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  "data": [
    {
      "author": "Lord Alfred Tennyson",
      "line_count": "757",
      "lines": [
        "Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood",
        "Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round,",
        "At Camelot, high above the yellowing woods,",
        "Danced like a wither'd leaf before the hall.",
        "And toward him from the hall, with harp in hand,",
        "And from the crown thereof a carcanet",
        "Of ruby swaying to and fro, the prize",
        "Of Tristram in the jousts of yesterday,",
        "Came Tristram, saying, \"Why skip ye so, Sir Fool?\"",
        "",
        "For Arthur and Sir Lancelot riding once",
        "Far down beneath a winding wall of rock",
        "Heard a child wail. A stump of oak half-dead.",
        "From roots like some black coil of carven snakes,",
        "Clutch'd at the crag, and started thro' mid air",
        "Bearing an eagle's nest: and thro' the tree",
        "Rush'd ever a rainy wind, and thro' the wind",
        "Pierced ever a child's cry: and crag and tree",
        "Scaling, Sir Lancelot from the perilous nest,",
        "This ruby necklace thrice around her neck,",
        "And all unscarr'd from beak or talon, brought",
        "A maiden babe; which Arthur pitying took,",
        "Then gave it to his Queen to rear: the Queen",
        "But coldly acquiescing, in her white arms",
        "Received, and after loved it tenderly,",
        "And named it Nestling; so forgot herself",
        "A moment, and her cares; till that young life",
        "Being smitten in mid heaven with mortal cold",
        "Past from her; and in time the carcanet",
        "Vext her with plaintive memories of the child:",
        "So she, delivering it to Arthur, said,",
        "\"Take thou the jewels of this dead innocence,",
        "And make them, an thou wilt, a tourney-prize.\"",
        "",
        "To whom the King, \"Peace to thine eagle-borne",
        "Dead nestling, and this honour after death,",
        "Following thy will! but, O my Queen, I muse",
        "Why ye not wear on arm, or neck, or zone",
        "Those diamonds that I rescued from the tarn,",
        "And Lancelot won, methought, for thee to wear.\"",
        "",
        "\"Would rather you had let them fall,\" she cried,",
        "\"Plunge and be lost--ill-fated as they were,",
        "A bitterness to me!--ye look amazed,",
        "Not knowing they were lost as soon as given--",
        "Slid from my hands, when I was leaning out",
        "Above the river--that unhappy child",
        "Past in her barge: but rosier luck will go",
        "With these rich jewels, seeing that they came",
        "Not from the skeleton of a brother-slayer,",
        "But the sweet body of a maiden babe.",
        "Perchance--who knows?--the purest of thy knights",
        "May win them for the purest of my maids.\"",
        "",
        "She ended, and the cry of a great jousts",
        "With trumpet-blowings ran on all the ways",
        "From Camelot in among the faded fields",
        "To furthest towers; and everywhere the knights",
        "Arm'd for a day of glory before the King.",
        "",
        "But on the hither side of that loud morn",
        "Into the hall stagger'd, his visage ribb'd",
        "From ear to ear with dogwhip-weals, his nose",
        "Bridge-broken, one eye out, and one hand off,",
        "And one with shatter'd fingers dangling lame,",
        "A churl, to whom indignantly the King,",
        "",
        "\"My churl, for whom Christ died, what evil beast",
        "Hath drawn his claws athwart thy face? or fiend?",
        "Man was it who marr'd heaven's image in thee thus?\"",
        "",
        "Then, sputtering thro' the hedge of splinter'd teeth,",
        "Yet strangers to the tongue, and with blunt stump",
        "Pitch-blacken'd sawing the air, said the maim'd churl,",
        "",
        "\"He took them and he drave them to his tower--",
        "Some hold he was a table-knight of thine--",
        "A hundred goodly ones--the Red Knight, he--",
        "Lord, I was tending swine, and the Red Knight",
        "Brake in upon me and drave them to his tower;",
        "And when I cal'd upon thy name as one",
        "That doest right by gentle and by churl,",
        "Maim'd me and maul'd, and would outright have slain,",
        "Save that he aware me to a message, saying,",
        "'Tell thou the King and all his liars, that I",
        "Have founded my Round Table in the North,",
        "And whatsoever his own knights have sworn",
        "My knights have sworn the counter to it--and say",
        "My tower is full of harlots, like his court,",
        "But mine are worthier, seeing they profess",
        "To be none other than themselves--and say",
        "My knights are all adulterers like his own,",
        "But mine are truer, seeing they profess",
        "To be none other; and say his hour is come,",
        "The heathen are upon him, his long lance",
        "Broken, and his Excalibur a straw.' \"",
        "",
        "Then Arthur turn'd to Kay the seneschal,",
        "\"Take thou my churl, and tend him curiously",
        "Like a king's heir, till all his hurts be whole.",
        "The heathen--but that ever-climbing wave,",
        "Hurl'd back again so often in empty foam,",
        "Hath lain for years at rest--and renegades,",
        "Thieves, bandits, leavings of confusion, whom",
        "The wholesome realm is purged of otherwhere,",
        "Friends, thro' your manhood and your fealty,--now",
        "Make their last head like Satan in the North.",
        "My younger knights, new-made, in whom your flower",
        "Waits to be solid fruit of golden deeds,",
        "Move with me toward their quelling, which achieved,",
        "The loneliest ways are safe from shore to shore.",
        "But thou, Sir Lancelot, sitting in my place",
        "Enchair'd to-morrow, arbitrate the field;",
        "For wherefore shouldst thou care to mingle with it",
        "Only to yield my Queen her own again?",
        "Speak, Lancelot, thou art silent: is it well?\"",
        "",
        "",
        "Thereto Sir Lancelot answer'd, \"It is well:",
        "Yet better if the King abide, and leave",
        "The leading of his younger knights to me.",
        "Else, for the King has will'd it, it is well.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "Then Arthur rose and Lancelot follow'd him,",
        "And while they stood without the doors, the King",
        "Turn'd to him saying, \"Is it then so well?",
        "Or mine the blame that oft I seem as he",
        "Of whom was written, 'A sound is in his ears'?",
        "The foot that loiters, bidden go,--the glance",
        "That only seems half-loyal to command,--",
        "A manner somewhat fall'n from reverence--",
        "Or have I dream'd the bearing of our knights",
        "Tells of a manhood ever less and lower?",
        "Or whence the fear lest this my realm, uprear'd,",
        "By noble deeds at one with noble vows,",
        "From flat confusion and brute violence,s",
        "Reel back into the beast, and be no more?\"",
        "",
        "",
        "He spoke, and taking all his younger knights,",
        "Down the slope city rode, and sharply turn'd",
        "North by the gate. In her high bower the Queen,",
        "Working a tapestry, lifted up her head,",
        "Watch'd her lord pass, and knew not that she sigh'd.",
        "Then ran across her memory the strange rhyme",
        "Of bygone Merlin, \"Where is he who knows?",
        "From the great deep to the great deep he goes.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "But when the morning of a tournament,",
        "By these in earnest those in mockery call'd",
        "The Tournament of the Dead Innocence,",
        "Brake with a wet wind blowing, Lancelot,",
        "Round whose sick head all night, like birds of prey,",
        "The words of Arthur flying shriek'd, arose,",
        "And down a streetway hung with folds of pure",
        "White samite, and by fountains running wine,",
        "Where children sat in white with cups of gold,",
        "Moved to the lists, and there, with slow sad steps",
        "Ascending, fill'd his double-dragon'd chair.",
        "",
        "",
        "He glanced and saw the stately galleries,",
        "Dame, damsel, each thro' worship of their Queen",
        "White-robed in honour of the stainless child,",
        "And some with scatter'd jewels, like a bank",
        "Of maiden snow mingled with sparks of fire.",
        "He look'd but once, and vail'd his eyes again.",
        "",
        "",
        "The sudden trumpet sounded as in a dream",
        "To ears but half-awaked, then one low roll",
        "Of Autumn thunder, and the jousts began:",
        "And ever the wind blew, and yellowing leaf",
        "And gloom and gleam, and shower and shorn plume",
        "Went down it. Sighing weariedly, as one",
        "Who sits and gazes on a faded fire,",
        "When all the goodlier guests are past away,",
        "Sat their great umpire, looking o'er the lists.",
        "He saw the laws that ruled the tournament",
        "Broken, but spake not; once, a knight cast down",
        "Before his throne of arbitration cursed",
        "The dead babe and the follies of the King;",
        "And once the laces of a helmet crack'd,",
        "And show'd him, like a vermin in its hole,",
        "Modred, a narrow face: anon he heard",
        "The voice that billow'd round the barriers roar",
        "An ocean-sounding welcome to one knight,",
        "But newly-enter'd, taller than the rest,",
        "And armour'd all in forest green, whereon",
        "There tript a hundred tiny silver deer,",
        "And wearing but a holly-spray for crest,",
        "With ever-scattering berries, and on shield",
        "A spear, a harp, a bugle--Tristram--late",
        "From overseas in Brittany return'd,",
        "And marriage with a princess of that realm,",
        "Isolt the White--Sir Tristram of the Woods--",
        "Whom Lancelot knew, had held sometime with pain",
        "His own against him, and now yearn'd to shake",
        "The burthen off his heart in one full shock",
        "With Tristram ev'n to death: his strong hands gript",
        "And dinted the gilt dragons right and left,",
        "Until he groan'd for wrath--so many of those,",
        "That ware their ladies' colours on the casque,",
        "Drew from before Sir Tristram to the bounds,",
        "And there with gibes and flickering mockeries",
        "Stood, while he mutter'd, \"Craven crests! O shame!",
        "What faith have these in whom they sware to love?",
        "The glory of our Round Table is no more.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "So Tristram won, and Lancelot gave, the gems,",
        "Not speaking other word than \"Hast thou won?",
        "Art thou the purest, brother? See, the hand",
        "Wherewith thou takest this, is red!\" to whom",
        "Tristram, half plagued by Lancelot's languorous mood,",
        "Made answer, \"Ay, but wherefore toss me this",
        "Like a dry bone cast to some hungry hound?",
        "Let be thy fair Queen's fantasy. Strength of heart",
        "And might of limb, but mainly use and skill,",
        "Are winners in this pastime of our King.",
        "My hand--belike the lance hath dript upon it--",
        "No blood of mine, I trow; but O chief knight,",
        "Right arm of Arthur in the battlefield,",
        "Great brother, thou nor I have made the world;",
        "Be happy in thy fair Queen as I in mine.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "And Tristram round the gallery made his horse",
        "Caracole; then bow'd his homage, bluntly saying,",
        "\"Fair damsels, each to him who worships each",
        "Sole Queen of Beauty and of love, behold",
        "This day my Queen of Beauty is not here.\"",
        "And most of these were mute, some anger'd, one",
        "Murmuring, \"All courtesy is dead,\" and one",
        "\"The glory of our Round Table is no more.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "Then fell thick rain, plume droopt and mantle clung,",
        "And pettish cries awoke, and the wan day",
        "Went glooming down in wet and weariness:",
        "But under her black brows a swarthy one",
        "Laugh'd shrilly, crying, \"Praise the patient saints,",
        "Our one white day of Innocence hath past,",
        "Tho' somewhat draggled at the skirt. So be it.",
        "The snowdrop only, flowering thro' the year,",
        "Would make the world as blank as Winter-tide.",
        "Come--let us gladden their sad eyes, our Queen's",
        "And Lancelot's, at this night's solemnity",
        "With all the kindlier colours of the field.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "So dame and damsel glitter'd at the feast",
        "Variously gay: for he that tells the tale",
        "Liken'd them, saying, as when an hour of cold",
        "Falls on the mountain in midsummer snows,",
        "And all the purple slopes of mountain flowers",
        "Pass under white, till the warm hour returns",
        "With veer of wind, and all are flowers again;",
        "So dame and damsel cast the simple white,",
        "And glowing in all colours, the live grass,",
        "Rose-campion, bluebell, kingcup, poppy, glanced",
        "About the revels, and with mirth so loud",
        "Beyond all use, that, half-amazed, the Queen,",
        "And wroth at Tristram and the lawless jousts,",
        "Brake up their sports, then slowly to her bower",
        "Parted, and in her bosom pain was lord.",
        "",
        "",
        "And little Dagonet on the morrow morn,",
        "High over all the yellowing Autumn-tide,",
        "Danced like a wither'd leaf before the hall.",
        "Then Tristram saying, \"Why skip ye so, Sir Fool?\"",
        "Wheel'd round on either heel, Dagonet replied,",
        "\"Belike for lack of wiser company;",
        "Or being fool, and seeing too much wit",
        "Makes the world rotten, why, belike I skip",
        "To know myself the wisest knight of all.\"",
        "\"Ay, fool,\" said Tristram, \"but 'tis eating dry",
        "To dance without a catch, a roundelay",
        "To dance to.\" Then he twangled on his harp,",
        "And while he twangled little Dagonet stood",
        "Quiet as any water-sodden log",
        "Stay'd in the wandering warble of a brook;",
        "But when the twangling ended, skipt again;",
        "And being ask'd, \"Why skipt ye not, Sir Fool?\"",
        "Made answer, \"I had liefer twenty years",
        "Skip to the broken music of my brains",
        "Than any broken music thou canst make.\"",
        "Then Tristram, waiting for the quip to come,",
        "\"Good now, what music have I broken, fool?\"",
        "And little Dagonet, skipping, \"Arthur, the King's;",
        "For when thou playest that air with Queen Isolt,",
        "Thou makest broken music with thy bride,",
        "Her daintier namesake down in Brittany--",
        "And so thou breakest Arthur's music, too.\"",
        "\"Save for that broken music in thy brains,",
        "Sir Fool,\" said Tristram, \"I would break thy head.",
        "Fool, I came late, the heathen wars were o'er,",
        "The life had flown, we sware but by the shell--",
        "I am but a fool to reason with a fool--",
        "Come, thou art crabb'd and sour: but lean me down,",
        "Sir Dagonet, one of thy long asses' ears,",
        "And harken if my music be not true.",
        "",
        "",
        "\"`Free love--free field--we love but while we may:",
        "The woods are hush'd, their music is no more:",
        "The leaf is dead, the yearning past away:",
        "New leaf, new life--the days of frost are o'er:",
        "New life, new love, to suit the newer day:",
        "New loves are sweet as those that went before:",
        "Free love--free field--we love but while we may.'",
        "",
        "",
        "\"Ye might have moved slow-measure to my tune,",
        "Not stood stockstill. I made it in the woods,",
        "And heard it ring as true as tested gold.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "But Dagonet with one foot poised in his hand,",
        "\"Friend, did ye mark that fountain yesterday",
        "Made to run wine?--but this had run itself",
        "All out like a long life to a sour end--",
        "And them that round it sat with golden cups",
        "To hand the wine to whosoever came--",
        "The twelve small damosels white as Innocence,",
        "In honour of poor Innocence the babe,",
        "Who left the gems which Innocence the Queen",
        "Lent to the King, and Innocence the King",
        "Gave for a prize--and one of those white slips",
        "Handed her cup and piped, the pretty one,",
        "'Drink, drink, Sir Fool,' and thereupon I drank,",
        "Spat--pish--the cup was gold, the draught was mud.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "And Tristram, \"Was it muddier than thy gibes?",
        "Is all the laughter gone dead out of thee?--",
        "Not marking how the knighthood mock thee, fool--",
        "'Fear God: honour the King--his one true knight--",
        "Sole follower of the vows'--for here be they",
        "Who knew thee swine enow before I came,",
        "Smuttier than blasted grain: but when the King",
        "Had made thee fool, thy vanity so shot up",
        "It frighted all free fool from out thy heart;",
        "Which left thee less than fool, and less than swine,",
        "A naked aught--yet swine I hold thee still,",
        "For I have flung thee pearls and find thee swine.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "And little Dagonet mincing with his feet,",
        "\"Knight, an ye fling those rubies round my neck",
        "In lieu of hers, I'll hold thou hast some touch",
        "Of music, since I care not for thy pearls.",
        "Swine? I have wallow'd, I have wash'd--the world",
        "Is flesh and shadow--I have had my day.",
        "The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind",
        "Hath foul'd me--an I wallow'd, then I wash'd--",
        "I have had my day and my philosophies--",
        "And thank the Lord I am King Arthur's fool.",
        "Swine, say ye? swine, goats, asses, rams and geese",
        "Troop'd round a Paynim harper once, who thrumm'd",
        "On such a wire as musically as thou",
        "Some such fine song--but never a king's fool.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "And Tristram, \"Then were swine, goats, asses, geese",
        "The wiser fools, seeing thy Paynim bard",
        "Had such a mastery of his mystery",
        "That he could harp his wife up out of hell.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "Then Dagonet, turning on the ball of his foot,",
        "\"And whither harp'st thou thine? down! and thyself",
        "Down! and two more: a helpful harper thou,",
        "That harpest downward! dost thou know the star",
        "We call the harp of Arthur up in heaven?\"",
        "",
        "",
        "And Tristram, \"Ay, Sir Fool, for when our King",
        "Was victor wellnigh day by day, the knights,",
        "Glorying in each new glory, set his name",
        "High on all hills, and in the signs of heaven.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "And Dagonet answer'd, \"Ay, and when the land",
        "Was freed, and the Queen false, ye set yourself",
        "To babble about him, all to show your wit--",
        "And whether he were King by courtesy,",
        "Or King by right--and so went harping down",
        "The black king's highway, got so far, and grew",
        "So witty that we play'd at ducks and drakes",
        "With Arthur's vows on the great lake of fire.",
        "Tuwhoo! do ye see it? do ye see the star?\"",
        "",
        "",
        "\"Nay, fool,\" said Tristram, \"not in open day.\"",
        "And Dagonet, \"Nay, nor will: I see it and hear.",
        "It makes a silent music up in heaven,",
        "And I, and Arthur and the angels hear,",
        "And then we skip.\" \"Lo, fool,\" he said, \"ye talk",
        "Fool's treason: is the King thy brother fool?\"",
        "Then little Dagonet clapt his hands and shrill'd,",
        "\"Ay, ay, my brother fool, the king of fools!",
        "Conceits himself as God that he can make",
        "Figs out of thistles, silk from bristles, milk",
        "From burning spurge, honey from hornet-combs",
        "And men from beasts--Long live the king of fools!\"",
        "",
        "",
        "And down the city Dagonet danced away;",
        "But thro' the slowly-mellowing avenues",
        "And solitary passes of the wood",
        "Rode Tristram toward Lyonnesse and the west.",
        "Before him fled the face of Queen Isolt",
        "With ruby-circled neck, but evermore",
        "Past, as a rustle or twitter in the wood",
        "Made dull his inner, keen his outer eye",
        "For all that walk'd, or crept, or perch'd, or flew.",
        "Anon the face, as, when a gust hath blown,",
        "Unruffling waters re-collect the shape",
        "Of one that in them sees himself, return'd;",
        "But at the slot or fewmets of a deer,",
        "Or ev'n a fall'n feather, vanish'd again.",
        "",
        "",
        "So on for all that day from lawn to lawn",
        "Thro' many a league-long bower he rode. At length",
        "A lodge of intertwisted beechen-boughs",
        "Furze-cramm'd, and bracken-rooft, the which himself",
        "Built for a summer day with Queen Isolt",
        "Against a shower, dark in the golden grove",
        "Appearing, sent his fancy back to where",
        "She lived a moon in that low lodge with him:",
        "Till Mark her lord had past, the Cornish King,",
        "With six or seven, when Tristram was away,",
        "And snatch'd her thence; yet dreading worse than shame",
        "Her warrior Tristram, spake not any word,",
        "But bode his hour, devising wretchedness.",
        "",
        "",
        "And now that desert lodge to Tristram lookt",
        "So sweet, that halting, in he past, and sank",
        "Down on a drift of foliage random-blown;",
        "But could not rest for musing how to smoothe",
        "And sleek his marriage over to the Queen.",
        "Perchance in lone Tintagil far from all",
        "The tonguesters of the court she had not heard.",
        "But then what folly had sent him overseas",
        "After she left him lonely here? a name?",
        "Was it the name of one in Brittany,",
        "Isolt, the daughter of the King? \"Isolt",
        "Of the white hands\" they call'd her: the sweet name",
        "Allured him first, and then the maid herself,",
        "Who served him well with those white hands of hers,",
        "And loved him well, until himself had thought",
        "He loved her also, wedded easily,",
        "But left her all as easily, and return'd.",
        "The black-blue Irish hair and Irish eyes",
        "Had drawn him home--what marvel? then he laid",
        "His brows upon the drifted leaf and dream'd.",
        "",
        "",
        "He seem'd to pace the strand of Brittany",
        "Between Isolt of Britain and his bride,",
        "And show'd them both the ruby-chain, and both",
        "Began to struggle for it, till his Queen",
        "Graspt it so hard, that all her hand was red.",
        "Then cried the Breton, \"Look, her hand is red!",
        "These be no rubies, this is frozen blood,",
        "And melts within her hand--her hand is hot",
        "With ill desires, but this I gave thee, look,",
        "Is all as cool and white as any flower.\"",
        "Follow'd a rush of eagle's wings, and then",
        "A whimpering of the spirit of the child,",
        "Because the twain had spoil'd her carcanet.",
        "",
        "",
        "He dream'd; but Arthur with a hundred spears",
        "Rode far, till o'er the illimitable reed,",
        "And many a glancing plash and sallowy isle,",
        "The wide-wing'd sunset of the misty marsh",
        "Glared on a huge machicolated tower",
        "That stood with open doors, where out was roll'd",
        "A roar of riot, as from men secure",
        "Amid their marshes, ruffians at their ease",
        "Among their harlot-brides, an evil song.",
        "\"Lo there,\" said one of Arthur's youth, for there,",
        "High on a grim dead tree before the tower,",
        "A goodly brother of the Table Round",
        "Swung by the neck: and on the boughs a shield",
        "Showing a shower of blood in a field noir,",
        "And therebeside a horn, inflamed the knights",
        "At that dishonour done the gilded spur,",
        "Till each would clash the shield, and blow the horn.",
        "But Arthur waved them back. Alone he rode.",
        "Then at the dry harsh roar of the great horn,",
        "That sent the face of all the marsh aloft",
        "An ever upward-rushing storm and cloud",
        "Of shriek and plume, the Red Knight heard, and all,",
        "Even to tipmost lance and topmost helm",
        "In blood-red armour sallying, howl'd to the King,",
        "",
        "",
        "\"The teeth of Hell flay bare and gnash thee flat!",
        "Lo! art thou not that eunuch-hearted King",
        "Who fain had clipt free manhood from the world--",
        "The woman-worshipper? Yea, God's curse, and I!",
        "Slain was the brother of my paramour",
        "By a knight of thine, and I that heard her whine",
        "And snivel, being eunuch-hearted too,",
        "Sware by the scorpion-worm that twists in hell,",
        "And stings itself to everlasting death,",
        "To hang whatever knight of thine I fought",
        "And tumbled. Art thou King?--Look to thy life!\"",
        "",
        "",
        "He ended: Arthur knew the voice; the face",
        "Wellnigh was helmet-hidden, and the name",
        "Went wandering somewhere darkling in his mind.",
        "And Arthur deign'd not use of word or sword,",
        "But let the drunkard, as he stretch'd from horse",
        "To strike him, overbalancing his bulk,",
        "Down from the causeway heavily to the swamp",
        "Fall, as the crest of some slow-arching wave,",
        "Heard in dead night along that table-shore,",
        "Drops flat, and after the great waters break",
        "Whitening for half a league, and thin themselves,",
        "Far over sands marbled with moon and cloud,",
        "From less and less to nothing; thus he fell",
        "Head-heavy; then the knights, who watch'd him, roar'd",
        "And shouted and leapt down upon the fall'n;",
        "There trampled out his face from being known,",
        "And sank his head in mire, and slimed themselves:",
        "Nor heard the King for their own cries, but sprang",
        "Thro' open doors, and swording right and left",
        "Men, women, on their sodden faces, hurl'd",
        "The tables over and the wines, and slew",
        "Till all the rafters rang with woman-yells,",
        "And all the pavement stream'd with massacre:",
        "Then, echoing yell with yell, they fired the tower,",
        "Which half that autumn night, like the live North,",
        "Red-pulsing up thro' Alioth and Alcor,",
        "Made all above it, and a hundred meres",
        "About it, as the water Moab saw",
        "Come round by the East, and out beyond them flush'd",
        "The long low dune, and lazy-plunging sea.",
        "",
        "",
        "So all the ways were safe from shore to shore,",
        "But in the heart of Arthur pain was lord.",
        "",
        "",
        "Then, out of Tristram waking, the red dream",
        "Fled with a shout, and that low lodge return'd,",
        "Mid-forest, and the wind among the boughs.",
        "He whistled his good warhorse left to graze",
        "Among the forest greens, vaulted upon him,",
        "And rode beneath an ever-showering leaf,",
        "Till one lone woman, weeping near a cross,",
        "Stay'd him. \"Why weep ye?\" \"Lord,\" she said, \"my man",
        "Hath left me or is dead\"; whereon he thought--",
        "\"What, if she hate me now? I would not this.",
        "What, if she love me still? I would not that.",
        "I know not what I would\"--but said to her,",
        "\"Yet weep not thou, lest, if thy mate return,",
        "He find thy favour changed and love thee not\"--",
        "Then pressing day by day thro' Lyonnesse",
        "Last in a roky hollow, belling, heard",
        "The hounds of Mark, and felt the goodly hounds",
        "Yelp at his heart, but turning, past and gain'd",
        "Tintagil, half in sea, and high on land,",
        "A crown of towers. Down in a casement sat,",
        "A low sea-sunset glorying round her hair",
        "And glossy-throated grace, Isolt the Queen.",
        "And when she heard the feet of Tristram grind",
        "The spiring stone that scaled about her tower,",
        "Flush'd, started, met him at the doors, and there",
        "Belted his body with her white embrace,",
        "Crying aloud, \"Not Mark--not Mark, my soul!",
        "The footstep flutter'd me at first: not he:",
        "Catlike thro' his own castle steals my Mark,",
        "But warrior-wise thou stridest thro' his halls",
        "Who hates thee, as I him--ev'n to the death.",
        "My soul, I felt my hatred for my Mark",
        "Quicken within me, and knew that thou wert nigh.\"",
        "To whom Sir Tristram smiling, \"I am here.",
        "Let be thy Mark, seeing he is not thine.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "And drawing somewhat backward she replied,",
        "\"Can he be wrong'd who is not ev'n his own,",
        "But save for dread of thee had beaten me,",
        "Scratch'd, bitten, blinded, marr'd me somehow--Mark?",
        "What rights are his that dare not strike for them?",
        "Not lift a hand--not, tho' he found me thus!",
        "But harken! have ye met him? hence he went",
        "To-day for three days' hunting--as he said--",
        "And so returns belike within an hour.",
        "Mark's way, my soul!--but eat not thou with Mark,",
        "Because he hates thee even more than fears;",
        "Nor drink: and when thou passest any wood",
        "Close vizor, lest an arrow from the bush",
        "Should leave me all alone with Mark and hell.",
        "My God, the measure of my hate for Mark",
        "Is as the measure of my love for thee.''",
        "",
        "",
        "So, pluck'd one way by hate and one by love,",
        "Drain'd of her force, again she sat, and spake",
        "To Tristram, as he knelt before her, saying,",
        "\"O hunter, and O blower of the horn,",
        "Harper, and thou hast been a rover too,",
        "For, ere I mated with my shambling king,",
        "Ye twain had fallen out about the bride",
        "Of one--his name is out of me--the prize,",
        "If prize she were--(what marvel--she could see)",
        "Thine, friend; and ever since my craven seeks",
        "To wreck thee villainously: but, O Sir Knight,",
        "What dame or damsel have ye kneel'd to last?\"",
        "",
        "",
        "And Tristram, \"Last to my Queen Paramount,",
        "Here now to my Queen Paramount of love",
        "And loveliness--ay, lovelier than when first",
        "Her light feet fell on our rough Lyonnesse,",
        "Sailing from Ireland.\" Softly laugh'd Isolt;",
        "\"Flatter me not, for hath not our great Queen",
        "My dole of beauty trebled?\" and he said,",
        "\"Her beauty is her beauty, and thine thine,",
        "And thine is more to me--soft, gracious, kind--",
        "Save when thy Mark is kindled on thy lips",
        "Most gracious; but she, haughty ev'n to him,",
        "Lancelot; for I have seen him wan enow",
        "To make one doubt if ever the great Queen",
        "Have yielded him her love.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "To whom Isolt,",
        "\"Ah then, false hunter and false harper, thou",
        "Who brakest thro' the scruple of my bond,",
        "Calling me thy white hind, and saying to me",
        "That Guinevere had sinn'd against the highest,",
        "And I--misyoked with such a want of man--",
        "That I could hardly sin against the lowest.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "He answer'd, \"O my soul, be comforted!",
        "If this be sweet, to sin in leading-strings,",
        "If here be comfort, and if ours be sin,",
        "Crown'd warrant had we for the crowning sin",
        "That made us happy: but how ye greet me--fear",
        "And fault and doubt--no word of that fond tale--",
        "Thy deep heart-yearnings, thy sweet memories",
        "Of Tristram in that year he was away.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "And, saddening on the sudden, spake Isolt,",
        "\"I had forgotten all in my strong joy",
        "To see thee--yearnings?--ay! for, hour by hour,",
        "Here in the never-ended afternoon,",
        "O sweeter than all memories of thee,",
        "Deeper than any yearnings after thee",
        "Seem'd those far-rolling, westward-smiling seas,",
        "Watch'd from this tower. Isolt of Britain dash'd",
        "Before Isolt of Brittany on the strand,",
        "Would that have chill'd her bride-kiss? Wedded her?",
        "Fought in her father's battles? wounded there?",
        "The King was all fulfill'd with gratefulness,",
        "And she, my namesake of the hands, that heal'd",
        "Thy hurt and heart with unguent and caress--",
        "Well--can I wish her any huger wrong",
        "Than having known thee? her too hast thou left",
        "To pine and waste in those sweet memories.",
        "O were I not my Mark's, by whom all men",
        "Are noble, I should hate thee more than love.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "And Tristram, fondling her light hands, replied,",
        "\"Grace, Queen, for being loved: she loved me well.",
        "Did I love her? the name at least I loved.",
        "Isolt?--I fought his battles, for Isolt!",
        "The night was dark; the true star set. Isolt!",
        "The name was ruler of the dark--Isolt?",
        "Care not for her! patient, and prayerful, meek,",
        "Pale-blooded, she will yield herself to God.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "And Isolt answer'd, \"Yea, and why not I?",
        "Mine is the larger need, who am not meek,",
        "Pale-blooded, prayerful. Let me tell thee now.",
        "Here one black, mute midsummer night I sat,",
        "Lonely, but musing on thee, wondering where,",
        "Murmuring a light song I had heard thee sing,",
        "And once or twice I spake thy name aloud.",
        "Then flash'd a levin-brand; and near me stood,",
        "In fuming sulphur blue and green, a fiend--",
        "Mark's way to steal behind one in the dark--",
        "For there was Mark: 'He has wedded her,' he said,",
        "Not said, but hiss'd it: then this crown of towers",
        "So shook to such a roar of all the sky,",
        "That here in utter dark I swoon'd away,",
        "And woke again in utter dark, and cried,",
        "'I will flee hence and give myself to God'--",
        "And thou wert lying in thy new leman's arms.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "Then Tristram, ever dallying with her hand,",
        "\"May God be with thee, sweet, when old and gray,",
        "And past desire!\" a saying that anger'd her.'",
        "\"`May God be with thee, sweet, when thou art old,",
        "And sweet no more to me!' I need Him now.",
        "For when had Lancelot utter'd aught so gross",
        "Ev'n to the swineherd's malkin in the mast?",
        "The greater man, the greater courtesy.",
        "Far other was the Tristram, Arthur's knight!",
        "But thou, thro' ever harrying thy wild beasts--",
        "Save that to touch a harp, tilt with a lance",
        "Becomes thee well--art grown wild beast thyself.",
        "How darest thou, if lover, push me even",
        "In fancy from thy side, and set me far",
        "In the gray distance, half a life away,",
        "Her to be loved no more? Unsay it, unswear!",
        "Flatter me rather, seeing me so weak,",
        "Broken with Mark and hate and solitude,",
        "Thy marriage and mine own, that I should suck",
        "Lies like sweet wines: lie to me: I believe.",
        "Will ye not lie? not swear, as there ye kneel,",
        "And solemnly as when ye sware to him",
        "The man of men, our King--My God, the power",
        "Was once in vows when men believed the King!",
        "They lied not then, who sware, and thro' their vows",
        "The King prevailing made his realm:--I say,",
        "Swear to me thou wilt love me ev'n when old,",
        "Gray-hair'd, and past desire, and in despair.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "Then Tristram, pacing moodily up and down,",
        "\"Vows! did you keep the vow you made to Mark",
        "More than I mine? Lied, say ye? Nay, but learnt,",
        "The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself--",
        "My knighthood taught me this--ay, being snapt--",
        "We run more counter to the soul thereof",
        "Than had we never sworn. I swear no more.",
        "I swore to the great King, and am forsworn.",
        "For once--ev'n to the height--I honour'd him.",
        "'Man, is he man at all?' methought, when first",
        "I rode from our rough Lyonnesse, and beheld",
        "That victor of the Pagan throned in hall--",
        "His hair, a sun that ray'd from off a brow",
        "Like hillsnow high in heaven, the steel-blue eyes,",
        "The golden beard that clothed his lips with light--",
        "Moreover, that weird legend of his birth,",
        "With Merlin's mystic babble about his end",
        "Amazed me; then his foot was on a stool",
        "Shaped as a dragon; he seem'd to me no man,",
        "But Michaël trampling Satan; so I sware,",
        "Being amazed: but this went by--The vows!",
        "O ay--the wholesome madness of an hour--",
        "They served their use, their time; for every knight",
        "Believed himself a greater than himself,",
        "And every follower eyed him as a God;",
        "Till he, being lifted up beyond himself,",
        "Did mightier deeds than elsewise he had done,",
        "And so the realm was made; but then their vows--",
        "First mainly thro' that sullying of our Queen--",
        "Began to gall the knighthood, asking whence",
        "Had Arthur right to bind them to himself?",
        "Dropt down from heaven? wash'd up from out the deep?",
        "They fail'd to trace him thro' the flesh and blood",
        "Of our old kings: whence then? a doubtful lord",
        "To bind them by inviolable vows,",
        "Which flesh and blood perforce would violate:",
        "For feel this arm of mine--the tide within",
        "Red with free chase and heather-scented air,",
        "Pulsing full man; can Arthur make me pure",
        "As any maiden child? lock up my tongue",
        "From uttering freely what I freely hear?",
        "Bind me to one? The wide world laughs at it.",
        "And worldling of the world am I, and know",
        "The ptarmigan that whitens ere his hour",
        "Woos his own end; we are not angels here",
        "Nor shall be: vows--I am woodman of the woods,",
        "And hear the garnet-headed yaffingale",
        "Mock them: my soul, we love but while we may;",
        "And therefore is my love so large for thee,",
        "Seeing it is not bounded save by love.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "Here ending, he moved toward her, and she said,",
        "\"Good: an I turn'd away my love for thee",
        "To some one thrice as courteous as thyself--",
        "For courtesy wins woman all as well",
        "As valour may, but he that closes both",
        "Is perfect, he is Lancelot--taller indeed,",
        "Rosier and comelier, thou--but say I loved",
        "This knightliest of all knights, and cast thee back",
        "Thine own small saw, 'We love but while we may,'",
        "Well then, what answer?\" He that while she spake,",
        "Mindful of what he brought to adorn her with,",
        "The jewels, had let one finger lightly touch",
        "The warm white apple of her throat, replied,",
        "\"Press this a little closer, sweet, until--",
        "Come, I am hunger'd and half-anger'd--meat,",
        "Wine, wine--and I will love thee to the death,",
        "And out beyond into the dream to come.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "So then, when both were brought to full accord,",
        "She rose, and set before him all he will'd;",
        "And after these had comforted the blood",
        "With meats and wines, and satiated their hearts--",
        "Now talking of their woodland paradise,",
        "The deer, the dews, the fern, the founts, the lawns;",
        "Now mocking at the much ungainliness,",
        "And craven shifts, and long crane legs of Mark--",
        "Then Tristram laughing caught the harp, and sang:",
        "",
        "",
        "\"Ay, ay, O ay--the winds that bend the brier!",
        "A star in heaven, a star within the mere!",
        "Ay, ay, O ay--a star was my desire,",
        "And one was far apart, and one was near:",
        "Ay, ay, O ay--the winds that bow the grass!",
        "And one was water and one star was fire,",
        "And one will ever shine and one will pass.",
        "Ay, ay, O ay--the winds that move the mere.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "Then in the light's last glimmer Tristram show'd",
        "And swung the ruby carcanet. She cried,",
        "\"The collar of some Order, which our King",
        "Hath newly founded, all for thee, my soul,",
        "For thee, to yield thee grace beyond thy peers.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "\"Not so, my Queen,\" he said, \"but the red fruit",
        "Grown on a magic oak-tree in mid-heaven,",
        "And won by Tristram as a tourney-prize,",
        "And hither brought by Tristram for his last",
        "Love-offering and peace-offering unto thee.\"",
        "",
        "",
        "He spoke, he turn'd, then, flinging round her neck,",
        "Claspt it, and cried \"Thine Order, O my Queen!\"",
        "But, while he bow'd to kiss the jewell'd throat,",
        "Out of the dark, just as the lips had touch'd,",
        "Behind him rose a shadow and a shriek--",
        "\"Mark's way,\" said Mark, and clove him thro' the brain.",
        "",
        "",
        "That night came Arthur home, and while he climb'd,",
        "All in a death-dumb autumn-dripping gloom,",
        "The stairway to the hall, and look'd and saw",
        "The great Queen's bower was dark,--about his feet",
        "A voice clung sobbing till he question'd it,",
        "\"What art thou?\" and the voice about his feet",
        "Sent up an answer, sobbing, \"I am thy fool,",
        "And I shall never make thee smile again.\""
      ],
      "title": "Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament (excerpt)"
    },
    {
      "author": "Robert Browning",
      "line_count": "16",
      "lines": [
        "Ah, did you once see Shelley plain,",
        "  And did he stop and speak to you,",
        "And did you speak to him again?",
        "  How strange it seems and new!",
        "",
        "But you were living before that,",
        "  And also you are living after;",
        "And the memory I started at--",
        "  My starting moves your laughter!",
        "",
        "I crossed a moor with a name of its own",
        "  And a certain use in the world, no doubt,",
        "Yet a hand's-breadth of it shines alone",
        "  'Mid the blank miles round about.",
        "",
        "For there I picked upon the heather",
        "  And there I put inside my breast",
        "A moulted feather, an eagle-feather!",
        "  Well, I forget the rest."
      ],
      "title": "Memorabilia"
    },
    {
      "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley",
      "line_count": "837",
      "lines": [
        "Is it a party in a parlour,",
        "Crammed just as they on earth were crammed,",
        "Some sipping punch--some sipping tea;",
        "But, as you by their faces see,",
        "All silent, and all--damned!",
        "\"Peter Bell\", by W. WORDSWORTH.",
        "",
        "OPHELIA.--What means this, my lord?",
        "HAMLET.--Marry, this is Miching Mallecho; it means mischief.",
        "SHAKESPEARE.",
        "",
        "MICHING MALLECHO.",
        "",
        "PROLOGUE.",
        "",
        "Peter Bells, one, two and three,",
        "O'er the wide world wandering be.--",
        "First, the antenatal Peter,",
        "Wrapped in weeds of the same metre,",
        "The so-long-predestined raiment",
        "Clothed in which to walk his way meant",
        "The second Peter; whose ambition",
        "Is to link the proposition,",
        "As the mean of two extremes--",
        "(This was learned from Aldric's themes)",
        "Shielding from the guilt of schism",
        "The orthodoxal syllogism;",
        "The First Peter--he who was",
        "Like the shadow in the glass",
        "Of the second, yet unripe,",
        "His substantial antitype.--",
        "",
        "Then came Peter Bell the Second,",
        "Who henceforward must be reckoned",
        "The body of a double soul,",
        "And that portion of the whole",
        "Without which the rest would seem",
        "Ends of a disjointed dream.--",
        "And the Third is he who has",
        "O'er the grave been forced to pass",
        "To the other side, which is,--",
        "Go and try else,--just like this.",
        "",
        "Peter Bell the First was Peter",
        "Smugger, milder, softer, neater,",
        "Like the soul before it is",
        "Born from THAT world into THIS.",
        "The next Peter Bell was he,",
        "Predevote, like you and me,",
        "To good or evil as may come;",
        "His was the severer doom,--",
        "For he was an evil Cotter,",
        "And a polygamic Potter.",
        "And the last is Peter Bell,",
        "Damned since our first parents fell,",
        "Damned eternally to Hell--",
        "Surely he deserves it well!",
        "",
        "PART 1.",
        "",
        "DEATH.",
        "",
        "And Peter Bell, when he had been",
        "With fresh-imported Hell-fire warmed,",
        "Grew serious--from his dress and mien",
        "'Twas very plainly to be seen",
        "Peter was quite reformed.",
        "",
        "His eyes turned up, his mouth turned down;",
        "His accent caught a nasal twang;",
        "He oiled his hair; there might be heard",
        "The grace of God in every word",
        "Which Peter said or sang.",
        "",
        "But Peter now grew old, and had",
        "An ill no doctor could unravel:",
        "His torments almost drove him mad;--",
        "Some said it was a fever bad--",
        "Some swore it was the gravel.",
        "",
        "His holy friends then came about,",
        "And with long preaching and persuasion",
        "Convinced the patient that, without",
        "The smallest shadow of a doubt,",
        "He was predestined to damnation.",
        "",
        "They said--'Thy name is Peter Bell;",
        "Thy skin is of a brimstone hue;",
        "Alive or dead--ay, sick or well--",
        "The one God made to rhyme with hell;",
        "The other, I think, rhymes with you.",
        "",
        "Then Peter set up such a yell!--",
        "The nurse, who with some water gruel",
        "Was climbing up the stairs, as well",
        "As her old legs could climb them--fell,",
        "And broke them both--the fall was cruel.",
        "",
        "The Parson from the casement lept",
        "Into the lake of Windermere--",
        "And many an eel--though no adept",
        "In God's right reason for it--kept",
        "Gnawing his kidneys half a year.",
        "",
        "And all the rest rushed through the door",
        "And tumbled over one another,",
        "And broke their skulls.--Upon the floor",
        "Meanwhile sat Peter Bell, and swore,",
        "And cursed his father and his mother;",
        "",
        "And raved of God, and sin, and death,",
        "Blaspheming like an infidel;",
        "And said, that with his clenched teeth",
        "He'd seize the earth from underneath,",
        "And drag it with him down to hell.",
        "",
        "As he was speaking came a spasm,",
        "And wrenched his gnashing teeth asunder;",
        "Like one who sees a strange phantasm",
        "He lay,--there was a silent chasm",
        "Between his upper jaw and under.",
        "",
        "And yellow death lay on his face;",
        "And a fixed smile that was not human",
        "Told, as I understand the case,",
        "That he was gone to the wrong place:--",
        "I heard all this from the old woman.",
        "",
        "Then there came down from Langdale Pike",
        "A cloud, with lightning, wind and hail;",
        "It swept over the mountains like",
        "An ocean,--and I heard it strike",
        "The woods and crags of Grasmere vale.",
        "",
        "And I saw the black storm come",
        "Nearer, minute after minute;",
        "Its thunder made the cataracts dumb;",
        "With hiss, and clash, and hollow hum,",
        "It neared as if the Devil was in it.",
        "",
        "The Devil WAS in it:--he had bought",
        "Peter for half-a-crown; and when",
        "The storm which bore him vanished, nought",
        "That in the house that storm had caught",
        "Was ever seen again.",
        "",
        "The gaping neighbours came next day--",
        "They found all vanished from the shore:",
        "The Bible, whence he used to pray,",
        "Half scorched under a hen-coop lay;",
        "Smashed glass--and nothing more!",
        "",
        "PART 2.",
        "",
        "THE DEVIL.",
        "",
        "The Devil, I safely can aver,",
        "Has neither hoof, nor tail, nor sting;",
        "Nor is he, as some sages swear,",
        "A spirit, neither here nor there,",
        "In nothing--yet in everything.",
        "",
        "He is--what we are; for sometimes",
        "The Devil is a gentleman;",
        "At others a bard bartering rhymes",
        "For sack; a statesman spinning crimes;",
        "A swindler, living as he can;",
        "",
        "A thief, who cometh in the night,",
        "With whole boots and net pantaloons,",
        "Like some one whom it were not right",
        "To mention;--or the luckless wight",
        "From whom he steals nine silver spoons.",
        "",
        "But in this case he did appear",
        "Like a slop-merchant from Wapping,",
        "And with smug face, and eye severe,",
        "On every side did perk and peer",
        "Till he saw Peter dead or napping.",
        "",
        "He had on an upper Benjamin",
        "(For he was of the driving schism)",
        "In the which he wrapped his skin",
        "From the storm he travelled in,",
        "For fear of rheumatism.",
        "",
        "He called the ghost out of the corse;--",
        "It was exceedingly like Peter,--",
        "Only its voice was hollow and hoarse--",
        "It had a queerish look of course--",
        "Its dress too was a little neater.",
        "",
        "The Devil knew not his name and lot;",
        "Peter knew not that he was Bell:",
        "Each had an upper stream of thought,",
        "Which made all seem as it was not;",
        "Fitting itself to all things well.",
        "",
        "Peter thought he had parents dear,",
        "Brothers, sisters, cousins, cronies,",
        "In the fens of Lincolnshire;",
        "He perhaps had found them there",
        "Had he gone and boldly shown his",
        "",
        "Solemn phiz in his own village;",
        "Where he thought oft when a boy",
        "He'd clomb the orchard walls to pillage",
        "The produce of his neighbour's tillage,",
        "With marvellous pride and joy.",
        "",
        "And the Devil thought he had,",
        "'Mid the misery and confusion",
        "Of an unjust war, just made",
        "A fortune by the gainful trade",
        "Of giving soldiers rations bad--",
        "The world is full of strange delusion--",
        "",
        "That he had a mansion planned",
        "In a square like Grosvenor Square,",
        "That he was aping fashion, and",
        "That he now came to Westmoreland",
        "To see what was romantic there.",
        "",
        "And all this, though quite ideal,--",
        "Ready at a breath to vanish,--",
        "Was a state not more unreal",
        "Than the peace he could not feel,",
        "Or the care he could not banish.",
        "",
        "After a little conversation,",
        "The Devil told Peter, if he chose,",
        "He'd bring him to the world of fashion",
        "By giving him a situation",
        "In his own service--and new clothes.",
        "",
        "And Peter bowed, quite pleased and proud,",
        "And after waiting some few days",
        "For a new livery--dirty yellow",
        "Turned up with black--the wretched fellow",
        "Was bowled to Hell in the Devil's chaise.",
        "",
        "PART 3.",
        "",
        "HELL.",
        "",
        "Hell is a city much like London--",
        "A populous and a smoky city;",
        "There are all sorts of people undone,",
        "And there is little or no fun done;",
        "Small justice shown, and still less pity.",
        "",
        "There is a Castles, and a Canning,",
        "A Cobbett, and a Castlereagh;",
        "All sorts of caitiff corpses planning",
        "All sorts of cozening for trepanning",
        "Corpses less corrupt than they.",
        "",
        "There is a , who has lost",
        "His wits, or sold them, none knows which;",
        "He walks about a double ghost,",
        "And though as thin as Fraud almost--",
        "Ever grows more grim and rich.",
        "",
        "There is a Chancery Court; a King;",
        "A manufacturing mob; a set",
        "Of thieves who by themselves are sent",
        "Similar thieves to represent;",
        "An army; and a public debt.",
        "",
        "Which last is a scheme of paper money,",
        "And means--being interpreted--",
        "'Bees, keep your wax--give us the honey,",
        "And we will plant, while skies are sunny,",
        "Flowers, which in winter serve instead.'",
        "",
        "There is a great talk of revolution--",
        "And a great chance of despotism--",
        "German soldiers--camps--confusion--",
        "Tumults--lotteries--rage--delusion--",
        "Gin--suicide--and methodism;",
        "",
        "Taxes too, on wine and bread,",
        "And meat, and beer, and tea, and cheese,",
        "From which those patriots pure are fed,",
        "Who gorge before they reel to bed",
        "The tenfold essence of all these.",
        "",
        "There are mincing women, mewing,",
        "(Like cats, who amant misere,)",
        "Of their own virtue, and pursuing",
        "Their gentler sisters to that ruin,",
        "Without which--what were chastity?(2)",
        "",
        "Lawyers--judges--old hobnobbers",
        "Are there--bailiffs--chancellors--",
        "Bishops--great and little robbers--",
        "Rhymesters--pamphleteers--stock-jobbers--",
        "Men of glory in the wars,--",
        "",
        "Things whose trade is, over ladies",
        "To lean, and flirt, and stare, and simper,",
        "Till all that is divine in woman",
        "Grows cruel, courteous, smooth, inhuman,",
        "Crucified 'twixt a smile and whimper.",
        "",
        "Thrusting, toiling, wailing, moiling,",
        "Frowning, preaching--such a riot!",
        "Each with never-ceasing labour,",
        "Whilst he thinks he cheats his neighbour,",
        "Cheating his own heart of quiet.",
        "",
        "And all these meet at levees;--",
        "Dinners convivial and political;--",
        "Suppers of epic poets;--teas,",
        "Where small talk dies in agonies;--",
        "Breakfasts professional and critical;",
        "",
        "Lunches and snacks so aldermanic",
        "That one would furnish forth ten dinners,",
        "Where reigns a Cretan-tongued panic,",
        "Lest news Russ, Dutch, or Alemannic",
        "Should make some losers, and some winners--",
        "",
        "At conversazioni--balls--",
        "Conventicles--and drawing-rooms--",
        "Courts of law--committees--calls",
        "Of a morning--clubs--book-stalls--",
        "Churches--masquerades--and tombs.",
        "",
        "And this is Hell--and in this smother",
        "All are damnable and damned;",
        "Each one damning, damns the other;",
        "They are damned by one another,",
        "By none other are they damned.",
        "",
        "'Tis a lie to say, 'God damns'! (1)",
        "Where was Heaven's Attorney General",
        "When they first gave out such flams?",
        "Let there be an end of shams,",
        "They are mines of poisonous mineral.",
        "",
        "Statesmen damn themselves to be",
        "Cursed; and lawyers damn their souls",
        "To the auction of a fee;",
        "Churchmen damn themselves to see",
        "God's sweet love in burning coals.",
        "",
        "The rich are damned, beyond all cure,",
        "To taunt, and starve, and trample on",
        "The weak and wretched; and the poor",
        "Damn their broken hearts to endure",
        "Stripe on stripe, with groan on groan.",
        "",
        "Sometimes the poor are damned indeed",
        "To take,--not means for being blessed,--",
        "But Cobbett's snuff, revenge; that weed",
        "From which the worms that it doth feed",
        "Squeeze less than they before possessed.",
        "",
        "And some few, like we know who,",
        "Damned--but God alone knows why--",
        "To believe their minds are given",
        "To make this ugly Hell a Heaven;",
        "In which faith they live and die.",
        "",
        "Thus, as in a town, plague-stricken,",
        "Each man be he sound or no",
        "Must indifferently sicken;",
        "As when day begins to thicken,",
        "None knows a pigeon from a crow,--",
        "",
        "So good and bad, sane and mad,",
        "The oppressor and the oppressed;",
        "Those who weep to see what others",
        "Smile to inflict upon their brothers;",
        "Lovers, haters, worst and best;",
        "",
        "All are damned--they breathe an air,",
        "Thick, infected, joy-dispelling:",
        "Each pursues what seems most fair,",
        "Mining like moles, through mind, and there",
        "Scoop palace-caverns vast, where Care",
        "In throned state is ever dwelling.",
        "",
        "PART 4.",
        "",
        "SIN.",
        "",
        "Lo. Peter in Hell's Grosvenor Square,",
        "A footman in the Devil's service!",
        "And the misjudging world would swear",
        "That every man in service there",
        "To virtue would prefer vice.",
        "",
        "But Peter, though now damned, was not",
        "What Peter was before damnation.",
        "Men oftentimes prepare a lot",
        "Which ere it finds them, is not what",
        "Suits with their genuine station.",
        "",
        "All things that Peter saw and felt",
        "Had a peculiar aspect to him;",
        "And when they came within the belt",
        "Of his own nature, seemed to melt,",
        "Like cloud to cloud, into him.",
        "",
        "And so the outward world uniting",
        "To that within him, he became",
        "Considerably uninviting",
        "To those who, meditation slighting,",
        "Were moulded in a different frame.",
        "",
        "And he scorned them, and they scorned him;",
        "And he scorned all they did; and they",
        "Did all that men of their own trim",
        "Are wont to do to please their whim,",
        "Drinking, lying, swearing, play.",
        "",
        "Such were his fellow-servants; thus",
        "His virtue, like our own, was built",
        "Too much on that indignant fuss",
        "Hypocrite Pride stirs up in us",
        "To bully one another's guilt.",
        "",
        "He had a mind which was somehow",
        "At once circumference and centre",
        "Of all he might or feel or know;",
        "Nothing went ever out, although",
        "Something did ever enter.",
        "",
        "He had as much imagination",
        "As a pint-pot;--he never could",
        "Fancy another situation,",
        "From which to dart his contemplation,",
        "Than that wherein he stood.",
        "",
        "Yet his was individual mind,",
        "And new created all he saw",
        "In a new manner, and refined",
        "Those new creations, and combined",
        "Them, by a master-spirit's law.",
        "",
        "Thus--though unimaginative--",
        "An apprehension clear, intense,",
        "Of his mind's work, had made alive",
        "The things it wrought on; I believe",
        "Wakening a sort of thought in sense.",
        "",
        "But from the first 'twas Peter's drift",
        "To be a kind of moral eunuch,",
        "He touched the hem of Nature's shift,",
        "Felt faint--and never dared uplift",
        "The closest, all-concealing tunic.",
        "",
        "She laughed the while, with an arch smile,",
        "And kissed him with a sister's kiss,",
        "And said--My best Diogenes,",
        "I love you well--but, if you please,",
        "Tempt not again my deepest bliss.",
        "",
        "''Tis you are cold--for I, not coy,",
        "Yield love for love, frank, warm, and true;",
        "And Burns, a Scottish peasant boy--",
        "His errors prove it--knew my joy",
        "More, learned friend, than you.",
        "",
        "'Boeca bacciata non perde ventura,",
        "Anzi rinnuova come fa la luna:--",
        "So thought Boccaccio, whose sweet words might cure a",
        "Male prude, like you, from what you now endure, a",
        "Low-tide in soul, like a stagnant laguna.",
        "",
        "Then Peter rubbed his eyes severe.",
        "And smoothed his spacious forehead down",
        "With his broad palm;--'twixt love and fear,",
        "He looked, as he no doubt felt, queer,",
        "And in his dream sate down.",
        "",
        "The Devil was no uncommon creature;",
        "A leaden-witted thief--just huddled",
        "Out of the dross and scum of nature;",
        "A toad-like lump of limb and feature,",
        "With mind, and heart, and fancy muddled.",
        "",
        "He was that heavy, dull, cold thing,",
        "The spirit of evil well may be:",
        "A drone too base to have a sting;",
        "Who gluts, and grimes his lazy wing,",
        "And calls lust, luxury.",
        "",
        "Now he was quite the kind of wight",
        "Round whom collect, at a fixed aera,",
        "Venison, turtle, hock, and claret,--",
        "Good cheer--and those who come to share it--",
        "And best East Indian madeira!",
        "",
        "It was his fancy to invite",
        "Men of science, wit, and learning,",
        "Who came to lend each other light;",
        "He proudly thought that his gold's might",
        "Had set those spirits burning.",
        "",
        "And men of learning, science, wit,",
        "Considered him as you and I",
        "Think of some rotten tree, and sit",
        "Lounging and dining under it,",
        "Exposed to the wide sky.",
        "",
        "And all the while with loose fat smile,",
        "The willing wretch sat winking there,",
        "Believing 'twas his power that made",
        "That jovial scene--and that all paid",
        "Homage to his unnoticed chair.",
        "",
        "Though to be sure this place was Hell;",
        "He was the Devil--and all they--",
        "What though the claret circled well,",
        "And wit, like ocean, rose and fell?--",
        "Were damned eternally.",
        "",
        "PART 5.",
        "",
        "GRACE.",
        "",
        "Among the guests who often stayed",
        "Till the Devil's petits-soupers,",
        "A man there came, fair as a maid,",
        "And Peter noted what he said,",
        "Standing behind his master's chair.",
        "",
        "He was a mighty poet--and",
        "A subtle-souled psychologist;",
        "All things he seemed to understand,",
        "Of old or new--of sea or land--",
        "But his own mind--which was a mist.",
        "",
        "This was a man who might have turned",
        "Hell into Heaven--and so in gladness",
        "A Heaven unto himself have earned;",
        "But he in shadows undiscerned",
        "Trusted.--and damned himself to madness.",
        "",
        "He spoke of poetry, and how",
        "'Divine it was--a light--a love--",
        "A spirit which like wind doth blow",
        "As it listeth, to and fro;",
        "A dew rained down from God above;",
        "",
        "'A power which comes and goes like dream,",
        "And which none can ever trace--",
        "Heaven's light on earth--Truth's brightest beam.'",
        "And when he ceased there lay the gleam",
        "Of those words upon his face.",
        "",
        "Now Peter, when he heard such talk,",
        "Would, heedless of a broken pate,",
        "Stand like a man asleep, or balk",
        "Some wishing guest of knife or fork,",
        "Or drop and break his master's plate.",
        "",
        "At night he oft would start and wake",
        "Like a lover, and began",
        "In a wild measure songs to make",
        "On moor, and glen, and rocky lake,",
        "And on the heart of man--",
        "",
        "And on the universal sky--",
        "And the wide earth's bosom green,--",
        "And the sweet, strange mystery",
        "Of what beyond these things may lie,",
        "And yet remain unseen.",
        "",
        "For in his thought he visited",
        "The spots in which, ere dead and damned,",
        "He his wayward life had led;",
        "Yet knew not whence the thoughts were fed",
        "Which thus his fancy crammed.",
        "",
        "And these obscure remembrances",
        "Stirred such harmony in Peter,",
        "That, whensoever he should please,",
        "He could speak of rocks and trees",
        "In poetic metre.",
        "",
        "For though it was without a sense",
        "Of memory, yet he remembered well",
        "Many a ditch and quick-set fence;",
        "Of lakes he had intelligence,",
        "He knew something of heath and fell.",
        "",
        "He had also dim recollections",
        "Of pedlars tramping on their rounds;",
        "Milk-pans and pails; and odd collections",
        "Of saws, and proverbs; and reflections",
        "Old parsons make in burying-grounds.",
        "",
        "But Peter's verse was clear, and came",
        "Announcing from the frozen hearth",
        "Of a cold age, that none might tame",
        "The soul of that diviner flame",
        "It augured to the Earth:",
        "",
        "Like gentle rains, on the dry plains,",
        "Making that green which late was gray,",
        "Or like the sudden moon, that stains",
        "Some gloomy chamber's window-panes",
        "With a broad light like day.",
        "",
        "For language was in Peter's hand",
        "Like clay while he was yet a potter;",
        "And he made songs for all the land,",
        "Sweet both to feel and understand,",
        "As pipkins late to mountain Cotter.",
        "",
        "And Mr. --, the bookseller,",
        "Gave twenty pounds for some;--then scorning",
        "A footman's yellow coat to wear,",
        "Peter, too proud of heart, I fear,",
        "Instantly gave the Devil warning.",
        "",
        "Whereat the Devil took offence,",
        "And swore in his soul a great oath then,",
        "'That for his damned impertinence",
        "He'd bring him to a proper sense",
        "Of what was due to gentlemen!'",
        "",
        "PART 6.",
        "",
        "DAMNATION.",
        "",
        "'O that mine enemy had written",
        "A book!'--cried Job:--a fearful curse,",
        "If to the Arab, as the Briton,",
        "'Twas galling to be critic-bitten:--",
        "The Devil to Peter wished no worse.",
        "",
        "When Peter's next new book found vent,",
        "The Devil to all the first Reviews",
        "A copy of it slyly sent,",
        "With five-pound note as compliment,",
        "And this short notice--'Pray abuse.'",
        "",
        "Then seriatim, month and quarter,",
        "Appeared such mad tirades.--One said--",
        "'Peter seduced Mrs. Foy's daughter,",
        "Then drowned the mother in Ullswater,",
        "The last thing as he went to bed.'",
        "",
        "Another--'Let him shave his head!",
        "Where's Dr. Willis?--Or is he joking?",
        "What does the rascal mean or hope,",
        "No longer imitating Pope,",
        "In that barbarian Shakespeare poking?'",
        "",
        "One more, 'Is incest not enough?",
        "And must there be adultery too?",
        "Grace after meat? Miscreant and Liar!",
        "Thief! Blackguard! Scoundrel! Fool! hell-fire",
        "Is twenty times too good for you.",
        "",
        "'By that last book of yours WE think",
        "You've double damned yourself to scorn;",
        "We warned you whilst yet on the brink",
        "You stood. From your black name will shrink",
        "The babe that is unborn.'",
        "",
        "All these Reviews the Devil made",
        "Up in a parcel, which he had",
        "Safely to Peter's house conveyed.",
        "For carriage, tenpence Peter paid--",
        "Untied them--read them--went half mad.",
        "",
        "'What!' cried he, 'this is my reward",
        "For nights of thought, and days, of toil?",
        "Do poets, but to be abhorred",
        "By men of whom they never heard,",
        "Consume their spirits' oil?",
        "",
        "'What have I done to them?--and who",
        "IS Mrs. Foy? 'Tis very cruel",
        "To speak of me and Betty so!",
        "Adultery! God defend me! Oh!",
        "I've half a mind to fight a duel.",
        "",
        "'Or,' cried he, a grave look collecting,",
        "'Is it my genius, like the moon,",
        "Sets those who stand her face inspecting,",
        "That face within their brain reflecting,",
        "Like a crazed bell-chime, out of tune?'",
        "",
        "For Peter did not know the town,",
        "But thought, as country readers do,",
        "For half a guinea or a crown,",
        "He bought oblivion or renown",
        "From God's own voice (1) in a review.",
        "",
        "All Peter did on this occasion",
        "Was, writing some sad stuff in prose.",
        "It is a dangerous invasion",
        "When poets criticize; their station",
        "Is to delight, not pose.",
        "",
        "The Devil then sent to Leipsic fair",
        "For Born's translation of Kant's book;",
        "A world of words, tail foremost, where",
        "Right--wrong--false--true--and foul--and fair",
        "As in a lottery-wheel are shook.",
        "",
        "Five thousand crammed octavo pages",
        "Of German psychologics,--he",
        "Who his furor verborum assuages",
        "Thereon, deserves just seven months' wages",
        "More than will e'er be due to me.",
        "",
        "I looked on them nine several days,",
        "And then I saw that they were bad;",
        "A friend, too, spoke in their dispraise,--",
        "He never read them;--with amaze",
        "I found Sir William Drummond had.",
        "",
        "When the book came, the Devil sent",
        "It to P. Verbovale (2), Esquire,",
        "With a brief note of compliment,",
        "By that night's Carlisle mail. It went,",
        "And set his soul on fire.",
        "",
        "Fire, which ex luce praebens fumum,",
        "Made him beyond the bottom see",
        "Of truth's clear well--when I and you, Ma'am,",
        "Go, as we shall do, subter humum,",
        "We may know more than he.",
        "",
        "Now Peter ran to seed in soul",
        "Into a walking paradox;",
        "For he was neither part nor whole,",
        "Nor good, nor bad--nor knave nor fool;",
        "--Among the woods and rocks",
        "",
        "Furious he rode, where late he ran,",
        "Lashing and spurring his tame hobby;",
        "Turned to a formal puritan,",
        "A solemn and unsexual man,--",
        "He half believed \"White Obi\".",
        "",
        "This steed in vision he would ride,",
        "High trotting over nine-inch bridges,",
        "With Flibbertigibbet, imp of pride,",
        "Mocking and mowing by his side--",
        "A mad-brained goblin for a guide--",
        "Over corn-fields, gates, and hedges.",
        "",
        "After these ghastly rides, he came",
        "Home to his heart, and found from thence",
        "Much stolen of its accustomed flame;",
        "His thoughts grew weak, drowsy, and lame",
        "Of their intelligence.",
        "",
        "To Peter's view, all seemed one hue;",
        "He was no Whig, he was no Tory;",
        "No Deist and no Christian he;--",
        "He got so subtle, that to be",
        "Nothing, was all his glory.",
        "",
        "One single point in his belief",
        "From his organization sprung,",
        "The heart-enrooted faith, the chief",
        "Ear in his doctrines' blighted sheaf,",
        "That 'Happiness is wrong';",
        "",
        "So thought Calvin and Dominic;",
        "So think their fierce successors, who",
        "Even now would neither stint nor stick",
        "Our flesh from off our bones to pick,",
        "If they might 'do their do.'",
        "",
        "His morals thus were undermined:--",
        "The old Peter--the hard, old Potter--",
        "Was born anew within his mind;",
        "He grew dull, harsh, sly, unrefined,",
        "As when he tramped beside the Otter. (1)",
        "",
        "In the death hues of agony",
        "Lambently flashing from a fish,",
        "Now Peter felt amused to see",
        "Shades like a rainbow's rise and flee,",
        "Mixed with a certain hungry wish(2).",
        "",
        "So in his Country's dying face",
        "He looked--and, lovely as she lay,",
        "Seeking in vain his last embrace,",
        "Wailing her own abandoned case,",
        "With hardened sneer he turned away:",
        "",
        "And coolly to his own soul said;--",
        "'Do you not think that we might make",
        "A poem on her when she's dead:--",
        "Or, no--a thought is in my head--",
        "Her shroud for a new sheet I'll take:",
        "",
        "'My wife wants one.--Let who will bury",
        "This mangled corpse! And I and you,",
        "My dearest Soul, will then make merry,",
        "As the Prince Regent did with Sherry,--'",
        "'Ay--and at last desert me too.'",
        "",
        "And so his Soul would not be gay,",
        "But moaned within him; like a fawn",
        "Moaning within a cave, it lay",
        "Wounded and wasting, day by day,",
        "Till all its life of life was gone.",
        "",
        "As troubled skies stain waters clear,",
        "The storm in Peter's heart and mind",
        "Now made his verses dark and queer:",
        "They were the ghosts of what they were,",
        "Shaking dim grave-clothes in the wind.",
        "",
        "For he now raved enormous folly,",
        "Of Baptisms, Sunday-schools, and Graves,",
        "'Twould make George Colman melancholy",
        "To have heard him, like a male Molly,",
        "Chanting those stupid staves.",
        "",
        "Yet the Reviews, who heaped abuse",
        "On Peter while he wrote for freedom,",
        "So soon as in his song they spy",
        "The folly which soothes tyranny,",
        "Praise him, for those who feed 'em.",
        "",
        "'He was a man, too great to scan;--",
        "A planet lost in truth's keen rays:--",
        "His virtue, awful and prodigious;--",
        "He was the most sublime, religious,",
        "Pure-minded Poet of these days.'",
        "",
        "As soon as he read that, cried Peter,",
        "'Eureka! I have found the way",
        "To make a better thing of metre",
        "Than e'er was made by living creature",
        "Up to this blessed day.'",
        "",
        "Then Peter wrote odes to the Devil;--",
        "In one of which he meekly said:",
        "'May Carnage and Slaughter,",
        "Thy niece and thy daughter,",
        "May Rapine and Famine,",
        "Thy gorge ever cramming,",
        "Glut thee with living and dead!",
        "",
        "'May Death and Damnation,",
        "And Consternation,",
        "Flit up from Hell with pure intent!",
        "Slash them at Manchester,",
        "Glasgow, Leeds, and Chester;",
        "Drench all with blood from Avon to Trent.",
        "",
        "'Let thy body-guard yeomen",
        "Hew down babes and women,",
        "And laugh with bold triumph till Heaven be rent!",
        "When Moloch in Jewry",
        "Munched children with fury,",
        "It was thou, Devil, dining with pure intent. (1)",
        "",
        "PART 7.",
        "",
        "DOUBLE DAMNATION.",
        "",
        "The Devil now knew his proper cue.--",
        "Soon as he read the ode, he drove",
        "To his friend Lord MacMurderchouse's,",
        "A man of interest in both houses,",
        "And said:--'For money or for love,",
        "",
        "'Pray find some cure or sinecure;",
        "To feed from the superfluous taxes",
        "A friend of ours--a poet--fewer",
        "Have fluttered tamer to the lure",
        "Than he.' His lordship stands and racks his",
        "",
        "Stupid brains, while one might count",
        "As many beads as he had boroughs,--",
        "At length replies; from his mean front,",
        "Like one who rubs out an account,",
        "Smoothing away the unmeaning furrows:",
        "",
        "'It happens fortunately, dear Sir,",
        "I can. I hope I need require",
        "No pledge from you, that he will stir",
        "In our affairs;--like Oliver.",
        "That he'll be worthy of his hire.'",
        "",
        "These words exchanged, the news sent off",
        "To Peter, home the Devil hied,--",
        "Took to his bed; he had no cough,",
        "No doctor,--meat and drink enough.--",
        "Yet that same night he died.",
        "",
        "The Devil's corpse was leaded down;",
        "His decent heirs enjoyed his pelf,",
        "Mourning-coaches, many a one,",
        "Followed his hearse along the town:--",
        "Where was the Devil himself?",
        "",
        "When Peter heard of his promotion,",
        "His eyes grew like two stars for bliss:",
        "There was a bow of sleek devotion",
        "Engendering in his back; each motion",
        "Seemed a Lord's shoe to kiss.",
        "",
        "He hired a house, bought plate, and made",
        "A genteel drive up to his door,",
        "With sifted gravel neatly laid,--",
        "As if defying all who said,",
        "Peter was ever poor.",
        "",
        "But a disease soon struck into",
        "The very life and soul of Peter--",
        "He walked about--slept--had the hue",
        "Of health upon his cheeks--and few",
        "Dug better--none a heartier eater.",
        "",
        "And yet a strange and horrid curse",
        "Clung upon Peter, night and day;",
        "Month after month the thing grew worse,",
        "And deadlier than in this my verse",
        "I can find strength to say.",
        "",
        "Peter was dull--he was at first",
        "Dull--oh, so dull--so very dull!",
        "Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed--",
        "Still with this dulness was he cursed--",
        "Dull--beyond all conception--dull.",
        "",
        "No one could read his books--no mortal,",
        "But a few natural friends, would hear him;",
        "The parson came not near his portal;",
        "His state was like that of the immortal",
        "Described by Swift--no man could bear him.",
        "",
        "His sister, wife, and children yawned,",
        "With a long, slow, and drear ennui,",
        "All human patience far beyond;",
        "Their hopes of Heaven each would have pawned,",
        "Anywhere else to be.",
        "",
        "But in his verse, and in his prose,",
        "The essence of his dulness was",
        "Concentred and compressed so close,",
        "'Twould have made Guatimozin doze",
        "On his red gridiron of brass.",
        "",
        "A printer's boy, folding those pages,",
        "Fell slumbrously upon one side;",
        "Like those famed Seven who slept three ages.",
        "To wakeful frenzy's vigil--rages,",
        "As opiates, were the same applied.",
        "",
        "Even the Reviewers who were hired",
        "To do the work of his reviewing,",
        "With adamantine nerves, grew tired;--",
        "Gaping and torpid they retired,",
        "To dream of what they should be doing.",
        "",
        "And worse and worse, the drowsy curse",
        "Yawned in him, till it grew a pest--",
        "A wide contagious atmosphere,",
        "Creeping like cold through all things near;",
        "A power to infect and to infest.",
        "",
        "His servant-maids and dogs grew dull;",
        "His kitten, late a sportive elf;",
        "The woods and lakes, so beautiful,",
        "Of dim stupidity were full.",
        "All grew dull as Peter's self.",
        "",
        "The earth under his feet--the springs,",
        "Which lived within it a quick life,",
        "The air, the winds of many wings,",
        "That fan it with new murmurings,",
        "Were dead to their harmonious strife.",
        "",
        "The birds and beasts within the wood,",
        "The insects, and each creeping thing,",
        "Were now a silent multitude;",
        "Love's work was left unwrought--no brood",
        "Near Peter's house took wing.",
        "",
        "And every neighbouring cottager",
        "Stupidly yawned upon the other:",
        "No jackass brayed; no little cur",
        "Cocked up his ears;--no man would stir",
        "To save a dying mother.",
        "",
        "Yet all from that charmed district went",
        "But some half-idiot and half-knave,",
        "Who rather than pay any rent,",
        "Would live with marvellous content,",
        "Over his father's grave.",
        "",
        "No bailiff dared within that space,",
        "For fear of the dull charm, to enter;",
        "A man would bear upon his face,",
        "For fifteen months in any case,",
        "The yawn of such a venture.",
        "",
        "Seven miles above--below--around--",
        "This pest of dulness holds its sway;",
        "A ghastly life without a sound;",
        "To Peter's soul the spell is bound--",
        "How should it ever pass away?"
      ],
      "title": "Peter Bell the Third.  by Miching Mallecho, Esq"
    }
  ],
  "success": true
}