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THE TALE OF ARCHAIS 25 And drives them down the steep of Hell. But dim Sweet faces of dead maidens drew to him ; Quiet woods and streams and all the mountains tall, Cool valleys, silver-streaked with waterfall, Came in his slumbers, chaste and musical, While through their maze his mind beheld afar Dim and divine, Archais, like a star. It was no dream, or else the growing dawn Deepened the glory of the misted lawn, For to his eyes, half open now, there seems A figure, fairer than his dearest dreams. He sprang, he caught her to his breast, the ma…
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…ain love-longing whisperéd, Now broke in madrigals, and now forsook The cadence of its various melody For musics deepest mooda silence dim, Now under willows bubbled to the brim, Now over mosses murmured quietly, And now spread out into an azure pool Whose floor was pearl, whose walls were adamant, Behold there came a sylph, whose dreamy eyes Lit all the lawn, clear-glancing, deep and cool ; Whose curls were billowy gold luxuriant With stars and scents of summer woods and skies.
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… cluster of pale gold That twined in marvellous love-locks manifold Around her brow ; Mens lusts and womens woes Had not drawn nigh to dim those luminous eyes Full of strange longings, dreams not under- stood, Nor drawn around them th amethystine hood That lifes dark pencil drawn, and in no wise Was the soft bloom departed from the cheek, Clear, more of rose than of ivory. Nor had Shame And Lust made rich and full and ripe and red The dainty child-lips, nor made fierce and sleek The subtle smile that flickered as a flame About her lips and …
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…ed waters, We, Cypris, not thy daughters, Clad in bright flame, filled with unholy wine, O Cypris, none of thine !— Here, kissing in the dim red dusk, we linger, Striking with amorous finger Our lyres, whose fierce delights are all divine— O Cypris, none of thine ! Quenchless, insatiable, the unholy fire Floods our red lips desire ; Our kisses sting, as barren as the brine— O Cypris, none of thine !
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…all the woodlands glow With olive and pure silver and red gold, And all sweet natures marvels manifold Combine together in the twilight dim To harmonize in the thalamic hymn. HYMN O Lord our God ! O woodland king! O thou most dreadful God ! Who chasest thieves and smitest with thy rod, That fearful rod, too sharp, too strong For thy weak worshippers to bear !
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…the glances of the moon, While oer their brethren fallen or hewn They wave in melancholy tune Their branches mournfully. Mans days are dim, his deeds are dust, His span is but a little space, He lusts to live, he lives to lust, His soul is barren of love or trust, His heart is hopeless, seeing he must Perish, and leave no trace ; With impious rage he mocks the bounds Of earth, albeit so wholly base ; His ears are dead to subtle sounds, His eyes are blind, for Zeus confounds His vain irreverence, and astounds High Heaven with wrathful face.
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…s ? Your young dreams ? Are they of passion, or of rocks and streams, Of purple mountains, clad about with green, Or do their lamps grow dim in the unseen ? Sing to this hero ; sing, lure slumber to your queen.
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44 THE TALE OF ARCHAIS For anything but to discover him, And her large eyes with weeping grew more dim Than are the mists of Autumn on the hills. She sought him far and near ; the rocks and rills Could tell her nought ; the murmur of the trees Told her their pity and no more ; the breeze That cooled its burning locks within the sea, And dared not pass oer the dank swamps where he Was hid, knew nothing ; nor the soughing waves, Through all the desolation of those caves The sea-nymphs haunt, could say a word of him ; No stars, to whom she looked…
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72 THE TALE OF ARCHAIS Through the noons haze the world was vast and dim ; The streams and trees and air were shimmering With summer heat and earths cool vapouring, When, round his limbs entwined, a fiery snake Hissed in his frightened ear the call Awake. And Zeus arisen strives vainly to release His valiant body from the coils, nor cease His angry struggles in their cruel hold. But all implacable, unyielding, cold, Their sinuous pressure on his breast and thighs, The white teeth sharp and ready otherwise In one fierce snap to slay. There …
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…d pray That she will aid me. Then the billows lay Fondly quiescent while she answered him : Yea, are thine eyes with weeping grown so dim Thou canst not see who hovers over thee ? For I am she thou seekest. Come with me And tell me all thy grief ; thy prayer is heard Before thy spirit clothes in wintry word The fire it throbs with. And her eager doves Waited. From seas grown calm the wanton loves Lifted the hero to the pearly car, Whose floor was azure and whose front a star Set in seven jewels girt with ivory. Then the light rein the godde…
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THE TALE OF ARCHAIS 21 The sound stood trembling in the forest dim Lingering a little, yet there taketh him A strong mans one short moment of despair. He fell, the last of Titans, his loose hair Tangled in roses ; while his heart and mind Broken and yet imperishable, blind, Hateful, desire they know not what, and turn Lastly to pray for death ; his wild eyes burn, And bitter tears divide his doubtful breath. So grew his anguish to accomplish death, Had not the goddess with the rosy shoon Stooped oer the silver surface of the moon To touch his…
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…Charicles, the darling of the dawn, Slowly, and to his steps took little heed ; He came towards the pool, his god-wrought reed Shrilling dim visions of things glorious, And saw the maiden, that disported thus, And worshipped. Then in doubt he stood, grown white And wonderful, with passions perfect might Firing his veins and tingling in his brain, He stood and whitened, and waxed red again. His oat unheeded glanced beneath the wave, His eyes grew bright and burning, his lips clave— A sudden cry broke from him ; from the height His swift young b…
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THE TALE OF ARCHAIS 33 Until the glint and glory of the place Grew oer the blue dim line of ocean. It was a temple never built of man, Being of marble white, and all unhewn, Above a cliff, about whose base were strewn Boulders of amethyst or malachite. Save these the cliffs rose sheer, a dazzling white, Six hundred feet from ocean ; so divine Was the tall precipice, that from the shrine A child might fling a stone and splash it in the brine. Within whose silver courts and lily bowers The Queen of Love led Charicles ; white flowers Blushed ever…