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54 THE TALE OF ARCHAIS O dear Uranian night ! O happy hours ! Will they be long returning on their track ? Will my gold mane grow grey and know them not ? Will my hearts fibers long endure the rack That tears them nowthe fear I am forgot ? Nay, but I fear not : I well know your lips Yearn over moor and marsh for me, your hand Misses no moment but its marble slips In your bright tunic, as the little ships That seek a harbour by some rocky strand, To take your pipe, and play at loves demand Some tender song I sung you long ago To lume again so…
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68 THE TALE OF ARCHAIS Angry and wonderful, began to range Over her cheeks ; she bitterly began : I will not yield to thee—a mortal man Alone shall know my love. No God shall come From his high place and far immortal home To bend my will by force. Freeborn, I live In freedom, and the love that maidens give To men I give to one, but thou, most high, (For womans wits through your deceptions spy And know ye for Olympians) shall know A maidens heart no lover may win so. Farewell, and find a fairer maid to love! Farewell ! But he : Through a…
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84 THE TALE OF ARCHAIS In the arms of love we lie ; Music from the sky Tunes the hymeneal lyre that will echo till we die. God we feel is very nigh ; Soft, breeze, sigh While we kiss at last to slumber, And the varied number Of the forest songsters cry : This is immortality ; this is happiness for aye. Hush ! the music swells apace, Rolls its silver billows up Through the void demesne of space To the heavens azure cup ! Hush, my love, and sleep shall sigh This is immortality !
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…trusted long, We perceive to be a friend : Man at last with flower and tree, Bird and butterfly and bee, Earth and fire and air and sea, Will his voice divinely blend In a song, whose holy incense up to Heaven shall ascend And the souls that stand and shiver On the borders of the River, Shall their arms extend Unto Death as to a lover, knowing Death is not the End.
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…ough the sea-born isles of Greece. Sleep ! Sleep ! Sleep, ye happy lovers, sleep, Soft and dreamless, sweet and deep, Sleep ! Sleep ! We will steal away Till the 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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42 THE TALE OF ARCHAIS There sounded : Boldest mortal, have thy will ! I do reverse the doom of Archais And lay it on thyself ; nor ever this Shall lift its curse from off thee, this I swear. And Cypris looked upon him and was ware His form did change, and, writhing from her clasp, Fled hissing outward, a more hateful asp Than India breeds to-day, so terrible Was his despair, so venomous as hell The sudden hate that filled him. So away Knowing not whither, did he flee, till day Dropped her blue pinions, and the night drew on, And sable cloud…
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…rmes 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 with the deep delight That makes cool noontide from the sultry night. What are your dreams, my maidens ? 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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… 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 forget Paradise In Archais.
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…e the day Has fallen from his pinnacle must I Reach sea-girt Paphos, with a bitter cry To clasp the knees of Cytherea, and 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 pe…
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…om her arms whiteness, and upon his wrist Clasped it. Its glittering eyes of amethyst Fascinate him. Even so, the goddess cried, I will bind on thy arm the serpent bride Free from her fate, and promise by this kiss
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… sanctity even he not dares To touch with impious hand ; thus unawares Creep in among the columns to a gate My hand shall show thee ; it will open straight And thou must lie forgotten till his rage Have lost its first excess—then may we wage A more successful war against his power. But Charicles : Shall I for one short hour Fly from his tyranny ? Am I such man As should flee from him ? Let the pale and wan Women have fear—in strength of justice, I His vain fierce fury do this hour defy ! There shot through Heaven an awful tongue of fire, A…