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Love in a hut with water and a crust	A
Is Love forgive us cinders ashes dust	A
Love in a palace is perhaps at last	B
More grievous torment than a hermit s fast	B
That is a doubtful tale from faery land	C
Hard for the non elect to understand	C
Had Lycius liv d to hand his story down	D
He might have given the moral a fresh frown	D
Or clench d it quite but too short was their bliss	E
To breed distrust and hate that make the soft voice hiss	E
Besides there nightly with terrific glare	F
Love jealous grown of so complete a pair	F
Hover d and buzz d his wings with fearful roar	G
Above the lintel of their chamber door	G
And down the passage cast a glow upon the floor	G
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For all this came a ruin side by side	H
They were enthroned in the even tide	H
Upon a couch near to a curtaining	I
Whose airy texture from a golden string	I
Floated into the room and let appear	J
Unveil d the summer heaven blue and clear	J
Betwixt two marble shafts there they reposed	H
Where use had made it sweet with eyelids closed	H
Saving a tythe which love still open kept	H
That they might see each other while they almost slept	H
When from the slope side of a suburb hill	K
Deafening the swallow s twitter came a thrill	K
Of trumpets Lycius started the sounds fled	H
But left a thought a buzzing in his head	H
For the first time since first he harbour d in	L
That purple lined palace of sweet sin	L
His spirit pass d beyond its golden bourn	M
Into the noisy world almost forsworn	M
The lady ever watchful penetrant	H
Saw this with pain so arguing a want	H
Of something more more than her empery	J
Of joys and she began to moan and sigh	N
Because he mused beyond her knowing well	O
That but a moment s thought is passion s passing bell	O
Why do you sigh fair creature whisper d he	P
Why do you think return d she tenderly	P
You have deserted me where am I now	Q
Not in your heart while care weighs on your brow	Q
No no you have dismiss d me and I go	I
From your breast houseless ay it must be so	I
He answer d bending to her open eyes	R
Where he was mirror d small in paradise	S
My silver planet both of eve and morn	M
Why will you plead yourself so sad forlorn	M
While I am striving how to fill my heart	H
With deeper crimson and a double smart	H
How to entangle trammel up and snare	J
Your soul in mine and labyrinth you there	J
Like the hid scent in an unbudded rose	T
Ay a sweet kiss you see your mighty woes	T
My thoughts shall I unveil them Listen then	U
What mortal hath a prize that other men	U
May be confounded and abash d withal	P
But lets it sometimes pace abroad majestical	P
And triumph as in thee I should rejoice	V
Amid the hoarse alarm of Corinth s voice	V
Let my foes choke and my friends shout afar	J
While through the thronged streets your bridal car	J
Wheels round its dazzling spokes The lady s cheek	I
Trembled she nothing said but pale and meek	I
Arose and knelt before him wept a rain	W
Of sorrows at his words at last with pain	W
Beseeching him the while his hand she wrung	I
To change his purpose He thereat was stung	I
Perverse with stronger fancy to reclaim	X
Her wild and timid nature to his aim	X
Besides for all his love in self despite	H
Against his better self he took delight	H
Luxurious in her sorrows soft and new	Y
His passion cruel grown took on a hue	Y
Fierce and sanguineous as twas possible	P
In one whose brow had no dark veins to swell	P
Fine was the mitigated fury like	I
Apollo s presence when in act to strike	I
The serpent Ha the serpent certes she	P
Was none She burnt she lov d the tyranny	P
And all subdued consented to the hour	J
When to the bridal he should lead his paramour	J
Whispering in midnight silence said the youth	Z
Sure some sweet name thou hast though by my truth	Z
I have not ask d it ever thinking thee	P
Not mortal but of heavenly progeny	P
As still I do Hast any mortal name	X
Fit appellation for this dazzling frame	X
Or friends or kinsfolk on the citied earth	A2
To share our marriage feast and nuptial mirth	A2
I have no friends said Lamia no not one	B2
My presence in wide Corinth hardly known	C2
My parents bones are in their dusty urns	V
Sepulchred where no kindled incense burns	V
Seeing all their luckless race are dead save me	P
And I neglect the holy rite for thee	P
Even as you list invite your many guests	V
But if as now it seems your vision rests	V
With any pleasure on me do not bid	H
Old Apollonius from him keep me hid	H
Lycius perplex d at words so blind and blank	I
Made close inquiry from whose touch she shrank	I
Feigning a sleep and he to the dull shade	H
Of deep sleep in a moment was betray d	P
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It was the custom then to bring away	D2
The bride from home at blushing shut of day	D2
Veil d in a chariot heralded along	I
By strewn flowers torches and a marriage song	I
With other pageants but this fair unknown	C2
Had not a friend So being left alone	C2
Lycius was gone to summon all his kin	L
And knowing surely she could never win	L
His foolish heart from its mad pompousness	V
She set herself high thoughted how to dress	V
The misery in fit magnificence	V
She did so but tis doubtful how and whence	V
Came and who were her subtle servitors	V
About the halls and to and from the doors	V
There was a noise of wings till in short space	V
The glowing banquet room shone with wide arched grace	V
A haunting music sole perhaps and lone	C2
Supportress of the faery roof made moan	C2
Throughout as fearful the whole charm might fade	H
Fresh carved cedar mimicking a glade	H
Of palm and plantain met from either side	H
High in the midst in honour of the bride	H
Two palms and then two plantains and so on	E2
From either side their stems branch d one to one	B2
All down the aisled place and beneath all	P
There ran a stream of lamps straight on from wall to wall	P
So canopied lay an untasted feast	H
Teeming with odours Lamia regal drest	H
Silently paced about and as she went	H
In pale contented sort of discontent	H
Mission d her viewless servants to enrich	F2
The fretted splendour of each nook and niche	F2
Between the tree stems marbled plain at first	H
Came jasper pannels then anon there burst	H
Forth creeping imagery of slighter trees	V
And with the larger wove in small intricacies	V
Approving all she faded at self will	P
And shut the chamber up close hush d and still	P
Complete and ready for the revels rude	H
When dreadful guests would come to spoil her solitude	H
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The day appear d and all the gossip rout	H
O senseless Lycius Madman wherefore flout	H
The silent blessing fate warm cloister d hours	V
And show to common eyes these secret bowers	V
The herd approach d each guest with busy brain	W
Arriving at the portal gaz d amain	W
And enter d marveling for they knew the street	H
Remember d it from childhood all complete	H
Without a gap yet ne er before had seen	W
That royal porch that high built fair demesne	W
So in they hurried all maz d curious and keen	W
Save one who look d thereon with eye severe	J
And with calm planted steps walk d in austere	J
Twas Apollonius something too he laugh d	H
As though some knotty problem that had daft	H
His patient thought had now begun to thaw	G2
And solve and melt twas just as he foresaw	G2
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He met within the murmurous vestibule	P
His young disciple Tis no common rule	P
Lycius said he for uninvited guest	H
To force himself upon you and infest	H
With an unbidden presence the bright throng	I
Of younger friends yet must I do this wrong	I
And you forgive me Lycius blush d and led	H
The old man through the inner doors broad spread	H
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