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I wish I were as in the years of old	A
While yet the blessed daylight made itself	B
Ruddy thro' both the roofs of sight and woke	C
These eyes now dull but then so keen to seek	D
The meanings ambush'd under all they saw	E
The flight of birds the flame of sacrifice	F
What omens may foreshadow fate to man	G
And woman and the secret of the Gods	H
My son the Gods despite of human prayer	I
Are slower to forgive than human kings	J
The great God Ar s burns in anger still	K
Against the guiltless heirs of him from Tyre	L
Our Cadmus out of whom thou art who found	M
Beside the springs of Dirc smote and still'd	N
Thro' all its folds the multitudinous beast	O
The dragon which our trembling fathers call'd	P
The God's own son	Q
A tale that told to me	R
When but thine age by age as winter white	S
As mine is now amazed but made me yearn	T
For larger glimpses of that more than man	G
Which rolls the heavens and lifts and lays the deep	U
Yet loves and hates with mortal hates and loves	V
And moves unseen among the ways of men	W
Then in my wanderings all the lands that lie	X
Subjected to the Heliconian ridge	Y
Have heard this footstep fall altho' my wont	Z
Was more to scale the highest of the heights	A2
With some strange hope to see the nearer God	B2
One naked peak the sister of the Sun	Q
Would climb from out the dark and linger there	I
To silver all the valleys with her shafts	C2
There once but long ago five fold thy term	D2
Of years I lay the winds were dead for heat	E2
The noonday crag made the hand burn and sick	F2
For shadow not one bush was near I rose	G2
Following a torrent till its myriad falls	H2
Found silence in the hollows underneath	I2
There in a secret olive glade I saw	E
Pallas Athene climbing from the bath	J2
In anger yet one glittering foot disturb'd	K2
The lucid well one snowy knee was prest	L2
Against the margin flowers a dreadful light	S
Came from her golden hair her golden helm	M2
And all her golden armor on the grass	N2
And from her virgin breast and virgin eyes	O2
Remaining fixt on mine till mine grew dark	P2
For ever and I heard a voice that said	Q2
Henceforth be blind for thou hast seen too much	R2
And speak the truth that no man may believe	S2
Son in the hidden world of sight that lives	T2
Behind this darkness I behold her still	K
Beyond all work of those who carve the stone	U2
Beyond all dreams of Godlike womanhood	V2
Ineffable beauty out of whom at a glance	W2
And as it were perforce upon me flash'd	X2
The power of prophesying but to me	R
No power so chain'd and coupled with the curse	Y2
Of blindness and their unbelief who heard	Z2
And heard not when I spake of famine plague	A3
Shrine shattering earthquake fire flood thunderbolt	B3
And angers of the Gods for evil done	Q
And expiation lack'd no power on Fate	C3
Theirs or mine own for when the crowd would roar	D3
For blood for war whose issue was their doom	E3
To cast wise words among the multitude	F3
Was flinging fruit to lions nor in hours	G3
Of civil outbreak when I knew the twain	H3
Would each waste each and bring on both the yoke	C
Of stronger states was mine the voice to curb	I3
The madness of our cities and their kings	J
Who ever turn'd upon his heel to hear	J3
My warning that the tyranny of one	Q
Was prelude to the tyranny of all	K3
My counsel that the tyranny of all	K3
Led backward to the tyranny of one	Q
This power hath work'd no good to aught that lives	T2
And these blind hands were useless in their wars	L3
O therefore that the unfulfill'd desire	M3
The grief for ever born from griefs to be	R
The boundless yearning of the prophet's heart	N3
Could that stand forth and like a statue rear'd	O3
To some great citizen win all praise from all	K3
Who past it saying That was he	R
In vain	H3
Virtue must shape itself in deed and those	G2
Whom weakness or necessity have cramp'd	P3
Within themselves immerging each his urn	T
In his own well draws solace as he may	Q3
Menoeceus thou hast eyes and I can hear	J3
Too plainly what full tides of onset sap	R3
Our seven high gates and what a weight of war	D3
Rides on those ringing axles jingle of bits	S3
Shouts arrows tramp of the horn footed horse	T3
That grind the glebe to powder Stony showers	G3
Of that ear stunning hail of Ar s crash	U3
Along the sounding walls Above below	V3
Shock after shock the song built towers and gates	W3
Reel bruised and butted with the shuddering	X3
War thunder of iron rams and from within	Y3
The city comes a murmur void of joy	Z3
Lest she be taken captive maidens wives	A4
And mothers with their babblers of the dawn	B4
And oldest age in shadow from the night	S
Falling about their shrines before their Gods	H
And wailing Save us	C4
And they wail to thee	R
These eyeless eyes that cannot see thine own	U2
See this that only in thy virtue lies	O2
The saving of our Thebes for yesternight	S
To me the great God Ar s whose one bliss	D4
Is war and human sacrifice himself	B
Blood red from battle spear and helmet tipt	S
With stormy light as on a mast at sea	R
Stood out before a darkness crying Thebes	E4
Thy Thebes shall fall and perish for I loathe	F4
The seed of Cadmus yet if one of these	G4
By his own hand if one of these	G4
My son	Q
No sound is breathed so potent to coerce	Y2
And to conciliate as their names who dare	I
For that sweet mother land which gave them birth	H4
Nobly to do nobly to die Their names	I4
Graven on memorial columns are a song	J4
Heard in the future few but more than wall	K3
And rampart their examples reach a hand	S
Far thro' all years and everywhere they meet	S
And kindle generous purpose and the strength	K4
To mould it into action pure as theirs	L4
Fairer thy fate than mine if life's best end	S
Be to end well and thou refusing this	D4
Unvenerable will thy memory be	R
While men shall move the lips but if thou dare	I
Thou one of these the race of Cadmus then	W
No stone is fitted in yon marble girth	H4
Whose echo shall not tongue thy glorious doom	E3
Nor in this pavement but shall ring thy name	M4
To every hoof that clangs it and the springs	J
Of Dirc laving yonder battle plain	H3
Heard from the roofs by night will murmur thee	R
To thine own Thebes while Thebes thro' thee shall stand	S
Firm based with all her Gods	H
The Dragon's cave	N4
Half hid they tell me now in flowing vines	O4
Where once he dwelt and whence he roll'd himself	B
At dead of night thou knowest and that smooth rock	P4
Before it altar fashion'd where of late	S
The woman breasted Sphinx with wings drawn back	Q4
Folded her lion paws and look'd to Thebes	E4
There blanch the bones of whom she slew and these	G4
Mixt with her own because the fierce beast found	S
A wiser than herself and dash'd herself	B
Dead in her rage but thou art wise enough	R4
Tho' young to love thy wiser blunt the curse	Y2
Of Pallas bear and tho' I speak the truth	S4
Believe I speak it let thine own hand strike	T4
Thy youthful pulses into rest and quench	U4
The red God's anger fearing not to plunge	V4
Thy torch of life in darkness rather thou	W4
Rejoicing that the sun the moon the stars	X4
Send no such light upon the ways of men	W
As one great deed	S
Thither my son and there	I
Thou that hast never known the embrace of love	Y4
Offer thy maiden life	Z4
This useless hand	S
I felt one warm tear fall upon it Gone	B4
He will achieve his greatness	C4
But for me	R
I would that I were gather'd to my rest	S
And mingled with the famous kings of old	S
On whom about their ocean islets flash	U3
The faces of the Gods the wise man's word	S
Here trampled by the populace underfoot	S
There crown'd with worship and these eyes will find	S
The men I knew and watch the chariot whirl
About the goal again and hunters race
The shadowy lion and the warrior kings	J
In height and prowess more than human strive
Again for glory while the golden lyre	L
Is ever sounding in heroic ears
Heroic hymns and every way the vales
Wind clouded with the grateful incense fume	E3
Of those who mix all odor to the Gods	H
On one far height in one far shining fire	M3
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One height and one far shining fire	M3
And while I fancied that my friend	S
For this brief idyll would require	M3
A less diffuse and opulent end	S
And would defend his judgment well
If I should deem it over nice	F
The tolling of his funeral bell
Broke on my Pagan Paradise	F
And mixt the dream of classic times
And all the phantoms of the dream
With present grief and made the rhymes
That miss'd his living welcome seem
Like would be guests an hour too late	S
Who down the highway moving on
With easy laughter find the gate	S
Is bolted and the master gone	B4
Gone onto darkness that full light	S
Of friendship past in sleep away	Q3
By night into the deeper night	S
The deeper night A clearer day	Q3
Than our poor twilight dawn on earth	H4
If night what barren toil to be	R
What life so maim'd by night were worth	H4
Our living out Not mine to me	R
Remembering all the golden hours	G3
Now silent and so many dead	S
And him the last and laying flowers	G3
This wreath above his honour'd head	S
And praying that when I from hence
Shall fade with him into the unknown	U2
My close of earth's experience
May prove as peaceful as his own	U2