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At the coming up of Phoebus the all luminous charioteer	A
Double visaged stand the mountains in imperial multitudes	B
And with shadows dappled men sing to him Hail O Beneficent	C
For they shudder chill the earth vales at his clouding shudder to	D
black	E
In the light of him there is music thro' the poplar and river sedge	F
Renovation chirp of brooks hum of the forest an ocean song	G
Never pearl from ocean hollows by the diver exultingly	H
In his breathlessness above thrust is as earth to Helios	I
Who usurps his place there rashest Aphrodite's loved one it is	J
To his son the flaming Sun God to the tender youth Phaethon	K
Rule of day this day surrenders as a thing hereditary	A
Having sworn by Styx tremendous for the proof of his parentage	L
He would grant his son's petition whatsoever the sign thereof	M
Then rejoiced the stripling answered 'Rule of day give me give	N
it me	A
Give me place that men may see me how I blaze and transcendingly	H
I divine proclaim my birthright ' Darkened Helios and his	J
utterance	O
Choked prophetic 'O half mortal ' he exclaimed in an agony	A
'O lost son of mine lost son No put a prayer for another thing	P
Not for this insane to wish it and to crave the gift impious	Q
Cannot other gifts my godhead shed upon thee miraculous	Q
Mighty gifts to prove a blessing that to earth thou shalt be a joy	R
Gifts of healing wherewith men walk as the Gods beneficently	H
As a God to sway to concord hearts of men reconciling them	S
Gifts of verse the lyre the laurel therewithal that thine origin	K
Shall be known even as when I strike on the string'd shell with	T
melody	A
And the golden notes like medicine darting straight to the	U
cavities	V
Fill them up till hearts of men bound as the billows the ships	W
thereon '	X
Thus intently urged the Sun God but the force of his eloquence	O
Was the pressing on of sea waves scattered broad from the rocks	Y
away	Z
What shall move a soul from madness Lost lost in delirium	A2
Rock fast the adolescent to his father irreverent	C
'By the oath the oath thine oath ' cried The effulgent foreseer	A
then	K
Quivering in his loins parental on the boy's beaming countenance	O
Looked and moaned and urged him for love's sake for sweet life's	B2
sake to yield the claim	C2
To abandon his mad hunger and avert the calamity	A
But he vehement passionate called out 'Let me show I am what I	D2
say	Z
That the taunts I hear be silenced I am stung with their	A
whispering	P
Only Thou my Father Thou tell how aloft the revolving wheels	E2
How aloft the cleaving horse crests I may guide peremptorily	H
Till I drink the shadows fire hot like a flower celestial	H
And my fellows see me curbing the fierce steeds the dear dew	D
drinkers	F2
Yea for this I gaze on life's light throw for this any sacrifice '	X
	-
All the end foreseeing Phoebus to his oath irrevocable	H
Bowed obedient deploring the insanity pitiless	Q
Then the flame outsnorting horses were led forth it was so	G2
decreed	H2
They were yoked before the glad youth by his sister ancillaries	G2
Swift the ripple ripples follow'd as of aureate Helicon	K
Down their flanks while they impatient pawed desire of the	U
distances	G2
And the bit with fury champed Oh unimaginable delight	I2
Unimagined speed and splendour in the circle of upper air	A
Glory grander than the armed host upon earth singing victory	A
Chafed the youth with their spirit surcharged as when blossom is	G2
shaken by winds	G2
Marked that labour by his sister Phaethontiades finished quick	J2
On the slope of the car his forefoot set assured and the morning	P
rose	G2
Seeing whom and what a day dawned stood the God as in harvest	K2
fields	G2
When the reaper grasps the full sheaf and the sickle that severs it	L2
Hugged the withered head with one hand with the other to indicate	M2
If this woe might be averted this immeasurable evil	H
Laid the kindling course in view told how the reins to manipulate	M2
Named the horses fondly fearful caution'd urgently betweenwhiles	G2
Their diverging tempers dwelt on and their wantonness wickedness	G2
That the voice of Gods alone held in restraint but the voice of	M
Gods	G2
None but Gods can curb He spake vain were the words scarcely	A
listening	P
Mounted Phaethon swinging reins loose and 'Behold me companions	G2
It is I here I ' he shouted glancing down with supremacy	A
'Not to any of you was this gift granted ever in annals of men	K
I alone what only Gods can I alone am governing day '	-
Short the triumph brief his rapture see a hurricane suddenly	A
Beat the lifting billow crestless roll it broken this way and that	N2
	-
At the leap on yielding ether in despite of his reprimand	O2
Swayed tumultuous the fire steeds plunging reckless hither and yon	K
Unto men a great amazement all agaze at the Troubled East	P2
Pitifully for mastery striving in ascension the charioteer	A
Reminiscent drifts of counsel caught confused in his arid wits	G2
The reins stiff ahind his shoulder madly pulled for the mastery	A
Till a thunder off the tense chords thro' his ears dinned horrible	H
Panic seized him fled his vision of inviolability	P2
Fled the dream that he of mortals rode mischances predominant	P2
And he cried 'Had I petitioned for a cup of chill aconite	P2
My descent to awful Hades had been soft for now must I go	G2
With the curse by father Zeus cast on ambition immoderate	P2
Oh my sisters Thou my Goddess in whose love I was enviable	H
From whose arms I rushed befrenzied what a wreck will this body be	A
That admired of thee stood rose warm in the courts where thy	D2
mysteries	G2
Celebration had from me me the most splendidly privileged	P2
Never more shall I thy temple fill with incenses bewildering	P
Not again hear thy half murmurs I am lost never never more	A
I am wrecked on seas of air hurled to my death in a vessel of	M
flame	C2
Hither sisters Father save me Hither succour me Cypria '	-
	-
Now a wail of men to Zeus rang from Olympus the Thunderer	A
Saw the rage of the havoc wide mouthed the bright car	A
superimpending	P
Over Asia Africa low down ruin flaming over the vales	G2
Light disastrous rising savage out of smoke inveterately	H
Beast black conflagration like a menacing shadow move	Q2
With voracious roaring southward where aslant insufferable	H
The bright steeds careered their parched way down an arc of the	U
firmament	P2
For the day grew like to thick night and the orb was its beacon	K
fire	A
And from hill to hill of darkness burst the day's apparition forth	R2
Lo a wrestler not a God stood in the chariot ever lowering	P
Lo the shape of one who raced there to outstrip the legitimate	P2
hours	G2
Lo the ravish'd beams of Phoebus dragged in shame at the chariot	P2
wheels	G2
Light of days of happy pipings by the mead singing rivulets	G2
Lo lo increasing lustre torrid breath to the nostrils lo	H
Torrid brilliancies thro' the vapours lighten swifter penetrate	P2
them	S
Fasten merciless ruminant hueless on earth's frame crackling	P
busily	H
He aloft the frenzied driver in the glow of the universe	G2
Like the paling of the dawn star withers visibly he aloft	P2
Bitter fury in his aspect bitter death in the heart of him	S2
Crouch the herds contract the reptiles crouch the lions under	A
their paws	G2
White as metal in the furnace are the faces of human kind	P2
Inarticulate creatures of earth dumb all await the ultimate shock	P
To the bolt he launched 'Strike dead thou ' uttered Zeus very	H
terrible	H
'Perish folly else 'tis man's fate' and the bolt flew unerringly	H
Then the kindler stooped from the torch car down the measureless	G2
altitudes	G2
Leaned his rayless head relinquished rein and footing raised not a	U
cry	A
Like the flower on the river's surface when expanding it vanishes	G2
Gave his limbs to right and left quenched and so fell he	H
precipitate	P2
Seen of men as a glad rain fall sending coolness yet ere it comes	G2
So he showered above them shadowed o'er the blue archipelagoes	G2
O'er the silken shining pastures of the continents and the	U

George Meredith

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