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Love will make men dare to die for their beloved Of this	A
Alcestis is a monument for she was willing to lay down her	B
life for her husband and so noble did this appear to the gods	C
that they granted her the privilege of returning to earth but	D
Orpheus the son of OEagrus they sent empty away	E
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Plato The Symposium	F
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Orpheus the Harper coming to the gate	G
Where the implacable dim warder sate	G
Besought for parley with a shade within	H
Dearer to him than life itself had been	H
Sweeter than sunlight on Illyrian sea	I
Or bloom of myrtle or murmur of laden bee	I
Whom lately from his unconsenting breast	J
The Fates at some capricious blind behest	J
Intolerably had reft Eurydice	I
Dear to the sunlight as Illyrian sea	I
Sweet as the murmur of bees or myrtle bloom	K
And uncompanioned led her to the tomb	K
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There solitary by the Stygian tide	L
Strayed her dear feet the shadow of his own	M
Since 'mid the desolate millions who have died	L
Each phantom walks its crowded path alone	M
And there her head that slept upon his breast	J
No more had such sweet harbour for its rest	J
Nor her swift ear from those disvoiced throats	I
Could catch one echo of his living notes	I
And dreaming nightly of her pallid doom	K
No solace had he of his own young bloom	K
But yearned to pour his blood into her veins	I
And buy her back with unimagined pains	I
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To whom the Shepherd of the Shadows said	N
Yea many thus would bargain for their dead	N
But when they hear my fatal gateway clang	O
Life quivers in them with a last sweet pang	O
They see the smoke of home above the trees	I
The cordage whistles on the harbour breeze	I
The beaten path that wanders to the shore	P
Grows dear because they shall not tread it more	P
The dog that drowsing on their threshold lies	I
Looks at them with their childhood in his eyes	I
And in the sunset's melancholy fall	Q
They read a sunrise that shall give them all	Q
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Not thus am I the Harper smiled his scorn	R
I see no path but those her feet have worn	R
My roof tree is the shadow of her hair	S
And the light breaking through her long despair	S
The only sunrise that mine eyelids crave	T
For doubly dead without me in the grave	T
Is she who if my feet had gone before	P
Had found life dark as death's abhorred shore	P
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The gate clanged on him and he went his way	E
Amid the alien millions mute and grey	E
Swept like a cold mist down an unlit strand	U
Where nameless wreckage gluts the stealthy sand	U
Drift of the cockle shells of hope and faith	V
Wherein they foundered on the rock of death	W
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So came he to the image that he sought	X
Less living than her semblance in his thought	X
Who at the summons of his thrilling notes	I
Drew back to life as a drowned creature floats	I
Back to the surface yet no less is dead	N
And cold fear smote him till she spoke and said	N
Art thou then come to lay thy lips on mine	Y
And pour thy life's libation out like wine	Y
Shall I through thee revisit earth again	Z
Traverse the shining sea the fruitful plain	A2
Behold the house we dwelt in lay my head	N
Upon the happy pillows of our bed	N
And feel in dreams the pressure of thine arms	I
Kindle these pulses that no memory warms	I
Nay give me for a space upon thy breast	J
Death's shadowy substitute for rapture rest	J
Then join again the joyous living throng	B2
And give me life but give it in thy song	B2
For only they that die themselves may give	C2
Life to the dead and I would have thee live	D2
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Fear seized him closer than her arms but he	I
Answered Not so for thou shalt come with me	I
I sought thee not that we should part again	Z
But that fresh joy should bud from the old pain	A2
And the gods if grudgingly their gifts they make	E2
Yield all to them that without asking take	E2
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The gods she said so runs life's ancient lore	P
Yield all man takes but always claim their score	P
The iron wings of the Eumenides	I
When heard far off seem but a summer breeze	I
But me thou'lt have alive on earth again	Z
Only by paying here my meed of pain	A2
Then lay on my cold lips the tender ghost	F2
Of the dear kiss that used to warm them most	F2
Take from my frozen hands thy hands of fire	B
And of my heart strings make thee a new lyre	G2
That in thy music men may find my voice	I
And something of me still on earth rejoice	I
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Shuddering he heard her but with close flung arm	H2
Swept her resisting through the ghostly swarm	I2
Swift hide thee 'neath my cloak that we may glide	L
Past the dim warder as the gate swings wide	L
He whirled her with him lighter than a leaf	J2
Unwittingly whirled onward by a brief	J2
Autumnal eddy but when the fatal door	P
Suddenly yielded him to life once more	P
And issuing to the all consoling skies	I
He turned to seek the sunlight in her eyes	I
He clutched at emptiness she was not there	S
And the dim warder answered to his prayer	S
Only once have I seen the wonder wrought	X
But when Alcestis thus her master sought	X
Living she sought him not nor dreamed that fate	G
For any subterfuge would swing my gate	G
Loving she gave herself to livid death	W
Joyous she bought his respite with her breath	W
Came not embodied but a tenuous shade	K2
In whom her rapture a great radiance made	K2
For never saw I ghost upon this shore	P
Shine with such living ecstasy before	P
Nor heard an exile from the light above	L2
Hail me with smiles Thou art not Death but Love	L2
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But when the gods frustrated this beheld	K2
How living still among the dead she dwelled	K2
Because she lived in him whose life she won	M2
And her blood beat in his beneath the sun	M2
They reasoned 'When the bitter Stygian wave	T
The sweetness of love's kisses cannot lave	T
When the pale flood of Lethe washes not	K2
From mortal mind one high immortal thought	K2
Akin to us the earthly creature grows	I
Since nature suffers only what it knows	I
If she whom we to this grey desert banned	K2
Still dreams she treads with him the sunlit land	K2
That for his sake she left without a tear	S
Set wide the gates her being is not here '	-
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So ruled the gods but thou that sought'st to give	C2
Thy life for love yet for thyself wouldst live	D2
They know not for their kin but back to earth	N2
Give pitying one that is of mortal birth	N2
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Humbled the Harper heard and turned away	E
Mounting alone to the empoverished day	E
Yet as he left the Stygian shades behind	K2
He heard the cordage on the harbour wind	K2
Saw the blue smoke above the homestead trees	I
And in his hidden heart was glad of these	I

Edith Wharton

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