The Same. (the Triumph Of Love.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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PART I	A
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The fatal morning dawn'd that brought again	B
The sad memorial of my ancient pain	C
That day the source of long protracted woe	D
When I began the plagues of Love to know	D
Hyperion's throne along the azure field	E
Between the splendid horns of Taurus wheel'd	E
And from her spouse the Queen of Morn withdrew	F
Her sandals gemm'd with frost bespangled dew	F
Sad recollection rising with the morn	G
Of my disastrous love repaid with scorn	G
Oppressed my sense till welcome soft repose	H
Gave a short respite from my swelling woes	H
Then seem'd I in a vision borne away	I
Where a deep winding vale sequester'd lay	I
Nor long I rested on the flowery green	J
Ere a soft radiance dawn'd along the scene	J
Fallacious sign of hope for close behind	K
Dark shades of coming woe were seen combined	K
There on his car a conqu'ring chief I spied	L
Like Rome's proud sons that led the living tide	L
Of vanquished foes in long triumphal state	M
To Capitolian Jove's disclosing gate	M
With little joy I saw the splendid show	D
Spent and dejected by my lengthen'd woe	D
Sick of the world and all its worthless train	C
That world where all the hateful passions reign	C
And yet intent the mystic cause to find	K
For knowledge is the banquet of the mind	K
Languid and slow I turn'd my cheerless eyes	N
On the proud warrior and his uncouth guise	N
High on his seat an archer youth was seen	J
With loaded quiver and malicious mien	J
Nor plate nor mail his cruel shaft can ward	O
Nor polish'd burganet the temples guard	P
His burning chariot seem'd by coursers drawn	Q
While like the snows that clothe the wintry lawn	Q
His waving wings with rainbow colour gay	I
On either naked shoulder seem'd to play	I
And filing far behind a countless train	C
In sad procession hid the groaning plain	C
Some captive seem'd in long disastrous strife	R
Some in the deadly fray bereft of life	R
And freshly wounded some A viewless hand	S
Led me to mingle with the mornful band	S
And learn the fortunes of the sentenced crew	F
Who pierced by Love had bid the world adieu	F
With keen survey I mark'd the ghostly show	D
To find a shade among the sons of woe	D
To memory known but every trace was lost	T
In the dim features of the moving host	U
Oblivion's hand had drawn a dark disguise	N
O'er their wan lineaments and beamless eyes	N
At length a pallid face I seem'd to know	D
Which wore methought a lighter mask of woe	D
He call'd me by my name Behold he cried	L
What plagues the hapless thralls of Love abide	L
How am I known by thee with new surprise	N
I cried no mark recalls thee to my eyes	N
Oh heavy is my load he seem'd to say	I
Through this dark medium no detecting ray	I
Assists thy sight but I like thee can boast	U
My birth on famed Etruria's ancient coast	U
The secret which his murky mask conceal'd	E
His well known voice and Tuscan tongue reveal'd	E
Thence to a lighter station we repair'd	V
And thus the phantom spoke with mild regard	P
We thought to see thy name with ours enroll'd	W
Long since for oft thy looks this fate foretold	W
True I replied but I survived the strife	R
His arrows reach'd me but were short of life	R
Pausing he spoke A spark to flame will rise	N
And bear thy name in glory to the skies	N
His meaning was obscure but in my breast	X
I felt the substance of his words impress'd	X
As sculptured stone or monumental brass	Y
Keeps the firm record or heroic face	Z
With youthful ardour new and hope inspired	A2
Quick from my grave companion I required	A2
The name and fortunes of the passing train	C
And why in mournful pomp they trod the plain	C
Time he return'd the secret then will show	D
When thou shalt join the retinue of woe	D
But years shall sprinkle o'er thy locks with gray	I
And alter'd looks the signs of age betray	I
Ere at his powerful touch the fetters fall	B2
Which many a moon thy captive limbs shall gall	B2
Yet will I grant thy suit and give to view	F
The various fortunes of the captive crew	F
But mark their leader first that chief renown'd	C2
The Power of Love by every nation own'd	D2
His sway thou soon as well as we shalt know	D
Stung to the heart by goads of dulcet woe	D
In him unthinking youth's misgovern'd rage	E2
Join'd with the cool malignity of age	E2
Is known to mingle with insidious guile	F2
Deep deep conceal'd beneath an infant's smile	F2
The child of slothful ease and sensual heat	G2
By sweet delirious thoughts in dark retreat	G2
Mature in mischief grown he springs away	I
A wing d god and thousands own his sway	I
Some as thou seest are number'd with the dead	H2
And some the bitter drops of sorrow shed	H2
Through lingering life by viewless tangles bound	C2
That link the soul and chain it to the ground	C2
There C sar walks of Celtic laurels proud	I2
Nor feels himself in sensual bondage bow'd	I2
He treads the flowery path nor sees the snare	J2
Laid for his honour by the Egyptian fair	J2
Here Love his triumph shows and leads along	K2
The world's great owner in the captive throng	K2
And o'er the master of unscepter'd kings	L2
Exulting soars and claps his purple wings	L2
See his adopted son he knew her guile	F2
And nobly scorn'd the siren of the Nile	F2
Yet fell by Roman charms and from her spouse	M2
The pregnant consort bore regardless of her vows	N2
There cruel Nero feels his iron heart	O2
Lanced by imperious Love's resistless dart	O2
Replete with rage and scorning human ties	N
He falls the victim of two conquering eyes	N
Deep ambush'd there in philosophic spoils	P2
The little tyrant tries his artful wiles	Q2
E'en in that hallow'd breast where deep enshrined	K
Lay all the varied treasures of the mind	K
He lodged his venom'd shaft The hoary sage	E2
Like meaner mortals felt the passion rage	E2
In boundless fury for a strumpet's charms	R2
And clasp'd the shining mischief in his arms	R2
See Dionysius link'd with Pher 's lord	O
Pale doubt and dread on either front abhorr'd	O
Scowl terrible yet Love assign'd their doom	S2
A wife and mistress mark'd them for the tomb	S2
The next is he that on Antandros' coast	U
His fair Cr usa mourn'd for ever lost	T
Yet cut the bonds of Love on Tyber's shore	T2
And bought a bride with young Evander's gore	T2
Here droop'd the victim of a lawless flame	U2
The amorous frenzy of the Cretan dame	U2
He fled abhorrent and contemn'd her tears	V2
And to the dire suggestion closed his ears	W2
But nought alas his purity avail'd	X2
Fate in his flight the hapless youth assail'd	X2
By interdicted Love to Vengeance fired	A2
And by his father's curse the son expired	Y2
The stepdame shared his fate and dearly paid	Z2
A spouse a sister and a son betray'd	Z2
Her conscience by the false impeachment stung	A3
Upon herself return'd the deadly wrong	K2
And he that broke before his plighted vows	N2
Met his deserts in an adulterous spouse	M2
See where he droops between the sister dames	B3
And fondly melts the other scorns his flames	B3
The mighty slave of Omphale behind	K
Is seen and he whom Love and fraud combined	K
Sent to the shades of everlasting night	C3
And still he seems to weep his wretched plight	C3
There Phyllis mourns Demophoon's broken vows	N2
And fell Medea there pursues her spouse	M2
With impious boast and shrill upbraiding cries	N
She tells him how she broke the holy ties	N
Of kindred for his sake the guilty shore	T2
That from her poignard drank a brother's gore	T2
The deep affliction of her royal sire	D3
Who heard her flight with imprecations dire	E3
See beauteous Helen with her Trojan swain	C
The royal youth that fed his amorous pain	C
With ardent gaze on those destructive charms	R2
That waken'd half the warring world to arms	R2
Yonder behold Oenone's wild despair	J2
Who mourns the triumphs of the Spartan fair	J2
The injured husband answers groan for groan	F3
And young Hermione with piteous moan	F3
Orestes calls while Laodamia near	G3
Bewails her valiant consort's fate severe	G3
Adrastus' daughter there laments her spouse	M2
Sincere and constant to her nuptial vows	N2
Yet lured by her with gold's seductive aid	Z2
Her lord Eriphile to death betray'd	Z2
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And now the baleful anthem loud and long	K2
Rose in full chorus from the passing throng	K2
And Love's sad name the cause of all their woes	H
In execrations seem'd the dirge to close	H3
But who the number and the names can tell	I3
Of those that seem'd the deadly strain to swell	I3
Not men alone but gods my dream display'd	Z2
Celestial wailings fill'd the myrtle shade	Z2
Soft Venus with her lover mourn'd the snare	J2
The King of Shades and Proserpine the fair	J2
Juno whose frown disclosed her jealous spite	C3
Nor less enthrall'd by Love the god of light	C3
Who held in scorn the wing d warrior's dart	O2
Till in his breast he felt the fatal smart	O2
Each god whose name the learned Roman told	W
In Cupid's numerous levy seem'd enroll'd	W
And bound before his car in fetters strong	K2
In sullen state the Thunderer march'd along	K2
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BOYD	J3
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PART II	A
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Thus as I view'd th' interminable host	U
The prospect seem'd at last in dimness lost	T
But still the wish remain'd their doom to know	D
As watchful I survey'd the passing show	D
As each majestic form emerged to light	C3
Thither intent I turn'd my sharpen'd sight	C3
And soon a noble pair my notice drew	F
That hand in hand approaching met my view	F
In gentle parley and communion sweet	G2
With looks of love they seem'd mine eyes to meet	G2
Yet strange was their attire their tongue unknown	F3
Spoke them the natives of a distant zone	F3
But every doubt my kind assistant clear'd	K3
Instant I knew them when their names were heard	A2
To one encouraged by his aspect mild	L3
I spoke the other with a frown recoil'd	M3
O Masinissa thus my speech began	N3
By Scipio's friendship and the gentle ban	N3
Of constant love attend my warm request	X
Turning around the solemn shade address'd	X
His answer thus With like desire I glow	D
Your lineage name and character to know	D
Since you have learnt my name With soft reply	A
I said A name like mine can nought supply	A
The notice of renown like yours to claim	U2
No smother'd spark like mine emits a flame	U2
To catch the public eye as you can boast	U
A leading name in Cupid's numerous host	U
Alike his future victims and the past	O3
Shall own the common tie while time itself shall last	O3
But tell me if your guide allow a space	Z
The semblance of those tendant shades to trace	Z
The names and fortunes of the following pair	J2
Who seem the noblest gifts of mind to share	J2
My name he said you seem to know so well	I3
That faithful Memory all the rest can tell	I3
But as the sad detail may soothe my woes	H
Listen while I my mournful doom disclose	H
To Rome and Scipio's cause my faith was bound	C2
E'en L lius scarce a warmer friendship own'd	D2
Where'er their ensigns fann'd the summer sky	A
I led my Libyans on a firm ally	A
Propitious Fortune still advanced his name	U2
Yet more than she bestow'd his worth might claim	U2
Still we advanced and still our glory grew	F
While westward far the Roman eagle flew	F
With conquest wing'd but my unlucky star	P3
Led me unconscious to the fatal snare	J2
Which Love had laid I saw the regal dame	U2
Our hearts at once confess'd a mutual flame	U2
Caught by the lure of interdicted joys	Q3
Proudly I scorn'd the stern forbidding voice	R3
Of Roman policy and hoped the vows	N2
At Hymen's altar sworn might save my spouse	M2
But oh that wondrous man who ne'er would yield	E
To passion's call the cruel sentence seal'd	E
That tore my consort from my fond embrace	Z
And left me sunk in anguish and disgrace	Z
Unmoved he saw my briny sorrows flow	D
Unmoved he listen'd to my tale of woe	D
But friendship waked at last with reverent awe	S3
Obsequious own'd his mind's superior law	T3
And to that holy and unclouded light	C3
That led him on through passion's dubious night	C3
Submiss I bow'd for oh the beam of day	I
Is dark to him that wants her guiding ray	I
Love hardly conquer'd long repined in vain	C
When Justice link'd the adamantine chain	C
And cruel Friendship o'er the conquer'd ground	C2
Raised with strong hand th' insuperable mound	C2
To him I owed my laurels nobly won	U3
I loved him as a brother sire and son	U3
For in an equal race our lives had run	U3
Yet the sad price I paid with burning tears	V2
Dire was the cause that woke my gloomy fears	W2
Too well the sad result my soul divined	C2
Too well I knew the unsubmitting mind	C2
Of Sophonisba would prefer the tomb	S2
To stern captivity's ignoble doom	S2
I too sad victim of celestial wrath	V3
Was forced to aid the tardy stroke of death	W3
With pangs I yielded to her piercing cries	N
To speed her passage to the nether skies	N
And worse than death endured her mind to save	X3
From shame more hateful than the yawning grave	X3
What was my anguish when she seized the bowl	Y3
She knows and you whose sympathising soul	Y3
Has felt the fiery shaft may guess my pains	Z3
Now tears and anguish are her sole remains	Z3
That treasure to preserve my faith to Rome	A4
Those hands committed to th' untimely tomb	S2
And every hope and joy of life resign'd	C2
To keep the stain of falsehood from my mind	C2
But hasten and the moving pomp survey	I
The light wing'd moments brook no long delay	I
To try if any form your notice claims	B3
Among those love lorn youths and amorous dames	B3
With poignant grief I heard his tale of woe	D
That seem'd to melt my heart like vernal snow	D
When a low voice these sullen accents sung	A3
Not for himself but those from whom he sprung	A3
He merits fate for I detest them all	B2
To whose fell rage I owe my country's fall	B2
Oh calm your rage unhappy Queen I cried	C2
Twice was the land and sea in slaughter dyed	C2
By cruel Carthage till the sentence pass'd	C2
That laid her glories in the dust at last	C2
Yet mournful wreaths no less the victors crown'd	C2
In deep despair our valour oft they own'd	C2
Your own impartial annals yet proclaim	U2
The Punic glory and the Roman shame	U2
She spoke and with a smile of hostile spite	C2
Join'd the deep train and darken'd to my sight	C2
Then as a traveller through lands unknown	F3
With care and keen observance journeys on	B4
Whose dubious thoughts his eager steps retard	C2
Thus through the files I pass'd with fix'd regard	C2
Still singling some amid the moving show	D
Intent the story of their loves to know	D
A spectre now within my notice came	U2
Though dubious marks of joy commix'd with shame	U2
His features wore like one who gains a boon	C4
With secret glee which shame forbids to own	F3
O dire example of the Demon's power	D3
The father leaves the hymeneal bower	D3
For his incestuous son the guilty spouse	M2
With transport mix'd with honour meets his vows	N2
In mournful converse now amidst the host	C2
Their compact they bewail'd and Syria lost	C2
Instant with eager step I turn'd aside	C2
And met the double husband and the bride	C2
And with an earnest voice the first address'd	C2
A look of dread the spectre's face express'd	C2
When first the accents of victorious Rome	A4
Brought to his mind his kingdom's ancient doom	S2
At length with many a doleful sigh he said	C2
You here behold Seleucus' royal shade	C2
Antiochus is next his life to save	X3
My ready hand my beauteous consort gave	X3
From me whose will was law a legal prize	N
That bound our souls in everlasting ties	N
Indissolubly strong The royal fair	J2
Forsook a throne to cure the deep despair	J2
Of him who would have dared the stroke of Death	W3
To keep without a stain his filial faith	D4
A skilful leech the deadly symptoms guess'd	C2
His throbbing veins the secret soon confess'd	C2
Of Love with honour match'd in dire debate	C2
Whenever he beheld my lovely mate	C2
Else gentle Love subdued by filial dread	C2
Had sent him down among th' untimely dead	C2
Then like a man that feels a sudden thought	C2
His purpose change the mingling crowd he sought	C2
And left the question which a moment hung	A3
Scarce half suppress'd upon my faltering tongue	A3
Suspended for a moment still I stood	C2
With various thoughts oppress'd in musing mood	C2
At length a voice was heard The passing day	I
Is yours but it permits not long delay	I
I turn'd in haste and saw a fleeting train	C
Outnumbering those who pass'd the surging main	C
By Xerxes led a naked wailing crew	F
Whose wretched plight the drops of sorrow drew	F
From my full eyes Of many a clime and tongue	A3
Commix'd the mournful pageant moved along	K2
While scarce the fortunes or the name of one	U3
Among a thousand passing forms was known	F3
I spied that Ethiopian's dusky charms	R2
Which woke in Perseus' bosom Love's alarms	R2
And next was he who for a shadow burn'd	C2
Which the deceitful watery glass return'd	C2
Enamour'd of himself in sad decay	I
Amid abundance poor he look'd his life away	I
And now transform'd through passion's baneful power	D3
He o'er the margin hangs a drooping flower	D3
While by her hopeless love congeal'd to stone	F3
His mistress seems to look in silence on	B4
Then he that loved by too severe a fate	C2
The cruel maid who met his love with hate	C2
Pass'd by with many more who met their doom	S2
By female pride and fill'd an early tomb	S2
There too the victim of her plighted vows	N2
Halcyone for ever mourns her spouse	M2
Who now in feathers clad as poets feign	C
Makes a short summer on the wintry main	C
Then he that to the cliffs the maid pursued	C2
And seem'd by turns to soar and swim the flood	C2
And she who snared by Love her father sold	C2
With her who fondly snared the rolling gold	C2
And her young paramour who made his boast	C2
That he had gain'd the prize his rival lost	C2
Acis and Galatea next were seen	J
And Polyphemus with infuriate mien	J
And Glaucus there by rival arts assail'd	C2
Fell Circe's hate and Scylla's doom bewail'd	C2
Then sad Carmenta with her royal lord	C2
Whom the fell sorceress clad by arts abhorr'd	C2
With plumes but still the regal stamp impress'd	C2
On his imperial wings and lofty crest	C2
Then she whose tears the springing fount supplied	C2
And she whose form above the rolling tide	C2
Hangs a portentous cliff the royal fair	J2
Who wrote the dictates of her last despair	J2
To him whose ships had left the friendly strand	C2
With the keen steel in her determined hand	C2
There too Pygmalion with his new made spouse	M2
With many more I spied whose amorous vows	N2
And fates in never dying song resound	C2
Where Aganippe laves the sacred ground	C2
And last of all I saw the lovely maid	C2
Of Love unconscious by an oath betray'd	C2
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BOYD	C2
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PART III	A
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Like one by wonder reft of speech I stood	C2
Pond'ring the mournful scene in pensive mood	C2
As one that waits advice My guide in haste	C2
Began You let the moments run to waste	C2
What objects hold you here my doom you know	D
Compell'd to wander with the sons of woe	D
Oh yet awhile afford your friendly aid	C2
You see my inmost soul submiss I said	C2
The strong unsated wish you there can read	C2
The restless cravings of my mind to feed	C2
With tidings of the dead In gentler tone	F3
He said Your longings in your looks are known	F3
You wish to learn the names of those behind	C2
Who through the vale in long procession wind	C2
I grant your prayer if fate allows a space	Z
He said their fortunes as they come to trace	Z
See that majestic shade that moves along	K2
And claims obeisance from the ghostly throng	K2
'Tis Pompey with the partner of his vows	N2
Who mourns the fortunes of her slaughter'd spouse	M2
By Egypt's servile band The next is he	E4
Whom Love's tyrannic spell forbade to see	E4
The danger by his cruel consort plann'd	C2
Till Fate surprised him by her treacherous hand	C2
Let constancy and truth exalt the name	U2
Of her the lovely candidate for fame	U2
Who saved her spouse Then Pyramus is seen	J
And Thisbe through the shade with pensive mien	J
Then Hero with Leander moves along	K2
And great Ulysses towering in the throng	K2
His visage wears the signs of anxious thought	C2
There sad Penelope laments her lot	C2
With trickling tears she seems to chide his stay	C2
While fond Calypso charms her love delay	C2
Next he who braved in many a bloody fight	C2
For years on years the whole collected might	C2
Of Rome but sunk at length in Cupid's snare	J2
The shameful victim of th' Apulian fair	J2
Then she that in a servile dress pursued	C2
Reft of her golden locks o'er field and flood	C2
With peerless faith her exiled spouse unknown	F3
With whom of old she fill'd a lofty throne	F3
Then Portia comes who fire and steel defied	C2
And Julia grieved to see a second bride	C2
Engage her consort's love The Hebrew swain	C
Appears who sold himself his love to gain	C
For seven long summers a vivacious flame	U2
Which neither years nor constant toil could tame	U2
Then Isaac with his father joins the band	C2
Who with his consort left at God's command	C2
Led by the lamp of faith his native land	C2
David is next by lawless passion sway'd	C2
And adding crime to crime at last betray'd	C2
To deeds of blood till solitude and tears	V2
Wash'd his dire guilt away and calm'd his fears	W2
The sensual vapour with Circean fume	S2
Involved his royal son in deeper gloom	S2
And dimm'd his glory till immersed in vice	F4
His heart renounced the Ruler of the Skies	N
Adopting Stygian gods The changeful hue	F
Of his incestuous brother meets your view	F
Who lurks behind observe the sudden turn	G4
Of love and hatred blanch his cheek and burn	G4
His ruin'd sister there with frantic speed	C2
To Absalom recounts the direful deed	C2
Samson behold a prey to female fraud	C2
Strong but unwise he laid the pledge of God	C2
In her fallacious lap who basely sold	C2
Her husband's honour for Philistian gold	C2
Judith is nigh who mid a host in arms	R2
With gentle accents and alluring charms	R2
Their chief o'ercame and at the noon of night	C2
From his pavilion sped her venturous flight	C2
With one attendant slave who bore along	K2
The tyrant's head amid the hostile throng	K2
Adoring Him who arms the feeble hand	C2
And bids the weak a mighty foe withstand	C2
Unhappy Sichem next is seen who paid	C2
A bloody ransom for an injured maid	C2
His guiltless sire and all his slaughter'd race	Z
With many a life attend the foul disgrace	Z
Such was the ruin by a sudden gust	C2
Of passion caused when murder follow'd lust	C2
That other like a wise physician cured	C2
An abject passion long with pain endured	C2
To Vashti for an easy boon he sued	C2
She scorn'd his suit and rage his love subdued	C2
Soon to its aid a softer passion came	U2
And from his breast expell'd the former flame	U2
Like wedge by wedge displaced the nuptial ties	N
He breaks and soon another bride supplies	N
But if you wish to see the bosom war	T2
Of Jealousy and Love in deadly jar	P3
Behold that royal Jew the dire control	Y3
Of Love and Hate by turns besiege his soul	Y3
Now Vengeance wins the day the deed is done	U3
And now in fell remorse he hates the sun	U3
And calls his consort from the realms of night	C2
To which his fatal hand had sped her flight	C2
Behold yon hapless three by passion lost	C2
Procris and Artemisia's royal ghost	C2
And her whose son his mother's grief and joy	H4
Razed with paternal rage the walls of Troy	H4
Another triple sisterhood is seen	J
This characters of Hades Mark their mien	J
With sin distain'd their downcast looks disclose	H
A conscience of their crimes and dread of coming woes	H
Semiramis and Byblis famed of old	C2
Her mother's rival there you next behold	C2
With many a warrior many a lovely dame	U2
Of old ennobled by romantic fame	U2
There Lancelot and Tristram famed in fight	C2
Are seen with many a dame and errant knight	C2
Genevra Belle Isonde and hundreds more	T2
With those who mingled their incestuous gore	T2
Shed by paternal rage and chant beneath	I4
In baneful symphony the Song of Death	W3
He scarce had spoken when a chill presage	J4
What warriors feel before the battle's rage	E2
When in the angry trump's sonorous breath	W3
They hear before it comes the sound of Death	W3
My heart possess'd and tinged with deadly pale	K4
I seem'd escaped from Death's eternal jail	K4
When fleeting to my side with looks of Love	L4
A phantom brighter than the Cyprian dove	L4
My fingers clasp'd which though of power to wield	C2
The temper'd sabre in the bloody field	C2
Against an armed foe a touch subdued	C2
And gentle words and looks that fired the blood	C2
My friend addressed me I remember well	I3
And from his lips these dubious accents fell	I3
Converse with whom you please for all the train	C
Are mark'd alike the slaves of Cupid's reign	C
Thus in security and peace trepann'd	C2
I was enlisted in that wayward band	C2
Who short lived joys by anguish long obtain	C
And whom the pleasures of a rival pain	C
More than their proper joys Remembrance shows	H
Too clear at last the source of all my woes	H
When Jealousy and Love and Envy drew	F
That nurture from my heart by which they grew	F
As feverish eyes on air drawn features dwell	I3
My fascinated eyes by magic spell	I3
Dwell'd on the heavenly form with ardent look	M4
And at a glance the dire contagion took	M4
That tinged my days to come and each delight	C2
But those that bore her stamp consign'd to night	C2
I blush with shame when to my inward view	F
The devious paths return where Cupid drew	F
His willing slave with all my hopes and fears	W2
When Phoebus seem'd to rise and set in tears	V2
For many a spring and when I used to dwell	I3
A lonely hermit in a silent cell	I3
How upwards oft I traced the purling rills	V2
To their pure fountains in the misty hills	V2
The rocks I used to climb the solemn woods	V2
Where oft I wander'd by the winding floods	V2
And often spent whene'er I chanced to stray	C2
In amorous ditties all the livelong day	C2
What mournful rhymes I wrote and 'rased again	B
Spending the precious hours of youth in vain	C
'Twas in this school I learn'd the mystic things	V2
Of the blind god and all the secret springs	V2
From which his hopes and fears alternate rise	V2
'Graved on his frontlet the detection lies	V2
Which all may read for I have oped their eyes	V2
And she the cause of all my lengthen'd toils	V2
Disdains my passion though she boasts my spoils	V2
Of rigid honour proud she smiles to see	V2
The fatal triumph of her charms in me	V2
Not Love himself can aid for Love retires	V2
And in her sacred presence veils his fires	V2
He feels his genius by her looks subdued	C2
And all his spells by stronger spells withstood	C2
Hence my despair for neither force nor art	C2
Can wound her bosom nor extract the dart	C2
That rankles here while proudly she defies	V2
The power that makes a captive world his prize	V2
She is not one that dallies with the foe	D
But with unconquer'd soul defies the blow	D
And like the Lord of Light displays afar	P3
A splendour which obscures each lesser star	P3
Her port is all divine her radiant smile	F2
And e'en her scorn the captive heart beguile	F2
Her accents breathe of heaven her auburn hair	J2
Whether it wanton with the sportive air	J2
Or bound in shining wreaths adorns her face	V2
Secures her conquests with resistless grace	V2
Her eyes that sparkle with celestial fire	D3
Have render'd me the slave of fond desire	D3
But who can raise his style to match her charms	V2
What mortal bard can sing the soft alarms	V2
That flutter in the breast and fire the veins	V2
Alas the theme surmounts the loftiest strains	V2
Far as the ocean in its ample bed	C2
Exceeds the purling stream that warbles through the mead	C2
Such charms are hers as never were reveal'd	C2
On earth since Phoebus first the world beheld	C2
And voices tuned her peerless form to praise	V2
Suffer a solemn pause with mute amaze	V2
Thus was I manacled for life while she	V2
Proud of my bonds enjoy'd her liberty	V2
With ceaseless suit I pray'd but all in vain	C
One prayer among a thousand scarce could gain	C
A slight regard so hopeless was my state	C2
And such the laws of Love imposed by fate	C2
For stedfast is the rule by Nature given	U3
Which all the ranks of life from earth to heaven	U3
With reverent awe and homage due obey	C2
And every age and climate owns its sway	C2
I know the cruel pangs by lovers borne	G
When from the breast the bleeding heart is torn	G
By Love's relentless gripe the deadly harms	V2
Of Cupid when he wields resistless arms	V2
Or when in dubious truce he drops his dart	C2
And gives short respite to the tortured heart	C2
The vital current's ebb and flood I know	D
When shame or anger bids the features glow	D
Or terror pales the cheek the deadly snake	N4
I know that nestles in the flowery brake	N4
And watchful seems to sleep and languor feigns	V2
When health inspiring vigour fills the veins	V2
I know what hope and fear assail the mind	C2
When I pursue my love yet dread to find	C2
I know the strange and sympathetic tie	C2
When soul in soul transfused a fond ally	C2
For ever seems another and the same	U2
Or change with mutual love their mortal frame	U2
From transient smiles to long protracted woe	D
The various turns and dark degrees I know	D
And hot and cold and that unequall'd smart	C2
When souls survive though sever'd from the heart	C2
I know I cherish and detect the cheat	C2
Of every hour but still with eager feet	C2
And fervent hope pursue the flying fair	J2
And still for promised rapture meet despair	J2
When absent I consume in raging fire	D3
But in her presence check'd the flames expire	E3
Repress'd by sacred awe The boundless sway	C2
Of cruel Love I feel that makes a prey	C2
Of all those energies that lift the soul	Y3
To her congenial climes above the pole	Y3
I know the various pangs that rend the heart	C2
I know that noblest souls receive the dart	C2
Without defence when Reason drops the shield	C2
And recreant to her foe resigns the field	C2
I saw the archer in his airy flight	C2
I saw him when he check'd his arrow's flight	C2
And when it reach'd the mark I watched the god	C2
And saw him win his way by force or fraud	C2
As best befits his ends His whirling throne	F3
Turns short at will or runs directly on	B4
The rapid follies which his axle bear	J2
Are short fallacious hope and certain fear	G3
And many a promise given of Halcyon days	V2
Whose faint and dubious gleam the heart betrays	V2
I know what secret flame the marrow fries	V2
How in the veins a dormant fever lies	V2
Till fann'd to fury by contagious breath	W3
It gains tremendous head and ends in death	W3
I know too well what long and doubtful strife	R
Forms the dire tissue of a lover's life	R
The transient taste of sweet commix'd with gall	B2
What changes dire the hapless crew befall	B2
Their strange fantastic habitudes I know	D
Their measured groans in lamentable flow	D
When rhyming fits the faltering tongue employ	H4
And love sick spasms the mournful Muse annoy	H4
The smile that like the lightning fleets away	C2
The sorrows that for half a life delay	C2
Like drops of honey in a wormwood bowl	Y3
Drain'd to the dregs in bitterness of soul	Y3
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BOYD	C2
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PART IV	R
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So fickle fortune in a luckless hour	D3
Had close consigned me to a tyrant's power	D3
Who cut the nerves that with elastic force	V2
Had borne me on in Freedom's generous course	V2
So I in noble independence bred	C2
Free as the roebuck in the sylvan glade	C2
By passion lured a voluntary slave	R
My ready name to Cupid's muster gave	R
And yet I saw their grief and wild despair	J2
I saw them blindly seek the fatal snare	J2
Through winding paths and many an artful maze	V2
Where Cupid's viewless spell the band obeys	V2
Here as I turn'd my anxious eyes around	C2
If any shade I then could see renown'd	C2
In old or modern times the bard I spied	C2
Whose unabated love pursued his bride	C2
Down to the coast of Hades and above	R
His life resign'd the pledge of constant love	R
Calling her name in death Alc us near	G3
Who sung the joys of Love and toils severe	G3
Was seen with Pindar and the Teian swain	C
A veteran gay among the youthful train	C
Of Cupid's host The Mantuan next I found	C2
Begirt with bards from age to age renown'd	C2
Whether they chose in lofty themes to soar	T2
Or sportive try the Muse's lighter lore	T2
There soft Tibullus walk'd with Sulmo's bard	C2
And there Propertius with Catullus shared	C2
The meed of lovesome lays the Grecian dame	U2
With sweeter numbers woke the amorous flame	U2
While thus I turn'd around my wondering eyes	V2
I saw a noble train with new surprise	V2
Who seem'd of Love in choral notes to sing	O4
While all around them breathed Elysian spring	O4
Here Alighieri with his love I spied	C2
Selvaggia Guido Cino side by side	C2
Guido who mourn'd the lot that fix'd his name	U2
The second of his age in lyric fame	U2
Two other minstrels there I spied that bore	T2
His name renown'd on Arno's tuneful shore	T2
With them Sicilia's bards in elder days	V2
Match'd with the foremost in poetic praise	V2
Though now they rank behind Sennuccio nigh	R
With gentle Franceschino met my eye	R
But soon another tribe of manners strange	P4
And uncouth dialect was seen to range	P4
Along the flowery paths by Arnald led	C2
In Cupid's lore by all the Muses bred	C2
And master of the theme Marsilia's coast	C2
And Narbonne still his polish'd numbers boast	C2
The next I saw with lighter step advance	V2
'Twas he that caught a flame at every glance	V2
That met his eye with him who shared his name	U2
Join'd with an Arnald of inferior fame	U2
Next either Rambold in procession trod	C2
No easy conquest to the winged god	C2
The pride of Montferrat a peerless dame	U2
In many a ditty sung announced his flame	U2
And Genoa's bard who left his native coast	C2
And on Marsilia's towers the memory lost	C2
Of his first time when Salem's sacred flame	U2
Taught him a nobler heritage to claim	U2
Gerard and Peter both of Gallic blood	C2
And tuneful Rudel who in moonstruck mood	C2
O'er ocean by a flying image led	C2
In the fantastic chase his canvas spread	C2
And where he thought his amorous vows to breathe	Q4
From Cupid's bow received the shaft of Death	W3
There was Cabestaing whose unequall'd lays	V2
From all his rivals won superior praise	V2
Hugo was there with Almeric renown'd	C2
Bernard and Anselm by the Muses crown'd	C2
Those and a thousand others o'er the field	C2
Advanced nor javelin did they want or shield	C2
The Muses form'd their guard and march'd before	T2
Spreading their long renown from shore to shore	T2
The Latian band with sympathising woe	D
At last I spied amid the moving show	D
Bologna's poet first whose honour'd grave	R
His relics hold beside Messina's wave	R
O fickle joys that fleet upon the wind	C2
And leave the lassitude of life behind	C2
The youth that every thought and movement sway'd	C2
Of this sad heart is now an empty shade	C2
What world contains thee now my tuneful guide	C2
Whom nought of old could sever from my side	C2
What is this life what none but fools esteem	R4
A fleeting shadow a romantic dream	R4
Not far I wander'd o'er the peopled field	C2
Till Socrates and L lius I beheld	C2
Oh may their holy influence never cease	V2
That soothed my heart corroding pangs to peace	V2
Unequall'd friends no bard's ecstatic lays	V2
Nor polish'd prose your deathless name can raise	V2
To match your genuine worth O'er hill and dale	K4
We pass'd and oft I told my doleful tale	K4
Disclosing all my wounds end not in vain	C
Their sacred presence seem'd to soothe my pain	C
Oh may that glorious privilege be mine	S4
Till dust to dust the final stroke resign	S4
My courage they inspired to claim the wreath	I4
Immortal emblem of my constant faith	D4
To her whose name the poet's garland bears	V2
Yet nought from her for long devoted years	V2
I reap'd but cold disdain and fruitless tears	V2
But soon a sight ensued that like a spell	I3
Restrain'd at once my passion's stormy swell	I3
But this a loftier muse demands to sing	O4
The hallow'd power that pruned the daring wing	O4
Of that blind force by folly canonized	C2
And in the garb of deity disguised	C2
Yet first the conscious muse designs to tell	I3
How I endured and 'scaped his witching spell	I3
A subject that demands a muse of fire	D3
A glorious theme that Phoebus might inspire	E3
Worthy of Homer and the Orphean lyre	E3
Still as along the whirling chariot flew	F
I kept the wafture of his wings in view	F
Onward his snow white steeds were seen to bound	C2
O'er many a steepy hill and dale profound	C2
And victims of his rage the captive throng	K2
Chain'd to the flying wheels were dragg'd along	K2
All torn and bleeding through the thorny waste	C2
Nor knew I how the land and sea he pass'd	C2
Till to his mother's realm he came at last	C2
Far eastward where the vext gean roars	V2
A little isle projects its verdant shores	V2
Soft is the clime and fruitful is the ground	C2
No fairer spot old ocean clips around	C2
Nor Sol himself surveys from east to west	C2
A sweeter scene in summer livery drest	C2
Full in the midst ascends a shady hill	T4
Where down its bowery slopes a streaming rill	T4
In dulcet murmurs flows and soft perfume	S2
The senses court from many a vernal bloom	S2
Mingled with magic which the senses steep	U4
In sloth and drug the mind in Lethe's deep	U4
Quenching the spark divine the genuine boast	C2
Of man in Circe's wave immersed and lost	C2
This favour'd region of the Cyprian queen	J
Received its freight a heaven abandon'd scene	J
Where Falsehood fills the throne while Truth retires	V2
And vainly mourns her half extinguish'd fires	V2
Vile in its origin and viler still	T4
By all incentives that seduce the will	T4
It seems Elysium to the sons of Lust	C2
But a foul dungeon to the good and just	C2
Exulting o'er his slaves the winged God	C2
Here in a theatre his triumphs show'd	C2
Ample to hold within its mighty round	C2
His captive train from Thule's northern bound	C2
To far Taprobane a countless crowd	C2
Who to the archer boy adoring bow'd	C2
Sad fantoms shook above their Gorgon wings	V2
Fantastic longings for unreal things	V2
And fugitive delights and lasting woes	V2
The summer's biting frost and winter's rose	V2
And penitence and grief that dragg'd along	K2
The royal lawless pair that poets sung	A3
One by his Spartan plunder seal'd the doom	S2
Of hapless Troy the other rescued Rome	A4
Beneath as if in mockery of their woe	D
The tumbling flood with murmurs deep and low	D
Return'd their wailings while the birds above	R
With sweet aerial descant fill'd the grove	R
And all beside the river's winding bed	C2
Fresh flowers in gay confusion deck'd the mead	C2
Painting the sod with every scent and hue	F
That Flora's breath affords or drinks the morning dew	F
And many a solemn bower with welcome shade	C2
Over the dusky stream a shelter made	C2
And when the sun withdrew his slanting ray	C2
And winter cool'd the fervours of the day	C2
Then came the genial hours the frequent feast	C2
And circling times of joy and balmy rest	C2
New day and night were poised in even scale	K4
And spring awoke her equinoctial gale	K4
And Progne now and Philomel begun	U3
With genial toils to greet the vernal sun	U3
Just then O hapless mortals that rely	R
On fickle fortune's ever changing sky	R
E'en in that season when with sacred fire	D3
Dan Cupid seem'd his subjects to inspire	E3
That warms the heart and kindles in the look	M4
And all beneath the moon obey his yoke	V4
I saw the sad reverse that lovers own	F3
I heard the slaves beneath their bondage groan	F3
I saw them sink beneath the deadly weight	C2
And the long tortures that forerun their fate	C2
Sad disappointments there in meagre forms	V2
Were seen and feverish dreams and fancied harms	V2
And fantoms rising from the yawning tomb	S2
Were seen to muster in the gathering gloom	S2
Around the car and some were seen to climb	W4
While cruel fate reversed their steps sublime	W4
And empty notions in the port were seen	J
And baffled hopes were there with cloudy mien	J
There was expensive gain and gain that lost	C2
And amorous schemes by fortune's favour cross'd	C2
And wearisome repose and cares that slept	C2
There was the semblance of disgrace that kept	C2
The youth from dire mischance on whom it fell	I3
And glory darken'd on the gloom of hell	I3
Perfidious loyalty and honest fraud	C2
And wisdom slow and headlong thirst of blood	C2
The dungeon where the flowery paths decoy	H4
The painful hard escape with long annoy	H4
I saw the smooth descent the foot betray	C2
And the steep rocky path that leads again to day	C2
There in the gloomy gulf confusion storm'd	C2
And moody rage its wildest freaks perform'd	C2
And settled grief was there and solid night	C2
But rarely broke with fitful gleams of light	C2
From joy's fantastic hand Not Vulcan's forge	X4
When his Cyclopean caves the fumes disgorge	X4
Nor the deep mine of Mongibel that throws	V2
The fiery tempest o'er eternal snows	V2
Nor Lipari whose strong sulphureous blast	C2
O'ercanopies with flames the watery waste	C2
Nor Stromboli that sweeps the glowing sky	R
With red combustion with its rage could vie	R
Little he loves himself that ventures there	J2
For there is ceaseless woe and fell despair	J2
Yet in this dolorous dungeon long confined	C2
Till time had grizzled o'er my locks I pined	C2
There dreaming still of liberty to come	Y4
I spent my summers in this noisome gloom	S2
Yet still a dubious joy my grief controll'd	C2
To spy such numbers in that darksome hold	C2
But soon to gall my seeming transport turn'd	C2
And my illustrious partner's fate I mourn'd	C2
And often seem'd with sympathising woe	D
To melt in solvent tears like vernal snow	D
I turn'd away but with inverted glance	V2
Perused the fleeting shapes that fill'd my trance	V2
Like him that feels a moment's short delight	C2
When a fine picture fleets before his sight	C2
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BOYD	C2

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