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Midway his upward unavailing course	A
Sate Sisyphus his back against his load	B
Halting a moment from that task of doom	C
Adown his swollen cheeks ran streams of sweat	D
Dripping from thick drenched locks and watery beads	E
Gathered and stood on his stupendous limbs	F
The sinews of his arm like gnarled knots	G
On hollow bark of legendary oak	H
Credentials of incalculable years	I
Bulged up and in his horny hands outspread	D
Upon his wrinkled knees the arching veins	J
Glittered like tempered steel His stertorous breath	K
Moaned like to bellows in cyclopean forge	L
Wherewith in smithy subterranean	M
Against the Gods rebellious demigods	J
Fashion their molten ineffectual bolts	J
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But when asudden swift on angry flash	N
Rumbled imperious thunder overhead	D
At the commanding mandate Sisyphus	J
Bulkily rising straightened limbs relaxed	D
And turned him yet again unto his task	O
Mumbling the while habitual lament	D
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Why was I chosen for this hateful task	O
Fantastically futile which the Gods	J
Lay on their victim for their own disport	D
Rather a thousand times upon the wheel	P
Would I Ixion like be racked or lift	D
The tantalising gourd cup to my lips	J
I was no wickeder than they and I	Q
Founded Ephyra in a stony land	D
Raised monolithic temples to the Gods	J
And made the name of Corinth glorious from	R
Peloponnesus unto Attica	S
Was it a crime to be Ulysses' sire	T
By sportive Anticlea ere she wed	D
Laertes bringing him a Royal heir	U
Yearning for whom when Circe and her lures	J
From Ithaca withheld his bark she died	D
If such to me imputed be a crime	V
Then all the Gods are bestial criminals	J
Lustful adulterous meretricious Gods	J
What more was my offence Was it because	J
I from the clustered sister Pleiades	J
Lured Merope to earth to share my love	W
Not an ephemeral but strong nuptialled love	W
Whereat the Gods envying a mortal's joy	X
Darkened her light in Heaven and vengefully	P
In me infused her immortality	D
That I might strain for ever at the task	O
Of aiding upward downward destined world	D
	-
If mortals were but once by doom allowed	D
To limit their ambition and abide	D
On some material or majestic height	D
But onward upward ever are they urged	D
By the half God within their blood to pass	J
Beyond the flaming barriers of the world	D
Where the inexorable sentries stand	D
To drive them back and me unwilling drudge	Y
Forced downward by the weight I upward rolled	D
When to the very pinnacle of Art	D
Majestically lovely for restrained	D
Hellenic minds from barbarous gropings towered	D
The beast in mortals sensuously craved	D
For craft more carnal Goddesses undraped	D
In marble to such use recalcitrant	D
Satyrs and fauns licentious comedy	D
Provocative of laughter or of lust	D
Dethroning the Ideal for the Real	P
When the stern Roman on the world imposed	D
By forceful dominance the Reign of Law	P
Then did the East with tribute undermine	Z
The male won Empire and barbarian hordes	J
Rent the Imperial marble from its limbs	J
And revelled in the wreck of its decline	Z
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O but now now now	A2
Heavier the load weightier than ever yet	D
For men infatuated now conceive	B2
Eliminating Spirit they will find	D
In matter immaterialised the germ	C2
Fountain and origin of all that moves	J
But behind Fate there is another Fate	D
And yet another undiscoverable	P
Yet Man again illusioned presses on	D2
Fondling the fancy he will shortly pierce	J
Unto the generating source of things	J
The Atom atomless whereat the Gods	J
Shake with ironic laughter since themselves	J
Know it not neither do they seek to know	E2
Aware above them there are other Gods	J
May be one sole impenetrable God	D
Never created never dying One	M
With the unbounded Universe Himself	F2
The soul and substance of Eternity	D
That is my one last hope that He will free	D
My body from this pagan servitude	D
And with omnipotent mercifulness merge	G2
My Being into His ''	-

Alfred Austin

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