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A Princess in the eastern tale	A
Paced thro' a marble city pale	A
And saw in ghastly shapes of stone	B
The sculptured life she breathed alone	B
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Saw where'er her eye might range	C
Herself the only child of change	C
And heard her echoed footfall chime	D
Between Oblivion and Time	D
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And in the squares where fountains played	E
And up the spiral balustrade	E
Along the drowsy corridors	F
Even to the inmost sleeping floors	G
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Surveyed in wonder chilled with dread	E
The seemingness of Death not dead	E
Life's semblance but without its storm	H
And silence frosting every form	H
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Crowned figures cold and grouping slaves	I
Like suddenly arrested waves	I
About to sink about to rise	J
Strange meaning in their stricken eyes	J
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And cloths and couches live with flame	K
Of leopards fierce and lions tame	K
And hunters in the jungle reed	E
Thrown out by sombre glowing brede	E
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Dumb chambers hushed with fold on fold	E
And cumbrous gorgeousness of gold	E
White casements o'er embroidered seats	L
Looking on solitudes of streets	L
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On palaces and column'd towers	F
Unconscious of the stony hours	F
Harsh gateways startled at a sound	E
With burning lamps all burnish'd round	E
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Surveyed in awe this wealth and state	E
Touched by the finger of a Fate	E
And drew with slow awakening fear	M
The sternness of the atmosphere	M
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And gradually with stealthier foot	E
Became herself a thing as mute	E
And listened while with swift alarm	N
Her alien heart shrank from the charm	N
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Yet as her thoughts dilating rose	O
Took glory in the great repose	O
And over every postured form	H
Spread lava like and brooded warm	H
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And fixed on every frozen face	P
Beheld the record of its race	P
And in each chiselled feature knew	Q
The stormy life that once blushed thro'	M
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The ever present of the past	E
There written all that lightened last	E
Love anguish hope disease despair	M
Beauty and rage all written there	M
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Enchanted Passions whose pale doom	R
Is never flushed by blight or bloom	R
But sentinelled by silent orbs	P
Whose light the pallid scene absorbs	P
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Like such a one I pace along	S
This City with its sleeping throng	S
Like her with dread and awe that turns	P
To rapture and sublimely yearns	P
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For now the quiet stars look down	T
On lights as quiet as their own	B
The streets that groaned with traffic show	U
As if with silence paved below	U
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The latest revellers are at peace	P
The signs of in door tumult cease	P
From gay saloon and low resort	E
Comes not one murmur or report	E
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The clattering chariot rolls not by	V
The windows show no waking eye	V
The houses smoke not and the air	M
Is clear and all the midnight fair	M
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The centre of the striving world	E
Round which the human fate is curled	E
To which the future crieth wild	E
Is pillowed like a cradled child	E
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The palace roof that guards a crown	T
The mansion swathed in dreamy down	T
Hovel court and alley shed	E
Sleep in the calmness of the dead	E
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Now while the many motived heart	E
Lies hushed fireside and busy mart	E
And mortal pulses beat the tune	W
That charms the calm cold ear o' the moon	W
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Whose yellowing crescent down the West	E
Leans listening now when every breast	E
Its basest or its purest heaves	P
The soul that joys the soul that grieves	P
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While Fame is crowning happy brows	P
That day will blindly scorn while vows	P
Of anguished love long hidden speak	X
From faltering tongue and flushing cheek	X
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The language only known to dreams	P
Rich eloquence of rosy themes	P
While on the Beauty's folded mouth	Y
Disdain just wrinkles baby youth	Z
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While Poverty dispenses alms	P
To outcasts bread and healing balms	P
While old Mammon knows himself	A2
The greatest beggar for his pelf	A2
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While noble things in darkness grope	B2
The Statesman's aim the Poet's hope	B2
The Patriot's impulse gathers fire	M
And germs of future fruits aspire	M
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Now while dumb nature owns its links	P
And from one common fountain drinks	P
Methinks in all around I see	P
This Picture in Eternity	P
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A marbled City planted there	M
With all its pageants and despair	M
A peopled hush a Death not dead	E
But stricken with Medusa's head	E
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And in the Gorgon's glance for aye	V
The lifeless immortality	P
Reveals in sculptured calmness all	C2
Its latest life beyond recall	C2

George Meredith

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