Imatges de pàgina
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New growth about each shell and pendent For scenes like this: an empire stern hast

lyre;

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The which, in disentangling for their fire,
Pull'd down fresh foliage and coverture
For dainty toying. Cupid, empire-sure,
Flutter'd and laugh'd, and oft-times through
the throng

Made a delighted way. Then dance, and

song,

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As newly come of heaven, dost thou sit
To blend and interknit

Subdued majesty with this glad time.
O shell-borne King sublime!

We lay our hearts before thee evermore

And garlanding, grew wild; and pleasure We sing, and we adore!

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He could not bear it-shut his eyes in Long didst thou sit amid our regions wild,

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Rapt in a deep prophetic solitude.

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I die I hear her voice-I feel my Apollo's garland:-yet didst thou divine

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Glad was the hour, when, with thee, myri-❘ To see such lovely eyes in swimming search After some warm delight, that seems to

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Goddess! I love thee not the less: from Why must such desolation betide

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green nooks

While the great waters are at ebb and Empty of all misfortune?

flow.

I have a triple soul! O fond pretence — For both, for both my love is so immense, I feel my heart is cut for them in twain.'

Utter a gorgon voice?

thrush,

Are not these

Do the brooks Does yonder

Schooling its half-fledged little ones to brush

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About the dewy forest, whisper tales ? And so he groan'd, as one by beauty Speak not of grief, young stranger, or cold slain.

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snails

Will slime the rose to-night. Though if thou wilt,

Methinks 't would be a guilt - a very guilt

Not to companion thee, and sigh away
The light-the dusk - the dark- till
break of day!'

'Dear lady,' said Endymion, ''tis past:
I love thee! and my days can never last.
That I may pass in patience still speak:
Let me have music dying, and I seek
No more delight — I bid adieu to all.
Didst thou not after other climates call,
And murmur about Indian streams?'.
Then she,

Sitting beneath the midmost forest tree, For pity sang this roundelay

'O Sorrow,

Why dost borrow

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Why dost borrow

The earnest trumpet spake, and silver thrills

The mellow ditties from a mourning From kissing cymbals made a merry din

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'T was Bacchus and his kin! Like to a moving vintage down they came, Crown'd with green leaves, and faces all on flame;

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