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With rosy slender fingers backward drew From her warm brows and bosom her deep hair

Ambrosial, golden round her lucid throat And shoulder; from the violets her light foot

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Fostered the callow eaglet-from beneath Whose thick mysterious boughs in the dark

morn

The panther's roar came muffled, while I sat

Low in the valley. Never, never more

Shone rosy-white, and o'er her rounded Shall lone Enone see the morning mist

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Across me: never child be born of me Unblest, to vex me with his father's eyes!

"O mother, hear me yet before I die. Hear me, O earth. I will not die alone, Lest their shrill happy laughter come to me Walking the cold and starless road of death Uncomforted, leaving my ancient love 256 With the Greek woman. I will rise and go Down into Troy, and ere the stars come forth

Talk with the wild Cassandra, for she says A fire dances before her, and a sound 260 Rings ever in her ears of armèd men. What this may be I know not, but I know That, whereso'er I am by night and day, All earth and air seem only burning fire."

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A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN

I read, before my eyelids dropped their shade,

"The Legend of Good Women," long ago

Sung by the morning-star of song, who made

His music heard below;

Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath

Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still.

And, for a while, the knowledge of his art Held me above the subject, as strong gales Hold swollen clouds from raining, though my heart,

Brimful of those wild tales,

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And clattering flints battered with clang- At last methought that I had wandered far

ing hoofs;

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