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ERECHTHEUS. 
 
ERECHTHEUS 
 
 A TRAGEDY. 
 
 ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. 
 
 S> ral \nrapai Koi loarecpavoi koI aolSifiOi, 
 'EWdSos ipeifffia, kK^ivoX 'AOavot, dai/xdviov TrTo\ie6pov. 
 
 PiND. Fr. 47. 
 
 AT. Tis Se Tfoiixdvcop I'lreo'Tt KaniSeffirS^ei (rrparov ; 
 XO. ovrivos Sov\oi K4K\T]VTai (pwrhs oiiS' xmriKdoi. 
 
 ^scH. Pers. 241-2. 
 
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 1876. 
 
LONDON : 
 
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TO 
 
 MY MOTHER. 
 
PERSONS. 
 
 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 CHORUS OF ATHENIAN ELDERS. 
 
 PRAXTTHEA. 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 
 HERALD OF EUMOLPUS. 
 
 MESSENGER. 
 
 ATHENIAN HERALD. 
 
 ATHENA. 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 Mother of life and death and all men's days, 
 Earth, whom I chief of all men born would bless, 
 And call thee with more loving lips than theirs 
 Mother, for of this very body of thine 
 And living blood I have my breath and live, 
 Behold me, even thy son, me crowned of men, 
 Me made thy child by that strong cunning God 
 Who fashions fire and iron, who begat 
 Me for a sword and beacon-fire on thee. 
 Me fosterling of Pallas, in her shade lo 
 
 Reared, that I first might pay the nursing debt, 
 Hallowing her fame with flower of third-year feasts, 
 And first bow down the bridled strength of steeds 
 To lose the wild wont of their birth, and bear 
 Clasp of man's knees and steerage of his hand, 
 
 B 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 Or fourfold service of his fire-swift wheels 
 That whirl the four-yoked chariot ; me the king 
 Who stand before thee naked now, and cry, 
 
 holy and general mother of all men born, 
 
 But mother most and motherliest of mine, 20 
 
 Earth, for I ask thee rather of all the Gods, 
 
 What have we done ? what word mistimed or work 
 
 Hath winged the wild feet of this timeless curse 
 
 To fall as fire upon us ? Lo, I stand 
 
 Here on this brow's crown of the city's head 
 
 That crowns its lovely body, till death's hour 
 
 Waste it ; but now the dew of dawn and birth 
 
 Is fresh upon it from thy womb, and we 
 
 Behold it born how beauteous ; one day more 
 
 1 see the world's wheel of the circling sun 30 
 Roll up rejoicing to regard on earth 
 
 This one thing goodliest, fair as heaven or he. 
 Worth a God's gaze or strife of Gods ; but now 
 Would this day's ebb of their spent wave of strife 
 Sweep it to sea, wash it on wreck, and leave 
 A costless thing contemned ; and in our stead. 
 Where these walls were and sounding streets of men. 
 Make wide a waste for tongueless water-herds 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 And spoil of ravening fishes ; that no more 
 Should men say, Here was Athens. This shalt thou 
 Sustain not, nor thy son endure to see, 41 
 
 Nor thou to live and look on ; for the womb 
 Bare me not base that bare me miserable. 
 To hear this loud brood of the Thracian foam 
 Break its broad strength of billowy-beating war 
 Here, and upon it as a blast of death 
 Blowing, the keen wrath of a fire-souled king, 
 A strange growth grafted on our natural soil, 
 A root of Thrace in Eleusinian earth 
 Set for no comfort to the kindly land, 50 
 
 Son of the sea's lord and our first-born foe, 
 Eumolpus ; nothing sweet in ears of thine 
 The music of his making, nor a song 
 Toward hopes of ours auspicious ; for the note 
 Rings as for death oracular to thy sons 
 That goes before him on the sea-wind blown 
 Full of this charge laid on me, to put out 
 The brief light kindled of mine own child's life, 
 Or with this helmsman hand that steers the state 
 Run right on the under shoal and ridge of death 60 
 The populous ship with all its fraughtage gone 
 
 B 2 
 
ERECHTHEUS, 
 
 And sails that were to take the wind of time 
 
 Rent, and the tackling that should hold out fast 
 
 In confluent surge of loud calamities 
 
 Broken, with spars of rudders and lost oars 
 
 That were to row toward harbour and find rest 
 
 In some most glorious haven of all the world 
 
 And else may never near it : such a song 
 
 The Gods have set his lips on fire withal 
 
 Who threatens now in all their names to bring 70 
 
 Ruin ; but none of these, thou knowest, have I 
 
 Chid with my tongue or cursed at heart for grief, 
 
 Knowing how the soul runs reinless on sheer death 
 
 Whose grief or joy takes part against the Gods. 
 
 And what they will is more than our desire. 
 
 And their desire is more than what we will. 
 
 For no man's will and no desire of man's 
 
 Shall stand as doth a God's will. Yet, O fair 
 
 Mother, that seest me how I cast no word 
 
 Against them, plead no reason, crave no cause, 80 
 
 l^oast me not blameless, nor beweep me wronged, 
 
 By this fair wreath of towers we have decked thee 
 
 with, 
 This chaplet that we give thee woven of walls, 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 This girdle of gate and temple and citadel 
 
 Drawn round beneath thy bosom, and fast linked 
 
 As to thine heart's root — this dear crown of thine, 
 
 This present light, this city— -be not thou 
 
 Slow to take heed nor slack to strengthen her, 
 
 Fare we so short-lived howsoe'er, and pay 
 
 What price we may to ransom thee thy town, 90 
 
 Not me my life ; but thou that diest not, thou. 
 
 Though all our house die for this people's sake, 
 
 Keep thou for ours thy crown our city, guard 
 
 And give it life the lovelier that \ve died. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Sun, that hast lightened and loosed by thy might 
 Ocean and Earth from the lordship of night, 
 Quickening with vision his eye that was veiled, 
 Freshening the force in her heart that had failed. 
 That sister fettered and blinded brother 
 Should have sight by thy grace and delight of each 
 other, 100 
 
 Behold now and see 
 What profit is given them of thee ; 
 
ERECHTHEUS, 
 
 What wrath has enkindled with madness of mind 
 Her limbs that were bounden, his face that was 
 
 bhnd, 
 To be locked as in wrestle together, and lighten 
 With fire that shall darken thy fire in the sky, 
 Body to body and eye against eye 
 
 In a war against kind. 
 Till the bloom of her fields and her high hills whiten 
 With the foam of his waves more high. no 
 
 For the sea-marks set to divide of old 
 The kingdoms to Ocean and Earth assigned. 
 The hoar sea-fields from the cornfields' gold, 
 His wine-bright waves from her vineyards' fold, 
 
 Frail forces we find 
 To bridle the spirit of Gods or bind 
 
 Till the heat of their hearts wax cold. 
 But the peace that was stablished between them to 
 
 stand 
 Is rent now in twain by the strength of his hand. 
 Who stirs up the storm of his sons overbold 120 
 To pluck from fight what he lost of right. 
 By council and judgment of Gods that spake 
 And gave great Pallas the strife's fair stake. 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 7 
 
 The lordship and love of the lovely land, 
 The grace of the town that hath on it for crown 
 But a headband to wear 
 
 Of violets one-hued with her hair : 
 For the vales and the green high places of earth 
 
 Hold nothing so fair, 
 And the depths of the sea bear no such birth 1 30 
 
 Of the manifold births they bear. 
 Too well, too well was the great stake worth 
 A strife divine for the Gods to judge, 
 A crowned God's triumph, a foiled God's grudge, 
 Though the loser be strong and the victress wise 
 Who played long since for so large a prize, 
 The fruitful immortal anointed adored 
 Dear city of men without master or lord. 
 Fair fortress and fostress of sons born free. 
 Who stand in her sight and in thine, O sun, 140 
 Slaves of no man, subjects of none ; 
 A wonder enthroned on the hills and sea, 
 A maiden crowned with a fourfold glory 
 That none from the pride of her head may rend, 
 Violet and olive-leaf purple and hoary, 
 Song-wreath and story the fairest of fame, 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 Flowers that the winter can blast not or bend ; 
 A light upon earth as the sun's own flame, 
 A name as his name, 
 Athens, a praise without end. 1 50 
 
 A noise is arisen against us of waters, IStr. i. 
 
 A sound as of battle come up from the sea. 
 Strange hunters are hard on us, hearts without pity ; 
 They have staked their nets round the fair young 
 
 city, 
 That the sons of her strength and her virgin 
 daughters 
 
 Should find not whither alive to flee. 
 And we know not yet of the word unwritten, ^Ant. i. 
 
 The doom of the Pythian we have not heard ; 
 From the navel of earth and the veiled mid altar 
 We wait for a token with hopes that falter, 160 
 
 With fears that hang on our hearts thought-smitten 
 
 Lest her tongue be kindled with no good word. 
 O thou not born of the womb, nor bred \str. 2. 
 
 In the bride-night's warmth of a changed God's bed. 
 But thy life as a lightning was flashed from the light 
 of thy father's head, 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 O chief God's child by a motherless birth, 
 If aught in thy sight we indeed be worth, 
 Keep death from us thou, that art none of the Gods 
 of the dead under earth. 
 Thou that hast power on us, save, if thou wilt ; lAnt. 2. 
 Let the blind wave breach not thy wall scarce built ; 
 But bless us not so as by bloodshed, impute not for 
 grace to us guilt, 171 
 
 Nor by price of pollution of blood set us free ; 
 Let the hands be taintless that clasp thy knee, 
 Nor a maiden be slain to redeem for a maiden her 
 shrine from the sea. 
 O earth, O sun, turn back \Str. 3. 
 
 Full on his deadly track 
 Death, that would smite you black and mar your 
 creatures, 
 And with one hand disroot 
 All tender flower and fruit. 
 With one strike blind and mute the heaven's fair 
 features, 180 
 
 Pluck out the eyes of morn, and make 
 Silence in the east and blackness whence the bright 
 songs break. 
 
lo ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 Help, earth, help, heaven, that hear \Ant. 3. 
 
 The song-notes of our fear, 
 Shrewd notes and shrill, not clear or joyful-sounding ; 
 Hear, highest of Gods, and stay 
 Death on his hunter's way. 
 Full on his forceless prey his beagles hounding ; 
 
 Break thou his bow, make short his hand. 
 Maim his fleet foot whose passage kills the living 
 land. 190 
 
 Let a third wave smite not us, father, {^str. 4. 
 
 Long since sore smitten of twain. 
 
 Lest the house of thy son's son perish 
 And his name be barren on earth. 
 Whose race wilt thou comfort rather 
 If none to thy son remain ? 
 
 Whose seed wilt thou choose to cherish 
 If his be cut off in the birth ? 
 For the first fair graft of his grafting \Ant. 4. 
 
 Was rent from its maiden root 200 
 
 By the strong swift hand of a lover 
 Who fills the night with his breath ; 
 On the lip of the stream low-laughing 
 Her green spft virginal shoot 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 Was plucked from the stream-side cover 
 By the grasp of a love like death. 
 For a God's was the mouth that kissed her \Str. 5. 
 Who speaks, and the leaves lie dead, 
 When winter awakes as at warning 
 To the sound of his foot from Thrace. 210 
 Nor happier the bed of her sister 
 Though Love's self laid her abed 
 
 By a bridegroom beloved of the morning 
 And fair as the dawn's own face. 
 For Procris, ensnared and ensnaring \^Ant. 5. 
 
 By the fraud of a twofold wile, 
 
 With the point of her own spear stricken 
 By the gift of her own hand fell. 
 Oversubtle in doubts, overdaring 
 
 In deeds and devices of guile, 220 
 
 And strong to quench as to quicken. 
 Blind Love, they have named thee well. 
 By thee was the spear's edge whetted \str. 6. 
 
 That laid her dead in the dew, 
 
 In the moist green glens of the midland 
 By her dear lord slain and thee. 
 And him at the clift's end fretted 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 By the grey keen waves, him too 
 
 Thine hand from the white-browed headland 
 Flung down for a spoil to the sea. 230 
 
 But enough now of griefs grey-growing \^A7it. 6. 
 
 Have darkened the house divine, 
 
 Have flowered on its boughs and faded, 
 And green is the brave stock yet. 
 O father all-seeing and all-knowing. 
 Let the last fruit fall not of thine 
 
 From the tree with whose boughs we are 
 shaded, 
 From the stock that thy son's hand set. 
 
 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 O daughter of Cephisus, from all time 
 Wise have I found thee, wife and queen, of heart 240 
 Perfect ; nor in the days that knew not wind 
 Nor days when storm blew death upon our peace 
 Was thine heart swoln with seed of pride, or bowed 
 With blasts of bitter fear that break men's souls 
 Who lift too high their minds toward heaven, in 
 thought 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 13 
 
 Too godlike grown for worship ; but of mood 
 
 Equal, in good time reverent of time bad, 
 
 And glad in ill days of the good that were. 
 
 Nor now too would I fear thee, now misdoubt 
 
 Lest fate should find thee lesser than thy doom, 250 
 
 Chosen if thou be to bear and to be great 
 
 Haply beyond all women ; and the word 
 
 Speaks thee divine, dear queen, that speaks thee dead. 
 
 Dead being alive, or quick and dead in one 
 
 Shall not men call thee living ? yet I fear 
 
 To slay thee timeless with my proper tongue. 
 
 With lips, thou knowest, that love thee ; and such work 
 
 Was never laid of Gods on men, such words 
 
 No mouth of man learnt ever, as from mine 
 
 Most loth to speak thine ear most loth shall take 260 
 
 And hold it hateful as the grave to hear. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 
 That word there is not in all speech of man, 
 King, that being spoken of the Gods and thee 
 I have not heart to honour, or dare hold 
 More than I hold thee or the Gods in hate 
 
14 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 Hearing ; but if my heart abhor it heard 
 Being insubmissive, hold me not thy wife 
 But use me like a stranger, whom thine hand 
 Hath fed by chance and finding thence no thanks 
 Flung off for shame's sake to forgetfulness. 270 
 
 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 O, of what breath shall such a word be made, 
 Or from what heart find utterance ? Would my tongue 
 Were rent forth rather from the quivering root 
 Than made as fire or poison thus for thee. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 
 But if thou speak of blood, and I that hear 
 Be chosen of all for this land's love to die 
 And save to thee thy city, know this well, 
 Happiest I hold me of her seed alive. 
 
 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 O sun that seest, what saying was this of thine, 
 
 God, that thy power has breathed into my lips } 280 
 
 For from no sunlit shrine darkling it came. 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 15 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 
 What portent from the mid oracular place 
 Hath smitten thee so like a curse that flies 
 Wingless, to waste men with its plagues ? yet speak. 
 
 ERECHTHEUS. 
 Thy blood the Gods require not ; take this first. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 To me than thee more grievous this should sound. 
 
 ERECHTHEUS. 
 That word rang truer and bitterer than it knew. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 This is not then thy grief, to see me die } 
 
 ERECHTHEUS. 
 Die shalt thou not, yet give thy blood to death. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 If this ring worse I know not ; strange it rang. 290 
 
i6 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 ERECHTHEUS. 
 Alas, thou knowest not ; woe is me that know. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 And woe shall mine be, knowing ; yet halt not here. 
 
 ERECHTHEUS. 
 Guiltless of blood this state may stand no more. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 Firm let it stand whatever bleed or fall. 
 
 ERECHTHEUS. 
 O Gods, that I should say it shall and weep. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 Weep, and say this } no tears should bathe such words. 
 
 ERECHTHEUS. 
 Woe's me that I must weep upon them, woe. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 
 What stain is on them for thy tears to cleanse } 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 17 
 
 ERECHTHEUS. 
 A stain of blood unpurgeable with tears. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 Whence ? for thou sayest it is and is not mine. 300 
 
 ERECHTHEUS. 
 Hear then and know why only of all men I 
 That bring such news as mine is, I alone 
 Must wash good words with weeping ; I and thou, 
 Woman, must wail to hear men sing, must groan 
 To see their joy who love us ; all our friends 
 Save only we, and all save we that love 
 This holiness of Athens, in our sight 
 Shall lift their hearts up, in our hearing praise 
 Gods whom we may not ; for to these they give 
 Life of their children, flower of all their seed, 310 
 
 For all their travail fruit, for all their hopes 
 Harvest ; but we for all our good things, we 
 Have at their hands which fill all these folk full 
 Death, barrenness, child-slaughter, curses, cares, 
 Sea-leaguer and land-shipwreck ; which of these, 
 Which wilt thou first give thanks for ? all are thine. 
 
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i8 ERECHTHEUS, 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 
 What first they give who give this city good, 
 For that first given to save it I give thanks 
 First, and thanks heartier from a happier tongue. 
 More than for any my peculiar grace 320 
 
 Shown me and not my country ; next for this, 
 That none of all these but for all these I 
 Must bear my burden, and no eye but mine 
 Weep of all women's in this broad land born 
 Who see their land's deliverance ; but much more, 
 But most for this I thank them most of all. 
 That this their edge of doom is chosen to pierce 
 My heart and not my country's ; for the sword 
 Drawn to smite there and sharpened for such stroke 
 Should wound more deep than any turned on me. 330 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Well fares the land that bears such fruit, and well 
 The spirit that breeds such thought and speech in man. 
 
 ERECHTHEUS. 
 O woman, thou hast shamed my heart with thine, 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 19 
 
 To show so strong a patience ; take then all ; 
 
 For all shall break not nor bring down thy soul. 
 
 The word that journeying to the bright God's shrine 
 
 Who speaks askance and darkling, but his name 
 
 Hath in it slaying and ruin broad writ out, 
 
 I heard, hear thou : thus saith he ; There shall die 
 
 One soul for all this people ; from thy womb 340 
 
 Came forth the seed that here on dry bare ground 
 
 Death's hand must sow untimely, to bring forth 
 
 Nor blade nor shoot in season, being by name 
 
 To the under Gods made holy, who require 
 
 For this land's life her death and maiden blood 
 
 To save a maiden city. Thus I heard, 
 
 And thus with all said leave thee ; for save this 
 
 No word is left us, and no hope alive. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 He hath uttered too surely his wrath not obscurely, 
 
 nor wrapt as in mists of his breath, ystr. i. 
 
 The master that lightens not hearts he enlightens, but 
 
 gives them foreknowledge of death. 350 
 
 As a bolt from the cloud hath he sent it aloud and 
 
 proclaimed it afar, 
 
 C 2 
 
20 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 From the darkness and height of the horror of night 
 hath he shown us a star. 
 Star may I name it and err not, or flame shall I say, 
 Born of the womb that was born for the tomb 
 of the day ? 
 O Night, whom other but thee for mother, and Death 
 for the father, Night, lAnt. i. 
 
 Shall we dream to discover, save thee and thy lover, 
 to bring such a sorrow to sight ? 
 From the slumberless bed for thy bedfellow spread 
 
 and his bride under earth 
 Hast thou brought forth a wild and insatiable child, 
 an unbearable birth. 
 Fierce are the fangs of his wrath, and the pangs 
 
 that they give ; 
 None is there, none that may bear them, not one 
 that would live. 360 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 Forth of the fine-spun folds of veils that hide 
 My virgin chamber toward the full-faced sun 
 I set my foot not moved of mine own will, 
 Unmaidenlike, nor with unprompted speed 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 Turn eyes too broad or doglike unabashed 
 On reverend heads of men and thence on thine, 
 Mother, now covered from the light and bowed 
 As hers who mourns her brethren ; but what grief 
 Bends thy blind head thus earthward, holds thus mute, 
 I know not till thy will be to lift up 370 
 
 Toward mine thy sorrow-muffled eyes and speak ; 
 And till thy will be would I know this not. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 
 Old men and childless, or if sons ye have seen 
 
 And daughters, elder-born were these than mine. 
 
 Look on this child, how young of years, how sweet, 
 
 How scant of time and green of age her life 
 
 Puts forth its flower of girlhood ; and her gait 
 
 How virginal, how soft her speech, her eyes 
 
 How seemly smiling ; wise should all ye be, 
 
 All honourable and kindly men of age ; 380 
 
 Now give me counsel and one word to say 
 
 That I may bear to speak, and hold my peace 
 
 Henceforth for all time even as all ye now. 
 
 Dumb are ye all, bowed eyes and tongueless mouths, 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 Unprofitable ; if this were wind that speaks, 
 
 As much its breath might move you. Thou then, 
 
 child, 
 Set thy sweet eyes on mine ; look through them well ; 
 Take note of all the writing of my face 
 As of a tablet or a tomb inscribed 
 That bears me record ; lifeless now, my life 390 
 
 Thereon that was think written ; brief to read, 
 Yet shall the scripture sear thine eyes as fire 
 And leave them dark as dead men's. Nay, dear child, 
 Thou hast no skill, my maiden, and no sense 
 To take such knowledge ; sweet is all thy lore, 
 And all this bitter ; yet I charge thee learn 
 And love and lay this up within thine heart, 
 Even this my word ; less ill it were to die 
 Than live and look upon thy mother dead, 
 Thy mother-land that bare thee ; no man slain 400 
 But him who hath seen it shall men count unblest. 
 None blest as him who hath died and seen it not. 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 That sight some God keep from me though I die. 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 23 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 
 A God from thee shall keep it ; fear not this. 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 Thanks all my life long shall he gain of mine. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 
 Short gain of all yet shall he get of thee. 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 Brief be my life, yet so long live my thanks. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 So long ? so little ; how long shall they live t 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 Even while I see the sunlight and thine eyes. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 Would mine might shut ere thine upon the sun. 410 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 For me thou prayest unkindly ; change that prayer. 
 
24 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 Not well for me thou sayest, and ill for thee. 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 Nay, for me well, if thou shalt live, not I. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 How live, and lose these loving looks of thine' } 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 
 It seems I too, thus praying, then, love thee not. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 Lov'st thou not life } what wouldst thou do to die ? 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 Well, but not more than all things, love I life. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 And fain wouldst keep it as thine age allows .'* 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 Fain would I live, and fain not fear to die. 
 
ERECHTHEUS, 25 
 
 PIJAXITHEA. 
 
 That I might bid thee die not ! Peace ; no more. 420 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 A godlike race of grief the Gods have set 
 
 For these to run matched equal, heart with heart. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 
 .Child of the chief of Gods, and maiden crowned, 
 
 Queen of these towers and fostress of their king, 
 
 Pallas, and thou my father's holiest head, 
 
 A living well of life nor stanched nor stained, 
 
 O God Cephisus, thee too charge I next, 
 
 Be to me judge and witness ; nor thine ear 
 
 Shall now my tongue invoke not, thou to me 
 
 Most hateful of things holy, mournfullest 430 
 
 Of all old sacred streams that wash the world, 
 
 Ilissus, on whose marge at flowery play 
 
 A whirlwind-footed bridegroom found my child 
 
 And rapt her northward where mine elder-born 
 
 Keeps now the Thracian bride-bed of a God 
 
 Intolerable to seamen, but this land 
 
26 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 Finds him in hope for her sake favourable, 
 A gracious son by wedlock ; hear me then 
 Thou likewise, if with no faint heart or false 
 The word I say be said, the gift be given, 440 
 
 Which might I choose I had rather die than give 
 Or speak and die not. Ere thy limbs were made 
 Or thine eyes lightened, strife, thou knowest, my child, 
 'Twixt God and God had risen, which heavenlier 
 
 name 
 Should here stand hallowed, whose more liberal grace 
 Should win this city's worship, and our land 
 To which of these do reverence ; first the lord 
 Whose wheels make lightnings of the foam-flowered 
 
 sea 
 Here on this rock, whose height brow-bound with 
 
 dawn 
 Is head and heart of Athens, one sheer blow 450 
 
 Struck, and beneath the triple wound that shook 
 The stony sinews and stark roots of the earth 
 Sprang toward the sun a sharp salt fount, and sank 
 Where lying it lights the heart up of the hill, 
 A well of bright strange brine ; but she that reared 
 Thy father with her same chaste fostering hand 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 27 
 
 Set for a sign against it in our guard 
 
 The holy bloom of the olive, whose hoar leaf 
 
 High in the shadowy shrine of Pandrosus 
 
 Hath honour of us all ; and of this strife 460 
 
 The twelve most high Gods judging with one mouth 
 
 Acclaimed her victress ; wroth whereat, as wronged 
 
 That she should hold from him such prize and place, 
 
 The strong king of the tempest-rifted sea 
 
 Loosed reinless on the low Thriasian plain 
 
 The thunders of his chariots, swallowing stunned 
 
 Earth, beasts, and men, the whole blind foundering 
 
 world 
 That was the sun's at morning, and ere noon 
 Death's ; nor this only prey fulfilled his mind ; 
 For with strange crook-toothed prows of Carian folk 
 Who snatch a sanguine life out of the sea, 47 1 
 
 Thieves keen to pluck their bloody fruit of spoil 
 From the grey fruitless waters, has their God 
 Furrowed our shores to waste them, as the fields 
 Were landward harried from the north with swords 
 Aonian, sickles of man-slaughtering edge 
 Ground for no hopeful harvest of live grain 
 Against us in Boeotia ; these being spent, 
 
28 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 Now this third time his wind of wrath has blown 
 
 Right on this people a mightier wave of war, 480 
 
 Three times more huge a ruin ; such its ridge 
 
 Foam-rimmed and hollow like the womb of heaven, 
 
 But black for shining, and with death for life 
 
 Big now to birth and ripe with child, full-blown 
 
 With fear and fruit of havoc, takes the sun 
 
 Out of our eyes, darkening the day, and blinds 
 
 The fair sky's face unseasonably with change, 
 
 A cloud in one and billow of battle, a surge 
 
 High reared as heaven with monstrous surf of spears 
 
 That shake on us their shadow, till men's heads 490 
 
 Bend, and their hearts even with its foi^ward wind 
 
 Wither, so blasts all seed in them of hope 
 
 Its breath and blight of presage ; yea, even now 
 
 The winter of this wind out of the deeps 
 
 Makes cold our trust in comfort of the Gods 
 
 And blind our eye toward outlook ; yet not here, 
 
 Here never shall the Thracian plant on high 
 
 For ours his father's symbol, nor with wreaths 
 
 A strange folk wreathe it upright set and crowned 
 
 Here where our natural people born behold 500 
 
 The golden Gorgon of the shield's defence 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 29 
 
 That screens their flowering olive, nor strange gods 
 Be graced, and Pallas here have praise no more. \ 
 And if this be not I must give my child, 
 Thee, mine own very blood and spirit of mine, 
 Thee to be slain. Turn from me, turn thine eyes 
 A little from me ; I can bear not yet 
 To see if still they smile on mine or no, 
 If fear make faint the light in them, or faith 
 Fix them as stars of safety. Need have we, 5 10 
 
 Sore need of stars that set not in mid storm, 
 Lights that outlast the lightnings ; yet my heart 
 Endures not to make proof of thine or these, 
 Not yet to know thee whom I made, and bare 
 What manner of woman ; had I borne thee man, 
 I had made no question of thine eyes or heart. 
 Nor spared to read the scriptures in them writ, 
 Wert thou my son ; yet couldst thou then but die 
 Fallen in sheer fight by chance and charge of spears 
 And have no more of memory, fill no tomb 520 
 
 More famous than thy fellows in fair field, 
 Where many share the grave, many the praise ; 
 But one crown shall one only girl my child 
 Wear, dead for this dear city, and give back life 
 
30 ERE CHTHE US. 
 
 To him that gave her and to me that bare, 
 
 And save two sisters living ; and all this, 
 
 Is this not all good ? I shall give thee, child. 
 
 Thee but by fleshly nature mine, to bleed 
 
 For dear land's love ; but if the city fall 
 
 What part is left me in my children then ? 5 30 
 
 But if it stand and thou for it lie dead, 
 
 Then hast thou in it a better part than we, 
 
 A holier portion than we all ; for each 
 
 Hath but the length of his own life to live. 
 
 And this most glorious mother-land on earth 
 
 To worship till that life have end ; but thine 
 
 Hath end no more than hers ; thou, dead, shalt live 
 
 Till Athens live not ; for the days and nights 
 
 Given of thy bare brief dark dividual life. 
 
 Shall she give thee half all her agelong own 540 
 
 And all its glory ; for thou givest her these ; 
 
 But with one hand she takes and gives again 
 
 More than I gave or she requires of thee. 
 
 Come therefore, I will make thee fit for death, 
 
 I that could give thee, dear, no gift at birth 
 
 Save of light life that breathes and bleeds, even I 
 
 Will help thee to this better gift than mine 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 31 
 
 And lead thee by this Httle living hand 
 
 That death shall make so strong, to that great end 
 
 Whence it shall lighten like a God's, and strike 550 
 
 Dead the strong heart of battle that would break 
 
 Athens ; but ye, pray for this land, old men. 
 
 That it may bring forth never child on earth 
 
 To love it less, for none may more, than we. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Out of the north wind grief came forth, \Str. i. 
 
 And the shining of a sword out of the sea. 
 Yea, of old the first-blown blast blew the prelude of 
 this last, 
 The blast of his trumpet upon Rhodope. 
 Out of the north skies full of his cloud, 
 With the clamour of his storms as of a crowd 560 
 At the wheels of a great king crying aloud. 
 At the axle of a strong king's car 
 That has girded on the girdle of war — 
 With hands that lightened the skies in sunder 
 And feet whose fall was followed of thunder, 
 A God, a great God strange of name. 
 
32 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 With horse-yoke fleeter-hoofed than flame, 
 To the mountain bed of a maiden came, 
 Oreithyia, the bride mismated, 
 
 Wofully wed in a snow-strewn bed 570 
 
 With a bridegroom that kisses the bride's mouth 
 
 dead ; 
 Without garland, without glory, without song, 
 As a fawn by night on the hills belated. 
 Given over for a spoil unto the strong. 
 
 From lips how pale so keen a wail \Ant. i. 
 
 At the grasp of a God's hand on her she gave, 
 When his breath that darkens air made a havoc of 
 her hair, 
 
 It rang from the mountain even to the wave ; 
 Rang with a cry, Woe's me, woe is me ! 
 From the darkness upon Ha^mus to the sea : 580 
 
 And with hands that clung to her new lord's knee. 
 As a virgin overborne with shame, 
 She besought him by her spouseless fame. 
 By the blameless breasts of a maid unmarried 
 And locks unmaidenly rent and harried, 
 
 And all her flower of body, born 
 
 To match the maidenhood of morn, 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 2>7> 
 
 With the might of the wind's wrath wrenched and 
 
 torn. 
 Vain, all vain as a dead man's vision 
 Falling by night in his old friend's sight, 590 
 
 To be scattered with slumber and slain ere light ; 
 Such a breath of such a bridegroom in that hour 
 Of her prayers made mock, of her fears derision, 
 And a ravage of her youth as of a flower. 
 With a leap of his limbs as a lion's, a cry from his 
 
 lips as of thunder, ystr. 2. 
 
 In a storm of amorous godhead filled with 
 
 fire, 
 From the height of the heaven that was rent with 
 
 the roar of his coming in sunder, 
 Sprang the strong God on the spoil of his desire. 
 And the pines of the hills were as green reeds 
 
 shattered, 
 And their branches as buds of the soft spring 
 
 scattered, 600 
 
 And the west wind and east, and the sound of the 
 
 south, 
 Fell dumb at the blast of the north wind's mouth. 
 At the cry of his coming out of heaven. 
 
 D 
 
34 ERE CHTHE US. 
 
 And the wild beasts quailed in the rifts and hollows 
 Where hound nor clarion of huntsman follows, 
 And the depths of the sea were aghast, and whitened. 
 And the crowns of their waves were as flame that 
 lightened. 
 And the heart of the floods thereof was riven. 
 But she knew not him coming for terror, she felt not 
 her wrong that he wrought her, \Ant. 2. 
 
 When her locks as leaves were shed before his 
 breath, 610 
 
 And she heard not for terror his prayer, though the 
 cry was a God's that besought her, 
 Blown from lips that strew the world-wide seas 
 
 with death. 
 For the heart was molten within her to hear, 
 And her knees beneath her were loosened for 
 
 fear. 
 And her blood fast bound as a frost-bound water. 
 And the soft new bloom of the green earth's 
 daughter 
 
 Wind-wasted as blossom of a tree ; 
 As the wild God rapt her from earth's breast 
 lifted, 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 35 
 
 On the strength of the stream of his dark breath 
 
 drifted, 
 From the bosom of earth as a bride from the 
 
 mother, 620 
 
 With storm for bridesman and wreck for brother, 
 
 As a cloud that he sheds upon the sea. 
 
 Of this hoary-headed woe [Epode. 
 
 Song made memory long ago ; 
 Now a younger grief to mourn 
 Needs a new song younger born. 
 Who shall teach our tongues 10 reach 
 What strange height of saddest speech. 
 For the new bride's sake that is given to be 
 A stay to fetter the foot of the sea, 630 
 
 Lest it quite spurn down and trample the town, 
 Ere the violets be dead that were plucked for 
 its crown, , 
 Or its olive-leaf whiten and wither ? 
 Who shall say of the wind's way 
 That he journeyed yesterday, 
 Or the track of the storm that shall sound to- 
 morrow, 
 
 If the new be more than the grey-grown sorrow ? 
 
 D 2 
 
36 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 For the wind of the green first season was keen, 
 
 And the blast shall be sharper than blew between 
 
 That the breath of the sea blows hither. 640 
 
 HERALD OF EUMOLPUS. 
 Old men, grey borderers on the march of death, 
 Tongue-fighters, tough of talk and sinewy speech, 
 Else nerveless, from no crew of such faint folk 
 Whose tongues are stouter than their hands come I 
 To bid not you to battle ; let them strike 
 Whose swords are sharper than your keen-tongued 
 And ye, sit fast and sorrow ; but what man [wail, 
 Of all this land-folk and earth-labouring herd 
 For heart or hand seems foremost, him I call 
 If heart be his to hearken, him bid forth 650 
 
 To try if one be in the sun's sight born 
 Of all that grope and grovel on dry ground 
 That may join hands in battle-grip for death 
 With them whose seed and strength is of the sea. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Know thou this much for all thy loud blast blown. 
 We lack not hands to speak with, swords to plead, 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 37 
 
 For proof of peril, not of boisterous breath, 
 
 Sea-wind and storm of barren mouths that foam 
 
 And rough rock's edge of menace ; and short space 
 
 May lesson thy large ignorance and inform 660 
 
 This insolence with knowledge if there live 
 
 Men earth-begotten of no tenderer thews 
 
 Than knit the great joints of the grim sea's brood 
 
 With hasps of steel together ; heaven to help, 
 
 One man shall break, even on their own flood's verge. 
 
 That iron bulk of battle ; but thine eye 
 
 That sees it now swell higher than sand or shore 
 
 Haply shall see not when thine host shall shrink. 
 
 HERALD OF EUMOLPUS. 
 Not haply, nay, but surely, shall not thine. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 That lot shall no God give who fights for thee. 670 
 
 HERALD OF EUMOLPUS. 
 Shall Gods bear bit and bridle, fool, of men } 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Nor them forbid we nor shalt thou constrain. 
 
38 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 HERALD OF EUMOLPUS. 
 Yet say'st thou none shall make the good lot mine ? 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Of thy side none, nor moved for fear of thee. 
 
 HERALD OF EUMOLPUS. 
 Gods hast thou then to baffle Gods of ours t 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Nor thine nor mine, but equal-souled are they. 
 
 HERALD OF EUMOLPUS. 
 Toward good and ill, then, equal-eyed of soul } 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Nay, but swift-eyed to note where ill thoughts breed. 
 
 HERALD OF EUMOLPUS. 
 Thy shaft word-feathered flies yet far of me. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Pride knows not, wounded, till the heart be cleft. 680 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 39 
 
 HERALD OF EUMOLPUS. 
 No shaft wounds deep whose wing is plumed with 
 words. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Lay that to heart, and bid thy tongue learn grace. 
 
 HERALD OF EUMOLPUS. 
 Grace shall thine own crave soon too late of mine. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Boast thou till then, but I wage words no more. 
 
 ERECHTHEUS. 
 Man, what shrill wind of speech and wrangling air 
 Blows in our ears a summons from thy lips 
 Winged with what message, or what gift or grace 
 Requiring } none but what his hand may take 
 Here may the foe think hence to reap, nor this 
 Except some doom from Godward yield it him. 690 
 
 HERALD OF EUMOLPUS. 
 King of this land-folk, by my mouth to thee 
 Thus saith the son of him that shakes thine earth, 
 
40 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 Eumolpus ; now the stakes of war are set, 
 
 For land or sea to win by throw and wear ; 
 
 Choose therefore or to quit thy side and give 
 
 The palm unfought for to his bloodless hand, 
 
 Or by that father's sceptre, and the foot 
 
 Whose tramp far off makes tremble for pure fear 
 
 Thy soul-struck mother, piercing like a sword 
 
 The immortal womb that bare thee ; by the waves 700 
 
 That no man bridles and that bound thy world, 
 
 And by the winds and storms of all the sea, 
 
 He swears to raze from eyeshot of the sun 
 
 This city named not of his father's name, 
 
 And wash to deathward down one flood of doom 
 
 This whole fresh brood of earth yeaned naturally, 
 
 Green yet and faint in its first blade, unblown 
 
 With yellow hope of harvest ; so do thou. 
 
 Seeing whom thy time is come to meet, for fear 
 
 Yield, or gird up thy force to fight and die. 710 
 
 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 To fight then be it ; for if to die or live. 
 
 No man but only a God knows this much yet 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 41 
 
 Seeing us fare forth, who bear but in our hands 
 
 The weapons not the fortunes of our fight ; 
 
 For these now rest as lots that yet undrawn 
 
 Lie in the lap of the unknown hour ; but this 
 
 I know, not thou, whose hollow mouth of storm 
 
 Is but a warlike wind, a sharp salt breath 
 
 That bites and wounds not ; death nor life of mine 
 
 Shall give to death or lordship of strange kings 720 
 
 The soul of this live city, nor their heel 
 
 Bruise her dear brow discrowned, nor snaffle or 
 
 goad 
 Wound her free mouth or stain her sanguine side 
 Yet masterless of man ; so bid thy lord 
 Learn ere he weep to learn it, and too late 
 Gnash teeth that could not fasten on her flesh, ^i 
 And foam his life out in dark froth of blood 
 Vain as a wind's waif of the loud-mouthed sea 
 Torn from the wave's edge whitening. Tell him 
 
 this ; 
 Though thrice his might were mustered for our 
 
 scathe 730 
 
 And thicker set with fence of thorn-edged spears 
 Than sands are whirled about the wintering beach 
 
42 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 When storms have swoln the rivers, and their blasts 
 Have breached the broad sea-banks with stress of 
 
 sea, 
 That waves of inland and the main make war 
 As men that mix and grapple ; though his ranks 
 Were more to number than all wildwood leaves 
 The wind waves on the hills of all the world. 
 Yet should the heart not faint, the head not fall, 
 The breath not fail of Athens. Say, the Gods 740 
 From lips that have no more on earth to say- 
 Have told thee this the last good news or ill 
 That I shall speak in sight of earth and sun 
 Or he shall hear and see them : for the next . 
 That ear of his from tongue of mine may take 
 Must be the first word spoken underground 
 From dead to dead in darkness. Hence ; make 
 
 haste, 
 Lest war's fleet foot be swifter than thy tongue 
 And I that part not to return again 
 On him that comes not to depart away 750 
 
 Be fallen before thee ; for the time is full. 
 And with such mortal hope as knows not fear 
 I go this high last way to the end of all. 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 43 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Who shall put a bridle in the mourner's lips to chasten 
 them, \.Str. I. 
 
 Or seal up the fountains of his tears for shame ? 
 Song nor prayer nor prophecy shall slacken tears nor 
 hasten them, 
 Till grief be within him as a burnt-out flame ; 
 Till the passion be broken in his breast 
 And the might thereof moltfen into rest. 
 And the rain of eyes that weep be dry, 760 
 
 And the breath be stilled of lips that sigh. 
 Death at last for all men is a harbour ; yet they flee 
 from it, lAnt. I. 
 
 Set sails to the storm- wind and again to sea ; 
 Yet for all their labour no whit further shall they be 
 from it, 
 Nor longer but wearier shall their life's work be. 
 And with anguish of travail until night 
 
 Shall they steer into shipwreck out of sight, 
 And with oars that break and shrouds that strain 
 Shall they drive whence no ship steers again. 
 
44 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 Bitter and strange is the word of the God most 
 
 high, \^Str. 2. 770 
 
 And steep the strait of his way. 
 Through a pass rock-rimmed and narrow the light that 
 
 gleams 
 On the faces of men falls faint as the dawn of 
 
 dreams, 
 The dayspring of death as a star in an under sky 
 
 Where night is the dead men's day. 
 As darkness and storm is his will that on earth is 
 
 done, \Ant. 2. 
 
 As a cloud is the face of his strength. 
 King of kings, holiest of holies, and mightiest of 
 
 might, 
 Lord of the lords of thine heaven that are humble in 
 
 thy sight. 
 Hast thou set not an end for the path of the fires of 
 
 the sun, 780 
 
 To appoint him a rest at length 1 
 Hast thou told not by measure the waves of the 
 
 waste wide sea, \,Str. 3. 
 
 And the ways of the wind their master and thrall to 
 
 thee } 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 45 
 
 Hast thou filled not the furrows with fruit for 
 the world's increase ? 
 Has thine ear not heard from of old or thine eye not 
 
 read 
 The thought and the deed of us living, the doom of 
 us dead ? 
 
 Hast thou made not war upon earth, and again 
 
 made peace ? 
 
 Therefore, O father, that seest us whose lives are a 
 
 breath, \_Ant. 3. 
 
 Take off us thy burden, and give us not wholly to 
 
 death. 
 
 For lovely is life, and the law wherein all 
 
 things live, 790 
 
 And gracious the season of each, and the hour of its 
 
 kind, 
 And precious the seed of his life in a wise man's mind ; 
 But all save life for his life will a base man give. 
 But a life that is given for the life of the whole live 
 land, \^Str. 4. 
 
 From a heart unspotted a gift of a spotless hand. 
 Of pure will perfect and free, for the land's life's sake. 
 What man shall fear not to put forth his hand and take ? 
 
46 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 For the fruit of a sweet life plucked in its pure green 
 
 prime {_Ant. 4. 
 
 On his hand who plucks is as blood, on his soul as 
 
 crime. 799 
 
 With cursing ye buy not blessing, nor peace with strife, 
 
 And the hand is hateful that chaffers with death for life. 
 
 Hast thou heard, O my heart, and endurest \Str. 5. 
 
 The word that is said. 
 What a garland by sentence found surest 
 Is wrought for what head t 
 With what blossomless flowerage of sea-foam and 
 
 blood-coloured foliage inwound 
 It shall crown as a heifer's for slaughter the forehead 
 for marriage uncrowned } 
 How the veils and the wreaths that should 
 cover \Ant. 5. 
 
 The brows of the bride 
 Shall be shed by the breath of what lover 8 ib 
 And scattered aside } 
 With a blast of the mouth of what bridegroom the 
 
 crowns shall be cast from her hair, 
 And her head by what altar made humble be left of 
 them naked and bare } 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 47 
 
 At a shrine unbeloved of a God unbeholden a gift 
 
 shall be given for the land, {Str. 6. 
 
 That its ramparts though shaken with clamour and 
 
 horror of manifold waters may stand : 
 That the crests of its citadels crowned and its turrets 
 
 that thrust up their heads to the sun 
 May behold him unblinded with darkness of waves 
 
 overmastering their bulwarks begun. 
 As a bride shall they bring her, a prey for the bride- 
 groom, a flower for the couch of her lord ; \_Ant. 6. 
 They shall muffle her mouth that she cry not or curse 
 
 them, and cover her eyes from the sword. 
 They shall fasten her lips as with bit and with bridle, 
 and darken the light of her face, 820 
 
 That the soul of the slayer may not falter, his heart 
 be not molten, his hand give not grace. 
 If she weep then, yet may none that hear take 
 pity ; {_str. 7. 
 
 If she cry not, none should hearken though she 
 cried. 
 Shall a virgin shield thine head for love, O city, 
 
 With a virgin's blood anointed as for pride } 
 Yet we held thee dear and hallowed of her favour, lAnt. 7. 
 Dear of all men held thy people to her heart ; . 
 
48 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 Nought she loves the breath of blood, the sanguine 
 savour, 
 Who hath built with us her throne and chosen 
 her part. 
 Bloodless are her works, and sweet \Epodc. 830 
 All the ways that feel her feet ; 
 From the empire of her eyes 
 Lig"ht takes life and darkness flies ; 
 From the harvest of her hands 
 Wealth strikes root in prosperous lands ; 
 Wisdom of her word is made ; 
 At her strength is strength afraid ; 
 From the beam of her bright spear 
 War's fleet foot goes back for fear ; 
 In her shrine she reared the birth 840 
 
 Fire-begotten on live earth ; 
 Glory from her helm was shed 
 On his olive-shadowed head ; 
 By no hand but his shall she 
 Scourge the storms back of the sea, 
 To no fame but his shall give 
 Grace being dead with hers to live, 
 And in double name divine 
 Half the godhead of their shrine. 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 49 
 
 But now with what word, with what woe may we 
 meet 850 
 
 The timeless passage of piteous feet, 
 
 Hither that bend to the last way's end 
 They shall walk upon earth ? 
 
 What song be rolled for a bride black-stoled 
 
 And the mother whose hand of her hand hath hold ? 
 
 For anguish of heart is my soul's strength broken 
 
 And the tongue sealed fast that would fain have 
 spoken, 
 
 To behold thee, O child of so bitter a birth 
 That we counted so sweet, 
 
 What way thy steps to what bride-feast tend, 860 
 
 What gifts he must give that shall wed thee for token 
 If the bridegroom be goodly to greet. 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 People, old men of my city, lordly wise and hoar of 
 
 head, 
 I a spouseless bride and crownless but with garlands 
 
 of the dead 
 From the fruitful light turn silent to my dark un- 
 childed bed. 
 
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50 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Wise of word was he too surely, but with deadHer 
 
 wisdom wise, 
 First who gave thee name from under earth, no breath 
 
 from upper skies, 
 When, foredoomed to this day's darkness, their first 
 
 dayHght filled thine eyes. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 Child, my child that wast and art but death's and now 
 
 no more of mine, 
 Half my heart is cloven with anguish by the sword 
 
 made sharp for thine, 870 
 
 Half exalts its wing for triumph, that I bare thee 
 
 thus divine. 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 Though for me the sword's edge thirst that sets no 
 
 point against thy breast, 
 Mother, O my mother, where I drank of life and fell 
 
 on rest, 
 Thine, not mine, is all the grief that marks this hour 
 
 accurst and blest. 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 51 
 
 CHORUS. . 
 
 Sweet thy sleep and sweet the bosom was that gave 
 thee sleep and birth ; 
 
 Harder now the breast, and girded with no marriage- 
 band for girth, 
 
 Where thine head' shall sleep, the namechild of the 
 lords of under earth. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 Dark the name and dark the gifts they gave thee 
 
 child, in childbirth were. 
 Sprung from him that rent the womb of earth, a 
 
 bitter seed to bear. 
 Born with groanings of the ground that gave him 
 
 way toward heaven's dear air. 880 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 Day to day makes answer, first to last, and life to 
 
 death; but I, 
 Born for death's sake, die for life's sake, if indeed this 
 
 be to die, 
 
 This my doom that seals me deathless till the springs 
 
 of time run dry. 
 
 E 2 
 
52 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Children shalt thou bear to memory, that to man 
 
 shalt bring forth none ; 
 Yea, the lordHest that lift eyes and hearts and songs to 
 
 meet the sun, 
 Names to fire men's ears like music till the round 
 
 world's race be run. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 
 I thy mother, named of Gods that wreak revenge and 
 
 brand with blame, 
 Now for thy love shall be loved as thou, and famous 
 
 with thy fame. 
 While this city's name on earth shall be for earth her 
 
 mightiest name. 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 
 That I may give this poor girl's blood of mine 890 
 Scarce yet sun-warmed with summer, this thin life 
 Still green with flowerless growth of seedling days. 
 To build again my city ; that no drop 
 Fallen of these innocent veins on the cold ground 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 53 
 
 But shall help knit the joints of her firm walls 
 
 To knead the stones together, and make sure 
 
 The band about her maiden girdlestead 
 
 Once fastened, and of all men's violent hands 
 
 Inviolable for ever ; these to me 
 
 Were no such gifts as crave no thanksgiving, 900 
 
 If with one blow dividing the sheer life 
 
 I might make end, and one pang wind up all 
 
 And seal mine eyes from sorrow ; for such end 
 
 The Gods give none they love not ; but my heart, 
 
 That leaps up lightened of all sloth or fear 
 
 To take the sword's point, yet with one thought's 
 
 load 
 Flags, and falls back, broken of wing, that halts 
 Maimed in mid flight for thy sake and borne down. 
 Mother, that in the places where I played 
 An arm's length from thy bosom and no more 910 
 Shalt find me never, nor thine eye wax glad 
 To mix with mine its eyesight and for love 
 Laugh without word, filled with sweet light, and speak 
 Divine dumb things of the inward spirit and heart, 
 Moved silently ; nor hand or lip again 
 Touch hand or lip of either, but for mine 
 
54 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 Shall thine meet only shadows of swift night, 
 Dreams and dead thoughts of dead things ; and the 
 
 bed 
 Thou strewedst, a sterile place for all time, strewn 
 For my sleep only, with its void sad sheets 920 
 
 Shall vex thee, and the unfruitful coverlid 
 For empty days reproach me dead, that leave 
 No profit of my body, but am gone 
 As one not worth being born to bear no seed, 
 A sapless stock and branchless ; yet thy womb 
 Shall want not honour of me, that brought forth 
 For all this people freedom, and for earth 
 From the unborn city born out of my blood 
 To light the face of all men evermore 
 Glory ; but lay thou this to thy great heart 930 
 
 Whereunder in the dark of birth conceived 
 Mine unlit life lay girdled with the zone 
 That bound thy bridal bosom ; set this thought 
 Against all edge of evil as a sword 
 To beat back sorrow, that for all the world 
 Thou brought'st me forth a saviour, who shall save 
 Athens ; for none but I from none but thee 
 Shall take this death for garland ; and the men 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 55 
 
 Mine unknown children of unsounded years, 
 
 My sons unrisen shall rise up at thine hand, 940 
 
 Sown of thy seed to bring forth seed to thee. 
 
 And call thee most of all most fruitful found 
 
 Blessed ; but me too for my barren womb 
 
 More than my sisters for their children born 
 
 Shall these give honour, yea in scorn's own place 
 
 Shall men set love and bring for mockery praise 
 
 And thanks for curses ; for the dry wild vine 
 
 Scoffed at and cursed of all men that was I 
 
 Shall shed them wine to make the world's heart 
 
 warm. 
 That all eyes seeing may lighten, and all ears 950 
 Hear and be kindled ; such a draught to drink 
 Shall be the blood that bids this dust bring forth, 
 The chaliced life here spilt on this mine earth, 
 Mine, my great father's mother ; whom I pray 
 Take me now gently, tenderly take home. 
 And softly lay in his my cold chaste hand 
 Who is called of men by my name, being of Gods 
 Charged only and chosen to bring men under earth. 
 And now must lead and stay me with his staff 
 A silent soul led of a silent God, 960 
 
56 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 Toward sightless things led sightless ; and on earth 
 I see now but the shadow of mine end, 
 And this last light of all for me in heaven. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 
 Farewell I bid thee ; so bid thou not me, 
 
 Lest the Gods hear and mock us ; yet on these 
 
 I lay the weight not of this grief, nor cast 
 
 III words for ill deeds back ; for if one say 
 
 They have done men wrong, what hurt have they to 
 
 hear, 
 Or he what help to have said it ? surely, child. 
 If one among men born might say it and live 970 
 Blameless, none more than I may, who being vexed 
 Hold yet my peace ; for now through tears enough 
 Mine t.y^s have seen the sun that from this day 
 Thine shall see never more ; and in the night 
 Enough has blown of evil, and mine ears 
 With wail enough the winds have filled, and brought 
 Too much of cloud from over the sharp sea 
 To mar for me the morning ; such a blast 
 Rent from these wide void arms and helpless breast 
 Longsince one graft of me disbranched, and bore 980 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 57 
 
 Beyond the wild ways of the unwandered world 
 And loud wastes of the thunder-throated sea, 
 Springs of the night and openings of the heaven, 
 The old garden of the Sun ; whence never more 
 F'rom west or east shall winds bring back that blow 
 From folds of opening heaven or founts of night 
 The flower of mine once ravished, born my child 
 To bear strange children ; nor on wings of theirs 
 Shall comfort come back to me, nor their sire 
 Breathe help upon my peril, nor his strength 990 
 
 Raise up my weakness ; but of Gods and men 
 I drift unsteered on ruin, and the wave 
 Darkens my head with imminent height, and hangs 
 Dumb, filled too full with thunder that shall leave 
 These ears death-deafened when the tide finds tongue 
 And all its wrath bears on them ; thee, O child, 
 I help not, nor am holpen ; fain, ah fain. 
 More than was ever mother born of man. 
 Were I to help thee ; fain beyond all prayer, 
 Beyond all thought fain to redeem thee, torn 1000 
 More timeless from me sorrowing than the dream 
 That was thy sister ; so shalt thou be too. 
 Thou but a vision, shadow-shaped of sleep. 
 
58 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 By grief made out of nothing ; now but once 
 I touch, but once more hold thee, one more kiss 
 This last time and none other ever more 
 Leave on thy lips and leave them. Go ; thou wast 
 My heart, my heart's blood, life-blood of my life, 
 My child, my nursling ; now this breast once thine 
 Shall rear again no children ; never now loio 
 
 Shall any mortal blossom born like thee 
 Lie there, nor ever with small silent mouth 
 Draw the sweet springs dry for an hour that feed 
 The blind blithe life that knows not ; never head 
 Rest here to make these cold veins warm, nor eye 
 Laugh itself open with the lips that reach 
 Lovingly toward a fount more loving ; these 
 Death makes as all good lesser things now dead. 
 And all the latter hopes that flowered from these 
 And fall as these fell fruitless ; no joy more 1020 
 
 Shall man take of thy maidenhood, no tongue 
 Praise it ; no good shall eyes get more of thee 
 That lightened for thy love's sake. Now, take note. 
 Give ear, O all ye people, that my word 
 May pierce your hearts through, and the stroke that 
 cleaves 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 59 
 
 Be fruitful to them ; so shall all that hear ' 
 
 Grow great at heart with child of thought most high 
 
 And bring forth seed in season ; this my child, 
 
 This flower of this my body,, this sweet life, 
 
 This fair live youth I give you, to be slain, 1030 
 
 Spent, shed, poured out, and perish ; take my gift 
 
 And give it death and the under Gods who crave 
 
 So much for that they give ; for this is more. 
 
 Much more is this than all we ; for they give 
 
 Freedom, and for a blast, an air of breath, 
 
 A little soul that is not, they give back 
 
 Light for all eyes, cheer for all hearts, and life 
 
 That fills the world's width full of fame and praise 
 
 And mightier love than children's. This they give. 
 
 The grace to make thy country great, and wrest 1040 
 
 From time and death power to take hold on her 
 
 And strength to scathe for ever ; and this gift. 
 
 Is this no more than man's love is or mine, 
 
 Mine and all mothers' ? nay, where that seems more, 
 
 Where one loves life of child, wife, father, friend, 
 
 Son, husband, mother, more than this, even there 
 
 Are all these lives worth nothing, all loves else 
 
 With this love slain and buried, and their tomb 
 
6o ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 A thing for shame to spit on ; for what love 
 
 Hath a slave left to love with ? or the heart 1050 
 
 Base-born and bound in bondage fast to fear, 
 
 What should it do to love thee ? what hath he, 
 
 The man that hath no country ? Gods nor men 
 
 Have such to friend, yoked beast-like to base life, 
 
 Vile, fruitless, grovelling at the foot of death, 
 
 Landless and kinless thralls of no man's blood, 
 
 Unchilded and unmothered, abject limbs 
 
 That breed things abject ; but who loves on earth 
 
 Not friend, wife, husband, father, mother, child, 
 
 Nor loves his own life for his own land's sake, 1060 
 
 But only this thing most, more this than all, 
 
 He loves all well* and well of all is loved. 
 
 And this love lives for evier. See now, friends. 
 
 My countrymen, my brothers, with what heart 
 
 I give you this that of your hands again 
 
 The Gods require for Athens ; as I give 
 
 So give ye to them what their hearts would have 
 
 Who shall give back things better ; yea, and these 
 
 I take for me to witness, all these Gods, 
 
 Were their great will more grievous than it is, 1070 
 
 Not one but three, for this one thin-spun thread 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 6i 
 
 A threefold band of children would I give 
 
 For this land's love's sake ; for whose love to-day 
 
 I bid thee, child, fare deathward and farewell. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 O wofullest of women, yet of all 
 
 Happiest, thy word be hallowed ; in all time 
 
 Thy name shall blossom, and from strange new 
 
 tongues 
 High things be spoken of thee ; for such grace 
 The Gods have dealt to no man, that on none 
 Have laid so heavy sorrow. From this day 1080 
 
 Live thou assured of godhead in thy blood, 
 And in thy fate no lowlier than a God 
 In all good things and evil ; such a name 
 Shall be thy child this city's, and thine own 
 Next hers that called it Athens. Go now forth 
 Blest, and grace with thee to the doors of death. 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 
 O city, O glory of Athens, O crown of my father's 
 land, farewell. 
 
62 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 For welfare is given her of thee. 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 O Goddess, be good to thy people, that in them 
 dominion and freedom may dwell. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Turn from us the strengths of the sea. 1090 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 
 Let glory's and theirs be one name in the mouths of all 
 nations made glad with the sun. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 For the cloud is blown back with thy breath. 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 
 With the long last love of mine eyes I salute thee, 
 O land where my days now are done. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 But her life shall be born of thy death. 
 
ERECHTHEUS. (>i 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 I put on me the darkness thy shadow, my mother, and 
 symbol, O Earth, of my name. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 For thine was her witness from birth. 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 
 In thy likeness I come to thee darkling, a daughter 
 whose dawn and her even are the same. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Be thine heart to her gracious, O Earth. 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 
 ^ To thine own kind be kindly, for thy son's name's 
 sake. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 That sons unborn may praise thee and thy first- 
 born son. iioo 
 CHTHONIA. 
 
 Give me thy sleep, who give thee all my life awake. 
 
64 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Too swift a sleep, ere half the web of day be spun. 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 Death brings the shears or ever life wind up the weft. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Their edge is ground and sharpened ; who shall 
 
 stay his hand } 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 The woof is thin, a small short life, with no thread 
 left. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Yet hath it strength, stretched out, to shelter all 
 the land. 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 Too frail a tent for covering, and a screen too strait. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Yet broad enough for buckler shall thy sweet life be. 
 
 CHTHONIA; 
 
 A little bolt to bar off battle from the gate. 1 109 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 65 
 
 CHORUS. 
 A wide sea-wall, that shatters the besieging sea. 
 
 CHTHONIA. 
 I lift up mine eyes from the skirts of the shadow, iStr. 
 
 From the border of death to the limits of light ; 
 O streams and rivers of mountain and meadow, 
 That hallow the last of my sight, 
 O father that wast of my mother 
 Cephisus, O thou too his brother 
 From the bloom of whose banks as a prey 
 Winds harried my sister away, 
 O crown on the world's head lying 
 
 Too high for its waters to drown, 1 1 20 
 
 Take yet this one word of me dying, 
 O city, O crown. 
 Though land-wind and sea-wind with mouths that 
 blow slaughter lAnt. 
 
 Should gird them to battle against thee again, 
 New-born of the blood of a maiden thy daughter. 
 The rage of their breath shall be vain. 
 For their strength shall be quenched and made idle 
 And the foam of their mouths find a bridle, 
 
 F 
 
66 ERECHTHEUS, 
 
 And the height of their heads bow down 
 
 At the foot of the towers of the town. 1 1 30 
 
 Be blest and beloved as I love thee 
 
 Of all that shall draw from thee breath ; 
 Be thy life as the sun's is above thee ; 
 I go to my death. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Many loves of many a mood and many a kind IStr. i. 
 Fill the life of man, and mould the secret mind ; 
 Many days bring many dooms, to loose and bind ; 
 Sweet is each in season, good the gift it brings. 
 Sweet as change of night and day with altering 
 
 wings, 
 Night that lulls world-weary day, day that comforts 
 
 night, 1 140 
 
 Night that fills our eyes with sleep, day that fills with 
 
 light. 
 None of all is lovelier, loftier love is none, \Ant. i. 
 Less is bride's for bridegroom, mother's less for son. 
 Child, than this that crowns and binds up all in one ; 
 Love of thy sweet light, thy fostering breast and hand. 
 Mother Earth, and city chosen, and natural land ; 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 67 
 
 Hills that bring the strong streams forth, heights of 
 
 heavenlier air, 
 Fields aflower with winds and suns, woods with 
 
 shadowing hair. 
 But none of the nations of men shall they liken to 
 
 thee, istr. 2. 
 
 Whose children true-born and the fruit of thy body 
 
 are we. 1150 
 
 The rest are thy sons but in figure, in word are thy 
 
 seed ; 
 We only the flower of thy travail, thy children in- 
 deed. 
 Of thy soil hast thou fashioned our limbs, of thy 
 
 waters their blood, 
 And the life of thy springs everlasting is fount of our 
 
 flood. 
 No wind oversea blew us hither adrift on thy shore. 
 None sowed us by land in thy womb that conceived 
 
 us and bore. 
 But the stroke of the shaft of the sunlight that brought 
 
 us to birth 
 Pierced only and quickened thy furrows to bear us, 
 
 O Earth. 
 
 F 2 
 
68 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 With the beams of his love wast thou cloven as with 
 
 iron or fire, 
 And the life in thee yearned for his life, and grew 
 
 great with desire. 1160 
 
 Arid the hunger and thirst to be wounded and healed 
 
 with his dart 
 Made fruitful the love in thy veins and the depth of 
 
 thine heart. 
 And the showers out of heaven overflowing and liquid 
 
 with love 
 Fulfilled thee with child of his godhead as rain from 
 
 above. 
 Such desire had ye twain of each other, till molten 
 
 in one lAnt. 2. 
 
 Ye might bear and beget of your bodies the fruits of 
 
 the sun. 
 And the trees in their season brought forth and were 
 
 kindled anew 
 By the warmth of the moisture of marriage, the child- 
 bearing dew. 
 And the firstlings were fair of the wedlock of heaven 
 
 and of earth ; 
 All countries were bounteous with blossoms and 
 
 burgeon of birth, 11 70 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 69 
 
 Green pastures of grass for all cattle, and life-giving 
 
 corn ; 
 But here of thy bosom, here only, the man-child was 
 
 born. 
 All races but one are as aliens engrafted or sown, 
 Strange children and changelings ; but we, O our 
 
 mother, thine own. 
 Thy nurslings are others, and seedlings they know not 
 
 of whom ; 
 For these hast thou fostered, but us thou hast borne 
 
 in thy womb. 
 Who is he of us all, O beloved, that owe thee for birth. 
 Who would give not his blood for his birth's sake, O 
 
 mother, O Earth } 
 What landsman is he that was fostered and reared of 
 
 thine hand 
 Who may vaunt him as we may in death though he 
 
 die for the land ? 1 180 
 
 Well doth she therefore who gives thee in guerdon 
 The bloom of the life of thy giving ; \Epode. 
 
 And thy body was bowed by no fruitless burden, 
 That bore such fruit of thee living. 
 
70 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 For her face was not darkened for fear, 
 For her eyelids conceived not a tear, 
 
 Nor a cry from her lips craved pity ; 
 But her mouth was a fountain of song. 
 And her heart as a citadel strong 
 
 That guards the heart of the city. 1 190 
 
 MESSENGER. 
 High things of strong-souled men that loved their land 
 On brass and stone are written, and their deeds 
 On high days chanted ; but none graven or sung 
 That ever set men's eyes or spirits on fire, 
 Athenians, has the sun's height seen, or earth 
 Heard in her depth reverberate as from heaven, 
 More worth men's praise and good report of Gods 
 Than here I bring for record in your ears. 
 For now being come to the altar, where as priest 
 Death ministering should meet her, and his hand 1200 
 Seal her sweet eyes asleep, the maiden stood, 
 With light in all her face as of a bride 
 Smiling, or shine of festal flame by night 
 Far flung from towers of triumph ; and her lips 
 Trembled with pride in pleasure, that no fear 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 71 
 
 Blanched them nor death before his time drank dry 
 The blood whose bloom fulfilled them ; for her cheeks 
 Lightened, and brighter than a bridal veil 
 Her hair enrobed her bosom and enrolled 
 From face to feet the body's whole soft length 12 10 
 As with a cloud sun-saturate ; then she spake 
 With maiden tongue words manlike, but her eyes 
 Lit mildly like a maiden's : Countrymen^ 
 With more goodwill and height of happier heart 
 I give me to you than my mother bare, 
 And go more gladly this great way to death 
 Than young men bound to battle. Then with face 
 Turned to the shadowiest part of all the shrine 
 And eyes fast set upon the further shade, 12 19 
 
 Take me, dear Gods ; and as some form had shone 
 From the deep hollow shadow, some God's tongue 
 Answered, I bless you that your guardian grace 
 Gives me to guard this country, takes my blood, 
 Your child's by name, to heal it. Then the priest 
 Set to the flower-sweet snow of her soft throat 
 The sheer knife's edge that severed it, and loosed 
 From the fair bondage of so spotless flesh 
 So strong a spirit ; and all that girt them round 
 Gazing, with souls that hung on that sad stroke. 
 
72 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 Groaned, and kept silence after while a man 1230 
 Might count how far the fresh blood crept, and bathed 
 How deep the dark robe and the bright shrine's base 
 Red-rounded with a running ring that grew 
 More large and duskier as the wells that fed 
 Were drained of that pure effluence : but the queen 
 Groaned not nor spake nor wept, but as a dream 
 Floats out of eyes awakening so past forth 
 Ghost-like, a shadow of sorrow, from all sight 
 To the inner court and chamber where she sits 1239 
 Dumb, till word reach her of this whole day's end. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 More hapless born by far \^str. 
 
 Beneath some wintrier star. 
 One sits in stone among high Lydian snows, 
 The tomb of her own woes : 
 Yet happiest was once of the daughters of Gods, and 
 
 divine by her sire and her lord, 
 Ere her tongue was a shaft for the hearts of her sons, 
 for the heart of her husband a sword. 
 
 For she, too great of mind, \Ani. 
 
 Grown through her good things blind. 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 73 
 
 With godless lips and fire of her own breath 
 
 Spake all her house to death ; 1250 
 
 But thou, no mother unmothered, nor kindled in spirit 
 with pride of thy seed, 
 
 Thou hast hallowed thy child for a blameless blood- 
 offering, and ransomed thy race by thy deed. 
 
 MESSENGER. 
 
 As flower is graffed on flower, so grief on grief 
 
 Engraffed brings forth new blossoms of strange tears, 
 
 Fresh buds and green fruits of an alien pain ; 
 
 For now flies rumour on a dark wide wing. 
 
 Murmuring of woes more than ye knew, most like 
 
 Hers whom ye hailed most wretched ; for the twain 
 
 Last left of all this house that wore last night 
 
 A threefold crown of maidens, and to-day 1260 
 
 Should let but one fall dead out of the wreath. 
 
 If mad with grief we know not and sore love 
 
 For this their sister, or with shame soul-stung 
 
 To outlive her dead or doubt lest their lives too 
 
 The Gods require to seal their country safe 
 
 And bring the oracular doom to perfect end. 
 
74 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 Have slain themselves, and fallen at the altar-foot 
 Lie by their own hands done to death ; and fear 
 Shakes all the city as winds a wintering tree, 1269 
 And as dead leaves are men's hearts blown about 
 And shrunken with ill thoughts, and flowerless hopes 
 Parched up with presage, lest the piteous blood 
 Shed of these maidens guiltless fall and fix 
 On this land's forehead like a curse that cleaves 
 To the unclean soul's inexpiate hunted head 
 Whom his own crime tracks hotlier than a hound 
 To life's veiled end unsleeping ; and this hour 
 Now blackens toward the battle that must close 
 All gates of hope and fear on all their hearts 
 Who tremble toward its issue, knowing not yet 1280 
 If blood may buy them surety, cleanse or soil 
 The helpless hands men raise and reach no stay. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Ill thoughts breed fear, and fear ill words ; but these 
 The Gods turn from us that have kept their law. 
 Let us lift up the strength of our hearts in song, \str. i. 
 
 And our souls to the height of the darkling day. 
 
 If the wind in our eyes blow blood for spray, 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 75 
 
 Be the spirit that breathes in us life more 
 
 strong, 
 Though the prow reel round and the helm point 
 wrong, 
 And sharp reefs whiten the shoreward way. 1 290 
 For the steersman time sits hidden astern, lAnt. 6. 
 With dark hand plying the rudder of doom, 
 And the surf-smoke under it flies Hke fume 
 As the blast shears off and the oar-blades churn 
 The foam of our lives that to death return, 
 Blown back as they break to the gulfing gloom. 
 What cloud upon heaven is arisen, what shadow, 
 what sound, \str. 2. 
 
 From the world beyond earth, from the night 
 underground, 
 That scatters from wings unbeholden the weight of its 
 darkness around ? 
 For the sense of my spirit is broken, and blinded its 
 eye, lAnt. 2. 1300 
 
 As the soul of a sick man ready to die, 
 With fear of the hour that is on me, with dread if an 
 end be not nigh. 
 
76 ERECHTHEUS, 
 
 O Earth, O Gods of the land, have ye heart now to 
 see and to hear \_str. 3. 
 
 What slays with terror mine eyesight and seals 
 mine ear ? 
 O fountains of streams everlasting, are all ye not 
 shrunk up and withered for fear ? 
 Lo, night is arisen on the noon, and her hounds 
 are in quest by day, \,Ant. 3. 
 
 And the world is fulfilled of the noise of them 
 crying for their prey, 
 And the sun's self stricken in heaven, and cast out of 
 his course as a blind man astray. 
 From east to west of the south sea-line \_str. 4. 
 
 Glitters the lightning of spears that shine ; 13 10 
 As a storm-cloud swoln that comes up from the 
 skirts of the sea 
 By the wind for helmsman to shoreward ferried, 
 So black behind them the live storm serried 
 Shakes earth with the tramp of its foot, and the 
 terror to be. 
 Shall the sea give death whom the land gave 
 birth ? \_Ant. 4. 
 
 O Earth, faif mother, O sweet live Earth, 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 77 
 
 Hide us again in thy womb from the waves of it, 
 help us or hide. 
 As a sword is the heart of the God thy brother, 
 But thine as the heart of a new-made mother, 
 To deliver thy sons from his ravin, and rage of his 
 tide. 1320 
 
 O strong north wind, the pilot of cloud and rain, 
 
 iStr. 5. 
 
 For the gifts we gave thee what gift hast thou 
 given us again? 
 O God dark-winged, deep-throated, a terror to forth- 
 faring ships by night. 
 What bride-song is this that is blown on the blast 
 of thy breath ? 
 A gift but of grief to thy kinsmen, a song but of 
 death. 
 For the bride's folk weeping, and woe for her father, 
 who finds thee against him in fight. 
 Turn back from us, turn thy battle, take heed of 
 our cry ; ^Ant. 5. 
 
 Let thy dread breath sound, and the waters of 
 war be dry ; 
 Let thy strong wrath shatter the strength of our foe- 
 men, the sword of their strength and the shield ; 
 
78 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 As vapours in heaven, or as waves or the wrecks 
 of ships, 1330 
 
 So break thou the ranks of their spears with the 
 breath of thy lips, 
 Till their corpses have covered and clothed as with 
 raiment the face of the sword-ploughed field. 
 O son of the rose-red morning, O God twin-born 
 with the day, {.str. 6. 
 
 O wind with the young sun waking, and winged for 
 the same wide way, 
 Give up not the house of thy kin to the host thou 
 hast marshalled from northward for prey. 
 From the cold of thy cradle in Thrace, from the 
 mists of the fountains of night, VAnt. 6. 
 
 From the bride-bed of dawn whence day leaps 
 laughing, on fire for his flight. 
 Come down with their doom in thine hand on the 
 
 ships thou hast brought up against us to fight. 
 
 For now not in word but in deed is the harvest of 
 
 spears begun, \str. 7. 
 
 And its clamour outbellows the thunder, its lightning 
 
 outlightens the sun. 1340 
 
ERECHTHEUS. ' 79 
 
 From the springs of the morning it thunders and 
 
 lightens across and afar 
 To the wave where the moonset ends and the fall of 
 
 the last low star. 
 With a trampling of drenched red hoofs and an earth- 
 quake of men that meet, 
 Strong war sets hand to the scythe, and the furrows 
 
 take fire from his feet. 
 Earth groans from her great rent heart, and the 
 
 hollows of rocks are afraid, 
 And the mountains are moved, and the valleys as 
 
 waves in a storm- wind swayed. 
 From the roots of the hills to the plain's dim verge 
 
 and the dark loud shore. 
 Air shudders with shrill spears crossing, and hurtling 
 
 of wheels that roar. 
 As the grinding of teeth in the jaws of a lion that 
 
 foam as they gnash 
 Is the shriek of the axles that loosen, the shock of the 
 
 poles that crash. 1350 
 
 The dense manes darken and glitter, the mouths of 
 
 the mad steeds champ. 
 Their heads flash blind through the battle, and death's 
 
 foot rings in their tramp. 
 
8o ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 For a fourfold host upon earth and in heaven is 
 
 arrayed for the fight, 
 Clouds ruining in thunder and armies encountering 
 
 as clouds in the night. 
 Mine ears are amazed with the terror of trumpets, 
 
 with darkness mine eyes, 
 At the sound of the sea's host charging that deafens 
 
 the roar of the sky's. 
 White frontlet is dashed upon frontlet, and horse 
 
 against horse reels hurled. 
 And the gorge of the gulfs of the battle is wide for 
 
 the spoil of the world. 
 And the meadows are cumbered with shipwreck of 
 
 chariots that founder on land, lAnt. 7. 
 
 And the horsemen are broken with breach as of 
 
 breakers, and scattered as sand. 1360 
 
 Through the roar and recoil of the charges that 
 
 mingle their cries and confound, 
 Like fire are the notes of the trumpets that flash 
 
 through the darkness of sound. 
 As the swing of the sea churned yellow that sways 
 
 with the wind as it swells 
 Is the lift and relapse of the wave of the chargers 
 
 that clash with their bells ; 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 8i 
 
 And the clang of the sharp shrill brass through the 
 
 burst of the wave as it shocks 
 Rings clean as the clear wind's cry through the roar 
 
 of the surge on the rocks : 
 And the heads of the steeds in their headgear of war, 
 
 and their corsleted breasts, 
 Gleam broad as the brows of the billows that brighten 
 
 the storm with their crests, 
 Gleam dread as their bosoms that heave to the ship- 
 wrecking wind as they rise, 
 Filled full of the terror and thunder of water, that 
 
 slays as it dies. ■ 13/0 
 
 So dire is the glare of their foreheads, so fearful the 
 
 fire of their breath, 
 And the light of their eyeballs enkindled so bright 
 
 with the lightnings of death ; 
 And the foam of their mouths as the sea's when the 
 
 jaws of its gulf are as graves, 
 And the ridge of their necks as the wind-shaken mane 
 
 on the ridges of waves : 
 And their fetlocks afire as they rear drip thick with a 
 
 dewfall of blood 
 As the lips of the rearing breaker with froth of the 
 
 manslaying flood. 
 
82 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 And the whole plain reels and resounds as the fields 
 
 of the sea by night 
 When the stroke of the wind falls darkling, and death 
 
 is the seafarer's light. 
 
 But thou, fair beauty of heaven, dear face of the day 
 
 nigh dead, \Epode. 
 
 What horror hath hidden thy glory, what hand hath 
 
 muffled thine head ? 1380 
 
 O sun, with what song shall we call thee, or ward off 
 
 thy wrath by what name, 
 With what prayer shall we seek to thee, soothe with 
 
 what incense, assuage with what gift. 
 If thy light be such only as lightens to deathward 
 
 the seaman adrift 
 With the fire of his house for a beacon, that foemen 
 
 have wasted with flame ? 
 Arise now, lift up thy light ; give ear to us, put forth 
 
 thine hand. 
 Reach toward us thy torch of deliverance, a lamp for 
 
 the night of the land. 
 Thine eye is-the light of the living, no lamp for the 
 
 dead ; 
 O, lift up the light of thine eye on the dark of our 
 
 dread. 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 83 
 
 Who hath blinded thee ? who hath prevailed on 
 
 thee ? who hath ensnared ? 
 Who hath broken thy bow, and the shafts for thy 
 battle prepared ? 1 390 
 
 Have they found out a fetter to bind thee, a chain for 
 
 thine arm that was bared ? 
 Be the name of thy conqueror set forth, and the might 
 of thy master declared. 
 O God, fair God of the morning, O glory of day, 
 What ails thee to cast from thy forehead its 
 
 garland away ? 
 To pluck from thy temples their chaplet enwreathed 
 
 of the light. 
 And bind on the brows of thy godhead a frontlet 
 of night ? 
 Thou hast loosened the necks of thine horses, and 
 
 goaded their flanks with affright. 
 To the race of a course that we know not on ways 
 that are hid from our sight. 
 As a wind through the darkness the wheels of their 
 
 chariot are whirled. 
 And the light of its passage is night on the face of 
 the world. 1400 
 
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84 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 And there falls from the wings of thy glory no help 
 
 from on high, 
 But a shadow that smites us with fear and desire of 
 thine eye. 
 For our hearts are as reeds that a wind on the water 
 
 bows down and goes by, 
 To behold not thy comfort in heaven that hath left us 
 untimely to die. 
 But what light is it now leaps forth on the land 
 Enkindling the waters and ways of the air 
 From thy forehead made bare, 
 From the gleam of thy bow-bearing hand ? 
 Hast thou set not thy left hand again to the string, 
 With the back-bowed horns bent sharp for a spring 
 And the barbed shaft drawn, 141 1 
 
 Till the shrill steel sing and the tense nerve ring 
 That pierces the heart of the dark with dawn, 
 O huntsman, O king, 
 When the flame of thy face hath twilight in chase 
 
 As a hound hath a blood-mottled fawn ? 
 He has glanced into golden the grey sea-strands. 
 And the clouds are shot through with the fires of 
 his hands, 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 85 
 
 And the height of the hollow of heaven that he 
 
 fills 
 As the heart of a strong man is quickened and 
 
 thrills ; 1420 
 
 High over the folds of the low-lying lands, 
 On the shadowless hills 
 
 As a guard on his watchtower he stands. 
 All earth and all ocean, all depth and all height, 
 At the flash of an eyebeam are filled with his might : 
 The sea roars backward, the storm drops dumb, 
 And silence as dew on the fire of the fight 
 Falls kind in our ears as his face in our sight 
 
 With presage of peace to come. 1429 
 
 Fresh hope in my heart from the ashes of dread 
 Leaps clear as a flame from the pyres of the dead, 
 
 That joy out of woe 
 May arise as the spring out of tempest and snow. 
 With the flower-feasted month in her hands rose-red 
 Borne soft as a babe from the bearing-bed. 
 Yet it knows not indeed if a God be friend, 
 If rescue may be from the rage of the sea, 
 
 Or the wrath of its lord have end. 
 For the season is full now of death or of birth, 
 
S6 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 To bring forth life, or an end of all ; 1440 
 
 And we know not if anything stand or fall 
 That is girdled about with the round sea's girth 
 
 As a town with its wall ; 
 But thou that art highest of the Gods most high, 
 That art lord if we live, that art lord though we 
 
 die 
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 For a grace to the children of Earth. 
 
 ATHENIAN HERALD. 
 
 Sons of Athens, heavy-laden with the holy weight of 
 years, 
 
 Be your hearts as young men's lightened of their 
 loathlier load of fears ; 
 
 For the wave is sunk whose thunder shoreward shook 
 the shuddering lands, 1450 
 
 And unbreached of warring waters Athens like a sea- 
 rock stands. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Well thy word has cheered us, well thy face and 
 glittering eyes, that spake 
 
 Ere thy tongue spake words of comfort ; yet no pause 
 behoves it make 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 87 
 
 Till the whole good hap find utterance that the Gods 
 have given at length. 
 
 ATHENIAN HERALD. 
 
 All is this, that yet the city stands unforced by 
 stranger strength. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Sweeter sound might no mouth utter in man's ear 
 than this thy word. 
 
 ATHENIAN HERALD. 
 
 Feed thy soul then full of sweetness till some bitterer 
 note be heard. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 None, if this ring sure, can mar the music fallen from 
 heaven as rain. 
 
 ATHENIAN HERALD. 
 If no fire of sun or star untimely sear the tender 
 grain. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Fresh the dewfall of thy tidings on our hopes reflower- 
 ing lies. 1460 
 
88 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 ATHENIAN HERALD. 
 
 Till a joyless shower and fruitless blight them, raining 
 from thine eyes. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Bitter springs have barren issues ; these bedew griefs 
 arid sands. 
 
 ATHENIAN HERALD. 
 
 Such thank-offerings ask such altars as expect thy 
 suppliant hands. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Tears for triumph, wail for welfare, what strange god- 
 head's shrine requires } 
 
 ATHENIAN HERALD. 
 
 Death's or victory's be it, a funeral torch feeds all 
 its festal fires. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Like a star should burn the beacon flaming from 
 our city's head. 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 89 
 
 ATHENIAN HERALD. 
 
 Like a balefire should the flame go up that says the 
 king is dead. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Out of heaven, a wild-haired meteor, shoots this new 
 sign, scattering fear. 
 
 ATHENIAN HERALD. 
 
 Yea, the word has wings of fire that hovered, loth to 
 burn thine ear, 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 From thy lips it leapt forth loosened on a shrill 
 and shadowy wing. 1470 
 
 ATHENIAN HERALD. 
 
 Long they faltered, fain to hide it deep as death that 
 hides the king. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Dead with him blind hope lies blasted by the lightning 
 of one sword. 
 
90 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 ATHENIAN HERALD. 
 
 On thy tongue truth wars with error ; no man's edge 
 hath touched thy lord. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 False was thine then, jangling menace like a war- 
 steed's brow-bound bell 1 
 
 ATHENIAN HERALD. 
 
 False it rang not joy nor sorrow ; but by no man's 
 hand he fell. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Vainly then good news and evil through so faint a 
 trumpet spake. 
 
 ATHENIAN HERALD. 
 
 All too long thy soul yet labours, as who sleeping fain 
 
 would wake. 
 Waking, fain would fall on sleep again ; the woe thou 
 
 knowest not yet. 
 When thou knowest, shall make thy memory thirst 
 
 and hunger to forget. 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 91 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Long my heart has hearkened, hanging on thy clamor- 
 ous ominous cry, 1480 
 
 Fain yet fearful of the knowledge whence it looks to 
 live or die ; 
 
 Now to take the perfect presage of thy dark and side- 
 long flight 
 
 Comes a surer soothsayer sorrowing, sable-stoled as 
 birds of night. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 
 Man, what thy mother bare thee born to say 
 Speak ; for no word yet wavering on thy lip 
 Can wound me worse than thought forestalls or fear. 
 
 ATHENIAN HERALD. 
 
 I have no will to weave too fine or far, 
 
 O queen, the weft of sweet with bitter speech, 
 
 Bright words with darkling ; but the brief truth shown 
 
 Shall plead my pardon for a lingering tongue, 1490 
 
 Loth yet to strike hope through the heart and slay. 
 
 The sun's light still was lordly housed in heaven 
 
 When the twain fronts of war encountering smote 
 
92 ERECHTHEUS, 
 
 First fire out of the battle ; but not long 
 Had the fresh wave of windy fight begun 
 Heaving, and all the surge of swords to sway, 
 When timeless night laid hold of heaven, and took 
 With its great gorge the noon as in a gulf, 
 Strangled ; and thicker than the shrill-winged shafts 
 Flew the fleet lightnings, held in chase through heaven 
 By headlong heat of thunders on their trail 1 50 1 
 
 Loosed as on quest of quarry ; that our host 
 Smit with sick presage of some wrathful God 
 Quailed, but the foe as from one iron throat 
 With one great sheer sole thousand-throated cry 
 Shook earth, heart-staggered from their shout, and 
 
 clove 
 The eyeless hollow of heaven ; and breached therewith 
 As with an onset of strength-shattering sound 
 The rent vault of the roaring noon of night 
 From her throned seat of usurpation rang 15 10 
 
 Reverberate answer ; such response there pealed 
 As though the tide's charge of a storming sea 
 Had burst the sky's wall, and made broad a breach 
 In the ambient girth and bastion flanked with stars 
 Guarding the fortress of the Gods, and all 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 93 
 
 Crashed now together on ruin ; and through that cry 
 And higher above it ceasing one man's note 
 Tore its way like a trumpet : Charge, make end, 
 CJtarge, halt not, strike, rend up their strength by the 
 
 roots, 
 Strike, break them, make your birthright's promise 
 
 sure, 1520 
 
 Show your hearts hardier than the fenced land breeds 
 A nd souls breathed in you from no spirit of earth, 
 Sons of the seas waves ; and all ears that heard 
 Rang with that fiery cry, that the fine air 
 Thereat was fired, and kindling filled the plain 
 Full of that fierce and trumpet-quenching breath 
 That spake the clarions silent ; no glad song 
 For folk to hear that wist how dire a God 
 Begat this peril to them, what strong race 1529 
 
 Fathered the sea-born tongue that sang them death. 
 Threatening ; so raged through the red foam of fight 
 Poseidon's son Eumolpus ; and the war 
 Quailed round him coming, and our side bore back, 
 As a stream thwarted by the wind and sea 
 That meet it midway mouth to mouth, and beat 
 The flood back of its issue ; but the king 
 
94 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 Shouted against them, crying, O Father-God, 
 Source of the God my father, from thine hajzd 
 Send me what end seems good fiow in thy sight, 
 But death from mine to this man ; and the word 1540 
 Quick on his Hps yet like a blast of fire 
 Blew them together ; and round its lords that met 
 Paused all the reeling battle ; two main waves 
 Meeting, one hurled sheer from the sea-wall back 
 That shocks it sideways, one right in from sea 
 Charging, that full in face takes at one blow 
 That whole recoil and ruin, with less fear 
 Startle men's eyes late shipwrecked ; for a breath 
 Crest fronting crest hung, wave to wave rose poised, 
 Then clashed, breaker to breaker ; cloud with cloud 
 In heaven, chariot with chariot closed on earth, 1551 
 One fourfold flash and thunder ; yet a breath. 
 And with the king's spear through his red heart's root 
 Driven, like a rock split from its hill-side, fell 
 Hurled under his own horsehoofs dead on earth 
 The sea-beast that made war on earth from sea. 
 Dumb, with no shrill note left of storming song, 
 Eumolpus ; and his whole host with one stroke 
 Spear-stricken through its dense deep iron heart 
 
ERECHTHEUS, 95 
 
 Fell hurtling from us, and in fierce recoil 1560 
 
 Drew seaward as with one wide wail of waves, 
 Resorbed with reluctation ; such a groan 
 Rose from the fluctuant refluence of its ranks, 
 Sucked sullen back and strengthless ; but scarce yet 
 The steeds had sprung and wheels had bruised their 
 
 16rd 
 Fallen, when from highest height of the sundering 
 
 heaven 
 The Father for his brother's son's sake slain 
 Sent a sheer shaft of lightning writhen and smote 
 Right on his son's son's forehead, that unhelmed 
 Shone like the star that shines down storm, and gave 
 Light to men's eyes that saw thy lord their king 1571 
 Stand and take breath from battle ; then too soon 
 Saw sink down as a sunset in sea-mist 
 The high bright head that here in van of the earth 
 Rose like a headland, and through storm and night 
 Took all the sea's wrath on it ; and now dead 
 They bring thee back by war-forsaken ways 
 The strength called once thy husband, the great guard 
 That was of all men, stay of all men's lives. 
 They bear him slain of no man but a God, 1580 
 
96 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 Godlike ; and toward him dead the city's gates 
 Fling their arms open mother-like, through him 
 Saved ; and the whole clear land is purged of war. 
 What wilt thou say now of this weal and woe ? 
 
 PRAXiTHEA. 
 
 I praise the Gods for Athens. O sweet Earth, 
 Mother, what joy thy soul has of thy son. 
 Thy life of my dead lord, mine own soul knows 
 That knows thee godlike ; and what grief should mine, 
 What sorrow should my heart have, who behold 
 Thee made so heavenlike happy ? This alone 1590 
 I only of all these blessed, all thy kind, 
 Crave this for blessing to me, that in theirs 
 Have but a part thus bitter ; give me too 
 Death, and the sight of eyes that meet not mine. 
 And thee too' from no godless heart or tongue 
 Reproachful, thee too by thy living name. 
 Father divine, merciful God, I call. 
 Spring of my lifesprings, fountain of my stream. 
 Pure and poured forth to one great end with thine, 
 Sweet head sublime of triumph and these tears, i6cx) 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 97 
 
 Cephisus, if thou seest as gladly shed 
 
 Thy blood in mine as thine own waves are given 
 
 To do this great land good, to give for love 
 
 The same lips drink and comfort the same hearts, 
 
 Do thou then, O my father, white-souled God, 
 
 To thy most pure earth-hallowing heart eterne 
 
 Take what thou gavest to be given for these. 
 
 Take thy child to thee ; for her time is full, 
 
 For all she hath borne she hath given, seen all she 
 
 had 
 Flow from her, from her eyes and breasts and 
 
 hands 1610 
 
 Flow forth to feed this people ; but be thou. 
 Dear God and gracious to all souls alive, 
 Good to thine own seed also ; let me sleep, 
 Father ; my sleepless darkling day is done, 
 My day of life like night, but slumberless : 
 For all my fresh fair springs, and his that ran 
 In one, stream's bed with mine, are all run out 
 Into the deep of death. The Gods have saved 
 Athens ; my blood has bought her at their hand, 
 And ye sit safe ; be glorious and be glad 1620 
 
 As now for all time always, countrymen, 
 
 H 
 
9« ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 And love my dead for ever ; but me, me, 
 
 What shall man give for these so good as death ? 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 From the cup of my heart I pour through my lips 
 along VStr. I. 
 
 The mingled wine of a joyful and sorrowful song ; 
 
 Wine sweeter than honey and bitterer than blood that 
 is poured 
 
 From the chalice of gold, from the point of the two- 
 edged sword. 
 
 For the city redeemed should joy flow forth as a flood, 
 
 And a dirge make moan for the city polluted with 
 blood. 
 
 Great praise should the Gods have surely, my 
 country, of thee, lAnt. i. 1630 
 
 Were thy brow but as white as of old for thy sons to 
 see. 
 
 Were thy hands as bloodless, as blameless thy cheek 
 divine ; 
 
 But a stain on it stands of the life-blood offered for 
 thine. 
 
ERECHTHEUS, 99 
 
 What thanks shall we give that are mixed not and 
 
 marred with dread 
 For the price that has ransomed thine own with thine 
 own child's head ? 
 For a taint there cleaves to the people redeemed 
 with blood, \.Str. 2. 
 
 And a plague to the blood-red hand. 
 The rain shall not cleanse it, the dew nor the 
 sacred flood 
 That blesses the glad live land. 
 In the darkness of earth beneath, in the world with- 
 out sun, \^Aiit. 2. 1640 
 The shadows of past things reign ; 
 And a cry goes up from the ghost of an ill deed 
 done, 
 And a curse for a virgin slain. 
 
 ATHENA. 
 
 Hear, men that mourn, and woman without mate, 
 Hearken ; ye sick of soul with fear, and thou 
 Dumb-stricken for thy children ; hear ye too, 
 Earth, and the glory of heaven, and winds of the air, 
 And the most holy heart of the deep sea, 
 
 H 2 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 Late wroth, now full of quiet ; hear thou, sun, 
 Rolled round with the upper fire of rolling heaven 1650 
 And all the stars returning ; hills and streams, 
 Springs and fresh fountains, day that seest these deeds, 
 Night that shalt hide not ; and thou child of mine, 
 Child of a maiden, by a maid redeemed. 
 Blood-guiltless, though bought back with innocent 
 
 blood, 
 City mine own ; I Pallas bring thee word, 
 I virgin daughter of the most high God 
 Give all you charge and lay command on all 
 The word I bring be wasted not ; for this 
 The Gods have stablished and his soul hath sworn, 
 That time nor earth nor changing sons of man 1661 
 Nor waves of generations, nor the winds 
 Of ages risen and fallen that steer their tides 
 Through light and dark of birth and lovelier death 
 From storm toward haven inviolable, shall see 
 So great a light alive beneath the sun 
 As the awless eye of Athens ; all fame else 
 Shall be to her fame as a shadow in sleep 
 To this wide noon at waking ; men most praised 
 In lands most happy for their children found 1670 
 
ERECHTHEUS. loi 
 
 Shall hold as highest of honours given of God 
 
 To be but likened to the least of thine, 
 
 Thy least of all, my city ; thine shall be 
 
 The crown of all songs sung, of all deeds done 
 
 Thine the full flower for all time ; in thine hand 
 
 Shall time be like a sceptre, and thine head 
 
 Wear worship for a garland ; nor one leaf 
 
 Shall change or winter cast out of thy crown 
 
 Till all flowers wither in the world ; thine eyes 
 
 Shall first in man's flash lightning liberty, 1680 
 
 Thy tongue shall first say freedom ; thy first hand 
 
 Shall loose the thunder terror as a hound 
 
 To hunt from sunset to the springs of the sun 
 
 Kings that rose up out of the populous east 
 
 To make their quarry of thee, and shall strew 
 
 With multitudinous limbs of myriad herds 
 
 The foodless pastures of the sea, and make 
 
 With wrecks immeasurable and unsummed defeat 
 
 One ruin of all their many-folded flocks 
 
 111 shepherded from Asia ; by thy side 1690 
 
 Shall fight thy son the north wind, and the sea 
 
 That was thine enemy shall be sworn thy friend 
 
 And hand be struck in hand of his and thine 
 
 H 3 
 
I02 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 To hold faith fast for aye ; with thee, though each 
 Make war on other, wind and sea shall keep 
 Peace, and take truce as brethren for thy sake 
 Leagued with one spirit and single-hearted strength 
 To break thy foes in pieces, who shall meet 
 The wind's whole soul and might of the main sea 
 Full in their face of battle, and become 1700 
 
 A laughter to thee ; like a shower of leaves 
 Shall their long galleys rank by staggering rank 
 Be dashed adrift on ruin, and in thy sight 
 The sea deride them, and that lord of the air 
 Who took by violent hand thy child to wife 
 With his loud lips bemock them, by his breath 
 Swept out of sight of being ; so great a grace 
 Shall this day give thee, that makes one in heart 
 With mine the deep sea's godhead, and his son 
 With him that was thine helmsman, king with king, 
 Dead man with dead ; such only names as these 171 1 
 Shalt thou call royal, take none else or less 
 To hold of men in honour ; but with me 
 Shall these be worshipped as one God, and mix 
 With mine the might of their mysterious names 
 In one same shrine served singly, thence to keep 
 
ERECHTHEUS. . 103 
 
 Perpetual guard on Athens ; time and change, 
 Masters and lords of all men, shall be made 
 To thee that knowest no master and no lord 
 Servants ; the days that lighten heaven and nights 
 That darken shall be ministers of thine 172 1 
 
 To attend upon thy glory, the great years 
 As light-engraven letters of thy name 
 Writ by the sun's hand on the front of the earth 
 For world-beholden witness ; such a gift 
 For one fair chaplet of three lives enwreathed 
 To hang for ever from thy storied shrine, 
 And this thy steersman fallen with tiller in hand 
 To stand for ever at thy ship's helm seen, 
 Shall he that bade their threefold flower be shorn 1730 
 And laid him low that planted, give thee back 
 In sign of sweet land reconciled with sea 
 And heavenlike earth with heaven ; such promise- 
 pledge 
 I daughter without mother born of God 
 To the most woful mother born of man 
 Plight for continual comfort. Hail, and live 
 Beyond all human hap of mortal doom 
 Happy ; for so my sire hath sworn and I. 
 
I04 ERECHTHEUS. 
 
 PRAXITHEA. 
 
 O queen Athena, from a heart made whole 
 
 Take as thou givest us blessing ; never tear 1 740 
 
 Shall stain for shame nor groan untune the song 
 
 That as a bird shall spread and fold its wings 
 
 Here in thy praise for ever, and fulfil 
 
 The whole world's crowning city crowned with thee 
 
 As the sun's eye fulfils and crowns with sight 
 
 The circling crown of heaven. There is no grief 
 
 Great as the joy to be made one in will 
 
 With him that is the heart and rule of life 
 
 And thee, God born of God ; thy name is ours, 
 
 And thy large grace more great than our desire. 17 50 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 From the depth of the springs of my spirit a fountain 
 is poured of thanksgiving, 
 My country, my mother, for thee, 
 That thy dead for their death shall have life in thy 
 sight and a name everliving 
 At heart of thy people to be 
 
ERECHTHEUS. 105 
 
 In the darkness of change on the waters of time they 
 
 shall turn from afar 
 To the beam of this dawn for a beacon, the light of 
 
 these pyres for a star. 
 They shall see thee who love and take comfort, who 
 
 hate thee shall see and take warning, 
 Our mother that makest us free ; 
 And the sons of thine earth shall have help of the 
 
 waves that made war on their morning, 
 And friendship and fame of the sea. 1760 
 
NOTES. 
 
 V. 497-503. Cf. Eurip. Fr. Erechtheus, 46-49. 
 
 V, 522-530. Id. 32-40. 
 
 V. 778. yEsch. Supp. 524-6. 
 
 V. 984. Soph. Fr. {Oreithyia) 326. 
 
 uTrep re irovrov Trofr' e7r' 6(rxoTa xQavhs 
 vvktSs t€ irTiyas oupavov r avairrvxas, 
 ^oifiov iraXaihv KrJTrou. 
 
 V. 1 163. /Esch. Fr. [Danaides) 108. 
 
 ofi^pos S' ott' (ivdevTOS ovpayov ir^aibv 
 €KV(re ya7av. 
 
 V. 1 168. Id. SevSpwTis Sipa S' ck vot'i^ovtos ydixov 
 Te\ei6s i(TTi. 
 
 V. 1749. ' God born of God ^ Soph. Ant. 834. Qi6s toi koI deoyevvits* 
 
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