall dip down earth's kingdoms and name Fates
  904. For him who needs all fire, as seems, the weight.
  905. ------------
  906. Knight never in the lonestday of her lair,
  907. Knived Valhal, or Troy's sovereign in his time,
  908. Or mounting rode till he was laid within,
  909. Or what king's death was who then waited here;
  910. From this time Chaos falls asleep, and ye
  911. No more will see when once within your ears
  912. Your delve is done whit by you; for though old fire,
  913. It half torments you, and so hides you from heaven,
  914. Yet shall its voice cry Yes. begin to tire
  915. Your souls with hell, your souls of devil's lore;
  916. And in our cold world and hot name of the North
  917. Lure you to loathing. Let us turn again
  918. To where the great sun rises in our blood
  919. And quench your mad name and o'erpass men's banes;
  920. Praise your great loud renown and meet the Prince.
  921. ------------
  922. For peacocks neither shall cause shame of yours,
  923. Nor of incalling men make any there;
  924. Therefore stoop down your head and off the cloth
  925. That hath encircled death, and show us hell,
  926. And bear the child to the wolves wolves wolves' fare
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  928.  
  929. The painter's brush, the lover's maid,
  930. Each in their city's pride arrayed,
  931. Beside th' thateret which is ours,
  932. Be wanting here a tear or two,
  933. That would eclipse the orb of blue.
  934. ------------
  935. So fare we forth, beside thy happy isle,
  936. As monarchs may in Bethlehem smile,
  937. To greet the mother of his babes;
  938. Rejoicing, though we lose the world, yet still
  939. According to the pilgrim's will.
  940. The birds our twilight hours beguile,
  941. The dews the glowing fields bedeck,
  942. We book the coming year beguile
  943. Designed, for tribute, to the sick;
  944. The while with easement curtained, say
  945. Approving time its course delays,
  946. And every flower and tree doth pay
  947. To dews of Autumn season rose.
  948. ------------
  949. And when the last poor year is past,
  950. Perchance the bells that chime and peal
  951. Will wake to warblings still at last
  952. THE walls are falling, window-pane;
  953. God-gathering means to one by one;
  954. God-gathering means to one by ten;
  955. But modest cowled and timid bird,
  956. I fear I fear me, needs must stir.
  957. God-gathering means to one by ten;
  958. God-gathering means to one by ten;
  959. But gentleness remembers God,
  960. I rather fear that I shall die.
  961. ------------
  962. And Joseph, these and many others,
  963. Down sounds of praise and scorn you smack
  964. The name of him you slew with brother?
  965. Ay, Ajax, you, Ajax, find
  966. Your loss in every battle's mind,
  967. But not one choking gasp I give:
  968. The like name evermore I live.
  969. ------------
  970. I let you take yours through the ink,
  971. Your fame without falsehood carry;
  972. The something never said understands you,
  973. With all men's care in these matters,
  974. You died a hundred times I think
  975. To live your death while Agamemnon
  976. Sighs to you, straddling, bitterly;
  977. With all men's scorn in this v ..."
  978. ------------
  979. Once throwing by his feet,
  980. Poor fool! while Ajax tosses high,
  981. His evil spear yet holds him down
  982. Full length along celestial way.
  983. His woes taught Perse's pathetic lash,
  984. His dart still flies, his dart still flies
  985. Through his he suffered and decayed,
  986. All ground and looped within his breast
  987. He is a deep despised guest;
  988. And sapless Teucer still deceives
  989. The love-craft which his love deceives.
  990. ------------
  991. He sang what gift his handmaids lighted,
  992. How Creole her white arms enfolded;
  993. How young Ulysses at his side
  994. Gave chase, how deftly rolled he round;
  995. Of Alp in tune to Ormuz wheeled it,
  996. Or11 whence by the dull beans strown;
  997. The rod.*
  998. ------------
  999. A sworn oath, yet beyond all praise
  1000. Toji Pindar's dark wallays;
  1001. Ye gods! I would my word raise
  1002. To Jove, if like a flash of flame
  1003. From iron gates your wings, o'ercame.
  1004. ------------
  1005. "Behold good fruit in Lacedaemon, Fleet Street."
  1006. Haste, haste; do, officious dames;
  1007. Not this the least; your names she bears
  1008. On marriage-bed embossed;
  1009. To be, or else, all maidens fair
  1010. Of virtue; afterood of sport,
  1011. One mortal woole she suppresses,
  1012. Her swain: match, favour, or loan;
  1013. What gem is this? where is thy fair?
  1014. Heaven casts a palm from off my teat;
  1015. Shades follow oft, accursed:
  1016. Whom gold has robbed I've robbed, alas!
  1017. Oft, as by care instinctive fell,
  1018. Since first I slung the mortal shell;
  1019. Poor froward wretch! whose ashwort dures,
  1020. And spits, nigg'd, fleshless, in her arms!
  1021. An Apologian this, and that
  1022. Of poplars puddling in her hand;
  1023. While Tritons round them cluster, and
  1024. Sing trompets in their native sand;
  1025. What garment, thou? where dost thou spread
  1026. A more illustrious, better head?
  1027. ------------
  1028. See far, how far does in the realms above
  1029. Our proud Olympus roll its hundred spheres!
  1030. How glorious with what art our prize upbraid
  1031. The triple world! How great the gain, when styled
  1032. ------------
  1033. The mountaineer! she lives more flame than man.
  1034. She is not thought upon her heavenly birth,
  1035. Or from her own experiences; but driv'n
  1036. By hunger for her present, and her past,
  1037. If
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  1039. will follow, even as in us, the blind
  1040. mourner's vision mirrored the earth with all things, in
  1041. despite of its fervour which, we bring to immortal healing
  1042. that which the poet wisely here extorts to the
  1043. exclusively affinities of modern Europe, from which it is
  1044. better to take my verses to show how natural a course of
  1045. success is the source of Merivale, than if Germans and
  1046. Illustrious Britons.'
  1047. ------------
  1048. Abashed the poet, tearfully shamed the song of Hagar
  1049. with the matching of a lengthened adie dactie. No further
  1050. grief is found in the fable of this modern hymn, for that had
  1051. narrative. Hissure of the rejection of it some years before
  1052. vily was not a little used. In this Nathegeman horde it
  1053. happened that most hated to meet concord in that warfare
  1054. with the German. Kaiser, out of friendship and weigh him
  1055. on the way back through troubles of others. Every chief,
  1056. blessed in our race, so generally resolutely positive,
  1057. kept in mind that nothing unexpected could disturb him or
  1058. subdue him any more than this Firmament, aether-cone,
  1059. torches, shields, rattle, cannon, or, in fact, a thunder-storm
  1060. below, such as the eclipse of the prophets brought from the
  1061. earth and, between evil to worse, the Borderlands are
  1062. wrecked into misery. By submerging). About this time,
  1063. Nisi stands out for list, and the wittiest he might
  1064. have of Tails and Nails, not far from here,
  1065. good-shouldered! He is good-bones, and just a straw, ready
  1066. to break, he is as lank and serene in spirit as ought of
  1067. Blast or Modern Arges; freshly bloomed there may be more,
  1068. More powerful with ruin than he. For what is brought from
  1069. death, is the most thoughtless batch of Lapland, Pales by the
  1070. forward gathering of caterpillars and old beaks at the
  1071. Aasterian bog. For to pass death utterly over the
  1072. curching stiff level between us two, it shows -- it
  1073. erick-square, hangs across the—-ine of high German
  1074. about an hour and at the same time when I found 'em all
  1075. across the unfathomable ocean, or from memory 'depreet
  1076. unsound water' some of the whole immortality to put back
  1077. itself in a blank blank, in the incondency of prayer. In the
  1078. poet's darkness diversified the awful pangs of memory and
  1079. ERY a dead dog, gag, now a joyous idea.
  1080. ------------
  1081. Thus it is he exists through comparison of an energy of
  1082. a tower to the highest, with a life so lofty andDS
  1083. strong, the more excellent manner of which truth and virtue
  1084. have reached men has been made alone. Himself orConnor
  1085. may differ from Jacob and occur also in the same manner
  1086. in the former sterile country round the central world -- when
  1087. ronounces in inquiring to have more news about the case of
  1088. the successor of themselves under Providence. The power of
  1089. 999 bound the wives already so far in want of
  1090. favored children was called greeting by the hr Bergies --
  1091. Et vive; ascendant to majority, the popular marrow of the
  1092. ------------
  1093. Thus the history of modern youngals, ascribed to broader and
  1094. fuller consideration for that heritage and a broader home
  1095. cremated exiles in royal courts conferred upon us now
  1096. woful Curtius and Clemence; and here in spite of the Computing
  1097. The wasp showed forth on every side the soil; in beauty
  1098. ------------
  1099. Honge's life would ever have shed water upon the surface of
  1100. his breast; but the laws held by philosophy,economy, and the
  1101. guilty of hoarheid, when it had confessed his own works were
  1102. expected to go out rather than perish.
  1103. ------------
  1104. Sidelong here. Far here today it is morning, in early
  1105. morning, but Mordecai sounded the instrument of the Earth jar
  1106. listening from the village; the astonishments seemed big with
  1107. the soul of him who sat there long while upon the slopes of
  1108. agreeable generations.
  1109. ------------
  1110. bootless exiles who, by doubt, sprang to me, disguised in
  1111. appearance; "_O verdeus memoriae, confide plena!orum
  1112. ------------
  1113. We pass through hedgerows growing over the upmost parts of
  1114. the hill, while the raises of the mountains seem to reach
  1115. as they reached us. And on a sudden we behold them,
  1116. nearer our seats, before us facing holiday places, and the
  1117. strange traveller lamely follows the trail of bright verdure.
  1118. ------------
  1119. How I remember with horror how upon the last Point
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  1121. he had, and by these,
  1122. Pursued his way straight down the middle heav'n:
  1123. Above, around, beneath, by all was seen
  1124. The flames, on each hand, shorter than their height;
  1125. Thus downward from a face they native hung,
  1126. Both of alike from heaven and earth in Hell.
  1127. ------------
  1128. "But (for they felt an influence as they perceiv'd
  1129. And so intense the temper of their sight)
  1130. Back to their books they turn'd, and stood asham'd,
  1131. Musing their doubtful fortune, oft, to mark
  1132. When better far their clearer thoughts to spy:
  1133. Some to behold the grievous flaw, and some
  1134. Fear'd to approach it, so they durst not eye.
  1135. ------------
  1136. This sudden distance (pell'd for aye to fly)
  1137. They from each other opaque undress'd,
  1138. Nor could a hair be seen: impalpable
  1139. Of hue, and black, and spreading wings, they hung;
  1140. As though from clime to clime they never came.
  1141. ------------
  1142. Nor yet to these the middle watch they set;
  1143. But were the perch within the Birchies plac'd,
  1144. There where the rocking pines with forceuous sweep
  1145. O'er-arches the broad copse, and endlong fell
  1146. The Barbarian pines, while frequent rag'd the Tyrrhene crew.
  1147. ------------
  1148. Shrill sang the Lark, and trilled the Thrush reply'd,
  1149. In Pipes, sweet Muses, aid while yet ye may;
  1150. The same I mean, who master craftsmen plann'd.
  1151. How from the silent elm his plumes upborne
  1152. At once the Aesculapian flood was borne,
  1153. At once the Dorian greatness, birds and flowers
  1154. Were gay as underneath the Hunter's towers;
  1155. Small flocks of sheep, whose stocksks dim as a dream
  1156. Crept to the chalk-built citadel of Rome,
  1157. While thro' the glistening slope his sparry sides
  1158. Cull'd with vast herds the religions, lions, brutes,
  1159. Themselves in thought, as far as from the sight
  1160. They dwelt--as far more large and outward forms.
  1161. ------------
  1162. Nor less their boast was raised, to which all things
  1163. Brought this strange weight and still more cruelly,
  1164. And all their art was hid; even mute kings,
  1165. Who saw them with the holiest misery.
  1166. Even these dim splendours gave, when I had done,
  1167. Already its effect:--when, hark! again
  1168. A holier cry? They knew it and are gone.
  1169. I look'd upon it in the bloody noon,
  1170. To see it all dissolved before its day;
  1171. Nor would their mischief come among the Gods,
  1172. To people with a sensual thought, that so
  1173. When first the Slander came, he did not spare.
  1174. And then his love, his lewd unhallow'd wrath,
  1175. Did banish from himself the man he loved,
  1176. As all might woos with fond and jealous eyes.
  1177. What block soever at the magic base
  1178. That from the blinded mind its beams display,
  1179. Of moment, or denudes, that showdown gain,
  1180. Of aught but evil lurks the guilty prey,
  1181. Of aught but what hell-cart succeeds to sway.
  1182. And gladly, yet averse from mischief still,
  1183. To brighten life, he did his verse recite;
  1184. Then lewdly rag'd, then safely took his seat,
  1185. And lightly trod the whiteness of his flesh,
  1186. Till death, the latest of his functions, hurls,
  1187. Straight left it, where it fell, the brains of men.
  1188. ------------
  1189. Again, as one whom fresh dismay
  1190. Had troubled, 'twixt the oak's approach and roots,
  1191. He sought his knees; for knees had been all shook,
  1192. And tears withheld repeating his complaints.
  1193. ------------
  1194. Happy the man! whose peaceful tillage reaps
  1195. Its virtue, where in secret pardon pent,
  1196. It best becomes him, if it be his doom;
  1197. Whose guilt--his piety--to make him great--
  1198. And whom he serves, since he neglected it;
  1199. Whose innocence--alas! thus dangerous proved--
  1200. Prove but his coward loved, though loved perchance.
  1201. ------------
  1202. To-day thou shalt, no doubt, have stirr'd its brain,
  1203. Its limbs in motion took impression fine,
  1204. And, like its blood, veins ran, and knit--and ran--
  1205. So then its manly bearing, wholly wise,
  1206. With something more than manlike wrath, did grow
  1207. To like proportion, and the limb it chose.
  1208. ------------
  1209. Pleased, for the praise so short an end had sat
  1210. It grasp'd him headlong, but forbore to speak;
  1211. No interlude had reach'd his passion's verge,
  1212. Nor tone so
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  1214. leaning on the bow
  1215. Of trunk and some fourth kite outspread,
  1216. Then devising its reins rant,
  1217. Threw it on the victims, and Life,
  1218. And mingled the pure, and the pure,
  1219. And deep, and brought them into perfect life:
  1220. Till springs of light, as smooth and clear
  1221. As snow, with no returns but these,
  1222. Possessed of the cardinal's milk
  1223. And that of Mercury whose words
  1224. Make thread- entangled snakes, blood-like
  1225. Forth and into the wine-red stream,
  1226. And with rich counter-sammy scheme
  1227. Conveyed the larger snake away
  1228. From the fat maw of Earth and Man.
  1229. I came, and with fresh fluttering
  1230. Bloom- prankishtes of May I trod -
  1231. On mossy banks prayed my sole prayer
  1232. To Pan-god Apollo.
  1233. I knelt among the north-winds fleet;
  1234. I, know thy sweet maligning;
  1235. I thought her silver-throning song,
  1236. Sweetest and merriest, there we grew;
  1237. Mine learnt the next sun--she knew too
  1238. For that great Queen of all the east,
  1239. From whom there came a murmur- Wand
  1240. By sorrier's breath; for the soul loved
  1241. To boot and thine under body sware
  1242. Only, O king; for love's best part
  1243. Is to play next--whate'er the play,
  1244. Ten times with God were music all;
  1245. Were bone and honour naught else mean,
  1246. For thine are lost the gamesome hind,
  1247. The red-breast and the luscious sheen
  1248. Upon thy snowy crown of green:
  1249. None with thee! nay, Hast thou left to hear?
  1250. None else than JUNO is thy peer
  1251. Or for Discretion's well-twined joints
  1252. An arrow takes. Behold, quicksands
  1253. Fit all for one greatridges' use:
  1254. The instrument that I have made
  1255. Of long ago with noised bow dight
  1256. Was shrunken to a figure wedge:
  1257. The Raphael painted on it Shade.
  1258. Yet the bees hive in quiet.
  1259. Thine am I--thou whose regal wains
  1260. Strew all Ontzlake for the weary are
  1261. Quiet happenings, and these rush
  1262. To ports unseen of any by
  1263. Decayed like types of harmony
  1264. Unsung; what thine the firs have made
  1265. So irised that my true Muse
  1266. The loss of secrecy foregoes:
  1267. Yet must I welcome at the last
  1268. The bird- embraced blossom of romance
  1269. And urge to sing his earthly need
  1270. And have assumed his elemental strength
  1271. Under the shadow of the boughled tree.
  1272. Yea, Syrinx wert thou under sun:
  1273. Fine to be deem'd, thou peerless one,
  1274. O faithful truth.
  1275. I'd front the boughs, and sport apart
  1276. Upon thy white wing of pure gentleness,
  1277. Such as my muse now compassing
  1278. Along my pages; or the wanton roof
  1279. And snow-white tent my pensive fashion shroud;
  1280. For rose-buds showed where they had paled:-
  1281. How rival they have been; violets
  1282. Perhaps, yet there are roses, and a thorn
  1283. E'en on the plaiced plaiced thorn I guess.
  1284. Look, how my eyes divine behold
  1285. Thy beauty, sweet Lucrezia; for no dread
  1286. It ill beseems thee: comes thy pang,
  1287. Yet to reject, doth charm thee, and doth hurt;
  1288. Not so, I'll have thee through the world
  1289. For once; it is thy father's heart,
  1290. O dearer than my love, O father mine!
  1291. Child of mine eyes!
  1292. ------------
  1293. This is no choice: for my soul's use,
  1294. Though it might be of fleshly stuff,
  1295. It would misdeal another sun
  1296. Now it has lost its glorious youth
  1297. Fair as his youth.
  1298. Fair as his youth! O wives! she died
  1299. By my own hand while young Lucrezia lived,
  1300. Of her own strength I speak: no good
  1301. Mantling the happy sorrow of fortune
  1302. With thought of these things had she studied.
  1303. I know the highest tree of all
  1304. Is man's ingratitude to woo;
  1305. Yet still the tree and I behold
  1306. Are somewhat different, being thus,
  1307. To doubt what blossom is to cling:
  1308. A little chapel, and a tent:
  1309. Whether 'tis little, has its root
  1310. Of hasty power, to fall in fruit,
  1311. And be a ruin up in all.
  1312. ------------
  1313. O crown our woe by having striven
  1314. That out ofSelf we may discern
  1315. The downying and contritioning.
  1316. And now this comfort at our last
  1317. This comfort near us is denied,
  1318. If more may crown our triumphal,
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  1320.  
  1321. Was not those ye have made that fairer crew,
  1322. In fifty thousand dies involved so,
  1323. As thou by ONE's immoderate sway
  1324. Didst feel the wounds that struck no girl away?
  1325. ------------
  1326. I fain would lay my cheek, ask'd of thee,
  1327. Some natural tears and wild lament;
  1328. Ay! and this day, as, in life's early dawn,
  1329. Green grows the peach and dreading as the lawn,
  1330. Both must be weeping on with him that dies,
  1331. He takes his last leave of his rosebud dyce.
  1332. By a blessing, then, to all that mourn,
  1333. By him that owns it does not pass along,
  1334. Those joys they cherish best when mourn'd for ever,
  1335. Thou hast mine: but which will not princes move,
  1336. Thou shalt draw after thee a very throng,
  1337. Those only, who, like thee, so stifled be
  1338. Among themselves, they must be more than they?
  1339. Not more, so I would parch,
  1340. For nought may dim the change.
  1341. ------------
  1342. Sir, dearest friend, I resolved on few,
  1343. Since you might choose between them two to do
  1344. Thy very utmost, since there are nought here
  1345. That with the same to say aught, or true, or dear
  1346. In recompence; but now for to dispose,
  1347. For whether I may alter mine estate,
  1348. Or not, some kind companion am I yearn'd
  1349. To court thee; since the parting hour am past,
  1350. And I no longer bloom before the dawn;
  1351. Whilst rudely lower still
  1352. Thine eyes, my friend, to fill
  1353. I would with gentleness
  1354. Dover the last duke's Book, for I have read
  1355. Thy outward actions too:-
  1356. But letters are not letters, dearest friend;
  1357. They show them good as these, to show thy end--
  1358. We shall be parting, thou and I.
  1359. widened the passage.--_ clerks Inaris._
  1360. _Inaris._ Both have escaped, nor will not ... my friend,
  1361. Is't accurate, my friend, and must before
  1362. Deprive, so he return to usRegardless
  1363. Of these, to which the present occasion lent
  1364. A portion of this paper? _Ducellain._
  1365. Straited with over-publicéd quality,
  1366. The style, I find, (my friend and native vigour)
  1367. Is, like ridiculous illustration,
  1368. Temper'd to-day to-morrow to a thousand.
  1369. _Seventh order of the year came after._
  1370. ------------
  1371. _A snow-stack formed of whitest clay,
  1372. Which nothing common gives away;
  1373. Which narrow is, and yet not square,
  1374. Unless it have a humorous air;
  1375. Where several airs are equally proceeds
  1376. And feed the spirit's discontent and spleen,
  1377. Which is occasion'd by commencements new:
  1378. osition, mainly to be amused and inflamed with expedients,
  1379. though properly in its best chambers:--
  1380. ------------
  1381. Itruffian pictures, plain to public view,
  1382. Between the starry fogs and dismal water,
  1383. Something ungainly and something sublime
  1384. In the soft light, which silently devours
  1385. The last remaining outlines of devour.
  1386. Or, as if led through realms of undistinguish'd night,
  1387. Where the gross jaw lies revereless and void,
  1388. Hide me from thee, lest haply I misdeem
  1389. Thou shouldst arraign the slanderers of mankind.
  1390. ------------
  1391. What is so strange, but there remains a kind
  1392. Which, if some marvel take this way, will come
  1393. To some delight with power to make it so,
  1394. And (as 'tis said) bear others to the very thought,
  1395. For what from thee doth such a course pursue?
  1396. Besides, where other causes good portend?
  1397. The habit thee is vext, and every stroke
  1398. Of its own weight full haply sinks--worse then
  1399. And heavier than things are against its fall.
  1400. 'Tis thus we see Despair; there is no hope,
  1401. Whereas, like things, Death is to Despair confin'd,
  1402. And Hope itself soon after makes us wish.
  1403. But I see not, etc.
  1404. ------------
  1405. When my weak spirits seem at first to fail,
  1406. Are they not servants of the mortal clay,
  1407. But puissant, faithful servants of the poor,
  1408. Who for the worser part of life atrea,
  1409. Mans it, as well might seem, to fall to rise
  1410. In honour of some kindly, mischief-nault,
  1411. Sawing, in pleasing twinkleness of eye,
  1412. Peace!--our severe affliction doth protest,
  1413. Are the sounds that Cumæ's men recite,
  1414. For those to whom the cause of things is plain,
  1415. By conquering to possess and govern well,
  1416. Whose open and reputed doings knack,
  1417. Or g
  1418. ======================================== SAMPLE 16 ========================================
  1419. , eight?
  1420. Old John Ακῶς--he was a youth of ardour, and in his early
  1421. care to prevent this "seeking of pleasure" in an overhasty
  1422. ------------
  1423. I am serious--so are I:
  1424. They'll treat--but never mind--a mystery you shall not find.
  1425. For this reason, coni-versed, he only fractured his Book, "the
  1426. ------------
  1427. We've little to say, but what we've everywhere found,
  1428. And pray to Him that we will cleave unto Him through and through.
  1429. It shall not be neglected, if they are not true.
  1430. So let us leave these loads of dull MS. for the miser, ultra-French,
  1431. Why all this fuss about money?
  1432. Why not accept as a prudent, prudent man,
  1433. Because he often has? And where is his dress?
  1434. Well--we'll go dolorous--we have little chair,
  1435. So kind and good as is needful to arouse our enthusiasm.
  1436. Besides we have a fine air--
  1437. The very best that for all you have ever spent--
  1438. In short, we've a dinner ready to make an excellentEat!
  1439. Those will let us eat! To Presidential insist,
  1440. That we can conquer this side of the point I've a right.
  1441. Within sight of our cookery--
  1442. To make a grand soup for a moderate sense--
  1443. Is as we've got a choice it is,
  1444. Everybody else would be happy to peruse:
  1445. ------------
  1446. What is so commonplace
  1447. As to make us divorce
  1448. Any one of our guests
  1449. Into one of thenuts!
  1450. Is our Sister so small?
  1451. She is caught at all ball--
  1452. She can sew a huge rubber ball
  1453. On her neck and a toe.
  1454. Would her hair were blown up!
  1455. Mary parsnips had come at last to clear the palate of desire--
  1456. Of a turkey, an egg, a white frock, an o comb, an oucer, an oucer,
  1457. That was used for her daily at noon and at night-dawn.
  1458. Such a dish commensurate--
  1459. May a man by mischance be slow?
  1460. Or do you suppose she can see,
  1461. OnlyVery very slow to chicken--bringing our drink
  1462. Shortly after you're christened, and so are you pleased with?
  1463. Very Spartan-like, with hands upraised he stands!
  1464. He is smiling by your face, he is blest by your lips.
  1465. Now I have a lesson, dear, can't you complain
  1466. Of one talantate, deservesle spoon?
  1467. Which particularly brings you so intense in your eyes
  1468. That,instead of getting drowned, you always feel the jinches?
  1469. Besides, out of hopes you're not getting hung,
  1470. Bobosing so many jokes--I think I never throw you your hand!
  1471. For having you made of milkweed as everybody calls for,
  1472. And how fine that bird is eggs,
  1473. We would hunt like vermin up and down
  1474. With a very pretty wobble- timed.
  1475. My memory is a garden full of the city and of the hill and broad,
  1476. Which are set about everywhere; now I only look for the buildings,
  1477. Where at first I had my ground. Here the Trorians are in the straight line.
  1478. But because the temple of the Phæacian people is always victorious,
  1479. ------------
  1480. Now the Dauphins are dead and there still waits the young
  1481. discovery I had in the first.
  1482. Now the senators are the people that he has joined, who are known,
  1483. ------------
  1484. The commons becomes a pestilent beast.
  1485. In an idle state of ever-flowering opportunity--fleets his lurch.
  1486. ------------
  1487. Whether you believe, whether you think we cannot conceive himself fully,
  1488. Or do you think weNeed in short, we are already conjuring the gods,
  1489. In what shells our neighters and virgins are just then glossy
  1490. Many of them grow suddenly afraid of the men
  1491. Who excise their wealthy men. And since the progenitor's father
  1492. Once engaged in this voyage but got possession, either by his
  1493. senages or by griefs,
  1494. ------------
  1495. With respect to the Paphian or Paphian abode, we are currish and
  1496. paralleled in fiction.
  1497. Of course: if one except from a foreign rump.
  1498. Always thinking what this shall be: if he meditates on his
  1499. ------------
  1500. Now they smoke away in order to make for the eighteenth hot weather,
  1501. If rise another, as we advance to the second--mounting together
  1502. Many gowned wonders, the very whole playthings are afraid;
  1503. Like child it was not which struts us, taking the shapes of the
  1504. Morality, what wizards and magistrates even have mouths.
  1505. Someolve only by bringing this view to an actualplayer who question
  1506. ============
  1507. My dear duke,
  1508. Good
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  1510. and I can obey
  1511. To all these princes of renown and name,
  1512. A man like most them.'
  1513. ------------
  1514. Brave Sir Lavaine ascends the throne,
  1515. With smiling face and frowning eye of pride,
  1516. And cries aloud, 'Such heedless servitude
  1517. As that my lord I saw appears with pride,
  1518. Like Count Rollánd the flower of France which came
  1519. From Tenedos or Astrimagen. If word
  1520. Could help, glazed Mars upon the souls of us
  1521. Who through the pricking of the pass were gone
  1522. To do his will, so easily I marvelled,
  1523. When I beheld him only as I saw
  1524. The sire of mine own hounds, such slaughter made
  1525. Well for the seers. May a keen Knight be found,
  1526. To rescue me from death if any harm
  1527. On him I plan, plain, upright and unblamed?
  1528. May the Lord God forgive me in my sorrow
  1529. That even in this hour I stand unblamed.'
  1530. ------------
  1531. When Rabel heard this, from his horse he leapt
  1532. And turned to him his head, in sooth more barred
  1533. And close to him he crept, nor made him move.
  1534. He rose upright, and would full well believe
  1535. In God he might be wounded, or sore swerve
  1536. From his good will: and in his courage spake,
  1537. tersreathed out from all hearts at their songs' worth,
  1538. As wistfully he spoke and cheered his people:
  1539. ------------
  1540. Sweet France, the gentlest soul in all the world,
  1541. A loyal wife, often absolved from all
  1542. The friends of France, to thee I leave all those,
  1543. ------------
  1544. I ask not if thou deal with me in love.
  1545. Thou knowest this also, King and Lord of Death.
  1546. ------------
  1547. Hearken, sweet France, and know before thou thinkest
  1548. I fail, for thus for pardon thou hast done,
  1549. In God's name, whatsoe'er it hap in thee
  1550. Concerning my good lord, who's Prince Guinemain,
  1551. And he that was his father, and his friends
  1552. A graybeard, and in counsel little more,
  1553. And valorous Duke, and many more such warriors,
  1554. So many, he might say, are his companions,
  1555. So many, none can say they see so well.
  1556. ------------
  1557. Castellan, if you can know, is dead:
  1558. Dear friend, remember his good sword again,
  1559. Remember the coin worthies and the harps
  1560. Of his dear lord, and mark if any here
  1561. Will deem such service idle, or that 'thwart
  1562. This march of our princes, none may call him King.
  1563. He fought there, and refrained not from this word
  1564. Those dukes, those chevaliers, who never yet
  1565. Had overturned the sword full many times,
  1566. But now have died: say, what avail to these?
  1567. I know not, friend, since one such man might serve,
  1568. Longer than that 'thwart this host he strikes down
  1569. A many and twenty men, some lying low:
  1570. Who reck his sword may guard him as himself?
  1571. ------------
  1572. To whom Duke Neimes, frowning sternly and clear,
  1573. And 'I have none,' quoth he, 'but him to slay,
  1574. Or keep him here, or stab me with his spear:
  1575. For surely this cloud evermore shall drive
  1576. These Pagans down, ere my victorious peer
  1577. Shall conquered be, or ere street-defying sword
  1578. Cleave through their ranks.'
  1579. ------------
  1580. He spake, and the voice trembled.
  1581. And from amongst them, Guinemer, a knight
  1582. And high-born Cavalier, whom God had vowed
  1583. His life should redden up with weed, wherein
  1584. Hath no defence; but all that night he slept.
  1585. ------------
  1586. The armor which King Arthur wore before
  1587. Girt on, whence he had armed himself with sword,
  1588. Which shook far off the Pagan lines among,
  1589. And kindled and to light rekindled them.
  1590. ------------
  1591. This quelled that noble life, because with fit
  1592. And sudden none the same could there remain,
  1593. His age whose hand should kill; his arms waxed calm,
  1594. His eyes dilated were to him fore-arm;
  1595. But yet they so adorn waxed not their light
  1596. That need alone was governed by that knight
  1597. Before he brennied in his hour of need
  1598. Armida's fate; for still he cared at last
  1599. How best to save his king, to all his foes.
  1600. ------------
  1601. But from the very first of day came on
  1602. His hour of rest, when rose before his eyes
  1603. The glorious sun, a mighty Lamb: he moved
  1604. Before a mighty voice, and offering loud
  1605. Addressed the King, and said: 'I praise thee most,
  1606. Lord of
  1607. ======================================== SAMPLE 18 ========================================
  1608. dead now, our lips wear
  1609. As the carven lips once uttered.
  1610. And all the fire
  1611. Was ever fed
  1612. With liquid honey, human incense.
  1613. ------------
  1614. How sweet, how swift the iron game!
  1615. I oped my eyes, I looked around,
  1616. Onward I far-off journey'd, sturdy-souled.
  1617. If my desire was to behold
  1618. Even one coal, yet a small one heap
  1619. Of ashes, which the poor ash-tree
  1620. Had once not left, and should have grown
  1621. To dust-mould'd stone, when every heap
  1622. Offers them to the dust-bedew'd Queen,
  1623. What were I worth, that I might be
  1624. Worthy to have done my strivings to her?
  1625. ------------
  1626. Sweet were mine eyes, and nought beyond
  1627. Their quiet depth. With woven mist,
  1628. Long silken robe, firm rosy cap,
  1629. The creamy blushet did unbind
  1630. From a day's march. From my poor niche
  1631. Slipped down, the alabaster box
  1632. Which certain death-blast I had borne
  1633. Could never lift beyond the bars
  1634. Of all that secret portal. If
  1635. That mystic arch-work, once crossed over
  1636. By the slow years, had then been reft
  1637. Into the cradle of the years,
  1638. Yet only for my austere self
  1639. Was the lost shrine I first had reft.
  1640. ------------
  1641. When moons and hoarded gold
  1642. To dust are most sold,
  1643. The carver kneads the mould
  1644. With a dust-red surplice!
  1645. St. Paul's cries men may surpluce,
  1646. But the poor swine-herd knows at best
  1647. The world will starve him, being all
  1648. Under the curse of the thrall
  1649. Which men at first sold find at cost.
  1650. ------------
  1651. Pan gives himself up to the play
  1652. As the linen cog, up and is gone.
  1653. Yet, one may note, while not soon lost,
  1654. In his old face a big brass sun
  1655. Sends it at, and 'mid theDuring,
  1656. Only the ancient miracle
  1657. Shows how the boys are left behind
  1658. On the step to die for what is lost.
  1659. ------------
  1660. Be sure, 'tis the great science (how!)
  1661. Which fools are to pass over and when.
  1662. Food lies before this senseless rubbish,
  1663. Dull men to draw it on through ruin;
  1664. The straggling inner mirrors loom,
  1665. And set our borrowed minds to roam
  1666. On the same paths of yesterday.
  1667. ------------
  1668. We stumble more by knowledge, being
  1669. Dazed by the knowledge of mankind
  1670. Who has the poet's gift to bring
  1671. To eyes that glare, the hearts that sing,
  1672. And throne or seat of sovereigndom.
  1673. Angels turn weeping eyes, to hurl
  1674. The unfinished story from the world.
  1675. ------------
  1676. Rapt poets, at death's judgment meeting,
  1677. With talk of what began, and whence;
  1678. And how the wine was made of life
  1679. With which they drink'd the three first vases.
  1680. Thence ran the blood of Jesus' brother
  1681. Streaming with freshen'd glory forth,
  1682. And the whole kingdom of Man's brother
  1683. Reach'd the four steps of dignity
  1684. With splendour to its full-grown share.
  1685. ------------
  1686. Didst thou, O poet, touch these raw things--
  1687. Better, far better, with mourn'd bards
  1688. Than such a reptile on the tribes
  1689. Of the plain flesh that men call worms?
  1690. Oh well, ah well, we well might sing
  1691. The fellowship of those who pass
  1692. With soul and spirit, each to each
  1693. Along the infinite, nor dare
  1694. Look on what lives ere yet they are.
  1695. "Whence sprang the Gorgon?" asked J,...
  1696. She dwelt among the mountains,
  1697. With the heat within her
  1698. And frozen loveliness
  1699. On woodland slopes or meadow.
  1700. ------------
  1701. Had you, good swain, a thought
  1702. Of minds beloved,
  1703. To wander through thy wilds
  1704. Past shrubs and tree-tops?
  1705. ------------
  1706. Oh well, ah well, she dwelt
  1707. While heroes warbled,
  1708. For her drowsy strains
  1709. Were sleepy bards
  1710. Sitting ivy-shoes upon.
  1711. ------------
  1712. Oh well, ah well, you went
  1713. Where, in days of summer,
  1714. We wove our skilful lives
  1715. For the use of stocks and sheaves.
  1716. Let these dead bones repose
  1717. Where the wortes blow,
  1718. And gay friends wait
  1719. To welcome that dead fellow.
  1720. ------------
  1721. On her sculptor's bust
  1722. Breathes a yet more balm;
  1723. nested amid the leaves
  1724. Many a green fad-tains.
  1725. ------------
  1726. With her delicate song;
  1727. With her robes afloat
  1728. And attar'd to bind the boat,
  1729. Fondling with her hand
  1730. Through the me
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