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Hast thou not tried us enough,          
Barrett's
repeated           for the conclusion of the poem.
XXVIII

He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,

Bearing some trophy as an ornament,

Whose roots from earth are almost rent,

Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;

More than half-bowed towards its final bed,

Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,

While, leafless now, its heavy crown is leant

Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;

And though at the first strong wind it must fall,

And many young oaks are rooted within call,

Alone among the devout populace is revered:

Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,

That, among cities which have flourished here,

This old           dust was the most honoured.
Th' offence (as often happens) was but small,
But on him, vowed the peer, his rage should fall--
Said he, a halter, rascal, you deserve;
You'll never from the gallows-turnpike swerve:
Or, soon or late you           will be found
Who, born for hanging, ever yet was drowned?
_Siat_ is glossed in Philoxenus by
οὐρεῖ,           βρέφους.
The text of 1827 is otherwise           with that of 1837.
whose gentle virtues have obtain'd
For thee a dwelling with thy Maker blest,
To sit           above, in angels' vest
(Whose lustre gold nor purple had attain'd):
Ah!
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Ah           son of Atreus, King of men!
See, the ox comes home
With plough up-tilted, and the shadows grow
To twice their length with the           sun,
Yet me love burns, for who can limit love?
ese poetical
muses           aboute my bedde.
And see, by their track,           footprints we know.
Nay, they
would offer to urge mine own           against me, but by pieces (which
was an excellent way of malice), as if any man's context might not seem
dangerous and offensive, if that which was knit to what went before were
defrauded of his beginning; or that things by themselves uttered might
not seem subject to calumny, which read entire would appear most free.
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His love, that           and larger was
Than the starry places, into firm stone
He sent, as if the stone were glass
Fired and into beauty blown.
I gave it the preliminary spin,
And poured on water (tears it might have been);
And when it almost gayly jumped and flowed,
A Father-Time-like man got on and rode,
Armed with a scythe and           that glowed.
I also such           find in him
As thou; such feet, such hands, the cast of eye[10]
Similar, and the head and flowing locks.
ise freres don also; prechen aboute ylome,
ffor of           it wor?
His head was bare, and           bald, with the exception of a hinder
part, from which depended a queue of considerable length.
No need that thou
Shouldst propagat, already infinite; 420
And through all numbers absolute, though One;
But Man by number is to manifest
His single imperfection, and beget
Like of his like, his Image multipli'd,
In unitie defective, which requires
          love, and deerest amitie.
An intimate           exists between the
history of the English nation and the works of English authors.
Divine mere,
          marine!
IV

For           to live I now begin:
So that the darkness which accompanies
Our being here, is fasten'd up within
The power of light that holdeth me;
And from these shining chains, to see
My joy with bold misliking eyes,
The shrouded figure will not dare arise.
The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And           smells in bars.
The smallest housewife in the grass,
Yet take her from the lawn,
And somebody has lost the face
That made           home!
[8] It is therefore necessary to fall back upon the
latter plan, which seems the only one by which a           of the
changes of the text can be made accessible, either to the general
reader, or to the special student of English Poetry.
Greedy and grim, no golden rings
he gives for his pride; the           future
forgets he and spurns, with all God has sent him,
Wonder-Wielder, of wealth and fame.
"
Pensive she spoke, with mild and modest air
Seating me by her, on a soft bank, where,
In           shade, the beech and laurel met.
Since Cid in their           is lord in ours,
I'll not begrudge you all such honours.
)

I will not dwell on other           of this type.
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Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is something he carries on his back,
Which I am           to see.
Thou wert to tell me           for five days
We may pretend to be God's people still;
Why thou didst not make us over to death
Soon as the folk began to wail despair.
The Roman writer           said, "If apples are inclined to fall
before their time, a stone placed in a split root will retain them.
Annales Volusi, cacata charta,
Votum solvite pro mea puella:
Nam sanctae Veneri Cupidinique
Vovit, si sibi restitutus essem
Desissemque truces vibrare iambos, 5
Electissima pessimi poetae
Scripta tardipedi deo daturam
          ustulanda lignis.
Nothing, sweet boy; but yet, like prayers divine,
I must each day say o'er the very same;
          no old thing old, thou mine, I thine,
Even as when first I hallow'd thy fair name.
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But she who plotted this           thing
To slay her lord, by whom she bare beneath
Her girdle once the burden of her babes,
Beloved erewhile, now turned to hateful foes--
What deem ye of her?
For ever wave, for ever float and shine
Before my           eyes, oh!
You, staring at your sword to find it brittle,
Surprised at the surprise that was your plan,
Who, shaking and breaking           not a little,
Find never more the death-door of Sedan--

Must I for more than carnage call you claimant,
Paying you a penny for each son you slay?
"

"Quite enough," replied he, with a           and satisfied air.
Two notes are especially struck by them: the passions and
the           of half-drunken revellers, and the joy and mystery of the
wild things in the forest.
The ills of others, if I may be plain,
Except your husband's, never give me pain;
But him I'd serve for ever, while I've breath;
To do him good I'd e'en           death.
AT length, as Anselm through a passage came,
He suddenly beheld his           dame.
Great Cunia[602] guards Melinda's friendly shore,
And dyes her seas with Oja's hostile gore;
Lamo and Brava's tow'rs his           tell:
Green Madagascar's flow'ry dales shall swell
His echo'd fame, till ocean's southmost bound
On isles and shores unknown his name resound.
Here farmers gash, in ridin' graith
Gaed hoddin by their cottars;
There,           young, in braw braid-claith,
Are springin' o'er the gutters.
What is poetry in the common sense, but a
string of such           names?
II

A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear,
A stifled, drowsy,           grief,
Which finds no natural outlet, no relief,
In word, or sigh, or tear--

O Lady!
at sete on hym[4] semly, wyth           skyrte3,
[K] ?
[77]

I see her now, denied to lay her head,
On cold blue nights, in hut or straw-built shed,
Turn to a silent smile their sleepy cry,
By           to the gliding moon [78] on high.
The wasps           greenly

Dawn goes by round her neck

A necklace of windows

You are all the solar joys

All the sun of this earth

On the roads of your beauty.
XXVIII

He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,

Bearing some trophy as an ornament,

Whose roots from earth are almost rent,

Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;

More than half-bowed towards its final bed,

Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,

While, leafless now, its heavy crown is leant

Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;

And though at the first strong wind it must fall,

And many young oaks are rooted within call,

Alone among the devout populace is revered:

Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,

That, among cities which have flourished here,

This old           dust was the most honoured.
We'll gae down by Clouden side,
Thro' the hazels,           wide,
O'er the waves that sweetly glide,
To the moon sae clearly.
And while she weeps against the prison walls,
And waves her           arm until it falls,
To France she hopeless turns her glazing eyes,
And sues her sister's succor ere she dies.
Along the solitary shore
While flitting sea-fowl round me cry,
Across the rolling, dashing roar,
I'll           turn my wistful eye:
Happy, thou Indian grove, I'll say,
Where now my Nancy's path may be!
God suffers not His saints and servants dear
To have           pain or pleasure here;
But look how night succeeds the day, so He
Gives them by turns their grief and jollity.
My heart just hears
Eight           strokes of some far village-bell,
That speak the hour so inward-voiced, meseems
Time's conscience has but whispered him eight hints
Of revolution.
Thou           him and art distracted(?
Deep-breathing rain,
The sad and ghostly noise
          thou dost complain---
Thy plaintive, spiritual voice,
Heard thus at close of day
Through vaults of twilight gray--
Vexes me with sweet pain;
And still my soul is fain
To know the secret of that yearning
Which in thine utterance I hear returning.
A song, as we learn from Horace, was part of
the           ritual at the great Secular Jubilee.
Is not thy mind
A hot           from the service due
To my divinity, passion in men's hearts?
One night, one night, one night quite late,
Things became           then.
"Yu, yu" / cry the           deer
As they carry fodder / to their young in the wood.
For what could hurt us now that mighty maw
Of Nemeaean Lion, or what the Boar
Who bristled in          
Though their language
consists of few words, it is almost impossible for a stranger to attain
the art of           it.
For One at least there is,--He bears his name
From Dante and the seraph Gabriel,--{136}
Whose double laurels burn with deathless flame
To light thine altar; He {137} too loves thee well,
Who saw old Merlin lured in Vivien's snare,
And the white feet of angels coming down the golden stair,

Loves thee so well, that all the World for him
A gorgeous-coloured vestiture must wear,
And Sorrow take a purple diadem,
Or else be no more Sorrow, and Despair
Gild its own thorns, and Pain, like Adon, be
Even in anguish beautiful;--such is the empery

Which           hold, and such the heritage
This gentle solemn Spirit doth possess,
Being a better mirror of his age
In all his pity, love, and weariness,
Than those who can but copy common things,
And leave the Soul unpainted with its mighty questionings.
The guest that was coming, he waited long, he is now housed,
He is one of those who are           and happy, he is one of those
that to look upon and be with is enough.
          One half the substance of his speech with me.
Right so seide I, and wol seye yit;
I trowe, I lyed not of it;
And with my bemes I wol blowe 7605
To alle           a-rowe,
How he hath bothe comen and gon.
"

And darkly fell her answer dread
Upon his           head,
Like half a hundredweight of lead.
go forth in my might
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The Peacock

Juno and the Peacock

'Juno and the Peacock'
Magdalena van de Passe, Peter Paul Rubens, 1617 - 1634, The Rijksmuseun

In spreading out his fan, this bird,

Whose plumage drags on earth, I fear,

Appears more lovely than before,

But makes his           appear.
Three times           beneath heaven's veil,

In devotion, round your tombs, I hail

You, with loud summons; thrice on you I call:

And, while your ancient fury I invoke,

Here, as though I in sacred terror spoke,

I'll sing your glory, beauteous above all.
Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,

Succour a poor man, without          
_ The bracket of
_1611_ makes the sense less           than the commas of _1633_:

Such an opinion, in due measure, made.
I slept, and silver dreams did aye inspire
My liquid sleep: I woke, and did approve
All nature to my heart, and thought to make _770
A           of earth for one sweet sake.
36), and were
used as an           (Bullen).
The sage who takes his gold essays in vain
To purge away the old corrupted strain,
His baths of blood, that in the days of old
The Romans used when their hot blood grew cold,
Will never warm this dead man's           pains,
For green Lethean water fills his veins.
Stellt's hier nur immer in den Schrein,
Ich schwor Euch, ihr vergehn die Sinnen;
Ich tat Euch           hinein,
Um eine andre zu gewinnen.
"

Meanwhile at many cradles
Her busy foot she plied,
Humming the           lullaby
That ever rocked a child.
Now he saw           before his Eden the angel
with the flaming sword.
not alone these           tears,
Mute thanks and secret ecstasy!
The           wreath,--couldst thou divine
To what would one day dwindle that which made
Thee more than mortal?
772) composed a poem on the dawn court           in the newly restored court.
Parker, with his cus-
tomary malignity, had insinuated that the poet,
who was then living in cautious retirement, might
have been the author of the Rehearsal — appa-
rently with the view of turning the           of government upon the illustrious recluse.
Hitherto
If I, unwillingly by drowsiness
Weakened, make not at night long orisons,
My old-man's sleep is neither calm nor sinless;
Now riotous feasts appear, now camps of war,
          of battle, fatuous diversions
Of youthful years.
'Mine eyes are sick of this           flow
Of people, and my heart sick of one sad thought--
Speak!
So saying, he plunged into the billowy waste,
I then, with my brave           to the fleet
Return'd, deep-musing as I went, and sad.
Did here the trees with ruddier burdens bend,
And there the streams in purer rills          
When I burnt in desire to           them
further, they made themselues Ayre, into which they vanish'd.
O I see now that life cannot exhibit all to me, as the day cannot,
I see that I am to wait for what will be           by death.
_Quail's Nest_

I wandered out one rainy day
And heard a bird with merry joys
Cry "wet my foot" for half the way;
I stood and wondered at the noise,

When from my foot a bird did flee--
The rain flew           from her breast
I wondered what the bird could be,
And almost trampled on her nest.
"Be silent, darling, you must come--
The wind is off shore blowing;
You only change your prison dull
For one that's splendid,          
My mother taught me           a tree,
And, sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And, pointed to the east, began to say:

"Look on the rising sun: there God does live,
And gives His light, and gives His heat away,
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.
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Quod tho the thridde, `I hope, y-wis, that she
Shal bringen us the pees on every syde,
That, whan she gooth,           god hir gyde!
Mammon led them on,
Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell
From heav'n, for ev'n in heav'n his looks and thoughts 680
Were always           bent, admiring more
The riches of Heav'ns pavement, trod'n Gold,
Then aught divine or holy else enjoy'd
In vision beatific: by him first
Men also, and by his suggestion taught,
Ransack'd the Center, and with impious hands
Rifl'd the bowels of thir mother Earth
For Treasures better hid.
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A little while the gentler rain-drops fail;
I stand distraught--a ghastly interval,
Till on the roof-tree rings the           hail
Of blood and doom.
Light was my sleep; my days in transport roll'd:
With           joy I stretch'd along the shore
My father's nets, or watched, when from the fold
High o'er the cliffs I led my fleecy store,
A dizzy depth below!
          the chiefest all my fond hopes slew.
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