Outspeeding the shark, And up through the rifts V. And now from their fountains In Enna's mountains, Down one vale where the morning basks, Like friends once parted Grown single-hearted, They ply their watery tasks. From their cradles steep Through the woods below And the meadows of Asphodel; And at night they sleep In the rocking deep Beneath the Ortygian shore ; Like spirits that lie In the azure sky When they love but live no more. THE QUESTION. 1 I. I DREAMED that, as I wandered by the way, Mixed with a sound of waters murmuring Under a copse, and hardly dared to fling Its green arms round the bosom of the stream But kissed it and then fled, as thou mightest i II. There grew pied wind-flowers and violets, Faint oxlips; tender bluebells, at whose bir III. And in the warm hedge grew lush eglantine, With its dark buds and leaves, wandering astray; IV. And nearer to the river's trembling edge There grew broad flag-flowers, purple prankt with white, And starry river buds among the sedge, And floating water-lilies, broad and bright, With moonlight beams of their own watery light; V. Methought that of these visionary flowers I made a nosegay, bound in such a way Kept these imprisoned children of the Hou Within my hand, and then, elate and g I hastened to the spot whence I had come, That I might there present it!-Oh! to w GOOD NIGHT. I. GOOD night? ah! no; the hour is ill Then it will be good night. II. How can I call the lone night good, III. To hearts which near each other move HYMN OF APOLLO. I. THE sleepless Hours who watch me as I lie, From the broad moonlight of the sky, Fanning the busy dreams from my dim eyes, Waken me when their Mother, the grey Dawn, Tells them that dreams and that the moon is gone II. Then I arise, and climbing Heaven's blue dome, Leaving my robe upon the ocean foam; My footsteps pave the clouds with fire; the caves Are filled with my bright presence, and the air Leaves the green earth to my embraces bare. III. The sunbeams are my shafts, with which I kill Fly me, and from the glory of my ray |