Excerpt: ...even he shall home again, And lay him down to sleep at ease, One with the Night and the Night's peace. Ev'n Sorrow, to be escaped of none, But a more deep communion Shall be to him, and Death at last No more dreaded than the Past, Whose shadow in the brain of earth Informs him now and gave him birth. The Faun's Anger. Up, O Faun, up! is he a man So dares affront the great god Pan? Creep I now close. (Has he not heard Ever the lamb cry as the bird Descends upon its helpless head To pluck its eyes out? Blank with ...
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Excerpt: ...even he shall home again, And lay him down to sleep at ease, One with the Night and the Night's peace. Ev'n Sorrow, to be escaped of none, But a more deep communion Shall be to him, and Death at last No more dreaded than the Past, Whose shadow in the brain of earth Informs him now and gave him birth. The Faun's Anger. Up, O Faun, up! is he a man So dares affront the great god Pan? Creep I now close. (Has he not heard Ever the lamb cry as the bird Descends upon its helpless head To pluck its eyes out? Blank with dread Did he ne'er press in stumbling haste Over the wide moor's tossing waste? Or, stripped to plunge, did never eye The sunned pool smiling treacherously, Despair and terror in his heart? Hate on him!) See: he draws apart That with himself he may commune The while to a low murmuring tune Wrung from a golden-string
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