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Iliad v V Dedicated to the Council at The Hague	A
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How big of breast our Mother Gaea laughed	B
At sight of her boy Giants on the leap	C
Each over other as they neighboured home	D
Fronting the day's descent across green slopes	E
And up fired mountain crags their shadows danced	F
Close with them in their fun she scarce could guess	G
Though these two billowy urchins reeked of craft	B
It signalled some adventurous master trick	H
To set Olympians buzzing in debate	I
Lest it might be their godhead undermined	J
The Tyranny menaced Ephialtes high	K
On shoulders of his brother Otos waved	L
For the bull bellowings given to grand good news	M
Compact complexioned in his gleeful roar	N
While Otos aped the prisoner's wrists and knees	O
With doleful sniffs between recurrent howls	P
Till Gaea's lap receiving them they stretched	Q
And both upon her bosom shaken to speech	R
Burst the hot story out of throats of both	S
Like rocky head founts baffling in their glut	T
The hurried spout And as when drifting storm	U
Disburdened loses clasp of here and yon	V
A peak a forest mound a valley's gleam	W
Of grass and the river's crooks and snaky coils	X
Signification marvellous she caught	Y
Through gurglings of triumphant jollity	Y
Which now engulphed and now gave eye at last	Y
Subsided and the serious naked deed	Y
With mountain cloud of laughter banked around	Y
Stood in her sight confirmed she could believe	Z
That these her sprouts of promise her most prized	Y
These two made up of lion bear and fox	A2
Her sportive suckling mammoths her young joy	B2
Still by the reckoning infants among men	C2
Had done the deed to strike the Titan host	Y
In envy dumb in envious heart elate	Y
These two combining strength and craft had snared	Y
Enmeshed bound fast with thongs discreetly caged	Y
The blood shedder the terrible Lord of War	N
Destroyer ravager superb in plumes	D2
The barren furrower of anointed fields	E2
The scarlet heel in towns foul smoke to sky	K
Her hated enemy too long her scourge	F2
Great Ares And they gagged his trumpet mouth	G2
When they had seized on his implacable spear	H2
Hugged him to reedy helplessness despite	Y
His godlike fury startled from amaze	I2
For he had eyed them nearing him in play	J2
The giant cubs who gambolled and who snarled	Y
Unheeding his fell presence by the mount	Y
Ossa beside a brushwood cavern there	K2
On Earth's original fisticuffs they called	Y
For ease of sharp dispute whereat the God	Y
Approving deemed that sometime trained to arms	L2
Good servitors of Ares they would be	M2
And ply the pointed spear to dominate	Y
Their rebel restless fellows villain brood	Y
Vowed to defy Immortals So it chanced	Y
Amusedly he watched them and as one	N2
The lusty twain were on him and they had him	O2
Breath to us Powers of air for laughter loud	Y
Cock of Olympus he superb in plumes	D2
Bound like a wheaten sheaf by those two babes	P2
Because they knew our Mother Gaea loathed him	O2
Knew him the famine pestilence and waste	Y
A desolating fire to blind the sight	Y
With splendour built of fruitful things in ashes	Q2
The gory chariot wheel on cries for justice	R2
Her deepest planted and her liveliest voice	S2
Heard from the babe as from the broken crone	T2
Behold him in his vessel of bronze encased	Y
And tumbled down the cave But rather look	U2
Ah that the woman tattler had not sought	Y
Of all the Gods to let her secret fly	K
Hermes after the thirteen songful months	V2
Prompting the Dexterous to work his arts	W2
And shatter earth's delirious holiday	Y
Then first as where the fountain runs a stream	W
Resolving to composure on its throbs	W2
But see her in the Seasons through that year	H2
That one glad year and the fair opening month	X2
Had never our Great Mother such sweet face	W2
War with her gentle war with her each day	Y
Her sons and daughters urged at eve were flung	Y2
On the morrow stood to challenge in their strength	Z2
Renewed indomitable whereof they won	N2
From hourly wrestlings up to shut of lids	W2
Her ready secret the abounding life	A3
Returned for valiant labour she and they	Y
Defeated and victorious turn by turn	B3
By loss enriched by overthrow restored	Y
Exchange of powers of this conflict came	C3
Defacement none nor ever squandered force	W2
Is battle nature's mandate here it reigned	Y
As music unto the hand that smote the strings	W2
And she the rosier from their showery brows	W2
They fruitful from her ploughed and harrowed breast	Y
Back to the primal rational of those	W2
Who suck the teats of milky earth and clasp	D3
Stability in hatred of the insane	E3
Man stepped with wits less fearful to pronounce	W2
The mortal mind's concept of earth's divorced	Y
Above those beautiful those masterful	F3
Those lawless High they sit and if descend	Y
Descend to reap not sowing Is it just	Y
Earth in her happy children asked that word	Y
Whereto within their breast was her reply	K
Those beautiful those masterful those lawless	W2
Enjoy the life prolonged outleap the years	W2
Yet they 'twas the Great Mother's voice inspired	Y
The audacious thought they glorious over dust	Y
Outleap not her disrooted from her soar	N
To meet the certain fate of earth's divorced	Y
And clap lame wings across a wintry haze	W2
Up to the farthest bourne immortal still	G3
Thenceforth innocuous lovelier than when ruled	Y
The Tyranny This her voice within them told	Y
When softly the Great Mother chid her sons	W2
Not of the giant brood who did create	Y
Those lawless Gods first offspring of our brain	E3
Set moving by an abject blood that waked	Y
To wanton under elements more benign	H3
And planted aliens on Olympian heights	W2
Imagination's cradle poesy	W2
Become a monstrous pressure upon men	C2
Foes of good Gaea until dispossessed	Y
By light from her born of the love of her	I3
Their lordship the illumined brain rejects	W2
For earth's beneficent the sons of Law	J3
Her other name So spake she in their heart	Y
Among the wheat blades proud of stalk beneath	K3
Young vine leaves pushing timid fingers forth	L3
Confidently to cling And when brown corn	M3
Swayed armied ranks with softened cricket song	N3
With gold necks bent for any zephyr's kiss	W2
When vine roots daily down a rubble soil	O3
Drank fire of heaven athirst to swell the grape	P3
When swelled the grape and in it held a ray	Y
Rich issue of the embrace of heaven and earth	Q3
The very eye of passion drowsed by excess	W2
And yet a burning lion for the spring	R3
Then in that time of general cherishment	Y
Sweet breathing balm and flutes by cool wood side	Y
He the harsh rouser of ire being absent caged	Y
Then did good Gaea's children gratefully	M2
Lift hymns to Gods they judged but praised for peace	W2
Delightful Peace that answers Reason's call	S3
Harmoniously and images her Law	J3
Reflects and though short lived as then revives	W2
In memories made present on the brain	E3
By natural yearnings all the happy scenes	W2
The picture of an earth allied to heaven	N2
Between them the known smile behind black masks	W2
Rightly their various moods interpreted	Y
And frolic because toilful children borne	M3
With larger comprehension of Earth's aim	C3
At loftier clearer sweeter by their aid	Y

George Meredith

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