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I	A
Dear is the newly won	B
But O far dearer the for ever lost	C
He that at utmost cost	D
His utmost deed hath done	B
The lost one to recover and in vain	E
What shall his heart his anguished heart sustain	E
Not the warm and youthful sun	B
Flowers breathing on the bough	F
Nor a voice nor music now	F
Touches of joy more hard to bear than pain	E
These charm not where he is but only there	G
Where she is gone who took with her delight	H
Peace and all things fair	G
And left the whole world bare	G
And O what far well's fountain shall requite	H
Him who hath drunk so deeply of despair	G
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Orpheus on a stone strewn slope	I
High amid the hills of Thrace	J
Sets to the bleak North his face	J
He a traveller from hope	I
As a bird whose mate is stricken	B
Flies and flies o'er ocean foam	K
Nor endures to seek a home	K
Seeks a land where no leaves quicken	B
Where from gorges to the plain	E
Iron tongued the torrent roars	J
Into troubled streams that strain	E
Eddying under barren shores	J
Where thronged ridges darkly rise	J
Shouldering the storms that sweep	L
Through the winter loaded skies	J
When far up in heavens asleep	L
For an hour the clouds unclose	J
Throned in peace beyond the bourne	M
Of their moving vapours torn	M
Glimmer the majestic snows	J
Whence an eagle slowly sails	J
O'er the solitary vales	J
Such to Orpheus' pilgrim eyes	J
The unreached far mountains rise	J
Come '' he groans you storms and scourge me	N
Dull these inward pangs that urge me	N
Ever into new despair	G
Make my flesh endure as steel	O
Let me now the utmost feel	O
Bring me news of things that bear	G
Frozen torrents naked trees	J
That abjure the summer's breeze	J
Keen upon this body fall	P
O let me feel your fiercest sting or feel no more at all ''	-
His hand half conscious straying	Q
Over the well loved lyre	R
Strikes frail notes obeying	Q
Sadly in air expire	R
Wingless they falter forth	S
As the pale large plumes of snow	T
From the dim cloud curdling North	S
Unwilling and soft and slow	T
That fall on the hands and the hair	G
Of Orpheus unheeded and die	H
As out of his heart's despair	G
He speaks to his lyre Ah why	H
Would I stir thee from silence now	F
When silence is far the best	H
As of old I touch thee but thou	F
Unwillingly answerest	H
Ah marvellous once was thy power	U
In the marvellous days of old	H
I touched thee and all hearts heard	H
And the snake had no thought to devour	U
And the shy fawn stayed and was bold	H
And the panther crept near in desire	U
And the toppling Symplegades hung	V
To hearken thy strings as I sung	V
And Argo glanced through like a bird	H
Like a swallow to hear thee my lyre	R
And the soul of the dragon was stirred	H
Till his vast coil slowly stooped	H
From the tree where the Fleece glimmered gold	H
And his ageless eyelids drooped	H
And his strength sank fold by fold	H
And only the dim leaves heard	H
As we stept o'er his coils that were cold	H
Mighty wast thou indeed	H
But O in my utmost need	H
My heart thou couldst not quell	W
My heart that loved too well	W
I turned on the brink of the light	H
Her hand hung fast in my own	X
I was sure as a God in my might	H
I gazed she grew pale she was flown	X
Then the dawn turned back to the night	H
And I stood in the world alone	X
Eurydice could I have loved thee less	J
I had won thee lightly again	Y
My great joy wrought my wretchedness	J
And thee whom I love I have slain ''	-
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II	A
What lights are these that dance	J
Like fire flies clustering on the dusk hillside	H
Mingle and then divide	H
Swerve and again advance	J
Peopling the shadows thick till Rhodope	L
Seems rocking all her towering pines in glee	N
Maenads of exultant glance	J
Thracian maidens Thracian dames	J
Toss these perilous fair flames	J
Soon their full tresses roll from neck to knee	N
Swift as a dark shower in the sunset poured	H
Soon panting bosoms from rent robes shine bare	G
Thoughts leap in accord	H
Bright as an unsheathed sword	H
Tumultuously free and mad to dare	G
And loud they cry on Bacchus their wild lord	H
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O can cheeks of white and red	H
Lips that love made tremble often	B
Eyes an infant's tears can soften	B
Alter with a change so dread	H
Yea a deep fire craving fuel	Z
Like the dungeoned fires of Earth	A2
Pants from secrecy for birth	A2
Careless if its way be cruel	Z
While from tempest faint they stand	H
Orpheus 'mid their riot strays	J
Silent halts with listless hand	H
And with sorrow sunken gaze	J
Who is this '' in wrath they cry	H
Spectre sprung to mock our glee	N
Woe to this pale face for he	N
Joins our mirth or he shall die ''	-
Singer touch thy magic lyre	R
Thou couldst stay them soft and still	B2
Tamed and gentle to thy will	B2
Ah in grief is no desire	U
Grief in stony bonds hath bound him	C2
And these bright forms that surround him	C2
With high torches menacing	Q
And light spears in restless ring	Q
Seem his own thoughts raging seem	D2
Furies of embodied dream	D2
Furies whom 'tis vain to flee	N
Alas he hath for shield and sword	H
Only one defenceless word	H
Eurydice Eurydice ''	-
To piercing wound and branding flame	E2
He answers with that piteous name	E2
The world now echoes back alone	X
Eurydice '' his soul flies forth in that belov d moan	X
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Alas that the hand should deflower	U
The treasure the heart loves best	H
That the will of an alien power	U
Should blindly the soul have possest	H
Proudly our own great woe	T
We accomplish and laugh to have done	B
Then strength passes from us we know	T
And we hide our heads from the sun	B
Behold as the dawn flushed air	U
Glimmers on peak and vale	F2
To the pines on the upland bare	U
Come shadowy forms and pale	F2
Stealing maiden and mother	U
By single paths of dread	H
And wondering each at the other	U
Bend over the piteous dead	H
And touching those rent limbs cry	U
With kisses kneeling low	T
In sad affrighted moan	X
It was not I '' Nor I ''	-
What evil God blinded us so	T
To wound our beloved our delight	H
For our dancing thou hadst not a song	G2
And now we have none for thy wrong	G2
Though thy lyre could charm honey from stone	X
Yet we pitied not thee our delight	H
Nay thee who couldst heal us alone	X
In our grief at whose magical boon	H2
Peace brooded a dove o'er our pain	E
And our hearts with the sun and the moon	H2
Were at peace that shall be not again	Y
Nor our hope with the spring be in tune	H2
Thee thee even thee have we slain	E
Woe for the world woe	T
In cherishing fair snow	T
Let us bury thee whom we marred	H
With the lyre that our flame hath charred	H
Gentle wast thou as a flower	U
But careless as thunder were we	N
And our tears that should be as a shower	U
To raise and to foster thee	N
Drop vainly and past is our power	U
With that blindness and fury and glee	N
Yea the solace we wanted not then in our mirth	A2
From our helpless sorrow is taken	B
And for ever untuned is the beautiful earth	A2
And the home of our hearts is forsaken	B