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I READ in an old book the myth	A
Of the Hellenian damsel with	B
The magic needle when there fell	C
On me a power a mystic spell	C
I could not well to others tell	C
But all at once my soul was swept	D
Into a sphere where sorrow kept	D
Her vigils sad There on my ear	E
Awoke in accents deep yet clear	F
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'The guerdon of my heavy sin	G
Forever thus I toil and spin	G
The fatal cord the lash accursed	D
By which my heavy woe is nursed '	-
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'From whence this wail ' I inly asked	D
When thro' the gloom I saw unmasked	D
One from whose thin wan face and look	H
I for the needle worker took	H
And lifting up my voice I said	D
'And art thou she of whom I've read	D
Arachne's self ' No answer made	D
The image pale nor turned nor fled	D
Nor into air thin air dissolved	D
But while within my thoughts revolved	D
A something on my vision loom'd	D
Tho' what it was might be presumed	D
Not clearly seen at least by one	I
Still bound to earth by flesh and bone	J
But whatsoe'er it was or meant	D
Anon thereon her gaze was bent	D
And this way that her white hands went	D
Whilst to their motion keeping time	K
Re woke upon my ear the chime	K
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'The guerdon of my ebon sin	G
Forever thus I toil and spin	G
The fatal cord the lash accursed	D
By which my heavy woe is nursed	D
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'The sun and moon they come and go	L
The ocean's waters ebb and flow	L
My baleful star must even burn	M
My swollen tide know no return	M
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'Woe woe the day woe woe the day	D
I first did feel that piercing ray	D
Beneath whose magic touch behold	D
The rock's converted into gold	D
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'Ah from that hour did earth become	N
To me a glad a jewell'd home	O
Where e'er I turned enrapt I viewed	D
A living fact the fair and good	D
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'Where e'er I turned enrapt I viewed	D
A living fact the fair and good	D
Which to my spirit's chambers sped	D
And with the inner beauty wed	D
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'As casquets in which gems are shrined	D
So from the lustre of my mind	D
My body borrowed splendour till	P
My presence stood a living will	P
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'Entranced I took the web and wrought	D
A vision so with beauty fraught	D
The gazer held his breath and crept	D
Into himself and smiled and wept	D
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'Delusive tears delusive smiles	Q
What were you but the serpent's toils	R
The nectar sparkling in yon cup	S
To writhe the lips that quaff it up	S
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'Flushed with success I then did cast	D
A scornful glance upon the past	D
And from that moment I began	T
A course which ended in this ban	T
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'The very God within me burns	U
My soul a mortal triumph spurns	U
Not mortals o'er immortals must	D
I stride or perish in the dust	D
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'Thus frantically cried I when	V
Was flashed upon my inner ken	V
Minerva's might and sheen and I	W
What was there left me but to die	W
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'A meteor in the night her might	D
And sheen is flashed upon my sight	D
But as the night by meteor cleft	D
My soul again in gloom is left	D
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'I view the den in which I crawl	X
I view what doth my soul appal	X
But ah ere I my plight can mend	D
All hope to me hath found an end	D
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'And now instead of sylvan ground	D
Where grief was lost where joy was found	D
My path is such each step I take	Y
Awakes the hissing of the snake	Y
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'My night is still by horrors throng'd	D
My day is but that night prolong'd	D
The sun may set the sun may rise	Z
No soothing slumber seals my eyes	Z
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'Around beneath and over head	D
The finger of the Living Dread	D
Has fix'd a curse which see What's this	A2
Would thus o'er brim my heart with bliss	A2
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'Yes yes my hand that vision traced	D
Mine ivory brow with wreaths are graced	D
Aloud my pean's sung aloud	D
And she my rival's head down bowed	D
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'No never since the world begun	I
Was ever such a triumph won	I
By mortal or immortal sped	D
My dream or dream I now instead	D
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'The sun and moon they come and go	L
The ocean's waters ebb and flow	L
My baleful star must ever burn	M
My swollen tide know no return	M
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'And such the guerdon of my sin	G
Thus thus to toil and thus to spin	G
The fatal cord the lash accursed	D
By which my heavy woe is nursed '	-
	-
Thus mourned the damsel while she	B2
mourned	D
Back into sense my soul return'd	D
At which receded from my sight	D
The needle worker's image Light	D
Was breaking in the orient yet	D
Not till again the sun had set	D
Could I forget her wail nor then	V
Nay even till this hour the strain	C2
'The guerdon of my heavy sin	G
Forever this I toil and spin '	-
Will break upon my inner ear	E
And down my cheek will steal a tear	D2
For one whom Fame in days of old	D
Crowned with her brightest wreath and	D
bold	D
And brave and wise alike proclaimed	D
The glory of that gift which framed	D
What their own triumphs shamed	D

Joseph Skipsey

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