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E G E U S
AND OTHER POEMS
BY
RICHARD HILL SANDYS, U.K.
OF Lincoln's inn, barrister-at-law
AUTHOR OF 'in THE BEGINNING' ' ANTITHEISM ' ETC.
LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, & CO., i PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1886
( 7 he rigkls of Iranslation and of rcpyoduction arc resa-'ed)
CONTENTS.
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I'AGK
EGEUS I
THE DEATH OF PRIAM . . . . . . . 25
ACHILLES AT THE TREN'CHES ..... 29
ACHILLES ARMING . . . . . . . . 3I
CEDIPUS 34
LABERIUS ..... 36
THE THREE HOROLOGES 39
LINES .......... 40
A MORNING WALK 43
THE STROLLERS 54
PALINODIUM 55
THE ALMSMAN . . . . . . . . . 58
THE nANAIOE ........ 61
LINES ON THE DEATH ni' THE PRINCE IMI'ERIAL . . 65
RELICS . . . . ' 68
KIVER VIEWS 70
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SEA VIEWS 72
THE COASTGUARD STATION 74
SKETCHES 17
THE BREAK OK GAUGE 81
DULCE DOMUM 83
AN INVOCATION ■ . . 85
A CHARADE 89
ANSWER 92
l'amour fanfaron 93
infans expositus 9^
the parish register : baptisms 97
an arabesque 99
the sicilian gossips i07
EGEUS.
Theseus, on parting for Crete on his expedition against
Minos, agreed with hia>^ther, Egeus, king of Athens, that if
successful he would on his return show a white sail as a signal
of victory. He did return successful, but forgot to display the
promised sign.
On Sunium's height, unhallowed yet by fame
Of glorious deeds, there sat from morn till eve
An aged man, of stately port, whose brow
Serene, and steadfast glance far more than all
Form and appliances of splendid place
Avouched him to be one that never yet
Moved at the bidding of created man ;
When men were all but gods, a king. — But now
From day to day upon the restless wave
That skirts the sea, too soon to bear his name, lo
He looked to where Minoian Cretb lay
Beyond the blue and scattered Cyclades ;
Waiting the triumph of his warrior son.
2 EGEUS
Who without triumph should return no more.
He, at his country's need, in arms had borne
Terms of reprisal and defiance high
To the dread Cretan king, the pirates' scourge,
The mighty ruler of the seas, a shade
In distant councils and a word of fear ;
The breaker up of thrones, the iron rule, 20
Measure for measure, without mercy just.
And now he tarried long, and by degrees
Care and uncertainty and racking dread.
Like winged harpies borne by all the winds,
Preyed on the aged father's lonely heart.
Before his eyes the glancing waters broke
Day's universal beam with pleasing change ;
Fair isles in distance softening far away
From point to point to heaven's own proper hue ;
And all his own ; and jutting promontory, 3^
And bending coast, and havens half-concealed,
And many a snowy sail and burnished prow
Of argosy and galley that for him
Sped on their courses in the cheerful day.
But now he saw them not : — behind him spread
ECEUS 3
The land of the olive groves, and arts, and arms,
The eye of Greece, Athene's throne on earth ;
Where, in the shade of their immortal rock,
The Acropolis, the proud Autochthones,
Created there, nor soiled with duller climes, 40
Walked, delicate in thought, in spirit high,
In form and gesture like the very gods,
And all his own ; but now he had no eyes
Save for his son — sense, thought of joy, except
In some remembered grace of his dear son.
Silent and stern the livelong day he sat ;
And not a shadow on the ruffled wave,
Nor the sad moaning by the idle wind
Made through the bending rushes as it past.
But found true answer in his troubled breast. 5°
And if at times his aged servitor.
Of faith long proved, and scarred in the self-same wars,
Should press some gentle service, hopeful word,
Entreaty mild, or loving-kind reproof
For state neglected and too stubborn grief.
Resentful he at first, and all the king.
Would like an angry lion chafe ; but soon
B 2
4 EGEUS
Resumed his better nature, and conceived
For slight wrong disproportionate remorse,
As in requital, being kindly ever, 60
Turn, faintly smiling, to some gracious tale
Of their own primes, well spent, nor wanting praise ;
But rounding ever with his son — his form,
His grace, his bearing — how he struck the boar.
How he would wind the fiery steed, in all
The exercise of youth how perfect he !
How he reproved the saucy embassy !
And, had he marked, with what fine modesty
He stayed his youthful counsels, nor would take
The applause that sought but welcome, without first 70
The full approval of a father's eye.
He was all spotless ; what to rival him,
Young CEdipus, the glozing boy of Thebes,
Or all the Argonauts and robber sons
Of Tantalus, or, but for the blood of Jove,
His hidden privilege, Alcides' self !
Then would he plan how best to grace his son
When he returned, as sure he would, and soon ;
EGEUS 5
And how his hunting spears, in order ranged
By his own hands and sacred to his touch, 80
Should rust no more ; and that his faithful dog,
The good Molossian slumbering at his feet,
That at the sound of his young master's name
Lifted intelligent hi^ stately head
To wait his sign, should service take again.
And wake Cithaeron with his deep-toned cry ;
That Dian well should deem Orion come.
Lit from the Zodiac — should she not, old friend ?
And he would lay his weary greatness down ;
With his own hands the golden circle place 90
Upon his son's fair brow, and render up
With willing bend, half homage, half caress.
His state, well changed to live awhile in him ;
Then at no distant day, upon the close
Of some new triumph worthily achieved.
Breathe happily his perfect soul away.
So fondly thus the old man garrulous,
Would cheat awhile his sore foreboding thoughts.
But ever and anon, the venomed dart
6 EGEUS
Struck by the shadowy arm of watchful grief, loo
All keener for his short uneasy rest,
Would reach his quivering soul, and with a start
And stern repulse, for suffering quickens hate.
Drawn to himself, the unhappy king would take
His state once more in wilful loneliness.
Nor needed great occasion then to strike
From his deep sorrow rash unsteady wrath.
' This was their doing — slaves and dastards all —
Had they no sons ? no safety but their fears ?
Must he alone live desolate for them, no
Lutists and revellers, and their effeminate homes ?
Theirs was the quarrel — what were they to him ?
His sceptre was from Jove, his strength on high ;
And, by the gods ! he was too merciful ;
But he would fling that mercy to the winds,
And teach his thoughts such plagues to vex their
souls.
That they should deem the Cretan come indeed.
Though he were fitter judge for raging hell.
EGEUS 7
And he would hold the universal state
But his son's hostage ; look they to themselves.' 120
But now a sail, a snow-white sail, draws on,
Scarce seen at first, but brightening as it comes.
From height to height the joyous signal springs,
From these to rest, but through no weary flight.
Upon the sacred hill ; from that to flash
Its signal to the skies, as thus once more,
To draw new favours by new merits down.
From door to door the busy rumour spreads :
And many a fluttered matron clasps her child ;
And at the fountains many an urn runs o'er, 130
Where maidens stand and smile with downcast eyes,
Lost in sweet fancies, sighing yet not sad.
And blushing deep though not a soul be near.
And Athens wakens to her proper life,
And turns her ever-restless people forth.
Now in her market-place are clasping hands,
Greetings and questionings, and raised brows :
Old grudges die ; the peaceful citizen
8 EGEUS
Sets his cicada with a martial air ;
The warrior grimly smiles, and counts his turn ; 140
No churl so base, that grinds his soul for gain,
But takes some glow of gentle rivalry ;
But all too soon, his hasty cha'ff burnt out,
Turns with some scurrile jibe of wounds and death.
And sorry feasts, contentment and full sleep,
Back to his villain-craft : the nobler slave
Pants for his freedom now with nearer hope.
The startled minstrels prove their golden lyres ;
The priesthood fret, and on the sacred way
The wreathed victims, as they feel the god, 150
Turning their curled fronts and gilded horns,
Submissive to the hand, and perfect all,
Pace gently to the very altar's foot.
And on the triumph swells ; each glittering speck
Spread to its full proportions now rides on
A stately galley, every bank complete ;
Fretting with glistening oars the silver tide,
That on its quivering surface still reflects
The glowing pageant as it flies along,
EGEUS 9
Set in white spray that beams around hke stars : 160
Straight to the port they glide ; upon the decks
Stand well-known forms, distinct in order true,
That with their spears upon their dinted shields,
In cadence just, with voices well attuned,
Raise high the paean note of victory ;
That with her thousa'^ds Athens catching up
Sends from her busy shores to all her hills :
So happily they come — but not his son.
'Twas but some idle armament that brought
Spoils and submission from some rebel isle. 170
And now his spirit fell ; and the deep grief
That charms the meaner sense from taste of pain.
O'er the wide gap of his dejected hope.
Rushed on his heart and set its temple there.
No feeling now : the season touched him not ;
He spoke, he heard no more ; and to his side
Drew wandering death, at whose unseen approach
Men fall into strange shudderings, and break off
The tale, and, staring into vacancy, 179
Stand wrapt and listening, though no sound be heard ;
lo EGEUS
As if a summoning spirit spoke their names
Home to the inner sense ; with sometimes tears
Unbidden, or wild laughter without cause.
So at his side the despot of the world
Stood, and with bony finger proved his dart :
From which dry contact issue fiery pain.
Dread and despondency, and sharp regret —
But healing sure ; rare visions and sweet sounds ;
For heaven opens when a good man dies,
And without voice, nor yet to outward view 190
Vouchsafed, but wakening still in holy dream,
The memories of all clinging charities,
The very forms and graces most endeared
Of the long past, that seem on us to smile.
To charm from earth the weary soul away.
Unnumbered spirits from their seats of bliss
Speed on the untiring ministry of grace
From God to man ; and as the sun's rich beams.
Upon the pathless wood, at glowing noon.
Through yielding boughs or lightly falling leaves, 200
Pierce to some deep neglected solitude.
Some chilly wilderness of damp and shade.
EGEUS II
Soon where they light the rugged scene grows mild ;
The air wafts perfume as the tangled sward
Turns by degrees its hidden treasures forth !
From the rude bent with them the lily peeps,
In maiden state the blushing eglantine
Adjusts her soft robe on her briery throne ;
The violet lends its "Bloom, the thorn its may,
The jasmin softly twines ; all loveliest flowers 210
Spring silent there, forsaken, yet how sweet !
Where without them were rottenness and death. .
So they into the sullen heart of man.
Wooing their welcome ever, so but once
111 passions, their fell purpose unfulfilled.
Waver an instant, or the stubborn will
Yield but a crevice, fling their living light ;
At which strong charm the angry storm grows
hushed ;
The heavy mist rolls off and gives to view
An opening paradise of peaceful thoughts. 220
And from their banishment come meekly home,
The graces of the soul : yet one alone.
Her mission sped, for now no future is —
12 EGEUS
Enchanting Hope flits smilingly away.
But Faith abides, and heavenly Charity,
That bears so rich a charm, that where she comes
Is earth no more, and might she but once place
Her gentle footstep on the sulf 'rous plain
Of raging Hell, itself were Hell no more.
O holy Death, feigned hideous by our sins ! 230
Thou, that must come, perchance this instant art
To me the dawn of the unsetting day ! —
— What if the toll that marks this midnight hour,
Be now my knell, and I must die — alone ?
Yet come not sudden. Death ; nor when success,
Delusive ever, chains more firmly down
The spirit that but seems to mount ; nor when
Defeat and shame in this our pleasant life
Chill the soft current of our delicate joys,
And the permitted fiends that by the side 240
Of sullen outlaws pace with equal steps,
With swift suggestion whisper there unseen.
Of pleasures fled, the wrongs and scorn of those
That, meaner deemed, are yet our very selves ;
EGEUS 13
And every circumstance of present suffering,
Distorted so by their foul sorceries,
That the smooth stream or bloody grave seems well
To the racked soul a refuge sure, the realm
Of dreamless sleep, and He, the God of all,
Or chance or destiny, or else He rules 250
Careless alone, nor~lieeds the man He made.
Then come not. Death, for there are but the love
Of life disguised when life's delights are past.
But saving thus, nor tainting thus the soul,
Patient at last and teacher to itself.
Come when and as thou wilt
Yet is a sorrow sharper far than death.
To higher natures, that, subduing self,
Twine their strong loves in failing age, and live
In younger souls, whose fair succession seems 260
Another life far sweeter than their own ;
Ennobling thus by what embitters most.
When fate untimely strikes ; and therefore he.
Encircled close by sad and watchful friends.
From day to day upon the restless wave
14 EGEUS
That parted his dear son looked sadly on :
He on the wave, they only upon him.
But still the despot stayed the certain dart,
Which in a tyrant's wantonness he oft
Brandished on high, delaying still to strike. 270
Whilst at each moment fell some prop away.
The royal spirit, nursed in empire, train'd
By heroes that half worshipped as they taught,
Rich in all virtues, practised in high deeds.
To win all hearts beneath his happy rule,
And make subjection seem but privilege
To the proud equals of all kings beside.
Passed with his hope to wander in a world
Of shadows, where one only image now.
In swiftly changing scenes of pain or joy, 280
But seeming all, that through his sickly brain
Rushed like the drift of some wild hurricane,
Stood present ever — yet how far removed !
Now nature gave her signs : the eye that late
Beamed like a star on all the lesser world
Now dim with sluggish tears looked dully round,
EGEUS 15
Or from beneath its pent of snowy white,
Glared wild and sudden, like the fiery glance
Of some fell monster from its wintry den.
All state declined, all order lost, he now 290
Reeled like a drunken man, or feebly crouched,
Muttering inaudibly with vacant stare
Some idle tale outrunning still his thoughts,
Repeated oft, and all beside himself.
Or he would turn and frame him auguries
From flight of birds or falling leaves, and take
Gladness or sorrow from the natural stir
Of careless life ; or else, forgetting all.
Set him to watch with childlike eagerness
The worthless chances of some idle waif, 300
Helplessly driven by the eddying surge :
Which he would freight with some poor phantasy
Of his sick brain, that being but the shade
Of his past sorrow long indulged, he thus
Would mark, and yearning by degrees, and now
Fairly distracted, take the puny stray
For something undefined, but near his heart ;
And at its wreck, the ready tears would start,
1 6 EGEUS
Slow and unnoticed, but through that shght breach,
Anon the bitter tide of his true sorrow 310
Would pour a wintry deluge on his soul,
And he would bend and veil him in his robe.
And weep apart, long, fast, and silently.
Then — for the body that must pine with us.
Has yet its privilege— at length, though but
As one who takes a respite on the rack,
Faintly restored, he slowly would unfold
His anguished brow, and, seeing his true watch
Saddening for him, and being kindly ever.
Take an enforced show of patient hope, 320
That his poor suffering friends afflicted more,
Than all his waywardness and passion past.
And they would turn their manly fronts aside.
One to the other, weeping unrestrained,
Rival on rival leaning, hand in hand.
But on the stranger cast such threatening glance.
As saints on sacrilege, that he should dare
To look upon the ruin of their king.
For they remembered all his gentle rule ;
He was to them a god, his eye their star, 330
EGEUS 17
His strength their peace, sufficing fame his praise ;
And there was not among them all one man
Might ever tax him with a wilful wrong,
Or fair endeavour met with curt reproof,
Or biting taunt, that, from the kingly lip
Unanswerable, drives Jiigh spirits mad.
And meaner men to dark conspiracy.
And therefore lived his image in their heart.
And when men spoke his name, their thoughts grew
proud,
And when he ailed, was sorrow round their hearths, 340
Their homes were cold And something, too, of
him.
The lost, the long-desired, for whom they trained
Their gallant boys, whose eyes swept not the ground,
But looked erect and quailed not where they looked,
That met reproof unflinching, though suffused
With silent tears, that fell not to the ground.
These daily now returning from their tasks,
With bounding steps and looks elate, to tell
Their prowess, and their praise how fairly won.
They, happy fathers, with such softness met, 350
i8 EGEUS
And womanly tenderness, as they were fain
Lest they be quite unmanned, to hide beneath
Some show of mirthful taunt, misprising thus,
What gave their mellowed age its dearest charm ;
Which they in turn, detecting quick how true
And deep affection lurked in such disguise.
Would answer in like mood ; and bid them all
Look to their trophies, guard their honours well.
For they would soon o'ertop the chief of all,
And in despite would so acquit themselves, 360
That, by the gods ! when their good prince came back,
He should not choose but lead them to the wars.
■ And these their youthful chief now wanted long ;
And heavily in grief the days passed on.
But in all time the changeful seasons roll.
And now the autumn wanes ; beneath the shade
The conscious beauties, each supporting each.
Bashful by turns and serious, stand no more
To hear the modest shepherd's artless tale ;
And in the quiet grove, no youthful pair, 370
Pace hand in hand to tell their happy loves
EGEUS
19
And plan their simple homes, and wonder where
In such fair world should suffering be found,
Whilst often their full hearts deny them words.
Age stirs no more abroad : the twittering flight
Of swallows now makes cheerful eve no more.
The air grows thick, and every sullen gust
Wrenches the brown leaves from their rugged stems,
To scud before the gale, and wavering long,
Sink by degrees, and rest in clammy heaps. 380
No more the seagull soars on moveless wing
In the soft air upon its lazy watch ;
But, wheeling close and frequent, breasts the spray
With busy scream, and brushes oft the surge ;
Or dips adroit, and flutters on the edge.
Then turns aslant, and, yielding to the gale,
Darts like an arrow and is seen no more.
And seaward, o'er the dull horizon now
Creep heavy mists, that, mounting in thick clouds.
Hang overhead — a fitting canopy 390
For the last act of some deep tragedy.
And o'er the wintry flood a lonely bark,
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20 EGEUS
That, dimly viewed through cHnging vapours damp,
Scarce held the sluggish air, comes slowly on
Floating afar and hardly seen to move ;
That to their dark imaginings seemed well
Some thing of fate, or Charon's dismal raft.
Yet they, for aye the generous and brave,
Are slowly credulous of coming ill,
When they would bind the wreath of honour on, 400
Such thoughts would banish as in scorn. But he —
He saw it not ; his eye was filmed, his thoughts
Afar, and commune held with sense no more.
And yet he moved uneasily, and flung
With trembling hand his snowy hair aside,
Sighing as one who, in a feverish bed,
Some new delusion takes in troubled dream.
And onward still it came, with wreathless prow.
Blank decks and tarnished sail, and drooping forms.
And every symbol of disastrous flight. 410
For something not quite well — perchance the air
Bore in its liquid void the wailing cry
Of a wronged maiden, ere came wandering by
He, the first tamer of the cruel Ind,
EGEUS 21
Whose better spirit shared in Northern climes,
Yet lives in chiefs of nations then unborn.
And he, victorious, came as though he fled,
A god was on his track, and in his heart
The heavy thought of an unworthy deed ;
And he forgot the token for his sire, 420
Perplexed thus, or else he did not dare
To claim his triumph when he might not taste
The very triumph he his country brought.
Being such deep subjection in his soul.
And they, beholding now the goodly ship
Themselves had launched so hopeful, thus returned
Assured well that he was dead : for how
Should he from Crete and her bitter king.
The rival of their princes, and the foe
By field and flood of all their land, that held 43°
With man no converse, nor regarded aught
The cheerful gods that haunt the hill or grove
Or sedgy stream, or guard the good man's hearth.
The gloomy worshipper of Dis alone,'
' So Homer, of Achilles,
Oi»Te riif ffir4v5f<TKf Beecy, '6ti fir) Ait irarpl.
22 EGEUS
Sustain defeat and live ? Dejected thus,
Together in sad concert then they closed
On him their charge, now needing chiefest care,
When aid was none ; whereat the unhappy king.
His vigil ended thus, fell shrieking down,
On the cold ground, there lay as he were dead. 44°
But yet he might not die, and yet awhile,
The crimson current flowed, and with it life,
But life in bitterness, life desolate,
Life without purpose, object, aim, each pulse
But a new torment ; sense, intelligence.
Thought, judgment, all in one sharp pang confused.
And thus at last abrupt to his full height,
He wildly leapt, and tore with desperate hands
His snowy locks, untended long, and flung
To the keen air, which, haply borne around 45°
By the rude eddy, seemed as brandished there
By viewless hands of Furies on the watch,
In token of their certain victory.
Now reason fled, and he might err no more.
He was a sinless man, whose deadly glance
Scowled hate to man, defiance to the gods,
EGEUS 23
He that would slay the poor imploring friends,
That but opposed untiring love to rage,
And fain would die might they thus bring him peace ;
That bared his bosom to the storm, and clenched 460
His lifted hands, and dared heaven's angry bolt ;
Whose speech was coarsest railing, yells and shrieks
Of aimless vengeance"; he that writhed and strove
In the sad conflict with the kindly force.
That would but guard him from himself ; that foamed, 1
And bit with bloody jaws the faithful breasts,
Tha: covered hearts that ever beat for him.
Long thus he strove uncertain ; for the loss
Was theirs, and they were old, and wasted long
With the same sorrow that had broken him ; 47°
And lessened, too, by awe, that they should thus
With subject hands profane the kingly form.
But now, for with a madman's force there came
A madman's cunning, as content at last
To yield, and tranquil as a child he lay.
Whereat, relaxing by degrees, with joy
For such sweet patience, gladly they resumed
24 EGEUS
Their old observance, and but sought to calm
With soothing words the reas'ning soul returned.
But at the unguarded moment he at once 480
Broke fiercely from them all, and, laughing wild.
Rushed headlong to the rude and dizzy cliff ;
As men for life, so ran he to his death.
Ah ! had he but beheld that peerless form
Advancing, bounding, flying to his side !
True he had died, but died as age would die.
On to the brink he sped, a moment turned
In desperate glee, then flung him from the height !
And the hushed sea received a senseless form,
Whilst where he had stood, what seemed himself
restored 49°
To brilliant youth, as risen from the ground,
His princely son came on, and all too late !
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THE DEATH OF PRIAM,
^neid, bk. 2, v.
Unhappy Priam ! when the deep red blaze
Flashed its sure tidings to his aching gaze
Of falling Ilium, and the hot crimson tide
Through his loved home streamed reeking at his side,
The time-worn warrior o'er his weak limbs hung
His long disused arms, and feebly slung
His pond'rous sword, then, wild and beating high
With life's last fever, faltered forth to die.
Within his palace walls an altar rose,
Uncovered to the sky, where rooted close, lo
An antique laurel, spreading overhead
Its leafy veil, a holy twilight shed
There Hecuba and her sad daughters sought.
Thronged like storm-driven doves, and all distraught,
26 THE DEATH OF PRIAM
Aid from their silent gods, and cowering, round
Their imaged forms their weak arms vainly wound.
There, as she saw the aged monarch pass,
Staggering in youthful panoply, ' Alas !
Unhappy husband, what dire fancy charms
Thy thoughts,' she cried, 'to these delusive arms? 20
The time nor these, nor thee ; not from the grave
Restored now my Hector's self should save.
Here, only here ; this altar shall defend,
Or, failing this, one blow one sorrow end.'
So as in age o'ertaxed nature stays
Her purpose soon, and consciously obeys,
Drawn to her side he took his silent state ;
There, save his wavering eye, as moveless marble sate.
But now the young Polites, his fair son,
From the hot chase in terror pressing on, 30
Through the long halls and lonely columns reels.
Stricken and weak, and Pyrrhus at his heels ;
And now the hunter holds him, now the spear
Finds his white neck, and roots it deeply there.
And onward close before the very eyes.
Of Priam borne, he staggers, falls, and dies.
THE DEATH OF PRIAM 27
He, wretched father, then though instant death
Stood in his path, nor passion spared, nor breath ;
'Now all the gods, what gods above us,' cried,
'These hohest ties have known, their vengeance
guide 40
To thy vile heart, and edgeless fall thy sword !
Be cursed thou, for this thy deed abhorred.
That to mine age this foul despite has shown.
And clouds my vision with a slaughtered son !
Not such Achilles, whom, when thou dost lie.
Thou claim'st as thine, to his strong enemy.
He, like a god, the suppliant raised, and gave
The foe that wronged him to a warrior's grave ;
With honoured gifts restored me to my reign,
For this thy shame, that him in me dost stain.' 50
Then threw his cumbrous spear, that, rising slow,
Scarce reached the shield, and fell without a blow.
Then Pyrrhus — ' King, thyself the tidings speed,
Hence to the shades of my despitious deed.
There tell thy wrongs, and to Achilles there
Of his degenerate son this token bear ;
Now die ! ' — and scarce he ended thus, when o'er
28 THE DEATH OF PRIAM
Polites' corse, and sliding in his gore,
He dragged him to the altar's foot, and through
His fluttered heart his reeking weapon drew. 60
So, while for aid his faUing country cried,
In burning Troy discrowned Priam died !
And Asia's ruler, the all-powerful lord,
Through many a land in many a tongue adored.
Now lies a headless trunk, a mark for shame,
On the rude shore, a wreck without a name. 66
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ACHILLES AT THE TRENCHES.
Approved of Jove, Achilles sternly past
Forth from his tent unarmed, yet Pallas cast
Her watchful aegis round, and o'er his head
A golden cloud of dazzling glory spread ;
Alone he stept, nor mingling with the rest,
His promise held, and from his powerful breast
Sent the huge shout which Pallas with her own
Swelled fiercely, whose intolerable tone
Shook all the ranks of Ilium, like the sound
Of the hoarse trumpets when, embattled round lo
Some powerful city, countless host, raise high
The note of onset ; which appalling cry
They the flushed victors sickened when they heard.
And nerveless drooped as back the wild steeds reared
Ungoverned on their cars, or swerved in flight,
And all was rout and measureless affright,
30 ACHILLES AT THE TRENCHES
Nor spirit was there one, but quailed
At that fierce form in matchless splendour veiled.
Thrice from the trenches came that sound of dread,
And, feebly rallied, thrice the Trojans fled, 20
Or in the crush fell headlong to the plain.
By their own arms and clashing chariots slain.
So came the welcome evening on at last,
And o'er their flight its timely shadow cast.
Yet scarcely they, for fear removed afar.
Drew rein at last ; and quickly from each car,
Fasting themselves, the panting coursers loosed ;
On straight to council, standing round, confused
And trembling every man, full sorely scared.
Because Achilles had once more appeared. 30
31
ACHILLES ARMING.
Iliad
Then, as the snow in winter's gloomy reign
From deep dull clouds falls glittering o'er the plain,
The rallied Greeks rejoicingly once more
Spread from their ships, and whiten all the shore ;
From countless helms the glassy sparkles fly ;
Shields flash on shields, and kindle to the sky.
And laughs the field around with living light,
The busy stir amid, and muster to the fight.
Achilles, all pre-eminent, arrays
For battle in his place ; twin-torches blaze lo
His wrathful eyes, and furiously his breath
Comes hissing forth from his firm grating teeth
In the deep utterance of his vengeful hate
To hapless Troy, and signal of her fate,
32 ACHILLES ARMING
So dreadfully in arms he shines again,
In the rich gifts that Vulcan wrought with pain.
NOTE.
Homer has been celebrated for the great variety of his death-
giving blows ; but Lucan has, it may be seen, in one instance at
least, checkmated him. He has one of his soldiers hit with
javelins in the back and breast at the same instant. They meet
in the middle, and recoil the same way they came.
' Terga simul pariter missis et pectora telis
Transigitur : medio concarrit pectore ferrum ;
Et stetit incertus flueret quo volnere sanguis :
Donee utrasque simul largus cruor expulit hastas,
Divisitque animam, sparsitque in volnera letum.'
Pharsalia, 1. 3, v. 587.
' The sharp points drive at once through back and breast.
Meet with a clash, and strike fire in his chest.
The blood, sore puzzled at the double breach,
Spouts out the life divided, part at each.'
Racine, perhaps from this passage, calls Lucan Virgik ivre,^
the poet evidently seeing double— two spears, two blows, and
two spigots. It requires a little preparation perhaps —
' Ut liber animus sentiat vim carminis.'
PhcBdrus.
It reminds one somewhat of the counter-paradox of Queen
Elizabeth's waxwork maid of honour — once, I believe, if not
still, in Westminster Abbey — who died of the prick of a needle.
ACHILLES ARMING 33
On the other hand, Lucan makes Caesar sp'eak to his
mutinous soldiers as none but Caesar could speak :
Discedite castris :
Tradite nostra viris ignavi signa Quirites.
At paucos, quibus hrec rabies auctoribus arsit,
Non Caesar sed poena tenet : procumbite terrse,
Infidumque caput, feriendaque tendite colla.
Et tu, quo solo stabunt jam robore castra,
Tiro rudis, specta pcenas et disce ferire,
Disce mori. Pharsalia, lib. v. ver. 357.
Begone and clear the camp ; give up to men
My standards, ye faint-hearted citizens.
But you, the few from whom arose this rage,
Not Caesar now, but vengeance, holds : bow down
Your faithless head, and bare your necks for death
Untried recruit, my soldier from this time,
Look on, and learn to strike, to die.
D
34
CEDIPUS.
Statius, Thebaid, bk. 8.
As when the blind and ghastly (Edipus,
Gladdening with presage of that country's fall
Himself had saved, and late so dearly loved,
Strode without guide, unbidden, to the feast
Of his detested son ; there drank to all,
And taxed the lawless rioters as tame
And laggard in their cups upon the eve
Of such fair enterprise — dismay awhile
At that fell grisly shape, Apollo's hate,
To the broad day from his abhorred retreat lo
Arisen thus, held them suspense and mute ;
But soon false shame and forced rivalry
Restored them, and their wicked thoughts rushed on
In wilder and yet wilder mirth, as he
\
(ED IP us 35
Were craven most who least blasphemed — but lo !
The shadow of advancing Nemesis,
The unseen, the unmocked, eternal Nemesis !
At once their stricken senses reel ; their eyes
Dim with unwonted tears ; their laughter drops
To aching sobs ; the spiced air turns forth 20
The reek of the charnel, and the sparkling wine
Dulls and ferments to noisome must, and thus
In speechless consternation staring wild,
They gnash their teeth despairingly, and champ
Their dainty viands, fouled with blasts from hell,
That work a loathing e'en more terrible
Than all the torments of the morrow's death. 27
36
LABERIUS.
Laberius, a Roman knight, a man of some genius, and cele-
brated as a writer of mimes, being compelled to appear on the
stage by the request of Julius Cffisar, the step involving the loss
of his knighthood, is said to have spoken the prologue here
translated from Macrobius.
Necessity ! against whose crooked tide
So many strive that ever strive in vain !
Where hast thou borne me thus defenceless forth,
In the extreme of this my wearied age ?
Me no ambition, me no rivalry,
No strife, no fear, strength, or authority
From honour's path e'er turned in glowing youth.
Yet see, in age how princely excellence,
Affably speaking in persuasive tones,
Moves without effort from my place of rest ! lo
For man must yield where not the gods withstand.
LABERIUS 37
And I this morn, full thirty years twice told,
And all without a stain, that left my home
A Roman knight, must now return a player !
And I by this one day have lived too long.
Yet if it were, indeed, thy purpose thus
For lettered prais^to break off the chief flower
Of my good fame, O ! potent Nature why,
In good and ill alike predominant,
Did'st thou not rather bend the pliant bough 20
In my sweet spring of life ? so might I give
Content to these, and win e'en his applause.
But wherefore now ? what bring I to the scene ?
AVhat grace of form, or state, or dignity,
Gesture or bearing, or melodious voice ?
E'en as the cold and clinging ivy kills
The stately oak, so sure does creeping age
Kill me, and I now, like a sepulchre,
Bear nothing but a title and a name. 29
But Laberius took a speedy revenge, and Caesar could not
have very greatly enjoyed his performance. At his first en-
trance, rushing on the stage in the dress and character of a
slave who had just been severely flogged, his first words (under-
stood to have been introduced by himself) were, ' Porro Quirites
38 LABERIUS
libertatem perdimus.' A little further on he added, ' He must
needs fear many whom many fear ; ' and on another occasion :
Not through all time is man pre-eminent.
Reach you the height, uneasily you stand ;
Descend one step, you fall — and I have fallen ;
And soon shall he that follows. Praise is free.
It may be added that the word Quirites above quoted is not
very translatable. As the old name for the Roman people
collectively, they were somewhat proud of it, and there was a
sort of national feeling about it, much as there is about our
'Rule Britannia,' 'Old England,' 'Wooden Walls,' 'thin red
line,' and so on, or such as our American cousins attach to
their everlasting and ubiquitous ' Stripes and Stars.'
Th affrepoeu (pop-qfjLa,
Kara -yav Si aK/j-vpas re
Eti virarov TZOTarai.
In the quotation from Lucan above given the matter is
reversed, as it was there assumed to be a far greater distinction
to be a soldier of Csesar than a mere Roman citizen or civilian.
39
THE THREE HOROLOGES.
{From the Italian. )
Shade, wheel, and sand : by line, by steel, by fall,
Dark, hard, minute, slow-moving waste the day.
O deadly shade, that wrapp'st me in thy pall !
O cruel wheel, that drawest my life away !
O heavy sand, to all that live in woe !
With griefs, racks, burthens, do ye hold your sway.
Ye threefold death, gloom, torture, ceaseless flow !
Snares, pains and dangers, aye, o'er life ye spread ;
Dull type of horror, shade to all below !
Blind wheel, that ever urgest as I go ! lo
And thou, small dust, mute token from the dead !
40
LINES
ON SEEING TWO LITTLE BOYS CROSS A GUTTER.
Smile, little child, on him scarce more than child,
Whose charge, whose thought, whose Hfe thou art :
look full
Into his loving eyes ; give light to light,
Set gladness free, make patient longing joy,
Enriching take ; so, palm to palm, the touch
Is holy ; from that innocent kiss there sprang
A spirit to the heart, that there enthroned
Shall keep your age not wholly desolate.
Now dash those tears aside, that but set off
Joy quick returning, as this summer breeze lo
Flings from the glossy leaves the genial rain
To glitter in the sun, new broken forth
From sullen clouds, that darts his rich beams a'er
LINES 41
The slanting shower in full retreat, and sets
His radiant arch of triumph in the skies.
Now, side by side, clasp well that faithful hand.
And with dilated eyes and serious hrow,
As on a well-concerted enterprise,
Plant firm that litt^ heel ; a brother's care
Shall make those flints as velvet to your tread ; 20
And now, the ravine past, toss back those curls.
And laugh and crow with such sweet merriment
Shall charm the heav)' thoughts of broken men,
Sober the midday drunkard, and draw forth
A faltering blessing from regretful age.
Twin treasures, home : your places vacant long
Make gloom, and thoughts sent forth from yearning
hearts.
Like scouts unseen, are hovering round your path :
Your angels watch for you ; for you this hour
Is joy in heaven — what, also, if for me, 30
Who soften thus at what myself have been,
And take, unmarked of you, a kindred peace.
That, of myself, such peace can never know ?
42 LINES
Eheu ! gymnasii mei sodales
Impubes ! decus, heu, meum, quibuscum
Festive toties novis in armis,
Pro palma pueris puer movebam
Lites innocuas cita palaestra !
Ergo foedere par pari obligati
Dulci, nee superis inauspicatis,
Carpebamus iter periculosum,
Visuri propius scelus, rapinas,
Funestasque acies, atroxque regnum lo
Vital sua jura vindicantis.
Nunc surda omnia, nee tenent fluenta
Cursus sacra suos ; nihil calet cor !
Ssvit luctibus omne saeculum, ipse
Vel somnus furor, et torus sepulcrum.
43
A MORNING WALK
{Not after Cowper. )
Mark, where the gallant MinyK guide
Their Argo o'er the Euxine tide !
A shade at noon — athwart the sky
A stately eagle soars, so high
He parts the light rack's fleecy veil.
So huge his pinions fan their sail.^
With one harsh scream the bird of Jove
Unbending cuts his way above,
Then, in the distance sweeping o'er
Black Caucasus, is seen no more. lo
Anon a shriek : from every part,
No warning, seems at once to start.
' Netpfaiv crxeSoV, aWa koI e/j-irris
Aai<pia iravr^ iriva^e Trapaidv^as irrepvyicriTii.
Ai'OLL. Rhod. Argonaut, bk. ii. v. 1254.
44 A MORNING WALK
From sea and sky, above, around,
One savage, wild, unearthly sound :
A shrill and miserable cry,
The Titan in his agony !
Where in a hollow far beyond
The springs of life, sweet nature's bound
Hid in the gloomy crags, beneath
The summer's blaze, the winter's breath, 20
Prometheus on his bed of stone
Lies chained, and visitor has none
Save that fell bird, that comes to tear
From his torn side his daily fare.
Down fall the clashing oars, that may
Take equal stroke no more that day.
No warrior there but hides his brow,
Shuddering apart, and crouching low
E'en where he sits ; and not a word.
Or sign, or sound of life is heard 30
Save but at times the gasping sound
Of pain concealed, or look around
Save a quick glance thrown hurriedly
To catch some stronger comrade's eye.
A MORNING WALK
45
So dread a thing the witnessing,
A higher nature's suffering !
Again at eve the eagle came,
Returned, his flight, his scream the same.
He passed ; and mark ! one bloody speck
From his hot beak now stains their deck. 40
They on their paths : and many an age
Has fled since then, and many a stage
The unwearied car of day has run,
That shines on us as then it shone.
Nations have risen and have set
Since then, and many a name been great.
But Nature varies not : the sea
Rolls on, the pleasant air is free,
And beauteous earth ; the arched groves
Shelter as then our whispered loves, 50
And the broad day surveys the stream
Of thought, life, passion still the same.
Succession without change, and we
Are, and perforce shall ever be.
46 A MORNING WALK
Their kindred still ; and for that cause
Sweet Nature gently round us draws
A golden chain, unseen by man,
Unbroken since the world began ;
And the great names of early days
Are household words with us : their praise
Fires yet, and kindles in our eyes,
And lifts us with them to the skies.
And I have gentler thoughts this hour.
The bitter day, my night, is o'er.
They sleep that once were mine, and I
Wander alone in phantasy,
That use makes now my life ; my chain
Is off, I am a child again :
As once, when in the morning grey.
In leaden sleep my schoolmates lay, 70
With stealthy touch the bolt withdrawn,
I slipt to greet the golden dawn,
Then o'er the barrier ; turned awhile,
With clenched fist and mockmg smile,
To mark my infant triumph o'er
The prison that I hated sore.
A MORNING WALK 47
Thence pausing soon to note the hght
Of the last watcher of the night
When I upon its lessening rays
Would with such childish longing gaze, 80
As I by that might fix it there
In the unstable, faithless air.
Fair star, that when the landscape grey
Takes largesse of usurping day !
And hill, and dale, and tufted lawn
Spread their fresh carpets to the dawn.
Seizing each moment as it flies
New graces from the blushing skies ;
And the dull swamps and fallows brown
Prank them in colours not their own ; 90
And the dark stately groves that through
The peaceful hours, on service true,
Drooping their leafy plumes, have stood
At watch upon the silent flood ;
So calm, so still, the starry beam
That sinks beneath the quiet stream.
Looks back upon the lonely night.
With such a sweet and constant light
48 A MORNING WALK
As we might deem the glances pure
Of wistful Naiad set to lure loo
Some favoured sister to her side
Beneath the cool translucent tide :
Soon as the first keen morning air
Shall but the trembling aspen stir ;
Nor yet the glow-worm's light shall fail,
Nor, weakly fledged, the twilight pale
Fall from the hill's defending brow,
Entangled in the mist below ;
Ah ! for true faith ! the whispering breath
That glides the drowsy leaves beneath, no
Seems as it speaks some charm that draws
The faltering lieges to its cause ;
That, as in concert, straight lay down
Upon the sward their mantles brown.
And in all richest colours vie
In the advancing pageantry ;
Sprinkling rich pearls and odours rare
Upon their sweeter kindred near —
The lowly flowers that love the mead.
Or in the hedgerow lie half hid, 120
A MORNING WALK 49
Or to the lattice climb, and peep
Where village beauties lie asleep.
While through the groves from ever}' part,
From out the rustling arras start,
With busy chirp, in tabards gay.
The feathered gursuivants of day;
And as they strain their tawny throats
To spread abroad their wild wood notes,
Wing round a short and restless flight
With such importunate delight 130
As if before in any clime
Were never known such gracious time.
But she, as vowed on mission high,
Stays not to taste of revelry ;
But, like a tempted saint, from all
The gaudy stir and festive call
Passes to seek a purer day
Meekly and silently away.
My worship told — away alone,
A sleeping world is all my own. 140
£
50 A MORNING WALK
There's not a sound, or stir, or aught
Of life to chide my truant thought.
The simple dweUings, cold and grey.
That line on either side my way,
To me an eastern city stand,
Unpeopled by some genie's wand :
Such as the lion-hearted bride
Told of a thousand nights, beside
The gloomy Caliph simply won
To hear the tale so well begun. 150
Quick with new life my senses grow.
A fancy hangs on every bough.
The pollard in the twilight dim
Glares on me like an afrite grim.
All things are magical ; that owl
A vizier once, that post a ghoul.
First to the bridge, that tunnelled heap
Of stone ; upon the causey steep,
Above sore creeks the toiling wain ;
Below the waters chafe in vain \ 160
A MORNING WALK 51
Which though it bear of art no trace,
Yet wins from time a kindly grace.
The olden time ; the idle youth
That graved for fame those lines uncouth,
Sleeps well beneath yon distant stone,
By moss and \i^hen long o'ergrown.
Where the rank nettle's sickly bloom
Waves slow o'er his forgotten tomb.
Lightly to the forbidden seat,
Outside the crumbhng parapet. 170
Through the main arch a Stygian flood
Rolls slow but strong its Hquid mud.
Beside the dark and noisome ledge,
Far skirted by the splashy sedge ;
That bounds the quick unsteady sand.
Nor water quite, nor perfect land ;
That seeming firm, is but a cave
Of hollow death, the wanderer's grave.
Oft in the gusty night there comes.
Uncertain to the scattered homes, iSo
That with their ruddy lights, disposed
Unequal, and by turns disclosed,
E 2
52 A MORNING WALK
With thoughts of rest and peace beguile,
The weary traveller's lonely toil ;
From the broad waste, a distant cry,
But comes so faint and doubtfully
That the uneasy thought is gone
Unspoken ere it can put on
The airy shape of aught of ill,
The fireside tale and mirth to chill, 190
The morrow dawns ; on all the face
Of earth is not a single trace,
Nor shall be till the end, to tell
How fierce the throes of him who fell.
Heard, but unmarked, that lies below
Tombed in that smooth and deadly slough ;
But far away is doubt and pain,
And sickening hope that clings in vain,
And deep determined grief, that o'er
The threshold one returns no more. 200
And the broad sweeping tide, I view
Delighted, has its trophies too.
A MORNING WALK 53
When autumn thick with vapours drear
Brings up in storms the closing year,
And the wide wastes of water seem,
All bounds confused, no more a stream,
But hid in mists and settling free
On well-know'^tT haunts a shoreless sea :
Ah ! the sweet lips that yesternight,
Spoke hope, and joy, and gay delight, 210
When that the gloomy ebb shall fling,
Yon senseless, shapeless, slimy thing.
Upon the swilled and sluggish plain,
Shall never part to smile again.
54
THE STROLLERS,
{From Crabbe.)
En quis imperium deest tyranni !
Heroes, sed et impudica turba !
En plebis proceres jugum ferentes
Turpes post operas superbientis !
En lauti qui simul famelicique !
Belli sordiduli, macrseque bellae !
Ipsiusque Helense semulae puellse
Solaris facis indicem timentes !
Quarum, utcunque tenant, cavent amantes,
Fucata oscula, scloppio doloso. lo
En victus inopes graves patroni !
Terrarum domini en levi susurro
Ob stipendia molliter querentes !
Quos tollit populus, premit, regitque !
Qui lentam dominam colunt Vacunam
Infamem sibi vindicantque famain. 16
55
PALINODIUM
J^ot from Crabbe.)
Eheu Thespidis essedariorum
Longa progenies subacta cura !
Vobis militia est acerba, vobis
Sunt stipendia tristia emerenda,
Vos poscunt joca, vos modos canoros,
Concinnseque acies vagas chorese ;
Fastus deinde togae, trucisque belli
Ardentes gladios, tubas, triumphos,
Mortalesque rogos vicesque rerum ;
Offensse cupidi, ac fero tumentes lo
Bile ad perniciem expedita turba ;
Tirones male feriati, avari
Obscgenique senes, et e popinis
Nattarum omne genus, forique sordes ;
Et qui funereo nitent amomo,
Crudeles oculi potentiorum.
56 PALINODIUM
Vos, si forte gravet, quod aut moretur
Fabellse series, modus laboret,
Aut verbum cadat unicum invenuste,
Gestu atque ore truces, furore caeco, 20
Spe fractos, studio atque mente tota,
Ad triste exagitant simul cubile.
Matutina tenet recocta crambe ;
Explosi perimunt minae magistri ;
Urit cura phrenetici poetse ;
Vespertinus agit timor recenti
Lsesos naufragio, severius quod
Regales habitus tegant egenos,
Angat frons hilarisque re dolentes.
Successus, sit, alat, maligna ssepe 30
Fors tantum dedit hoc, brevi potitis
Vobis laude placere non amari.
Sed vos me excipitis labore fessum,
iEgrum casibus, hospites, silentem,
Ex voto faciles, et arte blanda ac
Totis deliciis gravis Camoense,
Lenes pectore suscitatis ignes.
Vobiscum ut spatier vices in omnes
PALINODIUM 57
Per sylvestria nunc vagus vireta,
Vocale exilium, sales et inter 40
Lautas tristitias merosque amores :
Turn vernge peracuta sannionis
Mordacis joca formulasque rixge.
Horrescam pehitus senisve diras
Cadmeias patris in suas furentis ;
Quis presens nimis audiensque numen
Spargit funera dextera rubenti.
Nunc ipsis oculis minantis aras
Cernam sanguine Csesaris madentes,
Juratasque acies fidemque Bruti. 50
Nunc ssevum reditum ac manum rebellem
Convivge Aufidii, stolasque matrum,
Sistam nunc Venetis, ad insolentis
Veronae modo fana luctuosa.
Ergo Thespidis essedariorum,
Vobis, progenies subacta cura,
Sint fausta omnia ; sint dies amoeni,
Sint sanctique lares, quiesque fessis,
Fautoremque adhibete, meque amicum. 59
S8
THE ALMSMAN.
BLANEV, AN ELDERLY BROKEN-DOWN RAKE, PLACED IN A
CHARITABLE INSTITUTION BY AN ABUSE OF PATRONAGE.
{From Crabbe.)
ISTUM videte, quaeso, procerum, macrum,
Semperque pallentem senem !
Quisnamne in illo mille libro abscondita
Scelera, pavores non legat ?
In ore luctus quantus, et luctu simul
Amarior festivitas !
Grassantur intus foeda cuncta, sed deest
Externus baud quidam decor.
Ut triste votum distrahit prascordia,
Moerorque voto ssevior ! lo
Ut vultus intranquillus, ut mutat vices
Ut omnis exulat quies !
Moresne, facies ista non sontem notant
Anguisque reptantis dolos ?
THE ALMSMAN 59
Attende risum ! rapere sic plausum juvat,
Obscaena dum effutit joca.
Ignava turba dum probet, quid aut pati
Aut facere non noster velit ?
Quaterna lustra hunc post peracta proximum
V
Excepit e'custodibus, 20
Juvenem, beatum, sed nee invenustum ; idem
Prorsus reliquit perditum.
Vulgare totum est ; trita jam fabellula ;
Flagitia ne quaesiveris.
Profusus, appetensque, comiter nihil
Non arrogans vixit sibi.
Tum flos juventse, spolia opima, ut assolet,
Viduam, beatamque arripit.
Hinc liber animus, igne ceu tactus seges,
Exarsit omnis protinus, 30
Assecla cantatricis hie notissimse,
Idem hie agasonum comes
Cui nempe in omni sorte conjunctissimus
Auriga quidam publicus.
Securus omnis ille famae, et sumptuum
Oblitus, impotens sui,
6o THE ALMSMAN
Largitor incassum, rependens nemini,
Facilis, amansque nullius.
Hunc in sacratas hasce sedes incolam,
Patricius immisit favor. 40
Ut sera vitae computet dispendia,
Discatque seclusus mori.
TliE DANAIDE.
{From Horace.)
O Mercury ! through thee by song
Amphion raised his walls ;
And thine the lyre that wakes the soul
To joy in festive halls.
Through thee the fiercest beasts grow tame,
And crouch in pleasure low ;
And woods have moved, and swiftest streams
Have lingered in their flow.
The savage Cerberus on thee
Fawns at the gates of Hell ;
The tangled pests that guard his mane
Unwind them at thy spell.
62 THE DANAIDE
And in thick sobs, delightedly,
His dreadful breath he draws ;
The bloody slaver then alone
Falls harmless from his jaws.
The gloomy giants' iron cheeks
First soften to a smile ;
The Danaides leave their fatal urns,
Permitted for a while,
For there the crimes that walk the earth
Their late requital gain ;
And they in ceaseless anguish there
Sore rue their husbands slain.
Of fifty brides that night but one
The deadly mandate stayed
One gentle spirit, nobly false
Her perjured sire betrayed.
THE DANAIDE 63
' Wake, dearest,' as her youthful lord
Lay hushed in soft repose,
She whispered soft ; * beware the sleep
That xvo awakening knows.
' Speed from these halls of death : around
My father sets his snare ;
Fierce as she-wolves, their helpless prey
My cruel sisters tear.
' Of all your kin not one again
The light of day may see ;
I only keep my hand unstained —
I could not injure thee.
' And let my father bind these limbs
In adamantine chain.
Or place me where sweet pity's voice.
May ne'er be heard again.
64 THE DANAIDE
' But speed you, dearest husband, while
Yet night and love may save ;
And o'er the tomb of my true love
The plaintive record grave.'
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CONTRIBUTIONS.
LINES ON THEY'D EATH OF THE PRINCE
IMPERIAL.
June I, 1879.
The disaster at Isandlana, redeemed by the saving of the
colours, drew the young Prince out to Zululand. A small cross
which he wore (the gift, it is said, of Pope Pius IX.) was re-
garded with such superstitious awe by the savages on stripping
the dead body, that they forebore to take it away.
Tears dimmed the mother's loving glance,
When glowing with Ambition's fire
She saw th' Imperial Child of France
Kneel by the ashes of his sire.
The sword refused by France, that asked
No service at her exile's hand,
He girded for the war that tasked
The sinews of his foster-land ;
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66 DEATH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL
Whose standard, with th' heroic blood
Of Melvill and of Coghill stained,
Rose weeping from the sheltering flood,
By hands of foemen unprofaned.
He thought to grace th' Imperial name
With laurels gathered in the van,
And upon distant fields reclaim
The sceptre broken at Sedan.
— Surrounding a dismounted troop.
Peer from their ambush in the reeds
Fierce, night- black faces, whose war-whoop
. Strikes sudden spurs in startled steeds.
With broken saddle-girth, one horse,
Without his rider rushing by.
Has left by yon lone watercourse
A prince to battle and to die.
DEATH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL 67
With ruthless hands, that spared but one
— One — holy gift, the robbers tore
The splendours from their prey, whose sun
Went down in blood for evermore.
That cross, whose mute appeals rebuke
The thoughts that dwell on sceptred sway,
Shot forth a secret power that shook
The foes who stript his bleeding clay. .
Again beside his sire's remains
The young Marcellus rests his head ;
And the all-lonely Empress reigns
Supreme in sorrow o'er her dead.
JOHN STAFFORD SPENCER.
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68
RELICS.
A HUMAN form, that fifty years had slept
In watery depths, was found within the mines,
The hidden virtues of whose flood had kept
The young face fresh, and marbled its fair lines.
— An aged woman comes, whose heart divines
What thing has risen from that iron gloom
Adown whose void the miner's lantern shines ;
And sees the lover of her youth, whose tomb
Has thus restored his face in all but living bloom.
II.
What vistas opened, as her withered face.
With trouble lined and ripple-marked with tears.
RELICS 69
Hung on those features, called from earth's embrace
And all unsullied with the flight of years !
Surely in this the hand divine appears !
Lonely and poor, she knows no other stay ;
Leaning on That, her journey's end she nears,
Soothed by the thought of sleeping with the clay
Raised from the sunless stream, that bore her hopes
away.
III.
Not such the relics to the king displayed
Who peered within an old imperial tomb,
And viewed the pomp and glittering masquerade
That mocked the dreary vault's sepulchral gloom.
Clad in the richest labours of the loom,
Crown'd, sceptred, seated on a marble throne,
One bony hand amid the musty fume
Laid on his sword ; upon the Gospels, one ;
Was seen the bygone king — a grinning skeleton ! '
' Charlemagne, whose tomb at Aix-la-Chapelle was visited
by Otho III. of Germany.
JOHN STAFFORD SPENCER.
70
RIVER VIEWS.
A WANDERER by the river's devious marge,
Whose reeds are stirred by eve's prelusive gale,
I mark the gliding topmast of the barge
That slowly rounds the point with stooping sail,
To pass beneath the bridge with answering hail ;
The flight of martins round the gray church tower,
With bars of sable crost, and ivy's trail \
The chimes that lend a passion to the hour,
While home the hoppers throng from many a tassell'd
bower.
II.
Here, where the stream is shaded by deep woods,
A boat lies moored before a gipsy fire :
RIVER VIEWS 71
Now whirring from their leafy soHtudes
With soon-lost twitterings, break the feathered choir
Away to hedgerow, battlement and spire :
The fuel-gatherers of their arms despoil,
The bending boughs,,^to feed the crackling pyre,
That mocks the laughing fanner's smoky toil,
Till, full of fiery tongues, it scars the root-bound soil.
III.
Below the falls, to which the sunset lends
The purple hues that come in evening's train,
Its tidal force the rippling river ends ;
Ebbing and flowing through the rural reign,
And wafting barges to and from the main,
Whose far-off azure rim and softened lines
Of marshy shore, as spied from yon hill chain.
Give place at nightfall to the rolling signs
Shown by the beacon light, that o'er a sandbank shines.
JOHN STAFFORD SPENCER.
SEA VIE WS.
A CHALKY path descends with many a break
Close on the beach, the children's Wonderland,
Who laugh to see the porpoise in the wake
Of curtseying sails ; or, raked up from the strand,
The baby crab, ere through the clawed wet sand
It sinks, self-buried ; or the mussel'd rock.
Part-covered by the tide — a slippery stand —
Now black, now whitened with the billowing shock ;
Or seagulls that with screams to fish-drest pastures
flock.
II.
Now while his mates are hauling in the nets,
Or tossing in the well the scaly spoil,
SEA VIEWS 73
His vessel's head to shore the fisher sets,
Till, lowering sail, she grounds amid the boil :
The creaking windlass turns the thickening coil ;
Slow creeps the stern above the billow's reach ;
The silver-gleaming produce of their toil,
Like strips of sky, is showered upon the beach
Before the fishwives, whom the seagulls scarce out-
screech.
III.
Oft at low tide the fisher's wife is fain
To send her infants far along the shore
To gather bedded cockles, and sustain
— Till father's boat comes home — her sinking store.
Bare-legged and crimson'd, on from door to door
The baby merchants, ere to school they creep,
The basket hoist, which home with joy they bore
Last evening, when far out had gone the deep ;
But buyers have been few, and they with hunger weep.
TOHN STAFFORD SI'ENCER.
74
THE COASTGUARD STATION.
An old rude-shapen stairway up the cliff,
That, haply born of wreckage from the deep,
Stands on the shingle, where a long blue skiff
Lies high and dry above the billow's sweep ;
A flag-staff, whose trim rigging crowns the steep,
And hums and vibrates in the cheerful gales.
Tell where the coastguard their bleak station keep.
— Lines, wet blue flannels, mended oars and sails.
In cottage gardens peep above the tarry pales.
II.
The pebbles, moving with the tide, imbrown
The flowing waters, as they rake the sand
THE COASTGUARD STATION 75
And, ebbing, draw the weed-strewn shingle down.
The lone coastguardsman, telescope in hand,
Whose practised eye the weather-signs has scann'd
And cabled ships sheet-anchoring for the night.
Hears nought but boding cries, as tow'rd the land
The clam orousVea- fowl stretch their necks in flight,
Skimming from buoy to buoy, as sinks the fiery light.
III.
One, whose breast-medal tells of many a life
Plucked by his daring from the billow's roar,
Laughs, while beholding with his busy wife
Their children's play upon the cottage floor.
Where they, trick'd out as rescuers on the shore,
Haul an old rocket-line from hand to hand ;
'J'ill, turned to some new frolic, they implore
A swing by father on the hard wet sand.
Betwixt two boats that lie sun-blistered on the strand.
IV.
Here, knee-deep in the surf, the shrimper wades.
Dipping his net beneath the broken flow
Of waves whereon the rose of sunset fades ;
76 THE COASTGUARD STATION
Till Evening bids the distant beacon show
Faint glimmerings, trembling through the afterglow :
'Mid the long ripples o'er the sandy floor
He ploughs along, with creeping step and slow ;
Or answering one who hails him from the shore,
He heaves his dripping net, then buries it once more.
JOHN STAFFORD SPENCER.
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SKETCHES.
With thoughts that grow Uke clusters on the vines
He swells the vintage of his native, tongue,
Claiming all nature in melodious lines —
The glittering dew-drops by the shepherd flung
From the green vine in which his crook is hung ;
The nods and twitterings from the cottage-eaves
Of the house-martins and their callow young ;
Or in the year's decline the wayside leaves
Caught by the harvest-wain, and tangled in the
sheaves :
The signs of nature : sheep, not softly laid
About the meadow in the morning haze,
But huddled in the corner elm-tree's shade.
Which to the shepherd's skilful eye betrays
78 SKETCHES
The coming on of broken summer days : ^
The fisher, who amid the Baltic's roar
Quick-rising plates of bottom-ice surveys,
And hastens, ere a firm-cemented floor
Has fixed his idle keel, to set his sail for shore :
III.
The waves at sunset shoaling on the bar
At th' harbour-mouth ; the weather-beaten rowers
Towing to boat-strewn shores a broken spar ;
The anchored frigate, straining at her bowers,
Whose sun-gilt chains the greenish water scours
From floating sea-weeds, which, a moment caught,
Ride the strong ebb that tries her cable's powers ;
Then twilight, when the echoing gun's report
Wakes the low roll of drums within the distant fort.
' An old shepherd, on a farm in East Kent, drew my attention
to his flock as we crossed the meadows in the gray dawn :
' Look at my sheep, how well abed they are this morning — a
sure sign of a fine day. On the approach of unsettled weather,
they will close up under a tree in a corner of the field, even
before a change of sky is seen. '
J. s. s.
SKETCHES 79
IV.
The thoughts of truth and beauty, which his soul
Delivers clear as wines 'upon the lees,'
Are in their first conception as the roll
Of rain-discoloured, sunshine-dappled seas —
The rainbow's floor ! — or sea-anemones
Kissed into colour by the tide, and set
In instant motion by the first spray-breeze ;
Their colours fading with the tide's retreat,
Whose ripples, step by step, the furrowed sands repeat.
V.
Swayed as the bell-buoy o'er a dangerous shoal,
That sends from wave to wave a church-like chime,
The poet, as great thoughts break o'er his soul.
Lets fall upon the perilous sea of Time,
And sends from heart to heart, his stirring rhyme.
— With Truth's strong windlass he from Wrong can win
Men's minds, like anchors foul with weed and slime.
Lightly as sailors dance their cable in.
With pleasant choral cheer or merry violin.
JOHN STAFFORD SPENCER.
8i
THE BREAK OF GAUGE.
K.VL(Tfiov jxkv Ik toDS' dvTt;^etpotv, tos SoKei,
^J'aCAov Tt /cai TTOVTjpbv w8' ii.(rip^€Tai.
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
MSs 68( wpoAoyctov icf>-qXaTo KvSd yaiwv
Towo Topws t/3pax' "Ev — KavOi^ oy' ai//' eSoauev.
83
DULCE DO MUM.
THE SCHOOLBOY AT HOME.
The pony's lamed, the cat is dead,
The pigs are in the tuHp-bed ;
The flue with rubbish has been filled,
And all my lady's plants are killed ;
A strange wet cur of low degree
Sits dripping on the rich settee ;
The grave mackaw has lost his tail,
And slowly tears a Mechlin veil ;
The pistol's cleaned with sister's shawl
For midday practice in the hall ; lo
The maids are whimpering with affright.
Because a ghost was seen last night ;
The linen's scorched, the roller's split ;
The tangled chain won't turn the spit ;
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84 DULCE DO MUM
The ale is running all about,
And in the urn's a ragged clout ;
And all around at every pass
Is smash and clash and broken glass ; —
And here's a neighbour come to fret,
And, mercy ! there's a hive upset ! 20
85
AN INVOCATION.
Queen of all hearts ! throughout this vexed earth,
Save only when thou payest to scoffing Death
His tributary tale of human lives,
Supreme ! O thou that tak'st thy place anon
In Elfinland with proud Lucifera
And her swart councillors, thyself unseen !
Thou, that in triumph once, the senses' sovereign,
Rod'st with Kehama into Padalon
Through all its gates at once ! that tak'st thy state
High on a car framed of pernicious yew lo
Unseasonably cut in dim eclipse,
When the blue meteor leaped and mandrake shrieked,
In robe of changeful hue, that seems at times
Imperial purple rich with glittering gems.
At times a beggar's rag ! upon thy brow
86 AN INVOCATION
Sits high disdain, forethought severe, and what.
Save for that hasty glance and hissing breath,
Drawn inwardly through pale and quivering lips.
Might well be deemed true wisdom self-possessed.
O mock Serenity, thou only falsehood 20
Of noble natures, how dost thou afflict us !
Before thy feet sits Grief, all ashy pale,
Horribly squalid, rocking to and fro,
Then stubborn most when healing most is nigh
That waits on all ; beside her angry Pain
Impatient stoops, and gnaws his cankered lip
Foul with distempered oozings ; in his hand
A venom-streaked dart he bears wherewith
At times he strikes exultingly, and speeds.
Racked but impenitent, some thriftless soul 3°
Upon the dread unknown
Yet now beneath thy glance,
Dwarfed to a very Aztec, pines away,
Resentful of his power retrenched by thee.
And ever at thy chair an Antic stands,
Who, lean and haggard, shakes his bauble tipped
With hissing snakes, while o'er his pallid cheek
AN INVOCATION 87
Convulsions ever flitting tell the tale
Of conscious shame and undivulgbd dread ;
And thus, lewd hireling, looks he round for sight
Of pain or abject wretchedness which he 40
May aptly turn to sOine keen biting jest
To waken laughter in thy musing court.
Thee on thy passage trail a sacred team
Of chosen steeds, o'erweighted with themselves ;
Uncomfortable, slow as Stygian flood,
Misers of speed and whipping-stocks of gibes ;
That mope with drooping heads and unchamped bits,
Or, if they move, resentful of the wrong,
Scarce step by step their heavy feet transplant,
To root anew at every weary stamp. 50
These bear thee on through all this pleasant earth.
Their flowery path, which as they pass they cloud
With brooding fogs and exhalations dire,
Wherein no thing or sign of life is seen,
Save through the chilly mist some splashing rat
Or damp uneasy toad ; all flowers grow pale
As weeds of cellar growth ; the fountain pure,
That rears its stainless column, self- adorned
88 AN INVOCATION
With glittering diamonds, whose tinkling fall
Charms like a fairy spell, at thy approach 60
Drops with a sullen splash, and all is o'er.
Slow is thy state ; yet swifter thou in truth
Than ever arrow shot from Parthian bow,
And freer than the bolt of heaven, and as
The crouching pard upon the fearful hind
Or agile springbok from its covert leaps.
And fastens — aye, full vainly do they bound.
Vainly they fly that with them carry death.
So thou on human thoughts ; and therefore now,
Great Goddess, Mighty Mother, hear me now — 70
Me thy true liege, thy serf and worshipper
From very boyhood — me, this livelong night.
Raving and tossing on my bed of pain :
Come in thy terrors, oh ! if ever, now,
Come, mighty Care — and kill that squalling cat. 75
89
A CHARADE.
We rule the world, we letters five,
And thus we sing, and thus we strive.
The crowned king, the belted knight,
The churl of low degree.
The priest, the statesman, and the thief,
Are ruled by letters three.
The League and Charter, Church and State,
And all we say and do,
And little plots and great debates.
Are ruled by letters two.
90 A CHARADE
From heaven's rich vault of softest blue,
In showers of roses we ;
And caught their colours as we came,
Did we the letters three.
Olympian Jove in high divan.
He split his head half through,
And the bright goddess sprang to life
That loves the letters two.
When lightly glides the gondolet
Across the moonlit sea,
Each master-spirit of the earth
Is ruled by letters three.
They wheel about and turn about,
And vex the world, they do.
The letters three, but most they love
To plague the letters two.
A CHARADE 91
There's some one checks his laughing spleen,
And bends to us the three —
As oft he turns to us the two,
And worshjgs worthily.
Now fair befall the letters five,
The letters three, and two :
In sooth it were a happy world
If you had all your due.
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ANSWER.
The king, the statesman, churl, and knight.
The priest and thief agree :
They bow them low to letters three.
And worship Be-au-ty (B U T).
When rude rebelHon o'er the land
Her wild confusion spreads,
With one consent all parties fly
For succour to Y Z's.
93
r AMOUR FANFARON.
Gare, faineant, sauve-toi, beaux yeux te regardent,
Peril t'environne— ah ! ses pieds lents trop se re-
tardent.
Mais enfin je le tiens— Merci, mignon, pour ce coup,
petite Claira,
Void de nouvelles graces, roses, lis, tant qu'il te
plaira.
Ha! ha! esprit moqueur, oil s'enfuitdonc ton allegresse?
Point de ris, de calembourgs chez moi : reprime,
audacieux, ta hardiesse.
Jadis muet, t'adoucis, apprends-toi bien a soupirer.
Ha ! arrete-toi, dis-je, de ce lieu jamais on ne peut se
retirer.
94 V AMOUR FA NF A RON
Sache, etourdi, moi je suis grand Capitaine, veille tou-
jours,
Cache des armes inevitables sous mes robes de
velours ;
Porte la guerre partout, partout sois toujours vain-
queur.
Ainsi je vais fixer la douleur a ton vilain coeur :
A genoux, scelerat, k moi ton hommage ; remplis le
destin.
De larmes, de peines, de peurs pour toi, ah, le beau
festiii !
Crainte, Tristesse, Poesie, saisissez la perfide ame.
Hola!
Au secours ! vite, venez, tirez, frappez, arrachez
rinfame —
Ah !
Peste, il s'en va !
E la fede degli amanti,
Come r Araba Fenice,
Che vi sia, ciascun lo dice,
Dove sia, nessun lo sa !
Pietro Trapassi.
U AMOUR FANFARON
Like Arabia's Phoenix I
Reckon love's fidelity.
There's such a thing, we all confess ;
But where, not one of us can guess.
96
INFANS EXPOSITUS.
{Paraphrased from Ct-abhe's 'Foundling.'')
QuisQUE dies curas, et habet lex plurima lites :
Neve toga semper rura carent propria.
Infantem mater, sed plane in finibus, agris
Exposuit tacitis conscia sideribus.
Hie sibi nutrices, hie fisci publica cura
Jure suo mammas atque alimenta petit.
' Fama solo ingrediens caput inter nubila condit."
Horrent vicani conveniuntque patres.
Multa monent multi, laudant, damnantque frequentes,
Discordique domus rumpitur eloquio. lo
Priraum de facto ; verumne? itane? — ipse sibi infans
Testis adest : sole hoc clarius : at quid agant ?
INFANS EXPOSITUS [95]
Num vivit ? digitis pinsus nimis undique duris,
Ejulat improbulus : nee locus hie dubio est,
Dandum igitur nomen : multum res durior omnem
Turbavit eoetum et per mora longa fuit.
Namque suum imprudens si quis concesserit, ' Euge ! '
Audiat, ' ipse suum quam bene sustulerit ! '
Tum quantos aestus ! turn quanta silentia ! rursus
Jurgia ! V3e vivis unguibus ! at quid agant ? 20
Vix aeie hie aliquis taeite perstringere patres
Ausus, ' cognomen quidni aliunde vacet ? '
Incipit effari, cum subvenit, ' Euge, eaveto,
Tutius absentes,' ergo iterum tenebrse,
Talia mussanti suecurrit Pallas Athene
E coelo et passo erine nianum implicuit,
Ut quondam impavido Peleiadge Achilei,
Et quiddam in patulas garriit auriculas.
Inde alacris dare eonsiliis sic lora secundas,
Festinatque novas promere laetitias, 30
' O proeeres faustis cura est adhibenda Calendis.
Hae nobis certo hoc certius expedient.
Hicce, malum, nobis segetem monstravit iniquum ;
Hicee dies nomen cedat et auspicium.'
[96] TNFANS EXPOSITUS
' O lepidum ingenium,' confestim, ' o docta cerebri
Congeries,' omnes ' o decus ' ingeminant.
Jurgia sic tandem composta lite quiescunt,
Sic timor ira cadunt, sic redit alma Themis.
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THE PARISH REGISTER : BAPTISMS.
l^From Crabbe's ' Village, ')
To name an infant meet our village sires,
Assembled all as such event requires.
Frequent and full the rural sages sate,
And speakers many urged the long debate.
Some hardened knaves who roved the country round
Had left a babe within the parish bound
F.rst o ine lact they questioned — Was it true ?
The child was brought. What then remained to
Was't dead or living ? This was fairly proved :
"Twas pinched ; it roared, and every doubt removed. lo
Then by what name th' unwelcome guest to call
Was long a question, and it posed them all.
For he who lent it to a babe unknown,
Censorious men might take it for his own.
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98 THE PARISH REGISTER: BAPTISMS
They looked about, they gravely spoke to all,
And not one Richard answered to the call.
Next they inquired the day when, passing by,
The unlucky peasant heard the stranger's cry.
This known, with all their words and work content,
Back to their homes the prudent vestry went 20
And Richard Monday to the workhouse sent.
99
AN ARABESQUE. •
On living snow a dark and stately grove,
A silken thicket that the Graces wove
Long since, 'tis thought with song and potent charms
To hold ensnared a troubled world in arms ;
An arsenal, where Cupid keeps his bows.
Each ready bent, and set in glossy rows ;
An arch of triumph, or a bridge of sighs,
Where many a passing captive droops and dies ;
A fair-writ scroll, the crescent orb of night.
Darkening the gaze with its excessive light ; lo
A thundercloud, whence darting from beneath
Issue fierce lightnings carrying certain death.
By these true signs the sable banner know
Of the dread chief that holds his state below —
Man's deadliest foe, more dazzling than the morn,
Older than time, each passing hour new-born,
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loo AN ARABESQUE
That in his crystal fortress, there reclined,
Sits at his ease and wars on all mankind.
Than him no fiercer savage walks the plain.
No stricken Herod, no ambitious Thane, 20
No bigot mother of an idiot king.
No lion's fang, no scorpion's fiery sting,
No honied words to gull a gaping league.
Such woes have proved a wicked world to plague.
E'en Mammon, the dull fiend that sins by rule.
Quotes Holy Writ, and makes his God his tool.
Bends when he comes ; slow gluttons gird them in,
Dance as he pipes, and learn a livelier mien.
His cruel form is tender as a girl's \
And (save but hers) more rich his flowing curls. 30
Thief at all points, his glowing cheeks disclose
The stolen sweetness of the blushing rose ]
The upstart lilies that his temples bind
Look with disdain on those they left behind.
He whispers mischief, but that whisper seems
Like music faintly heard in happy dreams,
Where springing hopes and infant fancies wave
AN ARABESQUE loi
Their golden plumes ere life's lulled furies rave.
Winged like a sylph, all armed, with sparkling eyes
And winning smile, through heaven and earth he flies, 40
To quell a world ; lialf clad in flimsy gauze.
For spring perpetual in his train he draws ;
The little archer with dissembled care
Launches his shaft at random through the air ;
The tiny shrapnel in a thousand parts
Splits as it flies, and wounds a thousand hearts.
Yet simples heal : a mirror, or the shade
Of their sweet forms delightedly surveyed,
Sufiiceth some ; or politics, or war,
Drink, or new wounds ; and some, the light cigar, 50
That calls the frolic spirits from their sleep,
That in the brain at watch and quarters keep,
Thence, as the mouth the trumpet sounds, at times
Pass in review and march in measured rhymes.
Pain flush in hearts : der Freischutz, each askew ;
Burnt faggots all — and he's his endings too —
' In one short day the longing heart grows old.'
' Sweet mother, I my shuttle cannot hold.'
I02 AN ARABESQUE
' Amt'co, at vinto ' — and the boar
That slew Cythere's darling, baited sore 60
By puny boys, his tusks all burnt away,
Grunts full content through him the livelong day.
The bright-haired maid that bound her head with vows,
And lost no charm, was but his lure ; he ploughs
All fallows soon ; no fences keep him out.
Hosts of stern thoughts are ranked in vain ; no scout
But quits his post ; he sleeps not, but he seems
Colleagued with Mab, the lord of whirling dreams.
Read me my riddle. He's a coming shade
On all who laugh ; by him are Edens made ; 70
From him the supple Frenchman learns his fence ;
The dance, the song are his ; shillelahs hence.
Their touch and pressure ; calendars he makes
Of sullen fasts, and plaints of dismal aches,
Whereby his captives dwindle day by day
Sublime to gas and sigh themselves away.
Most like the filmy shapes, the slight impress
Idealised to gorgeous littleness.
Heroic art on patient canvas lays
Dares the broad day and winnies for her praise. 80
AN ARABESQUE 103
You of the glittering arms and lordly hall
And slumbering Beauty's bower, on you I call —
You that all subjects all at once can seize,
And write no verseSv though you rhyme with ease.^
Place me the bloody and luxurious Dane,
In mortal agony condemned again
To live his foul deeds through, to hear his crimes
Told slowly forth by Hamlet's tutored mimes ;
Place me the guilty eye, the cowering mien,
Like a lashed hound aside, the averted queen, 90
The rising doubt, the uneasy whisper round ;
The coward limbs that chain him to the ground ;
The desperate clutch, the wish but dread to fly ;
The ghostly shade, the avenger's living eye :
What draws the giddy sight ? a pretty face.
An idle page, a scutcheon, or a lace.
Hold bias bowl — all services he apes,
Soothes lonely widows and takes off their crapes.
' Written in the lifetime of the distinguished artist her
referred to.
I04 AN ARABESQUE
See how in rhyme, and sighing at his post,
The clerk engrossing is himself engrossed ! loo
See the pale scholar in ambitious toil
O'er deep triangles spend the midnight oil ;
See how his tangents ruffle into curls,
His letters meet and whiten into pearls.
The circle to a beauteous oval grows,
Opes two blue eyes, and blushes like a rose ;
'Till all complete, the angel face appears
And loving ditties murmur in his ears.
Here tender maids long lives of sadness plan ;
All dressed in white, and all renouncing man. no
Here withered elders make new wills and toy
Accepted lawyers there, burn Coke for joy.
In camp and court, in palace, cot, and hall.
The busy broker lots and sells us all.
NOTES TO THE ABOVE.
V. 57- Oi 5e TtodivvTis eV fi^ari yrjpdaKovfft.
Theocritus.
V. 58. VXvK^ia fiarep, oUroi Siiva/xat KpeKeiv rhv Xarov,
Tl6B(f Sdfxeiffa ttolSos ^paBivav Si' 'A<pp65iTav.
Sappho.
AN ARABESQUE 105
V. 59. Clorinda to Tancred. Tasso.
V. 60. "Ahciiviv 7] Kvdrjpr)
'ns elSe v€Kphv •^5jj, k. t. \. The Author —
that is to say, not myself, but one of the Anacreons or Theo-
critus, as the case may be^. for the babe is something of a Richard
Monday (see above, p. 97), or foundling. I rather give my
censure against the latter myself, but unhistorically, and only
because it seems to me to resemble very much the style and
spirit of the former, and not at all that of the latter. When
these two do take the same subject, — as, for instance, Cupid
stung by a bee, the "Eptos ttot' iv pSSoisi, /c.t.a. of the former,
and the KTipioKKfirTris of the latter, — their similarity of treatment
is nothing very remarkable ; and, as in the serenade in ' Don
Giovanni,' Anacreon, the guitar, keeps saying one thing, and
Theocritus, the singer, another. This latter fellow for the most
part, whether scolding a king for shabbiness, praising a queen
for beauty, quarrelling among bumpkins, or cramming two
shrill shrews through a crowd, goes on pretty much in his
own pre-Virgilian way, and even in his heroics manages to
throw about them something of his accustomed farmhouse
simplicity. In his ' Infant Hercules,' Alcmena washes her two
children, and fills them with milk —
Aovffacr' afipOTfpovs Kal ifj-izKriffaffa yd\aKTOs —
puts them to bed, sings them to sleep in first-rate nursery hexa-
meters, and so on ; hears great snakes in the nursery, violently
pinches up her husband, who rises, with something between a
parting snore and a groan, obediently, as he ought to do ; gropes
for his sword, which, like a gallant captain of yeomanry, he
always hangs at the head of his bed ; calls together the farm
servants, and the next morning sends for the priest, the blindest
io6 AN ARABESQUE
he can find (Tiresias), to expound ; so that really, if the thing
was to have occurred, there is no earthly reason why it might
not have done so last week in one's own pet county, or why
Alcmena might not have worn a bodice and minever slippers
and sat to Leslie for his picture of the young mother ; for thus
it is, as Ulysses, of all men in the world (though, to be sure, the
real or Shakespeare Ulysses, and not the counterfeit of the
Athenian whig playwrights), says : ' One touch of nature makes
the whole world kin ; ' and so the past and present meet again,
and stone walls become a hermitage, and — and the mind
becomes amazingly vivid, for what have all these things to do
with Adonis ?
I07
THE SICILIAN GOSSIPS.
{From Theocritus.)
Scene. — A crowd at a festival in ancient Alexandria.
MS, TToOev oivOpwTTO^ ; Tt Se tiv, et KwrtAat ei/xes ;
nafra/A€i/os iTTLTacrcre • SupaKocrtats eVtTacrcrets ;
'fis S' ciSi^s Koi TOVTO, KoptV^tai ei/xts avuiOtv,
'Os Kai 6 BeA.Aepo(^aJv. . . . k.t./\.
He.
Pray, hush for a few minutes, my good woman, the
^ singing is very beautiful.
She.
Marry come up ! good woman indeed ! Who are you,
I should like to know, to speak to us in that
fashion ?
io8 THE SICILIAN GOSSIPS
Go home and abuse your own lawful wife, if you have
one — and I am sure I pity her enough, poor
woman — do ; and don't talk to your betters and
fly into such a passion.
Who do you think is to care for you, you great
Cockney, going about cursing and swearing in
that sort of way, and you ought to be ashamer
of yourself, and me expecting who knows ? like
a bull with a crumpled horn !
Police ! police ! Blame the fellows, they are never in
the way — and I'd have you to know we come
from Windsor, we do, where the Queen's Majesty
had her precious innocent babies born.
Aye, and we can span our own wrists too, and our
mothers afore us, which is more, I'll go bail, than
you can do, you great shambling, spindle-shanked
hoddy-doddy.
Ah ! you oaf, you jackanapes, you Herody reprobate !
you proud, percked-up squinting peacock ! — Oh,
I'll burst ! why don't the brute answer a body ?
log
Apropos of Alcmena's nursery-song, the following, if only
genuine, must be one of the earliest in existence, being
apparently, from its reference to the Confusion of Tongues and
the Income Tax, of the remotest possible Oriental antiquity.
Ap;(€T€ %^ oj^oXov'i, MoCcrai ^t'Aat, apx^"' aet'Seii',
Ap)(^£T€ OvkoLKLOV fipL^Ot^OpOVV Tf XiyUV ■
Kt^Aai ev aproKpia. e<jipvy€v St? SwSsKa Tratrai,
lovo avaTreirTa/xevov y , evuv efieATrov aorjv.
OvTL KaXov ToSe 6avp.a, KaXrjv tyjv BaiTo. XeyiDfxev
OA^tw av8pi irpeVetv, ovtl TrpeVetv /3ao"t/\.et ;
Xatpere, co Kt^Aat t€ /cai dproKpeas jxiya X^^P^ '
'O Set ttcVt' 6/3o\m' ovSkv ex v/x./x.t p-iXe.-
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