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80 THE TALE OF ARCHAIS While the gold planets toward the sunlight roll, Weave, weave the dance ! Weave, weave the eager measure ! CHARICLES Of your revels Ill be king. ARCHAIS I the queen of your array. Foot it nimbly in the ring, CHARICLES Strewn with violet and may. ARCHAIS Apple-blossom pile on high, Till the bridal bed is duly Panoplied with blooms that sigh. CHARICLES Not a flower of them shall die, Every one shall blossom newly ; Stars shall lend them of their beauty, Rain and sunshine know their duty.
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36 THE TALE OF ARCHAIS Love that is lighter than scorn, Love, that is strong as a king, Love, through the gate that is horn, Sing ! Then Charicles rejoicing quickly ran And chose a lyre, and thus his song began Rippling through melodies unheard of man. SONG OF CHARICLES Wake, fairy maid, for the day Blushes our curtain to shake ; Summer and blossoms of May Wake ! Lilies drink light on the lake, Laughter drives dreamland away, Kisses shall woo thee, and slake Passion with amorous play, Clip thee and love, for Loves sake. Wake and caress me, I p…
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THE TALE OF ARCHAIS 61 And Charicles grey eyes were luminous With love-reflections multitudinous As lilies in the spring. Again was seen As in a mirror, like the ocean green, The admirable birth of Loves eternal Queen. So Charicles a moment was amazed. A moment ; then, contemptuous, he gazed With curling lip on her, and sourly scorns Her petty miracle : The deed adorns Too well a queen whose promises are foam. And she, indignant, would have hied her home And left him to despair, but pitying His soul struck through with darts : A bitter T…
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… pressure on his breast and thighs, The white teeth sharp and ready otherwise In one fierce snap to slay. There hissed Be- ware ! Fear Charicles avenging, and despair ! And Zeus beheld the springe his foot was in, And, once more wise, being out of love, would win His freedom on good terms. His liberty For Charicles he bartered. Willingly The boy accepts, yet in his eye remains A tender woman-feeling, and his pains, And even Archais woes he did forget In the sweep Lethe, that his lip had set To their ripe brim, that he had drained. But now…
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…ces that rise and fail, And all the augurs promise happy days, And all the men for Archais have praise, And all maids eyes are fixed on Charicles. Then, to the tune of musical slow seas, The wind began to murmur on the mead, And he, unconscious, drew his eager reed From the loose tunic ; now they seat themselves On moss worn smooth by feet of many elves Dancing at midnight through them, and their voice Bids all the woodland echoes to rejoice Because the lovers are made one at last. And Charicles began to play ; they cast Tunic and snood and sa…
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… Birch and elm shall flourish all Dewed with ever-living spring. Song and dance shall close the day, CHORUS Close this happy, happy day. CHARICLES Of your revels Ill be king, ARCHAIS I the queen of your array. Both Foot it nimbly in the ring ! CHORUS Stay, stars, and dance with us. Our songs compel The very gods to tremble, Banish the ill ghosts of hell,
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…he break of day. ARCHAIS In the arms of love at last Love is anchored fast, Firm beyond the rage of Heaven, safe beyond the ocean blast. CHARICLES In the arms of love close prest, And thy tender breast Pillows now my happy head ; softly breezes from the west Both Stir the ring-doves nest.
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THE TALE OF ARCHAIS 77 CHARICLES Join our chorus, tread the turf To the beating of the surf. Dance together, ere we part, And Selenes dart Give the signal for your slumber and the rapture of our heart. Semi-Chorus of Men Exalted with immeasurable gladness ; Bonds touched with tears and melted like the snow, Wake the song loudly ; loose the leash of madness, Beat the loud drum, and bid the trumpet blow. Semi-Chorus of Women Let the lute thrill divinely low, Let the harp strike a tender note of sad- ness ; Louder and louder, till the full song f…
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THE TALE OF ARCHAIS 79 CHARICLES Night her bright bow-string has bended ; Fast flies her arrow unsparing Through the beech-leaves, Æher it cleaves Rapid and daring. Ah! how it strikes as with silver ! how the suns laughter is ended ! ARCHAIS How the moons arms are extended ! Semi-Chorus of Men Rejoicing, inarticulate with pleasure, Joy streams a comet in the strong control Of the suns love ; weave, weave the eager measure, Fill the seas brim from pleasures foaming bowl ! Semi-Chorus of Women Weave, weave the dance ; the stars are not your …
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…nty hands, caressed of dew, And bade the love-lorn wanderer sing anew. His muse came trembling, soon through starry air it flew. SONG OF CHARICLES Within the forest gloom There lies a lovers bower, A lotus-flower In bloom.
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… that flings aslant Locks of vain love to strange and sunless rays That are the kiss of Bacchos wanton mouth. On such a lawn the tender Charicles Stretched limbs, that greet this morning of the May With sweet shy vigour, while from the south Toward his lips there came the shining breeze To taste life crystal-clear and die away.
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…ement assault. The heavens stood still, but oer the quaking earth, That groaned and shrank with the untimely birth Of fury and freedom, Charicles strode on With fervid foot, to Aphrodites throne In seagirt Paphos, to exact her aid— The sun stood still, creation grew afraid At his firm step and mien erect and undismayed. Strident the godlike hero called aloud, Blaspheming, while that sombre bank of cloud
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…chais. She spake, and on his brow, betwixt her hands Pressed softly, as a maid in bridal bands, Kissed him, her first chaste kiss. Then Charicles Gave her due thanks, and bent his ear to seize Her further words. And she : Not many days Shall flame and flicker into darkened ways Before the wings of night, ere Hermes fly Hither, the messenger of Zeus. But I Bid thee remain beneath the temple gate While I consider our war on Fate. Till then, and I will tell thee everything That thou must do ; but now let song take wing Till the pale air swoon w…
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…blance of a serpent wear When noon rides forth upon the crystal air. While yet she spake, the dwindling shadow ran Beneath the feet of Charicles, the wan Waste water glinted free, and to the deep Cool pebbles did the kiss of sunshine creep ; The busy lark forgot for joy to sing, And all the woods with fairy voices ring ; The hills in dreamy langour seem to swoon Through the blue haze ! behold, the hour of noon ! And lo ! there came to pass the dreadful fate Her lips had shuddered out ; her pulses bate
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… Cypris ear alone. She bowed her head And bade her nymphs prepare a royal bed Where he should rest awhile ; and, being gone, Cypris and Charicles were left alone. An aureole of purple round her brow
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… the desolation of those caves The sea-nymphs haunt, could say a word of him ; No stars, to whom she looked, had seen the grim Abodes of Charicles, for deadly shade Lowered oer their top, nor any light betrayed The horror of their core. Despairing then Of natures prophets, and of gods and men, She cast her arms wide open to the sky, Cried loud, and wept, and girt herself to die. It was a pinnacle of ivory Whereon she stood, the loftiest of three fangs
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…whose span the heavens are. So came she to the maiden, and unseen Gazed on her rapt. So sighed the amorous queen, For her indeed might Charicles despair ! Yet of her presence was the maiden ware, Although her mortal eyes might see her not ; So she knelt down upon that holy spot And greeted her with tears ; for now at last The fountains of her sorrow, vague and vast, Burst from the strong inexorable chain Of too great passion, and a mortal pain Beyond belief, and so in sudden waves Tears welled impatient from their crystal caves. (Men say t…
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…e The chaste abandon of the sleeping maid, But looked upon her lips, checked course, and stayed, And noted all the virginal fresh air Of Charicles, the maiden head half bare To Phoibos kiss, half veiled by dimpled arms Within whose love it rested, all her charms Half-shown, half-hidden, amorous but chaste. And so, between the branches interlaced And all the purple white-starred undergrowth, Zeus crept beside the maid, little loath To waken her caresses, and let noon Fade into midnight in the amorous swoon
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… limpid rivulet. Then broke From smitten heart and ravished lips the tongue Of fire that clad its essence with the robe of song. SONG OF CHARICLES O fountains of pale sapphire, and clear green, O hills of purple, and ye olive vales, Being music to my wing, and echo seen Of no man being, for now my spirit fails To shrill its clearest notes, and golden gales Of sound, and breezes of delighted sighs. Bring music, hear me chant the world that is, And how Loves ambush in all nature lies, And I will tell how for one eager kiss My soul is fain to for…
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THE TALE OF ARCHAIS 27 The fading moon drifts sorrowful above. Then Charicles must ask his weeping love To lead him to the fountain of her tears. But she, possessed by vague and violent fears, Spake not a little while, and then began : O thou, a child of Heaven, and a man, Even so my lover, shall my woeful song So move thy spirit for my bitter wrong (God-nurtured though thou be) against the rods Laid on me by my mother, whom the gods, Righteous in anger, doomed, for fiery sin Kindled by hell-flames, cherishéd within Her lustful heart, for sin…