This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...North. All day the lazy ripple to the prow Whispered; and all day long by palms arow, By cities populous with blazing quays, By tracts of flowering bean and verdant maize, They glided. Towers and temples sunny bright, Like mirage in the desert, swam from sight Behind them; and the wild tumultuous noise Of nations ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...North. All day the lazy ripple to the prow Whispered; and all day long by palms arow, By cities populous with blazing quays, By tracts of flowering bean and verdant maize, They glided. Towers and temples sunny bright, Like mirage in the desert, swam from sight Behind them; and the wild tumultuous noise Of nations shouting with a single voice Grew fainter on the current. All day long, Lulled to a slumberous symphony of song, Sails flapped, oars flashed, and boys and maidens made Cool music in the silken scented shade. But Adrian dreaming lay, and at his side Antinous with large eyes blank and wide Lay dreaming. Thus adown the sleepy tide, As in a trance toward Lethe through still air, Lost to the joy of living did they fare. But now the sun who all day long had driven His glittering chariot o'er the enamelled heaven, Began to wester. Level smote his rays, A furnace-fire of splendour;' and the blaze Burned upon stream and city: in its fire The pillared shrine and solitary spire, Tall cypress or thick tamarisk-tangle, swam Like clouds you scarce can see amid the flame Of sunset; and the whole vast concave through, Across the light-irradiate airy blue, Ran conflagration. Then, ere day was dead, The slaves who had that service came and spread The Emperor's table; and Antinous rose, For his it was before the banquet's close To bear the wine-cup, at his master's knee Like Ganymede serving imperially. He rose, and from his shoulder's ivory The veil fell fluttering to his rounded thigh: Naked he stood; then on his forehead set A crimson wreath of lotos, cool and wet, Fresh from the tank, with ivy mixed; and bound Roses about his breast; and from the ground A tendril-tangled thyrsus raised, and flung The quivering leaves aloft that clasped and clung. Next half the lu...
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