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The buried voice bespake Antigone	A
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'O sister couldst thou know as thou wilt know	B
The bliss above the reverence below	B
Enkindled by thy sacrifice for me	A
Thou wouldst at once with holy ecstasy	A
Give thy warm limbs into the yearning earth	C
Sleep Sister for Elysium's dawning birth	C
And faith will fill thee with what is to be	A
Sleep for the Gods are watching over thee	A
Thy dream will steer thee to perform their will	D
As silently their influence they instil	D
O Sister in the sweetness of thy prime	E
Thy hand has plucked the bitter flower of death	F
But this will dower thee with Elysian breath	F
That fade into a never fading clime	E
Dear to the Gods are those that do like thee	A
A solemn duty for the tyranny	A
Of kings is feeble to the soul that dares	G
Defy them to fulfil its sacred cares	G
And weak against a mighty will are men	H
O Torch between two brothers in whose gleam	E
Our slaughtered House doth shine as one again	H
Tho' severed by the sword now may thy dream	E
Kindle desire in thee for us and thou	I
Forgetting not thy lover and his vow	I
Leaving no human memory forgot	J
Shalt cross not unattended the dark stream	E
Which runs by thee in sleep and ripples not	J
The large stars glitter thro' the anxious night	K
And the deep sky broods low to look at thee	A
The air is hush'd and dark o'er land and sea	A
And all is waiting for the morrow light	K
So do thy kindred spirits wait for thee	A
O Sister soft as on the downward rill	D
Will those first daybeams from the distant hill	D
Fall on the smoothness of thy placid brow	I
Like this calm sweetness breathing thro' me now	I
And when the fated sounds shall wake thine eyes	L
Wilt thou confiding in the supreme will	D
In all thy maiden steadfastness arise	L
Firm to obey and earnest to fulfil	D
Remembering the night thou didst not sleep	M
And this same brooding sky beheld thee creep	M
Defiant of unnatural decree	A
To where I lay upon the outcast land	N
Before the iron gates upon the plain	O
A wretched graveless ghost whose wailing chill	D
Came to thy darkened door imploring thee	A
Yearning for burial like my brother slain	O
And all was dared for love and piety	A
This thought will nerve again thy virgin hand	N
To serve its purpose and its destiny '	-
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She woke they led her forth and all was still	D
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Swathed round in mist and crown'd with cloud	P
O Mountain hid from peak to base	Q
Caught up into the heavens and clasped	R
In white ethereal arms that make	S
Thy mystery of size sublime	E
What eye or thought can measure now	I
Thy grand dilating loftiness	Q
What giant crest dispute with thee	A
Supremacy of air and sky	T
What fabled height with thee compare	U
Not those vine terraced hills that seethe	V
The lava in their fiery cusps	Q
Nor that high climbing robe of snow	B
Whose summits touch the morning star	W
And breathe the thinnest air of life	X
Nor crocus couching Ida warm	E
With Juno's latest nuptial lure	Y
Nor Tenedos whose dreamy eye	T
Still looks upon beleaguered Troy	Z
Nor yet Olympus crown'd with gods	Q
Can boast a majesty like thine	A2
O Mountain hid from peak to base	Q
And image of the awful power	B2
With which the secret of all things	Q
That stoops from heaven to garment earth	C
Can speak to any human soul	D
When once the earthly limits lose	Q
Their pointed heights and sharpened lines	Q
And measureless immensity	R
Is palpable to sense and sight	R

George Meredith

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