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ORPHEUS	A
LAUGHTER and dance and sounds of harp and lyre	B
Piping of flutes singing of festal songs	C
Ribbons of flame from flaunting torches dulled	D
By the broad summer sunshine these had filled	E
Since the high noon the pillared vestibules	C
The peristyles and porches in the house	C
Of the bride's father Maidens garlanded	E
With rose and myrtle dedicate to Love	F
Adorned with chaplets fresh the bride and veiled	E
The shining head and wistful girlish face	C
Ineffable sweetness of divided lips	C
Large light of clear gray eyes low lucid brows	C
White as a cloud beneath pale clustering gold	E
When sunless skies uncertain twilight cast	E
That makes a friend's face as an alien's strange	G
Investing with a foreign mystery	H
The dear green fields about our very home	I
Then waiting stood the gilded chariot	E
Before the porch and from the vine wreathed door	J
Issued the white veiled bride while jocund youths	C
And m nads followed her with dance and song	K
She came with double glory for her lord	E
Son of Apollo and Calliope	H
Towered beside her beautiful in limb	L
And feature as though formed to magic strains	C
Like the B otian city that arose	C
In airy structures to Amphion's lute	E
The light serene shone from his brow and eyes	C
Of one whose lofty thoughts keep consonance	C
With the celestial music of the spheres	C
His smile was fluent and his speech outsang	K
The cadences of soft stringed instruments	C
He to the chariot led Eurydice	C
And these twain mounting with their paranymph	F
Drove onward through the dusky twilit fields	C
Preceded by the nymphs and singing youths	C
And boys diffusing light and odors warm	M
With flaming brands of aromatic woods	C
And matrons bearing symbols of the life	F
Of careful wives the distaff and the sieve	F
And followed by the echoes of their songs	C
The fragrance crushed from moist and trodden grass	C
The blessing of the ever present gods	C
Whom they invoked with earnest hymns and prayer	N
From Orpheus' portico festooned with vines	C
Issued a flood of rare ambrosial light	E
As though Olympian portals stood ajar	O
And Hymen radiant by his torch's flame	P
Mystic with saffron vest and purple stood	E
With hands munificent to greet and bless	C
Ripe fruits were poured upon the married pair	N
Alighting and the chariot wheels were burnt	E
A token that the bride returned no more	J
Unto her father's house With step resolved	E
She crossed the threshold soft with flowers secure	Q
That his heroic soul who guided her	R
Was potent and alert to grace her life	F
With noble outlines and ideal hues	C
Uplifting it to equal height with his	C
EPITHALAMIUM TO ZEUS	C
Because thou art enthroned beyond our reach	S
Behind the brightest and the farthest star	O
And silence is as eloquent as speech	S
To thee who knowest us for what we are	O
We bring thee naught save brief and simple prayer	N
Strong in its naked frank sincerity	H
Send sacred joys of marriage to this pair	N
With fertile increase and prosperity	H
Three nymphs had met beneath an oak that cast	E
Cool dappled shadow on the glowing grass	C
And liquid gleam of the translucent brook	K
The air was musical with frolic sounds	C
Of feminine voices and of laughter blithe	T
Patines of sunshine fell like mottled gold	E
On the rose white of bright bare limbs and neck	K
On flowing snowy mantles and again	U
With sudden splendor on the gloriole	V
Of warm rich hair The fairest nymph reclined	E
Beneath the tree and leaned her yellow head	E
With its crisp clustering rings against the trunk	K
And dipped her pure feet in the colorless brook	K
Stirring the ripples into circles wide	E
With cool delicious plashings in the stream	W
Her young companions lay upon the grass	C
With indolent eyes half closed and parted lips	C
Half smiling in the languor of the noon	X
But suddenly these twain arising cried	E
Startled and sharply 'Lo Eurydice	C
Behold ' and she uplifting frightened eyes	C
Saw a strange shepherd watching with bold glance	C
Veiling their faces with their mantles light	E
Her sisters fled swift footed with shrill cries	C
Adown the meadow but her wet feet clung	K
To the dry grasses and the earthy soil	V
'Eurydice I love thee fear me not	E
For I am Arist us with gray groves	C
Of hoary olives and innumerous flocks	C
And precious swarms of yellow vested bees '	Y
But she with sudden strength eluding him	L
Sprang o'er the flowery turf with back blown hair	N
And wing like garments shortened breath and face	C
Kindled with shame and terror In her flight	E
She ran through fatal flowers and tangled weeds	C
And thick rank grass beside a stagnant pool	V
When with a keen and breathless cry of pain	Z
Abrupt she fell amidst the tall green reeds	C
Then Arist us reached her as a snake	K
Crept back in sinuous lines amidst the slime	A2
Desire was changed to pity when he saw	C
The wounded dryad in her agony	H
Strive vainly to escape repelling him	L
With feeble arms 'Forgive me nymph ' he cried	E
' I will not touch save with most reverent hands	C
Thy sacred form But let me bear thee hence	C
And soothe thy bruise with healing herbs 'Too late	E
Leave me ' she sighed 'and lead thou Orpheus here	B2
That I may see him ere the daylight fails '	Y
He left her pale with suffering earth seemed strange	G
Unto her eyes who knew she looked her last	E
On level stretching meadows hazy hills	C
And all the light and color of the sky	K
Brief as a dream she saw her happy life	F
Her father's face her mother's blessed eyes	C
The hero who unheralded appeared	E
And all was changed all things put forth a voice	C
As in the season of the singing birds	C
She looked around revived and saw again	U
The lapsing river and abiding sky	K
Across the sunny fields came Arist us	C
With Orpheus following and after these	C
Sad nymphs and heroes grave with sympathy	H
Quite calm she lay and almost wished to die	K
Before they reached her if the throbbing pain	Z
Of limb and heart could only thus be stilled	E
But Orpheus hastened to her side and mourned	E
'Eurydice Eurydice Remain	Z
For there is no delight of speech nor song	K
Among the dead Will the gods jest with me	H
And call this life which must forevermore	B2
Be but a void a hunger a desire	B2
A stretching out of empty hands to grasp	C2
What earth nor sea nor heaven will restore	B2
Is this the life that I conceived and sang	K
Rich with all noble opportunities	C
And beautiful realities ' But she	H
'Brave Orpheus search thou not the eternal gods	C
Surely they love us dearer than we know	D2
Do thou refrain for yet I hold my faith	E2
When I am gone thou still wilt have thy lyre	B2
Love it and cherish it is Fate's best gift	E
And with death's clearer vision I can see	H
That in all ages men will be upraised	E
Nearer to gods through this than through aught else	C
My death may but inspire a larger note	E
A passionate cadence to thy strain which else	C
Were not quite human and thus incomplete	E
And with this thought I am content to die	E
Cease not to sing to me when I am gone	F2
Thy voice will reach me in the farthest spheres	C
Or wake me out of silence Now begin	G2
That I may float on those celestial waves	C
Into the darkness as I oft have longed '	Y
ORPHEUS	C
Once in a wild bright vision came to me	H
Beautiful music luminous as morn	H2
An effluence of light and rapture born	H2
With eyes as full of splendor as the sea	H
Dazzling as youth with pinions frail as air	B2
Yet potent to uplift and soar as prayer	B2
Again I see her cypress in her wreath	I2
Sad with all grave and tender mysteries	C
Tears in her unimaginable eyes	C
That look their first with wondering awe on Death	J2
Never again in all the after years	C
Will her lips laugh with utter mirthfulness	C
Nor the strange longing in her eyes grow less	C
Nor any time dispel their mist of tears	C
Yea with new numbers she completes her strain	Z
A song unsung before by gods or men	U
But she hath lost ah lost for evermore	B2
The ringing note of joy ineffable	V
The high assurance proud that all is well	V
The glad refrain t	H

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