This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...spare, That fall by night beside the wine-dark sea. CHATTERTON IN ELYSIUM He stricken past full many a haven built Beyond the sullen borders of de-spair Where eager fancy, free from human guilt, Might roam in bliss. And 'twas a poet's care To sing of happy field and island fair, That when a weary world ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...spare, That fall by night beside the wine-dark sea. CHATTERTON IN ELYSIUM He stricken past full many a haven built Beyond the sullen borders of de-spair Where eager fancy, free from human guilt, Might roam in bliss. And 'twas a poet's care To sing of happy field and island fair, That when a weary world did covet rest Such lovely vision, like an answered pray'r, His wistful sorrow soothed. Oh, hearts were blest, That found so bright abode, low-lying in the west. Though Time, the master-mariner, whose sail Hath whitened every port of sea and sky, Now sad returned upon the droning gale That old familiar vision would deny; Yet dreams reveal the soul, they never die, And mourned Elysium, fled beyond the polej Is raised anew in every human sigh, For 'tis a region of the inward soul Which Time shall not destroy, nor the sick world control. f. Oh boldly fashion, with religious power, The bounty of Elysium; let there be (Covert against th' inhospitable hour), A brighter heav'n, a purer ecstasy! Thus men achieve celestial liberty Seeking the true Elysium where 'tis spread Within the soul's remoter sanctity, The glamour of a garden; habited By nobly-joyous lives the world laments as dead. Thither as poets feign, a spirit fled, An eager being broken by despair, To seek that approbation of the dead The living had denied his haughty prayer. In grace he came and solemn beauty fair That beamed through desolation as the Sun, Deep-peering God, doth pierce the murky air With unrepressive glance. It proved him one The Muses richly dowered as they but few have done. Arrived before that portal of repose The panting soul in sudden terror stood; Not as a spy that slinketh from his foes, But childlike; for a full ecstatic mood O'erbrimmed his faculties in copious...
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