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"author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron",
"line_count": "159",
"lines": [
" \"It is the voice of years, that are gone! they roll before me, with",
" all their deeds.\"",
"",
" Ossian.",
"",
"NEWSTEAD! fast-falling, once-resplendent dome!",
"Religion's shrine! repentant HENRY'S pride!",
"Of Warriors, Monks, and Dames the cloister'd tomb,",
" Whose pensive shades around thy ruins glide,",
"",
"Hail to thy pile! more honour'd in thy fall,",
" Than modern mansions, in their pillar'd state;",
"Proudly majestic frowns thy vaulted hall,",
" Scowling defiance on the blasts of fate.",
"",
"No mail-clad Serfs, obedient to their Lord,",
" In grim array, the crimson cross demand;",
"Or gay assemble round the festive board,",
" Their chief's retainers, an immortal band.",
"",
"Else might inspiring Fancy's magic eye",
" Retrace their progress, through the lapse of time;",
"Marking each ardent youth, ordain'd to die,",
" A votive pilgrim, in Judea's clime.",
"",
"But not from thee, dark pile! departs the Chief;",
" His feudal realm in other regions lay:",
"In thee the wounded conscience courts relief,",
" Retiring from the garish blaze of day.",
"",
"Yes! in thy gloomy cells and shades profound,",
" The monk abjur'd a world, he ne'er could view;",
"Or blood-stain'd Guilt repenting, solace found,",
" Or Innocence, from stern Oppression, flew.",
"",
"A Monarch bade thee from that wild arise,",
" Where Sherwood's outlaws, once, were wont to prowl;",
"And Superstition's crimes, of various dyes,",
" Sought shelter in the Priest's protecting cowl.",
"",
"Where, now, the grass exhales a murky dew,",
" The humid pall of life-extinguish'd clay,",
"In sainted fame, the sacred Fathers grew,",
" Nor raised their pious voices, but to pray.",
"",
"Where, now, the bats their wavering wings extend,",
" Soon as the gloaming spreads her waning shade",
"The choir did, oft, their mingling vespers blend,",
" Or matin orisons to Mary paid.",
"",
"Years roll on years; to ages, ages yield;",
" Abbots to Abbots, in a line, succeed:",
"Religion's charter, their protecting shield,",
" Till royal sacrilege their doom decreed.",
"",
"One holy HENRY rear'd the Gothic walls,",
" And bade the pious inmates rest in peace;",
"Another HENRY the kind gift recalls,",
" And bids devotion's hallow'd echoes cease.",
"",
"Vain is each threat, or supplicating prayer;",
" He drives them exiles from their blest abode,",
"To roam a dreary world, in deep despair--",
" No friend, no home, no refuge, but their God.",
"",
"Hark! how the hall, resounding to the strain,",
" Shakes with the martial music's novel din!",
"The heralds of a warrior's haughty reign,",
" High crested banners wave thy walls within.",
"",
"Of changing sentinels the distant hum,",
" The mirth of feasts, the clang of burnish'd arms,",
"The braying trumpet, and the hoarser drum,",
" Unite in concert with increas'd alarms.",
"",
"An abbey once, a regal fortress now,",
" Encircled by insulting rebel powers;",
"War's dread machines o'erhang thy threat'ning brow,",
" And dart destruction, in sulphureous showers.",
"",
"Ah! vain defence! the hostile traitor's siege,",
" Though oft repuls'd, by guile o'ercomes the brave;",
"His thronging foes oppress the faithful Liege,",
" Rebellion's reeking standards o'er him wave.",
"",
"Not unaveng'd the raging Baron yields;",
" The blood of traitors smears the purple plain;",
"Unconquer'd still, his falchion there he wields,",
" And days of glory, yet, for him remain.",
"",
"Still, in that hour, the warrior wish'd to strew",
" Self-gather'd laurels on a self-sought grave;",
"But Charles' protecting genius hither flew,",
" The monarch's friend, the monarch's hope, to save.",
"",
"Trembling, she snatch'd him from th' unequal strife,",
" In other fields the torrent to repel;",
"For nobler combats, here, reserv'd his life,",
" To lead the band, where godlike FALKLAND fell.",
"",
"From thee, poor pile! to lawless plunder given,",
" While dying groans their painful requiem sound,",
"Far different incense, now, ascends to Heaven,",
" Such victims wallow on the gory ground.",
"",
"There many a pale and ruthless Robber's corse,",
" Noisome and ghast, defiles thy sacred sod;",
"O'er mingling man, and horse commix'd with horse,",
" Corruption's heap, the savage spoilers trod.",
"",
"Graves, long with rank and sighing weeds o'erspread,",
" Ransack'd resign, perforce, their mortal mould:",
"From ruffian fangs, escape not e'en the dead,",
" Racked from repose, in search for buried gold.",
"",
"Hush'd is the harp, unstrung the warlike lyre,",
" The minstrel's palsied hand reclines in death;",
"No more he strikes the quivering chords with fire,",
" Or sings the glories of the martial wreath.",
"",
"At length the sated murderers, gorged with prey,",
" Retire: the clamour of the fight is o'er;",
"Silence again resumes her awful sway,",
" And sable Horror guards the massy door.",
"",
"Here, Desolation holds her dreary court:",
" What satellites declare her dismal reign!",
"Shrieking their dirge, ill-omen'd birds resort,",
" To flit their vigils, in the hoary fane.",
"",
"Soon a new Morn's restoring beams dispel",
" The clouds of Anarchy from Britain's skies;",
"The fierce Usurper seeks his native hell,",
" And Nature triumphs, as the Tyrant dies.",
"",
"With storms she welcomes his expiring groans;",
" Whirlwinds, responsive, greet his labouring breath;",
"Earth shudders, as her caves receive his bones,",
" Loathing the offering of so dark a death.",
"",
"The legal Ruler now resumes the helm,",
" He guides through gentle seas, the prow of state;",
"Hope cheers, with wonted smiles, the peaceful realm,",
" And heals the bleeding wounds of wearied Hate.",
"",
"The gloomy tenants, Newstead! of thy cells,",
" Howling, resign their violated nest;",
"Again, the Master on his tenure dwells,",
" Enjoy'd, from absence, with enraptured zest.",
"",
"Vassals, within thy hospitable pale,",
" Loudly carousing, bless their Lord's return;",
"Culture, again, adorns the gladdening vale,",
" And matrons, once lamenting, cease to mourn.",
"",
"A thousand songs, on tuneful echo, float,",
" Unwonted foliage mantles o'er the trees;",
"And, hark! the horns proclaim a mellow note,",
" The hunters' cry hangs lengthening on the breeze.",
"",
"Beneath their coursers' hoofs the valleys shake;",
" What fears! what anxious hopes! attend the chase!",
"The dying stag seeks refuge in the lake;",
" Exulting shouts announce the finish'd race.",
"",
"Ah happy days! too happy to endure!",
" Such simple sports our plain forefathers knew:",
"No splendid vices glitter'd to allure;",
" Their joys were many, as their cares were few.",
"",
"From these descending, Sons to Sires succeed;",
" Time steals along, and Death uprears his dart;",
"Another Chief impels the foaming steed,",
" Another Crowd pursue the panting hart.",
"",
"Newstead! what saddening change of scene is thine!",
" Thy yawning arch betokens slow decay;",
"The last and youngest of a noble line,",
" Now holds thy mouldering turrets in his sway.",
"",
"Deserted now, he scans thy gray worn towers;",
" Thy vaults, where dead of feudal ages sleep;",
"Thy cloisters, pervious to the wintry showers;",
" These, these he views, and views them but to weep.",
"",
"Yet are his tears no emblem of regret:",
" Cherish'd Affection only bids them flow;",
"Pride, Hope, and Love, forbid him to forget,",
" But warm his bosom, with impassion'd glow.",
"",
"Yet he prefers thee, to the gilded domes,",
" Or gewgaw grottos, of the vainly great;",
"Yet lingers 'mid thy damp and mossy tombs,",
" Nor breathes a murmur 'gainst the will of Fate.",
"",
"Haply thy sun, emerging, yet, may shine,",
" Thee to irradiate with meridian ray;",
"Hours, splendid as the past, may still be thine,",
" And bless thy future, as thy former day."
],
"title": "Elegy on Newstead Abbey"
},
{
"author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron",
"line_count": "1429",
"lines": [
"CANTO THE FIRST.",
"",
"The morning watch was come; the vessel lay",
"Her course, and gently made her liquid way;",
"The cloven billow flashed from off her prow",
"In furrows formed by that majestic plough;",
"The waters with their world were all before;",
"Behind, the South Sea's many an islet shore.",
"The quiet night, now dappling, 'gan to wane,",
"Dividing darkness from the dawning main;",
"The dolphins, not unconscious of the day,",
"Swam high, as eager of the coming ray;",
"The stars from broader beams began to creep,",
"And lift their shining eyelids from the deep;",
"The sail resumed its lately shadowed white,",
"And the wind fluttered with a freshening flight;",
"The purpling Ocean owns the coming Sun,",
"But ere he break--a deed is to be done.",
"",
"The gallant Chief within his cabin slept,",
"Secure in those by whom the watch was kept:",
"His dreams were of Old England's welcome shore,",
"Of toils rewarded, and of dangers o'er;",
"His name was added to the glorious roll",
"Of those who search the storm-surrounded Pole.",
"The worst was over, and the rest seemed sure,",
"And why should not his slumber be secure?",
"Alas! his deck was trod by unwilling feet,",
"And wilder hands would hold the vessel's sheet;",
"Young hearts, which languished for some sunny isle,",
"Where summer years and summer women smile;",
"Men without country, who, too long estranged,",
"Had found no native home, or found it changed,",
"And, half uncivilised, preferred the cave",
"Of some soft savage to the uncertain wave--",
"The gushing fruits that nature gave unfilled;",
"The wood without a path--but where they willed;",
"The field o'er which promiscuous Plenty poured",
"Her horn; the equal land without a lord;",
"The wish--which ages have not yet subdued",
"In man--to have no master save his mood;",
"The earth, whose mine was on its face, unsold,",
"The glowing sun and produce all its gold;",
"The Freedom which can call each grot a home;",
"The general garden, where all steps may roam,",
"Where Nature owns a nation as her child,",
"Exulting in the enjoyment of the wild;",
"Their shells, their fruits, the only wealth they know,",
"Their unexploring navy, the canoe;",
"Their sport, the dashing breakers and the chase;",
"Their strangest sight, an European face:--",
"Such was the country which these strangers yearned",
"To see again--a sight they dearly earned.",
"",
"Awake, bold Bligh! the foe is at the gate!",
"Awake! awake!----Alas! it is too late!",
"Fiercely beside thy cot the mutineer",
"Stands, and proclaims the reign of rage and fear.",
"Thy limbs are bound, the bayonet at thy breast;",
"The hands, which trembled at thy voice, arrest;",
"Dragged o'er the deck, no more at thy command",
"The obedient helm shall veer, the sail expand;",
"That savage Spirit, which would lull by wrath",
"Its desperate escape from Duty's path,",
"Glares round thee, in the scarce believing eyes",
"Of those who fear the Chief they sacrifice:",
"For ne'er can Man his conscience all assuage,",
"Unless he drain the wine of Passion--Rage.",
"",
"In vain, not silenced by the eye of Death,",
"Thou call'st the loyal with thy menaced breath:--",
"They come not; they are few, and, overawed,",
"Must acquiesce, while sterner hearts applaud.",
"In vain thou dost demand the cause: a curse",
"Is all the answer, with the threat of worse.",
"Full in thine eyes is waved the glittering blade,",
"Close to thy throat the pointed bayonet laid.",
"The levelled muskets circle round thy breast",
"In hands as steeled to do the deadly rest.",
"Thou dar'st them to their worst, exclaiming--\"Fire!\"",
"But they who pitied not could yet admire;",
"Some lurking remnant of their former awe",
"Restrained them longer than their broken law;",
"They would not dip their souls at once in blood,",
"But left thee to the mercies of the flood.",
"",
"\"Hoist out the boat!\" was now the leader's cry;",
"And who dare answer \"No!\" to Mutiny,",
"In the first dawning of the drunken hour,",
"The Saturnalia of unhoped-for power?",
"The boat is lowered with all the haste of hate,",
"With its slight plank between thee and thy fate;",
"Her only cargo such a scant supply",
"As promises the death their hands deny;",
"And just enough of water and of bread",
"To keep, some days, the dying from the dead:",
"Some cordage, canvass, sails, and lines, and twine,",
"But treasures all to hermits of the brine,",
"Were added after, to the earnest prayer",
"Of those who saw no hope, save sea and air;",
"And last, that trembling vassal of the Pole--",
"The feeling compass--Navigation's soul.",
"",
"And now the self-elected Chief finds time",
"To stun the first sensation of his crime,",
"And raise it in his followers--\"Ho! the bowl!\"",
"Lest passion should return to reason's shoal.",
"\"Brandy for heroes!\" Burke could once exclaim--",
"No doubt a liquid path to Epic fame;",
"And such the new-born heroes found it here,",
"And drained the draught with an applauding cheer.",
"\"Huzza! for Otaheite!\" was the cry.",
"How strange such shouts from sons of Mutiny!",
"The gentle island, and the genial soil,",
"The friendly hearts, the feasts without a toil,",
"The courteous manners but from nature caught,",
"The wealth unhoarded, and the love unbought;",
"Could these have charms for rudest sea-boys, driven",
"Before the mast by every wind of heaven?",
"And now, even now prepared with others' woes",
"To earn mild Virtue's vain desire, repose?",
"Alas! such is our nature! all but aim",
"At the same end by pathways not the same;",
"Our means--our birth--our nation, and our name,",
"Our fortune--temper--even our outward frame,",
"Are far more potent o'er our yielding clay",
"Than aught we know beyond our little day.",
"Yet still there whispers the small voice within,",
"Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din:",
"Whatever creed be taught, or land be trod,",
"Man's conscience is the Oracle of God.",
"",
"The launch is crowded with the faithful few",
"Who wait their Chief, a melancholy crew:",
"But some remained reluctant on the deck",
"Of that proud vessel--now a moral wreck--",
"And viewed their Captain's fate with piteous eyes;",
"While others scoffed his augured miseries,",
"Sneered at the prospect of his pigmy sail,",
"And the slight bark so laden and so frail.",
"The tender nautilus, who steers his prow,",
"The sea-born sailor of his shell canoe,",
"The ocean Mab, the fairy of the sea,",
"Seems far less fragile, and, alas! more free.",
"He, when the lightning-winged Tornados sweep",
"The surge, is safe--his port is in the deep--",
"And triumphs o'er the armadas of Mankind,",
"Which shake the World, yet crumble in the wind.",
"",
"When all was now prepared, the vessel clear",
"Which hailed her master in the mutineer,",
"A seaman, less obdurate than his mates,",
"Showed the vain pity which but irritates;",
"Watched his late Chieftain with exploring eye,",
"And told, in signs, repentant sympathy;",
"Held the moist shaddock to his parched mouth,",
"Which felt Exhaustion's deep and bitter drouth.",
"But soon observed, this guardian was withdrawn,",
"Nor further Mercy clouds Rebellion's dawn.",
"Then forward stepped the bold and froward boy",
"His Chief had cherished only to destroy,",
"And, pointing to the helpless prow beneath,",
"Exclaimed, \"Depart at once! delay is death!\"",
"Yet then, even then, his feelings ceased not all:",
"In that last moment could a word recall",
"Remorse for the black deed as yet half done,",
"And what he hid from many showed to one:",
"When Bligh in stern reproach demanded where",
"Was now his grateful sense of former care?",
"Where all his hopes to see his name aspire,",
"And blazon Britain's thousand glories higher?",
"His feverish lips thus broke their gloomy spell,",
"\"Tis that! 'tis that! I am in hell! in hell!\"",
"No more he said; but urging to the bark",
"His Chief, commits him to his fragile ark;",
"These the sole accents from his tongue that fell,",
"But volumes lurked below his fierce farewell.",
"",
"The arctic Sun rose broad above the wave;",
"The breeze now sank, now whispered from his cave;",
"As on the Æolian harp, his fitful wings",
"Now swelled, now fluttered o'er his Ocean strings.",
"With slow, despairing oar, the abandoned skiff",
"Ploughs its drear progress to the scarce seen cliff,",
"Which lifts its peak a cloud above the main:",
"_That_ boat and ship shall never meet again!",
"",
"But 'tis not mine to tell their tale of grief,",
"Their constant peril, and their scant relief;",
"Their days of danger, and their nights of pain;",
"Their manly courage even when deemed in vain;",
"The sapping famine, rendering scarce a son",
"Known to his mother in the skeleton;",
"The ills that lessened still their little store,",
"And starved even Hunger till he wrung no more;",
"The varying frowns and favours of the deep,",
"That now almost ingulfs, then leaves to creep",
"With crazy oar and shattered strength along",
"The tide that yields reluctant to the strong;",
"The incessant fever of that arid thirst",
"Which welcomes, as a well, the clouds that burst",
"Above their naked bones, and feels delight",
"In the cold drenching of the stormy night,",
"And from the outspread canvass gladly wrings",
"A drop to moisten Life's all-gasping springs;",
"The savage foe escaped, to seek again",
"More hospitable shelter from the main;",
"The ghastly Spectres which were doomed at last",
"To tell as true a tale of dangers past,",
"As ever the dark annals of the deep",
"Disclosed for man to dread or woman weep.",
"",
"We leave them to their fate, but not unknown",
"Nor unredressed. Revenge may have her own:",
"Roused Discipline aloud proclaims their cause,",
"And injured Navies urge their broken laws.",
"Pursue we on his track the mutineer,",
"Whom distant vengeance had not taught to fear.",
"Wide o'er the wave--away! away! away!",
"Once more his eyes shall hail the welcome bay;",
"Once more the happy shores without a law",
"Receive the outlaws whom they lately saw;",
"Nature, and Nature's goddess--Woman--woos",
"To lands where, save their conscience, none accuse;",
"Where all partake the earth without dispute,",
"And bread itself is gathered as a fruit;",
"Where none contest the fields, the woods, the streams:--",
"The goldless Age, where Gold disturbs no dreams,",
"Inhabits or inhabited the shore,",
"Till Europe taught them better than before;",
"Bestowed her customs, and amended theirs,",
"But left her vices also to their heirs.",
"Away with this! behold them as they were,",
"Do good with Nature, or with Nature err.",
"\"Huzza! for Otaheite!\" was the cry,",
"As stately swept the gallant vessel by.",
"The breeze springs up; the lately flapping sail",
"Extends its arch before the growing gale;",
"In swifter ripples stream aside the seas,",
"Which her bold bow flings off with dashing ease.",
"Thus Argo ploughed the Euxine's virgin foam,",
"But those she wafted still looked back to home;",
"These spurn their country with their rebel bark,",
"And fly her as the raven fled the Ark;",
"And yet they seek to nestle with the dove,",
"And tame their fiery spirits down to Love.",
"",
"CANTO THE SECOND.",
"",
"How pleasant were the songs of Toobonai,",
"When Summer's Sun went down the coral bay!",
"Come, let us to the islet's softest shade,",
"And hear the warbling birds! the damsels said:",
"The wood-dove from the forest depth shall coo,",
"Like voices of the Gods from Bolotoo;",
"We'll cull the flowers that grow above the dead,",
"For these most bloom where rests the warrior's head;",
"And we will sit in Twilight's face, and see",
"The sweet Moon glancing through the Tooa tree,",
"The lofty accents of whose sighing bough",
"Shall sadly please us as we lean below;",
"Or climb the steep, and view the surf in vain",
"Wrestle with rocky giants o'er the main,",
"Which spurn in columns back the baffled spray.",
"How beautiful are these! how happy they,",
"Who, from the toil and tumult of their lives,",
"Steal to look down where nought but Ocean strives!",
"Even He too loves at times the blue lagoon,",
"And smooths his ruffled mane beneath the Moon.",
"",
"Yes--from the sepulchre we'll gather flowers,",
"Then feast like spirits in their promised bowers,",
"Then plunge and revel in the rolling surf,",
"Then lay our limbs along the tender turf,",
"And, wet and shining from the sportive toil,",
"Anoint our bodies with the fragrant oil,",
"And plait our garlands gathered from the grave,",
"And wear the wreaths that sprung from out the brave.",
"But lo! night comes, the Mooa woos us back,",
"The sound of mats are heard along our track;",
"Anon the torchlight dance shall fling its sheen",
"In flashing mazes o'er the Marly's green;",
"And we too will be there; we too recall",
"The memory bright with many a festival,",
"Ere Fiji blew the shell of war, when foes",
"For the first time were wafted in canoes.",
"Alas! for them the flower of manhood bleeds;",
"Alas! for them our fields are rank with weeds:",
"Forgotten is the rapture, or unknown,",
"Of wandering with the Moon and Love alone.",
"But be it so:--_they_ taught us how to wield",
"The club, and rain our arrows o'er the field:",
"Now let them reap the harvest of their art!",
"But feast to-night! to-morrow we depart.",
"Strike up the dance! the Cava bowl fill high!",
"Drain every drop!--to-morrow we may die.",
"In summer garments be our limbs arrayed;",
"Around our waists the Tappa's white displayed;",
"Thick wreaths shall form our coronal, like Spring's,",
"And round our necks shall glance the Hooni strings;",
"So shall their brighter hues contrast the glow",
"Of the dusk bosoms that beat high below.",
"",
"But now the dance is o'er--yet stay awhile;",
"Ah, pause! nor yet put out the social smile.",
"To-morrow for the Mooa we depart,",
"But not to-night--to-night is for the heart.",
"Again bestow the wreaths we gently woo,",
"Ye young Enchantresses of gay Licoo!",
"How lovely are your forms! how every sense",
"Bows to your beauties, softened, but intense,",
"Like to the flowers on Mataloco's steep,",
"Which fling their fragrance far athwart the deep!--",
"We too will see Licoo; but--oh! my heart!--",
"What do I say?--to-morrow we depart!",
"",
"Thus rose a song--the harmony of times",
"Before the winds blew Europe o'er these climes.",
"True, they had vices--such are Nature's growth--",
"But only the barbarian's--we have both;",
"The sordor of civilisation, mixed",
"With all the savage which Man's fall hath fixed.",
"Who hath not seen Dissimulation's reign,",
"The prayers of Abel linked to deeds of Cain?",
"Who such would see may from his lattice view",
"The Old World more degraded than the New,--",
"Now _new_ no more, save where Columbia rears",
"Twin giants, born by Freedom to her spheres,",
"Where Chimborazo, over air,--earth,--wave,--",
"Glares with his Titan eye, and sees no slave.",
"",
"Such was this ditty of Tradition's days,",
"Which to the dead a lingering fame conveys",
"In song, where Fame as yet hath left no sign",
"Beyond the sound whose charm is half divine;",
"Which leaves no record to the sceptic eye,",
"But yields young History all to Harmony;",
"A boy Achilles, with the Centaur's lyre",
"In hand, to teach him to surpass his sire.",
"For one long-cherished ballad's simple stave,",
"Rung from the rock, or mingled with the wave,",
"Or from the bubbling streamlet's grassy side,",
"Or gathering mountain echoes as they glide,",
"Hath greater power o'er each true heart and ear,",
"Than all the columns Conquest's minions rear;",
"Invites, when Hieroglyphics are a theme",
"For sages' labours, or the student's dream;",
"Attracts, when History's volumes are a toil,--",
"The first, the freshest bud of Feeling's soil.",
"Such was this rude rhyme--rhyme is of the rude--",
"But such inspired the Norseman's solitude,",
"Who came and conquered; such, wherever rise",
"Lands which no foes destroy or civilise,",
"Exist: and what can our accomplished art",
"Of verse do more than reach the awakened heart?",
"",
"And sweetly now those untaught melodies",
"Broke the luxurious silence of the skies,",
"The sweet siesta of a summer day,",
"The tropic afternoon of Toobonai,",
"When every flower was bloom, and air was balm,",
"And the first breath began to stir the palm,",
"The first yet voiceless wind to urge the wave",
"All gently to refresh the thirsty cave,",
"Where sat the Songstress with the stranger boy,",
"Who taught her Passion's desolating joy,",
"Too powerful over every heart, but most",
"O'er those who know not how it may be lost;",
"O'er those who, burning in the new-born fire,",
"Like martyrs revel in their funeral pyre,",
"With such devotion to their ecstacy,",
"That Life knows no such rapture as to die:",
"And die they do; for earthly life has nought",
"Matched with that burst of Nature, even in thought;",
"And all our dreams of better life above",
"But close in one eternal gush of Love.",
"",
"There sat the gentle savage of the wild,",
"In growth a woman, though in years a child,",
"As childhood dates within our colder clime,",
"Where nought is ripened rapidly save crime;",
"The infant of an infant world, as pure",
"From Nature--lovely, warm, and premature;",
"Dusky like night, but night with all her stars;",
"Or cavern sparkling with its native spars;",
"With eyes that were a language and a spell,",
"A form like Aphrodite's in her shell,",
"With all her loves around her on the deep,",
"Voluptuous as the first approach of sleep;",
"Yet full of life--for through her tropic cheek",
"The blush would make its way, and all but speak;",
"The sun-born blood suffused her neck, and threw",
"O'er her clear nut-brown skin a lucid hue,",
"Like coral reddening through the darkened wave,",
"Which draws the diver to the crimson cave.",
"Such was this daughter of the southern seas,",
"Herself a billow in her energies,",
"To bear the bark of others' happiness,",
"Nor feel a sorrow till their joy grew less:",
"Her wild and warm yet faithful bosom knew",
"No joy like what it gave; her hopes ne'er drew",
"Aught from Experience, that chill touchstone, whose",
"Sad proof reduces all things from their hues:",
"She feared no ill, because she knew it not,",
"Or what she knew was soon--too soon--forgot:",
"Her smiles and tears had passed, as light winds pass",
"O'er lakes to ruffle, not destroy, their glass,",
"Whose depths unsearched, and fountains from the hill,",
"Restore their surface, in itself so still,",
"Until the Earthquake tear the Naiad's cave,",
"Root up the spring, and trample on the wave,",
"And crush the living waters to a mass,",
"The amphibious desert of the dank morass!",
"And must their fate be hers? The eternal change",
"But grasps Humanity with quicker range;",
"And they who fall but fall as worlds will fall,",
"To rise, if just, a Spirit o'er them all.",
"",
"And who is he? the blue-eyed northern child",
"Of isles more known to man, but scarce less wild;",
"The fair-haired offspring of the Hebrides,",
"Where roars the Pentland with its whirling seas;",
"Rocked in his cradle by the roaring wind,",
"The tempest-born in body and in mind,",
"His young eyes opening on the ocean-foam,",
"Had from that moment deemed the deep his home,",
"The giant comrade of his pensive moods,",
"The sharer of his craggy solitudes,",
"The only Mentor of his youth, where'er",
"His bark was borne; the sport of wave and air;",
"A careless thing, who placed his choice in chance,",
"Nursed by the legends of his land's romance;",
"Eager to hope, but not less firm to bear,",
"Acquainted with all feelings save despair.",
"Placed in the Arab's clime he would have been",
"As bold a rover as the sands have seen,",
"And braved their thirst with as enduring lip",
"As Ishmael, wafted on his Desert-Ship;",
"Fixed upon Chili's shore, a proud cacique:",
"On Hellas' mountains, a rebellious Greek;",
"Born in a tent, perhaps a Tamerlane;",
"Bred to a throne, perhaps unfit to reign.",
"For the same soul that rends its path to sway,",
"If reared to such, can find no further prey",
"Beyond itself, and must retrace its way,",
"Plunging for pleasure into pain: the same",
"Spirit which made a Nero, Rome's worst shame,",
"A humbler state and discipline of heart,",
"Had formed his glorious namesake's counterpart;",
"But grant his vices, grant them all his own,",
"How small their theatre without a throne!",
"",
"Thou smilest:--these comparisons seem high",
"To those who scan all things with dazzled eye;",
"Linked with the unknown name of one whose doom",
"Has nought to do with glory or with Rome,",
"With Chili, Hellas, or with Araby;--",
"Thou smilest?--Smile; 'tis better thus than sigh;",
"Yet such he might have been; he was a man,",
"A soaring spirit, ever in the van,",
"A patriot hero or despotic chief,",
"To form a nation's glory or its grief,",
"Born under auspices which make us more",
"Or less than we delight to ponder o'er.",
"But these are visions; say, what was he here?",
"A blooming boy, a truant mutineer.",
"The fair-haired Torquil, free as Ocean's spray,",
"The husband of the bride of Toobonai.",
"",
"By Neuha's side he sate, and watched the waters,--",
"Neuha, the sun-flower of the island daughters,",
"Highborn, (a birth at which the herald smiles,",
"Without a scutcheon for these secret isles,)",
"Of a long race, the valiant and the free,",
"The naked knights of savage chivalry,",
"Whose grassy cairns ascend along the shore;",
"And thine--I've seen--Achilles! do no more.",
"She, when the thunder-bearing strangers came,",
"In vast canoes, begirt with bolts of flame,",
"Topped with tall trees, which, loftier than the palm,",
"Seemed rooted in the deep amidst its calm:",
"But when the winds awakened, shot forth wings",
"Broad as the cloud along the horizon flings,",
"And swayed the waves, like cities of the sea,",
"Making the very billows look less free;--",
"She, with her paddling oar and dancing prow,",
"Shot through the surf, like reindeer through the snow,",
"Swift-gliding o'er the breaker's whitening edge,",
"Light as a Nereid in her ocean sledge,",
"And gazed and wondered at the giant hulk,",
"Which heaved from wave to wave its trampling bulk.",
"The anchor dropped; it lay along the deep,",
"Like a huge lion in the sun asleep,",
"While round it swarmed the Proas' flitting chain,",
"Like summer bees that hum around his mane.",
"",
"The white man landed!--need the rest be told?",
"The New World stretched its dusk hand to the Old;",
"Each was to each a marvel, and the tie",
"Of wonder warmed to better sympathy.",
"Kind was the welcome of the sun-born sires,",
"And kinder still their daughters' gentler fires.",
"Their union grew: the children of the storm",
"Found beauty linked with many a dusky form;",
"While these in turn admired the paler glow,",
"Which seemed so white in climes that knew no snow.",
"The chace, the race, the liberty to roam,",
"The soil where every cottage showed a home;",
"The sea-spread net, the lightly launched canoe,",
"Which stemmed the studded archipelago,",
"O'er whose blue bosom rose the starry isles;",
"The healthy slumber, earned by sportive toils;",
"The palm, the loftiest Dryad of the woods,",
"Within whose bosom infant Bacchus broods,",
"While eagles scarce build higher than the crest",
"Which shadows o'er the vineyard in her breast;",
"The Cava feast, the Yam, the Cocoa's root,",
"Which bears at once the cup, and milk, and fruit;",
"The Bread-tree, which, without the ploughshare, yields",
"The unreaped harvest of unfurrowed fields,",
"And bakes its unadulterated loaves",
"Without a furnace in unpurchased groves,",
"And flings off famine from its fertile breast,",
"A priceless market for the gathering guest;--",
"These, with the luxuries of seas and woods,",
"The airy joys of social solitudes,",
"Tamed each rude wanderer to the sympathies",
"Of those who were more happy, if less wise,",
"Did more than Europe's discipline had done,",
"And civilised Civilisation's son!",
"",
"Of these, and there was many a willing pair,",
"Neuha and Torquil were not the least fair:",
"Both children of the isles, though distant far;",
"Both born beneath a sea-presiding star;",
"Both nourished amidst Nature's native scenes,",
"Loved to the last, whatever intervenes",
"Between us and our Childhood's sympathy,",
"Which still reverts to what first caught the eye.",
"He who first met the Highlands' swelling blue",
"Will love each peak that shows a kindred hue,",
"Hail in each crag a friend's familiar face,",
"And clasp the mountain in his Mind's embrace.",
"Long have I roamed through lands which are not mine,",
"Adored the Alp, and loved the Apennine,",
"Revered Parnassus, and beheld the steep",
"Jove's Ida and Olympus crown the deep:",
"But 'twas not all long ages' lore, nor all",
"_Their_ nature held me in their thrilling thrall;",
"The infant rapture still survived the boy,",
"And Loch-na-gar with Ida looked o'er Troy,",
"Mixed Celtic memories with the Phrygian mount,",
"And Highland linns with Castalie's clear fount.",
"Forgive me, Homer's universal shade!",
"Forgive me, Phœbus! that my fancy strayed;",
"The North and Nature taught me to adore",
"Your scenes sublime, from those beloved before.",
"",
"The love which maketh all things fond and fair,",
"The youth which makes one rainbow of the air,",
"The dangers past, that make even Man enjoy",
"The pause in which he ceases to destroy,",
"The mutual beauty, which the sternest feel",
"Strike to their hearts like lightning to the steel,",
"United the half savage and the whole,",
"The maid and boy, in one absorbing soul.",
"No more the thundering memory of the fight",
"Wrapped his weaned bosom in its dark delight;",
"No more the irksome restlessness of Rest",
"Disturbed him like the eagle in her nest,",
"Whose whetted beak and far-pervading eye",
"Darts for a victim over all the sky:",
"His heart was tamed to that voluptuous state,",
"At once Elysian and effeminate,",
"Which leaves no laurels o'er the Hero's urn;--",
"These wither when for aught save blood they burn;",
"Yet when their ashes in their nook are laid,",
"Doth not the myrtle leave as sweet a shade?",
"Had Cæsar known but Cleopatra's kiss,",
"Rome had been free, the world had not been his.",
"And what have Cæsar's deeds and Cæsar's fame",
"Done for the earth? We feel them in our shame.",
"The gory sanction of his Glory stains",
"The rust which tyrants cherish on our chains.",
"Though Glory--Nature--Reason--Freedom, bid",
"Roused millions do what single Brutus did--",
"Sweep these mere mock-birds of the Despot's song",
"From the tall bough where they have perched so long,--",
"Still are we hawked at by such mousing owls,",
"And take for falcons those ignoble fowls,",
"When but a word of freedom would dispel",
"These bugbears, as their terrors show too well.",
"",
"Rapt in the fond forgetfulness of life,",
"Neuha, the South Sea girl, was all a wife,",
"With no distracting world to call her off",
"From Love; with no Society to scoff",
"At the new transient flame; no babbling crowd",
"Of coxcombry in admiration loud,",
"Or with adulterous whisper to alloy",
"Her duty, and her glory, and her joy:",
"With faith and feelings naked as her form,",
"She stood as stands a rainbow in a storm,",
"Changing its hues with bright variety,",
"But still expanding lovelier o'er the sky,",
"Howe'er its arch may swell, its colours move,",
"The cloud-compelling harbinger of Love.",
"",
"Here, in this grotto of the wave-worn shore,",
"They passed the Tropic's red meridian o'er;",
"Nor long the hours--they never paused o'er time,",
"Unbroken by the clock's funereal chime,",
"Which deals the daily pittance of our span,",
"And points and mocks with iron laugh at man.",
"What deemed they of the future or the past?",
"The present, like a tyrant, held them fast:",
"Their hour-glass was the sea-sand, and the tide,",
"Like her smooth billow, saw their moments glide",
"Their clock the Sun, in his unbounded tower",
"They reckoned not, whose day was but an hour;",
"The nightingale, their only vesper-bell,",
"Sung sweetly to the rose the day's farewell;",
"The broad Sun set, but not with lingering sweep,",
"As in the North he mellows o'er the deep;",
"But fiery, full, and fierce, as if he left",
"The World for ever, earth of light bereft,",
"Plunged with red forehead down along the wave,",
"As dives a hero headlong to his grave.",
"Then rose they, looking first along the skies,",
"And then for light into each other's eyes,",
"Wondering that Summer showed so brief a sun,",
"And asking if indeed the day were done.",
"",
"And let not this seem strange: the devotee",
"Lives not in earth, but in his ecstasy;",
"Around him days and worlds are heedless driven,",
"His Soul is gone before his dust to Heaven.",
"Is Love less potent? No--his path is trod,",
"Alike uplifted gloriously to God;",
"Or linked to all we know of Heaven below,",
"The other better self, whose joy or woe",
"Is more than ours; the all-absorbing flame",
"Which, kindled by another, grows the same,",
"Wrapt in one blaze; the pure, yet funeral pile,",
"Where gentle hearts, like Bramins, sit and smile.",
"How often we forget all time, when lone,",
"Admiring Nature's universal throne,",
"Her woods--her wilds--her waters--the intense",
"Reply of _hers_ to our intelligence!",
"Live not the Stars and Mountains? Are the Waves",
"Without a spirit? Are the dropping caves",
"Without a feeling in their silent tears?",
"No, no;--they woo and clasp us to their spheres,",
"Dissolve this clog and clod of clay before",
"Its hour, and merge our soul in the great shore.",
"Strip off this fond and false identity!--",
"Who thinks of self when gazing on the sky?",
"And who, though gazing lower, ever thought,",
"In the young moments ere the heart is taught",
"Time's lesson, of Man's baseness or his own?",
"All Nature is his realm, and Love his throne.",
"",
"Neuha arose, and Torquil: Twilight's hour",
"Came sad and softly to their rocky bower,",
"Which, kindling by degrees its dewy spars,",
"Echoed their dim light to the mustering stars.",
"Slowly the pair, partaking Nature's calm,",
"Sought out their cottage, built beneath the palm;",
"Now smiling and now silent, as the scene;",
"Lovely as Love--the Spirit!--when serene.",
"The Ocean scarce spoke louder with his swell,",
"Than breathes his mimic murmurer in the shell,",
"As, far divided from his parent deep,",
"The sea-born infant cries, and will not sleep,",
"Raising his little plaint in vain, to rave",
"For the broad bosom of his nursing wave:",
"The woods drooped darkly, as inclined to rest,",
"The tropic bird wheeled rockward to his nest,",
"And the blue sky spread round them like a lake",
"Of peace, where Piety her thirst might slake.",
"",
"But through the palm and plantain, hark, a Voice!",
"Not such as would have been a lover's choice,",
"In such an hour, to break the air so still;",
"No dying night-breeze, harping o'er the hill,",
"Striking the strings of nature, rock and tree,",
"Those best and earliest lyres of Harmony,",
"With Echo for their chorus; nor the alarm",
"Of the loud war-whoop to dispel the charm;",
"Nor the soliloquy of the hermit owl,",
"Exhaling all his solitary soul,",
"The dim though large-eyed wingéd anchorite,",
"Who peals his dreary Pæan o'er the night;",
"But a loud, long, and naval whistle, shrill",
"As ever started through a sea-bird's bill;",
"And then a pause, and then a hoarse \"Hillo!",
"Torquil, my boy! what cheer? Ho! brother, ho!\"",
"\"Who hails?\" cried Torquil, following with his eye",
"The sound. \"Here's one,\" was all the brief reply.",
"",
"But here the herald of the self-same mouth",
"Came breathing o'er the aromatic south,",
"Not like a \"bed of violets\" on the gale,",
"But such as wafts its cloud o'er grog or ale,",
"Borne from a short frail pipe, which yet had blown",
"Its gentle odours over either zone,",
"And, puffed where'er winds rise or waters roll,",
"Had wafted smoke from Portsmouth to the Pole,",
"Opposed its vapour as the lightning flashed,",
"And reeked, 'midst mountain-billows, unabashed,",
"To Æolus a constant sacrifice,",
"Through every change of all the varying skies.",
"And what was he who bore it?--I may err,",
"But deem him sailor or philosopher.",
"Sublime Tobacco! which from East to West",
"Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest;",
"Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides",
"His hours, and rivals opium and his brides;",
"Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand,",
"Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand;",
"Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe,",
"When tipped with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe:",
"Like other charmers, wooing the caress,",
"More dazzlingly when daring in full dress;",
"Yet thy true lovers more admire by far",
"Thy naked beauties--Give me a cigar!",
"",
"Through the approaching darkness of the wood",
"A human figure broke the solitude,",
"Fantastically, it may be, arrayed,",
"A seaman in a savage masquerade;",
"Such as appears to rise out from the deep,",
"When o'er the line the merry vessels sweep,",
"And the rough Saturnalia of the tar",
"Flock o'er the deck, in Neptune's borrowed car;",
"And, pleased, the God of Ocean sees his name",
"Revive once more, though but in mimic game",
"Of his true sons, who riot in the breeze",
"Undreamt of in his native Cyclades.",
"Still the old God delights, from out the main,",
"To snatch some glimpses of his ancient reign.",
"Our sailor's jacket, though in ragged trim,",
"His constant pipe, which never yet burned dim,",
"His foremast air, and somewhat rolling gait,",
"Like his dear vessel, spoke his former state;",
"But then a sort of kerchief round his head,",
"Not over tightly bound, nor nicely spread;",
"And, 'stead of trowsers (ah! too early torn!",
"For even the mildest woods will have their thorn)",
"A curious sort of somewhat scanty mat",
"Now served for inexpressibles and hat;",
"His naked feet and neck, and sunburnt face,",
"Perchance might suit alike with either race.",
"His arms were all his own, our Europe's growth,",
"Which two worlds bless for civilising both;",
"The musket swung behind his shoulders broad,",
"And somewhat stooped by his marine abode,",
"But brawny as the boar's; and hung beneath,",
"His cutlass drooped, unconscious of a sheath,",
"Or lost or worn away; his pistols were",
"Linked to his belt, a matrimonial pair--",
"(Let not this metaphor appear a scoff,",
"Though one missed fire, the other would go off);",
"These, with a bayonet, not so free from rust",
"As when the arm-chest held its brighter trust,",
"Completed his accoutrements, as Night",
"Surveyed him in his garb heteroclite.",
"",
"\"What cheer, Ben Bunting?\" cried (when in full view",
"Our new acquaintance) Torquil. \"Aught of new?\"",
"\"Ey, ey!\" quoth Ben, \"not new, but news enow;",
"A strange sail in the offing.\"--\"Sail! and how?",
"What! could you make her out? It cannot be;",
"I've seen no rag of canvass on the sea.\"",
"\"Belike,\" said Ben, \"you might not from the bay,",
"But from the bluff-head, where I watched to-day,",
"I saw her in the doldrums; for the wind",
"Was light and baffling.\"--\"When the Sun declined",
"Where lay she? had she anchored?\"--\"No, but still",
"She bore down on us, till the wind grew still.\"",
"\"Her flag?\"--\"I had no glass: but fore and aft,",
"Egad! she seemed a wicked-looking craft.\"",
"\"Armed?\"--\"I expect so;--sent on the look-out:",
"'Tis time, belike, to put our helm about.\"",
"\"About?--Whate'er may have us now in chase,",
"We'll make no running fight, for that were base;",
"We will die at our quarters, like true men.\"",
"\"Ey, ey! for that 'tis all the same to Ben.\"",
"\"Does Christian know this?\"--\"Aye; he has piped all hands",
"To quarters. They are furbishing the stands",
"Of arms; and we have got some guns to bear,",
"And scaled them. You are wanted.\"--\"That's but fair;",
"And if it were not, mine is not the soul",
"To leave my comrades helpless on the shoal.",
"My Neuha! ah! and must my fate pursue",
"Not me alone, but one so sweet and true?",
"But whatsoe'er betide, ah, Neuha! now",
"Unman me not: the hour will not allow",
"A tear; I am thine whatever intervenes!\"",
"\"Right,\" quoth Ben; \"that will do for the marines.\"",
"",
"CANTO THE THIRD.",
"",
"The fight was o'er; the flashing through the gloom,",
"Which robes the cannon as he wings a tomb,",
"Had ceased; and sulphury vapours upward driven",
"Had left the Earth, and but polluted Heaven:",
"The rattling roar which rung in every volley",
"Had left the echoes to their melancholy;",
"No more they shrieked their horror, boom for boom;",
"The strife was done, the vanquished had their doom;",
"The mutineers were crushed, dispersed, or ta'en,",
"Or lived to deem the happiest were the slain.",
"Few, few escaped, and these were hunted o'er",
"The isle they loved beyond their native shore.",
"No further home was theirs, it seemed, on earth,",
"Once renegades to that which gave them birth;",
"Tracked like wild beasts, like them they sought the wild,",
"As to a Mother's bosom flies the child;",
"But vainly wolves and lions seek their den,",
"And still more vainly men escape from men.",
"",
"Beneath a rock whose jutting base protrudes",
"Far over Ocean in its fiercest moods,",
"When scaling his enormous crag the wave",
"Is hurled down headlong, like the foremost brave,",
"And falls back on the foaming crowd behind,",
"Which fight beneath the banners of the wind,",
"But now at rest, a little remnant drew",
"Together, bleeding, thirsty, faint, and few;",
"But still their weapons in their hands, and still",
"With something of the pride of former will,",
"As men not all unused to meditate,",
"And strive much more than wonder at their fate.",
"Their present lot was what they had foreseen,",
"And dared as what was likely to have been;",
"Yet still the lingering hope, which deemed their lot",
"Not pardoned, but unsought for or forgot,",
"Or trusted that, if sought, their distant caves",
"Might still be missed amidst the world of waves,",
"Had weaned their thoughts in part from what they saw",
"And felt, the vengeance of their country's law.",
"Their sea-green isle, their guilt-won Paradise,",
"No more could shield their Virtue or their Vice:",
"Their better feelings, if such were, were thrown",
"Back on themselves,--their sins remained alone.",
"Proscribed even in their second country, they",
"Were lost; in vain the World before them lay;",
"All outlets seemed secured. Their new allies",
"Had fought and bled in mutual sacrifice;",
"But what availed the club and spear, and arm",
"Of Hercules, against the sulphury charm,",
"The magic of the thunder, which destroyed",
"The warrior ere his strength could be employed?",
"Dug, like a spreading pestilence, the grave",
"No less of human bravery than the brave!",
"Their own scant numbers acted all the few",
"Against the many oft will dare and do;",
"But though the choice seems native to die free,",
"Even Greece can boast but one Thermopylæ,",
"Till _now_, when she has forged her broken chain",
"Back to a sword, and dies and lives again!",
"",
"Beside the jutting rock the few appeared,",
"Like the last remnant of the red-deer's herd;",
"Their eyes were feverish, and their aspect worn,",
"But still the hunter's blood was on their horn.",
"A little stream came tumbling from the height,",
"And straggling into ocean as it might,",
"Its bounding crystal frolicked in the ray,",
"And gushed from cliff to crag with saltless spray;",
"Close on the wild, wide ocean, yet as pure",
"And fresh as Innocence, and more secure,",
"Its silver torrent glittered o'er the deep,",
"As the shy chamois' eye o'erlooks the steep,",
"While far below the vast and sullen swell",
"Of Ocean's alpine azure rose and fell.",
"To this young spring they rushed,--all feelings first",
"Absorbed in Passion's and in Nature's thirst,--",
"Drank as they do who drink their last, and threw",
"Their arms aside to revel in its dew;",
"Cooled their scorched throats, and washed the gory stains",
"From wounds whose only bandage might be chains;",
"Then, when their drought was quenched, looked sadly round,",
"As wondering how so many still were found",
"Alive and fetterless:--but silent all,",
"Each sought his fellow's eyes, as if to call",
"On him for language which his lips denied,",
"As though their voices with their cause had died.",
"",
"Stern, and aloof a little from the rest,",
"Stood Christian, with his arms across his chest.",
"The ruddy, reckless, dauntless hue once spread",
"Along his cheek was livid now as lead;",
"His light-brown locks, so graceful in their flow,",
"Now rose like startled vipers o'er his brow.",
"Still as a statue, with his lips comprest",
"To stifle even the breath within his breast,",
"Fast by the rock, all menacing, but mute,",
"He stood; and, save a slight beat of his foot,",
"Which deepened now and then the sandy dint",
"Beneath his heel, his form seemed turned to flint.",
"Some paces further Torquil leaned his head",
"Against a bank, and spoke not, but he bled,--",
"Not mortally:--his worst wound was within;",
"His brow was pale, his blue eyes sunken in,",
"And blood-drops, sprinkled o'er his yellow hair,",
"Showed that his faintness came not from despair,",
"But Nature's ebb. Beside him was another,",
"Rough as a bear, but willing as a brother,--",
"Ben Bunting, who essayed to wash, and wipe,",
"And bind his wound--then calmly lit his pipe,",
"A trophy which survived a hundred fights,",
"A beacon which had cheered ten thousand nights.",
"The fourth and last of this deserted group",
"Walked up and down--at times would stand, then stoop",
"To pick a pebble up--then let it drop--",
"Then hurry as in haste--then quickly stop--",
"Then cast his eyes on his companions--then",
"Half whistle half a tune, and pause again--",
"And then his former movements would redouble,",
"With something between carelessness and trouble.",
"This is a long description, but applies",
"To scarce five minutes passed before the eyes;",
"But yet _what_ minutes! Moments like to these",
"Rend men's lives into immortalities.",
"",
"At length Jack Skyscrape, a mercurial man,",
"Who fluttered over all things like a fan,",
"More brave than firm, and more disposed to dare",
"And die at once than wrestle with despair,",
"Exclaimed, \"G--d damn!\"--those syllables intense,--",
"Nucleus of England's native eloquence,",
"As the Turk's \"Allah!\" or the Roman's more",
"Pagan \"Proh Jupiter!\" was wont of yore",
"To give their first impressions such a vent,",
"By way of echo to embarrassment.",
"Jack was embarrassed,--never hero more,",
"And as he knew not what to say, he swore:",
"Nor swore in vain; the long congenial sound",
"Revived Ben Bunting from his pipe profound;",
"He drew it from his mouth, and looked full wise,",
"But merely added to the oath his _eyes_;",
"Thus rendering the imperfect phrase complete,",
"A peroration I need not repeat.",
"",
"But Christian, of a higher order, stood",
"Like an extinct volcano in his mood;",
"Silent, and sad, and savage,--with the trace",
"Of passion reeking from his clouded face;",
"Till lifting up again his sombre eye,",
"It glanced on Torquil, who leaned faintly by.",
"\"And is it thus?\" he cried, \"unhappy boy!",
"And thee, too, _thee_--my madness must destroy!\"",
"He said, and strode to where young Torquil stood,",
"Yet dabbled with his lately flowing blood;",
"Seized his hand wistfully, but did not press,",
"And shrunk as fearful of his own caress;",
"Enquired into his state: and when he heard",
"The wound was slighter than he deemed or feared,",
"A moment's brightness passed along his brow,",
"As much as such a moment would allow.",
"\"Yes,\" he exclaimed, \"we are taken in the toil,",
"But not a coward or a common spoil;",
"Dearly they have bought us--dearly still may buy,--",
"And I must fall; but have _you_ strength to fly?",
"'Twould be some comfort still, could you survive;",
"Our dwindled band is now too few to strive.",
"Oh! for a sole canoe! though but a shell,",
"To bear you hence to where a hope may dwell!",
"For me, my lot is what I sought; to be,",
"In life or death, the fearless and the free.\"",
"",
"Even as he spoke, around the promontory,",
"Which nodded o'er the billows high and hoary,",
"A dark speck dotted Ocean: on it flew",
"Like to the shadow of a roused sea-mew;",
"Onward it came--and, lo! a second followed--",
"Now seen--now hid--where Ocean's vale was hollowed;",
"And near, and nearer, till the dusky crew",
"Presented well-known aspects to the view,",
"Till on the surf their skimming paddles play,",
"Buoyant as wings, and flitting through the spray;--",
"Now perching on the wave's high curl, and now",
"Dashed downward in the thundering foam below,",
"Which flings it broad and boiling sheet on sheet,",
"And slings its high flakes, shivered into sleet:",
"But floating still through surf and swell, drew nigh",
"The barks, like small birds through a lowering sky.",
"Their art seemed nature--such the skill to sweep",
"The wave of these born playmates of the deep.",
"",
"And who the first that, springing on the strand,",
"Leaped like a Nereid from her shell to land,",
"With dark but brilliant skin, and dewy eye",
"Shining with love, and hope, and constancy?",
"Neuha--the fond, the faithful, the adored--",
"Her heart on Torquil's like a torrent poured;",
"And smiled, and wept, and near, and nearer clasped,",
"As if to be assured 'twas _him_ she grasped;",
"Shuddered to see his yet warm wound, and then,",
"To find it trivial, smiled and wept again.",
"She was a warrior's daughter, and could bear",
"Such sights, and feel, and mourn, but not despair.",
"Her lover lived,--nor foes nor fears could blight",
"That full-blown moment in its all delight:",
"Joy trickled in her tears, joy filled the sob",
"That rocked her heart till almost heard to throb;",
"And Paradise was breathing in the sigh",
"Of Nature's child in Nature's ecstasy.",
"",
"The sterner spirits who beheld that meeting",
"Were not unmoved; who are, when hearts are greeting?",
"Even Christian gazed upon the maid and boy",
"With tearless eye, but yet a gloomy joy",
"Mixed with those bitter thoughts the soul arrays",
"In hopeless visions of our better days,",
"When all's gone--to the rainbow's latest ray.",
"\"And but for me!\" he said, and turned away;",
"Then gazed upon the pair, as in his den",
"A lion looks upon his cubs again;",
"And then relapsed into his sullen guise,",
"As heedless of his further destinies.",
"",
"But brief their time for good or evil thought;",
"The billows round the promontory brought",
"The plash of hostile oars.--Alas! who made",
"That sound a dread? All around them seemed arrayed",
"Against them, save the bride of Toobonai:",
"She, as she caught the first glimpse o'er the bay",
"Of the armed boats, which hurried to complete",
"The remnant's ruin with their flying feet,",
"Beckoned the natives round her to their prows,",
"Embarked their guests and launched their light canoes;",
"In one placed Christian and his comrades twain--",
"But she and Torquil must not part again.",
"She fixed him in her own.--Away! away!",
"They cleared the breakers, dart along the bay,",
"And towards a group of islets, such as bear",
"The sea-bird's nest and seal's surf-hollowed lair,",
"They skim the blue tops of the billows; fast",
"They flew, and fast their fierce pursuers chased.",
"They gain upon them--now they lose again,--",
"Again make way and menace o'er the main;",
"And now the two canoes in chase divide,",
"And follow different courses o'er the tide,",
"To baffle the pursuit.--Away! away!",
"As Life is on each paddle's flight to-day,",
"And more than Life or lives to Neuha: Love",
"Freights the frail bark and urges to the cove;",
"And now the refuge and the foe are nigh--",
"Yet, yet a moment! Fly, thou light ark, fly!",
"",
"CANTO THE FOURTH.",
"",
"White as a white sail on a dusky sea,",
"When half the horizon's clouded and half free,",
"Fluttering between the dun wave and the sky,",
"Is Hope's last gleam in Man's extremity.",
"Her anchor parts; but still her snowy sail",
"Attracts our eye amidst the rudest gale:",
"Though every wave she climbs divides us more,",
"The heart still follows from the loneliest shore.",
"",
"Not distant from the isle of Toobonai,",
"A black rock rears its bosom o'er the spray,",
"The haunt of birds, a desert to mankind,",
"Where the rough seal reposes from the wind,",
"And sleeps unwieldy in his cavern dun,",
"Or gambols with huge frolic in the sun:",
"There shrilly to the passing oar is heard",
"The startled echo of the Ocean bird,",
"Who rears on its bare breast her callow brood,",
"The feathered fishers of the solitude.",
"A narrow segment of the yellow sand",
"On one side forms the outline of a strand;",
"Here the young turtle, crawling from his shell,",
"Steals to the deep wherein his parents dwell;",
"Chipped by the beam, a nursling of the day,",
"But hatched for ocean by the fostering ray;",
"The rest was one bleak precipice, as e'er",
"Gave mariners a shelter and despair;",
"A spot to make the saved regret the deck",
"Which late went down, and envy the lost wreck.",
"Such was the stern asylum Neuha chose",
"To shield her lover from his following foes;",
"But all its secret was not told; she knew",
"In this a treasure hidden from the view.",
"",
"Ere the canoes divided, near the spot,",
"The men that manned what held her Torquil's lot,",
"By her command removed, to strengthen more",
"The skiff which wafted Christian from the shore.",
"This he would have opposed; but with a smile",
"She pointed calmly to the craggy isle,",
"And bade him \"speed and prosper.\" _She_ would take",
"The rest upon herself for Torquil's sake.",
"They parted with this added aid; afar,",
"The Proa darted like a shooting star,",
"And gained on the pursuers, who now steered",
"Right on the rock which she and Torquil neared.",
"They pulled; her arm, though delicate, was free",
"And firm as ever grappled with the sea,",
"And yielded scarce to Torquil's manlier strength.",
"The prow now almost lay within its length",
"Of the crag's steep inexorable face,",
"With nought but soundless waters for its base;",
"Within a hundred boats' length was the foe,",
"And now what refuge but their frail canoe?",
"This Torquil asked with half upbraiding eye,",
"Which said--\"Has Neuha brought me here to die?",
"Is this a place of safety, or a grave,",
"And yon huge rock the tombstone of the wave?\"",
"",
"They rested on their paddles, and uprose",
"Neuha, and pointing to the approaching foes,",
"Cried, \"Torquil, follow me, and fearless follow!\"",
"Then plunged at once into the Ocean's hollow.",
"There was no time to pause--the foes were near--",
"Chains in his eye, and menace in his ear;",
"With vigour they pulled on, and as they came,",
"Hailed him to yield, and by his forfeit name.",
"Headlong he leapt--to him the swimmer's skill",
"Was native, and now all his hope from ill:",
"But how, or where? He dived, and rose no more;",
"The boat's crew looked amazed o'er sea and shore.",
"There was no landing on that precipice,",
"Steep, harsh, and slippery as a berg of ice.",
"They watched awhile to see him float again,",
"But not a trace rebubbled from the main:",
"The wave rolled on, no ripple on its face,",
"Since their first plunge recalled a single trace;",
"The little whirl which eddied, and slight foam,",
"That whitened o'er what seemed their latest home,",
"White as a sepulchre above the pair",
"Who left no marble (mournful as an heir)",
"The quiet Proa wavering o'er the tide",
"Was all that told of Torquil and his bride;",
"And but for this alone the whole might seem",
"The vanished phantom of a seaman's dream.",
"They paused and searched in vain, then pulled away;",
"Even Superstition now forbade their stay.",
"Some said he had not plunged into the wave,",
"But vanished like a corpse-light from a grave;",
"Others, that something supernatural",
"Glared in his figure, more than mortal tall;",
"While all agreed that in his cheek and eye",
"There was a dead hue of Eternity.",
"Still as their oars receded from the crag,",
"Round every weed a moment would they lag,",
"Expectant of some token of their prey;",
"But no--he had melted from them like the spray.",
"",
"And where was he the Pilgrim of the Deep,",
"Following the Nereid? Had they ceased to weep",
"For ever? or, received in coral caves,",
"Wrung life and pity from the softening waves?",
"Did they with Ocean's hidden sovereigns dwell,",
"And sound with Mermen the fantastic shell?",
"Did Neuha with the mermaids comb her hair",
"Flowing o'er ocean as it streamed in air?",
"Or had they perished, and in silence slept",
"Beneath the gulf wherein they boldly leapt?",
"",
"Young Neuha plunged into the deep, and he",
"Followed: her track beneath her native sea",
"Was as a native's of the element,",
"So smoothly--bravely--brilliantly she went,",
"Leaving a streak of light behind her heel,",
"Which struck and flashed like an amphibious steel,",
"Closely, and scarcely less expert to trace",
"The depths where divers hold the pearl in chase,",
"Torquil, the nursling of the northern seas,",
"Pursued her liquid steps with heart and ease.",
"Deep--deeper for an instant Neuha led",
"The way--then upward soared--and as she spread",
"Her arms, and flung the foam from off her locks,",
"Laughed, and the sound was answered by the rocks.",
"They had gained a central realm of earth again,",
"But looked for tree, and field, and sky, in vain.",
"Around she pointed to a spacious cave,",
"Whose only portal was the keyless wave,",
"(A hollow archway by the sun unseen,",
"Save through the billows' glassy veil of green,",
"In some transparent ocean holiday,",
"When all the finny people are at play,)",
"Wiped with her hair the brine from Torquil's eyes,",
"And clapped her hands with joy at his surprise;",
"Led him to where the rock appeared to jut,",
"And form a something like a Triton's hut;",
"For all was darkness for a space, till day,",
"Through clefts above let in a sobered ray;",
"As in some old cathedral's glimmering aisle",
"The dusty monuments from light recoil,",
"Thus sadly in their refuge submarine",
"The vault drew half her shadow from the scene.",
"",
"Forth from her bosom the young savage drew",
"A pine torch, strongly girded with gnatoo;",
"A plantain-leaf o'er all, the more to keep",
"Its latent sparkle from the sapping deep.",
"This mantle kept it dry; then from a nook",
"Of the same plantain-leaf a flint she took,",
"A few shrunk withered twigs, and from the blade",
"Of Torquil's knife struck fire, and thus arrayed",
"The grot with torchlight. Wide it was and high,",
"And showed a self-born Gothic canopy;",
"The arch upreared by Nature's architect,",
"The architrave some Earthquake might erect;",
"The buttress from some mountain's bosom hurled,",
"When the Poles crashed, and water was the world;",
"Or hardened from some earth-absorbing fire,",
"While yet the globe reeked from its funeral pyre;",
"The fretted pinnacle, the aisle, the nave,",
"Were there, all scooped by Darkness from her cave.",
"There, with a little tinge of phantasy,",
"Fantastic faces moped and mowed on high,",
"And then a mitre or a shrine would fix",
"The eye upon its seeming crucifix.",
"Thus Nature played with the stalactites,",
"And built herself a Chapel of the Seas.",
"",
"And Neuha took her Torquil by the hand,",
"And waved along the vault her kindled brand,",
"And led him into each recess, and showed",
"The secret places of their new abode.",
"Nor these alone, for all had been prepared",
"Before, to soothe the lover's lot she shared:",
"The mat for rest; for dress the fresh gnatoo,",
"And sandal oil to fence against the dew;",
"For food the cocoa-nut, the yam, the bread",
"Born of the fruit; for board the plantain spread",
"With its broad leaf, or turtle-shell which bore",
"A banquet in the flesh it covered o'er;",
"The gourd with water recent from the rill,",
"The ripe banana from the mellow hill;",
"A pine-torch pile to keep undying light,",
"And she herself, as beautiful as night,",
"To fling her shadowy spirit o'er the scene,",
"And make their subterranean world serene.",
"She had foreseen, since first the stranger's sail",
"Drew to their isle, that force or flight might fail,",
"And formed a refuge of the rocky den",
"For Torquil's safety from his countrymen.",
"Each dawn had wafted there her light canoe,",
"Laden with all the golden fruits that grew;",
"Each eve had seen her gliding through the hour",
"With all could cheer or deck their sparry bower;",
"And now she spread her little store with smiles,",
"The happiest daughter of the loving isles.",
"",
"She, as he gazed with grateful wonder, pressed",
"Her sheltered love to her impassioned breast;",
"And suited to her soft caresses, told",
"An olden tale of Love,--for Love is old,",
"Old as eternity, but not outworn",
"With each new being born or to be born:",
"How a young Chief, a thousand moons ago,",
"Diving for turtle in the depths below,",
"Had risen, in tracking fast his ocean prey,",
"Into the cave which round and o'er them lay;",
"How, in some desperate feud of after-time,",
"He sheltered there a daughter of the clime,",
"A foe beloved, and offspring of a foe,",
"Saved by his tribe but for a captive's woe;",
"How, when the storm of war was stilled, he led",
"His island clan to where the waters spread",
"Their deep-green shadow o'er the rocky door,",
"Then dived--it seemed as if to rise no more:",
"His wondering mates, amazed within their bark,",
"Or deemed him mad, or prey to the blue shark;",
"Rowed round in sorrow the sea-girded rock,",
"Then paused upon their paddles from the shock;",
"When, fresh and springing from the deep, they saw",
"A Goddess rise--so deemed they in their awe;",
"And their companion, glorious by her side,",
"Proud and exulting in his Mermaid bride;",
"And how, when undeceived, the pair they bore",
"With sounding conchs and joyous shouts to shore;",
"How they had gladly lived and calmly died,--",
"And why not also Torquil and his bride?",
"Not mine to tell the rapturous caress",
"Which followed wildly in that wild recess",
"This tale; enough that all within that cave",
"Was love, though buried strong as in the grave,",
"Where Abelard, through twenty years of death,",
"When Eloïsa's form was lowered beneath",
"Their nuptial vault, his arms outstretched, and pressed",
"The kindling ashes to his kindled breast.",
"The waves without sang round their couch, their roar",
"As much unheeded as if life were o'er;",
"Within, their hearts made all their harmony,",
"Love's broken murmur and more broken sigh.",
"",
"And they, the cause and sharers of the shock",
"Which left them exiles of the hollow rock,",
"Where were they? O'er the sea for life they plied,",
"To seek from Heaven the shelter men denied.",
"Another course had been their choice--but where?",
"The wave which bore them still their foes would bear,",
"Who, disappointed of their former chase,",
"In search of Christian now renewed their race.",
"Eager with anger, their strong arms made way,",
"Like vultures baffled of their previous prey.",
"They gained upon them, all whose safety lay",
"In some bleak crag or deeply-hidden bay:",
"No further chance or choice remained; and right",
"For the first further rock which met their sight",
"They steered, to take their latest view of land,",
"And yield as victims, or die sword in hand;",
"Dismissed the natives and their shallop, who",
"Would still have battled for that scanty crew;",
"But Christian bade them seek their shore again,",
"Nor add a sacrifice which were in vain;",
"For what were simple bow and savage spear",
"Against the arms which must be wielded here?",
"",
"They landed on a wild but narrow scene,",
"Where few but Nature's footsteps yet had been;",
"Prepared their arms, and with that gloomy eye,",
"Stern and sustained, of man's extremity,",
"When Hope is gone, nor Glory's self remains",
"To cheer resistance against death or chains.--",
"They stood, the three, as the three hundred stood",
"Who dyed Thermopylæ with holy blood.",
"But, ah! how different! 'tis the _cause_ makes all,",
"Degrades or hallows courage in its fall.",
"O'er them no fame, eternal and intense,",
"Blazed through the clouds of Death and beckoned hence;",
"No grateful country, smiling through her tears,",
"Begun the praises of a thousand years;",
"No nation's eyes would on their tomb be bent,",
"No heroes envy them their monument;",
"However boldly their warm blood was spilt,",
"Their Life was shame, their Epitaph was guilt.",
"And this they knew and felt, at least the one,",
"The leader of the band he had undone;",
"Who, born perchance for better things, had set",
"His life upon a cast which lingered yet:",
"But now the die was to be thrown, and all",
"The chances were in favour of his fall:",
"And such a fall! But still he faced the shock,",
"Obdurate as a portion of the rock",
"Whereon he stood, and fixed his levelled gun,",
"Dark as a sullen cloud before the sun.",
"",
"The boat drew nigh, well armed, and firm the crew",
"To act whatever Duty bade them do;",
"Careless of danger, as the onward wind",
"Is of the leaves it strews, nor looks behind.",
"And, yet, perhaps, they rather wished to go",
"Against a nation's than a native foe,",
"And felt that this poor victim of self-will,",
"Briton no more, had once been Britain's still.",
"They hailed him to surrender--no reply;",
"Their arms were poised, and glittered in the sky.",
"They hailed again--no answer; yet once more",
"They offered quarter louder than before.",
"The echoes only, from the rock's rebound,",
"Took their last farewell of the dying sound.",
"Then flashed the flint, and blazed the volleying flame,",
"And the smoke rose between them and their aim,",
"While the rock rattled with the bullets' knell,",
"Which pealed in vain, and flattened as they fell;",
"Then flew the only answer to be given",
"By those who had lost all hope in earth or heaven.",
"After the first fierce peal as they pulled nigher,",
"They heard the voice of Christian shout, \"Now, fire!\"",
"And ere the word upon the echo died,",
"Two fell; the rest assailed the rock's rough side,",
"And, furious at the madness of their foes,",
"Disdained all further efforts, save to close.",
"But steep the crag, and all without a path,",
"Each step opposed a bastion to their wrath,",
"While, placed 'midst clefts the least accessible,",
"Which Christian's eye was trained to mark full well,",
"The three maintained a strife which must not yield,",
"In spots where eagles might have chosen to build.",
"Their every shot told; while the assailant fell,",
"Dashed on the shingles like the limpet shell;",
"But still enough survived, and mounted still,",
"Scattering their numbers here and there, until",
"Surrounded and commanded, though not nigh",
"Enough for seizure, near enough to die,",
"The desperate trio held aloof their fate",
"But by a thread, like sharks who have gorged the bait;",
"Yet to the very last they battled well,",
"And not a groan informed their foes _who_ fell.",
"Christian died last--twice wounded; and once more",
"Mercy was offered when they saw his gore;",
"Too late for life, but not too late to die,",
"With, though a hostile hand, to close his eye.",
"A limb was broken, and he drooped along",
"The crag, as doth a falcon reft of young.",
"The sound revived him, or appeared to wake",
"Some passion which a weakly gesture spake:",
"He beckoned to the foremost, who drew nigh,",
"But, as they neared, he reared his weapon high--",
"His last ball had been aimed, but from his breast",
"He tore the topmost button from his vest,",
"Down the tube dashed it--levelled--fired, and smiled",
"As his foe fell; then, like a serpent, coiled",
"His wounded, weary form, to where the steep",
"Looked desperate as himself along the deep;",
"Cast one glance back, and clenched his hand, and shook",
"His last rage 'gainst the earth which he forsook;",
"Then plunged: the rock below received like glass",
"His body crushed into one gory mass,",
"With scarce a shred to tell of human form,",
"Or fragment for the sea-bird or the worm;",
"A fair-haired scalp, besmeared with blood and weeds,",
"Yet reeked, the remnant of himself and deeds;",
"Some splinters of his weapons (to the last,",
"As long as hand could hold, he held them fast)",
"Yet glittered, but at distance--hurled away",
"To rust beneath the dew and dashing spray.",
"The rest was nothing--save a life mis-spent,",
"And soul--but who shall answer where it went?",
"'Tis ours to bear, not judge the dead; and they",
"Who doom to Hell, themselves are on the way,",
"Unless these bullies of eternal pains",
"Are pardoned their bad hearts for their worse brains.",
"",
"The deed was over! All were gone or ta'en,",
"The fugitive, the captive, or the slain.",
"Chained on the deck, where once, a gallant crew,",
"They stood with honour, were the wretched few",
"Survivors of the skirmish on the isle;",
"But the last rock left no surviving spoil.",
"Cold lay they where they fell, and weltering,",
"While o'er them flapped the sea-birds' dewy wing,",
"Now wheeling nearer from the neighbouring surge,",
"And screaming high their harsh and hungry dirge:",
"But calm and careless heaved the wave below,",
"Eternal with unsympathetic flow;",
"Far o'er its face the Dolphins sported on,",
"And sprung the flying fish against the sun,",
"Till its dried wing relapsed from its brief height,",
"To gather moisture for another flight.",
"",
"'Twas morn; and Neuha, who by dawn of day",
"Swam smoothly forth to catch the rising ray,",
"And watch if aught approached the amphibious lair",
"Where lay her lover, saw a sail in air:",
"It flapped, it filled, and to the growing gale",
"Bent its broad arch: her breath began to fail",
"With fluttering fear, her heart beat thick and high,",
"While yet a doubt sprung where its course might lie.",
"But no! it came not; fast and far away",
"The shadow lessened as it cleared the bay.",
"She gazed, and flung the sea-foam from her eyes,",
"To watch as for a rainbow in the skies.",
"On the horizon verged the distant deck,",
"Diminished, dwindled to a very speck--",
"Then vanished. All was Ocean, all was Joy!",
"Down plunged she through the cave to rouse her boy;",
"Told all she had seen, and all she hoped, and all",
"That happy love could augur or recall;",
"Sprung forth again, with Torquil following free",
"His bounding Nereid over the broad sea;",
"Swam round the rock, to where a shallow cleft",
"Hid the canoe that Neuha there had left",
"Drifting along the tide, without an oar,",
"That eve the strangers chased them from the shore;",
"But when these vanished, she pursued her prow,",
"Regained, and urged to where they found it now:",
"Nor ever did more love and joy embark,",
"Than now were wafted in that slender ark.",
"",
"Again their own shore rises on the view,",
"No more polluted with a hostile hue;",
"No sullen ship lay bristling o'er the foam,",
"A floating dungeon:--all was Hope and Home!",
"A thousand Proas darted o'er the bay,",
"With sounding shells, and heralded their way;",
"The chiefs came down, around the people poured,",
"And welcomed Torquil as a son restored;",
"The women thronged, embracing and embraced",
"By Neuha, asking where they had been chased,",
"And how escaped? The tale was told; and then",
"One acclamation rent the sky again;",
"And from that hour a new tradition gave",
"Their sanctuary the name of \"Neuha's Cave.\"",
"A hundred fires, far flickering from the height,",
"Blazed o'er the general revel of the night,",
"The feast in honour of the guest, returned",
"To Peace and Pleasure, perilously earned;",
"A night succeeded by such happy days",
"As only the yet infant world displays."
],
"title": "The Island"
},
{
"author": "Christopher Smart",
"line_count": "325",
"lines": [
"Let Ramah rejoice with Cochineal.",
"",
"Let Gaba rejoice with the Prickly Pear, which the Cochineal feeds on.",
"",
"Let Nebo rejoice with the Myrtle-Leaved-Sumach as with the Skirret Jub. 2d.",
"",
"Let Magbish rejoice with the Sage-Tree Phlomis as with the Goatsbeard Jub: 2d.",
"",
"Let Hashum rejoice with Moon-Trefoil.",
"",
"Let Netophah rejoice with Cow-Wheat.",
"",
"Let Chephirah rejoice with Millet.",
"",
"Let Beeroth rejoice with Sea-Buckthorn.",
"",
"Let Kirjath-arim rejoice with Cacalianthemum.",
"",
"Let Hadid rejoice with Capsicum Guiney Pepper.",
"",
"Let Senaah rejoice with Bean Cape.",
"",
"Let Kadmiel rejoice with Hemp-Agrimony.",
"",
"Let Shobai rejoice with Arbor Molle.",
"",
"Let Hatita rejoice with Millefolium Yarrow.",
"",
"Let Ziha rejoice with Mitellia.",
"",
"Let Hasupha rejoice with Turky Balm.",
"",
"Let Hattil rejoice with Xeranthemum.",
"",
"Let Bilshan rejoice with the Leek. David for ever! God bless the Welch March 1st 1761. N.S.",
"",
"Let Sotai rejoice with the Mountain Ebony.",
"",
"Let Sophereth rejoice with White Hellebore.",
"",
"Let Darkon rejoice with the Melon-Thistle.",
"",
"Let Jaalah rejoice with Moly wild garlick.",
"",
"Let Ami rejoice with the Bladder Sena in season or out of season bless the name of the Lord.",
"",
"Let Pochereth rejoice with Fleabane.",
"",
"Let Keros rejoice with Tree Germander.",
"",
"Let Padon rejoice with Tamnus Black Briony.",
"",
"Let Mizpar rejoice with Stickadore.",
"",
"Let Baanah rejoice with Napus the French Turnip.",
"",
"Let Reelaiah rejoice with the Sea-Cabbage.",
"",
"Let Parosh rejoice with Cacubalus Chickweed.",
"",
"Let Hagab rejoice with Serpyllum Mother of Thyme. Hosanna to the memory of Q. Anne. March 8th N.S. 1761 -- God be gracious to old Windsmore.",
"",
"Let Shalmai rejoice with Meadow Rue. --",
"",
"Let Habaiah rejoice with Asteriscus Yellow Starwort.",
"",
"Let Tel-harsa rejoice with Aparine Clivers.",
"",
"Let Rehoboam rejoice with Folium Montanum. God give grace to the Young King.",
"",
"Let Hanan rejoice with Poley of Crete.",
"",
"Let Sheshbazzar rejoice with Polygonatum Solomon's seal.",
"",
"Let Zeboim rejoice with Bastard Dittany.",
"",
"Let The Queen of Sheba rejoice with Bulapathon Herb Patience.",
"",
"Let Cyrus rejoice with Baccharis Plowman's Spikenard. God be gracious to Warburton.",
"",
"Let Lebanah rejoice with the Golden Wingged Flycatcher a Mexican Small Bird of Passage.",
"",
"Let Hagabah rejoice with Orchis. Blessed be the name of the Lord Jesus for my seed in eternity.",
"",
"Let Siaha rejoice with the Razor-Fish. God be gracious to John Bird and his wife.",
"",
"Let Artaxerxes rejoice with Vanelloes. Palm Sunday 1761. The Lord Strengthen me.",
"",
"Let Bishlam rejoice with the Cotton-bush.",
"",
"Let Mithridath rejoice with Balsam of Tolu.",
"",
"Let Tabeel rejoice with the Carob-Tree.",
"",
"Let Ariel rejoice with Balsam of Peru, which sweats from a tree, that flowers like the Foxglove.",
"",
"Let Ebed rejoice with Balsam of Gilead. God be gracious to Stede.",
"",
"Let Jarib rejoice with Balsam of Capivi. The Lord strengthen my reins.",
"",
"Let Shimshai rejoice with Stelis Missletoe on Fir.",
"",
"Let Joiarib rejoice with Veronica Fluellen or Speedwell.",
"",
"Let Tatnai rejoice with the Barbadoes Wild Olive.",
"",
"Let Ezra rejoice with the Reed. The Lord Jesus make musick of it. Good Friday 1761.",
"",
"Let Josiphiah rejoice with Tower-Mustard. God be gracious to Durham School.",
"",
"Let Shether-boznai rejoice with Turnera. End of Lent 1761. No. 5.",
"",
"Let Jozadak rejoice with Stephanitis a vine growing naturally into chaplets.",
"",
"Let Jozabad rejoice with the Lily-Daffodil. Easter Day 22nd March 1761.",
"",
"Let Telem rejoice with Hart's Penny-royal.",
"",
"Let Abdi rejoice with Winter-green. God be gracious to Abdy.",
"",
"Let Binnui rejoice with Spotted Lungwort or Couslip of Jerusalem. God give blessing with it.",
"",
"Let Aziza rejoice with the Day Lily.",
"",
"Let Zabbai rejoice with Buckshorn Plaintain Coronopus.",
"",
"Let Ramoth rejoice with Persicaria.",
"",
"Let Athlai rejoice with Bastard Marjoram.",
"",
"Let Uel rejoice with Lysimachia Loose-strife which drinks of the brook by the way.",
"",
"Let Kelaiah rejoice with Hermannia.",
"",
"Let Elasah rejoice with Olibanum White or Male Frankinsense from an Arabian tree, good against Catarrhs and Spitting blood from which Christ Jesus deliver me.",
"",
"Let Adna rejoice with Gum Opopanax from the wounded root of a species of panace Heracleum a tall plant growing to be two or three yards high with many large wings of a yellowish green -- good for old coughs and asthmas.",
"",
"Let Bedeiah rejoice with Gum Sagapenum flowing from a species of Ferula which grows in Media. Lord have mercy on my breast.",
"",
"Let Ishijah rejoice with Sago gotten from the inward pith of the breadtree. The Lord Jesus strengthen my whole body.",
"",
"Let Chelal rejoice with Apios Virginian Liquorice Vetch.",
"",
"Let Miamin rejoice with Mezereon. God be gracious to Polly and Bess and all Canbury.",
"",
"Let Zebida rejoice with Tormentil good for hæmorrhages in the mouth even so Lord Jesus.",
"",
"Let Shemaria rejoice with Riciasides.",
"",
"Let Jadau rejoice with Flixweed.",
"",
"Let Shimeon rejoice with Squills.",
"",
"Let Sheal rejoice with Scorpioides. God be gracious to Legg.",
"",
"Let Ramiah rejoice with Water-Germander.",
"",
"Let Jeziah rejoice with Viper's Grass.",
"",
"Let Machnadebai rejoice with the Mink, a beast.",
"",
"Let Meremoth rejoice with the Golden Titmouse of Surinam.",
"",
"Let Mattenai rejoice with Hatchet Vetch.",
"",
"Let Chelluh rejoice with Horehound.",
"",
"Let Jaasau rejoice with Bird's foot.",
"",
"Let Maadai rejoice with Golden Rod.",
"",
"Let Sharai rejoice with Honey-flower.",
"",
"Let Shashai rejoice with Smyrnium.",
"",
"Let Hananiah the son of an apothecary rejoice with Bdellium.",
"",
"Let Hassenaah rejoice with the White Beet. God be gracious to Hasse and all musicians.",
"",
"Let Hachaliah rejoice with Muscus Arboreus.",
"",
"Let Sanballat rejoice with Ground Moss found sometimes on human skulls.",
"",
"Let Col-hozeh rejoice with Myrobalans, Bellerica, Chebula, Citrina, Emblica and Indica.",
"",
"Let Meah rejoice with Varias, a kind of streaked panther. April 8th praise the name of the Lord.",
"",
"Let Eliashib rejoice with Shepherd's Purse.",
"",
"Let Azbuk rejoice with Valerianella Corn Sallet.",
"",
"Let Geshem (which is Rain) rejoice with Kneeholm. Blessed be the name of the Lord Jesus for Rain and his family and for the plenteous rain this day. April 9th 1761. N.S.",
"",
"Let Bavai rejoice with Calceolus Ladies Slipper.",
"",
"Let Henadad rejoice with Cacalianthemum.",
"",
"Let Shallun rejoice with Mullein Tapsus barbatus good for the breast.",
"",
"Let Ophel rejoice with Camara.",
"",
"Let Meshezabeel rejoice with Stephanomelis. Old April bless the name of the Lord Jesus.",
"",
"Let Zadok the son of Baana rejoice with Viburnum.",
"",
"Let Vaniah rejoice with Pug in a pinner. God be gracious to house of Vane especially Anne.",
"",
"Let Besodeiah rejoice with the Nettle.",
"",
"Let Melatiah rejoice with Adonis Bird's eye.",
"",
"Let Jadon rejoice with Borrage.",
"",
"Let Palal rejoice with the female Balsamime. God be gracious to my wife.",
"",
"Let Ezer rejoice with Basella Climbing Nightshade.",
"",
"Let Uzai rejoice with Meadow Sweet.",
"",
"Let Zalaph rejoice with Rose-bay.",
"",
"Let Halohesh rejoice with Ambrosia, that bears a fruit like a club.",
"",
"Let Malchiah Son of Rechab rejoice with the Rose-colour'd flow'ring Rush.",
"",
"Let Sia rejoice with Argemone Prickly Poppy.",
"",
"Let Lebana rejoice with Amaranthoides Globe Amaranth.",
"",
"Let Rephaiah the Son of Hur rejoice with the Berry-bearing Angelica.",
"",
"Let Harhaiah of the Goldsmiths rejoice with Segullum, the earth that detects the mine.",
"",
"Let Harumaph rejoice with the Upright Honeysuckle.",
"",
"Let Hashabniah rejoice with the Water Melon. Blessed be the manuscripts of Almighty God.",
"",
"Let Phaseah rejoice with the Cassioberry Bush.",
"",
"Let Nephishesim rejoice with Cannacorus Indian Reed.",
"",
"Let Tamah rejoice with Cainito Star-Apple -- God be praised for this Eleventh of April o.s. in which I enter into the Fortieth Year of my age. Blessed. Blessed. Blessed!",
"",
"Let Siloah rejoice with Guidonia with a Rose-Colour'd-Flower.",
"",
"Let Benjamin a Rebuilder of Jerusalem rejoice with the Rock-Rose. Newton, bless!",
"",
"Let Malchijah Son of Harim rejoice with Crysanthemoides.",
"",
"Let Besai rejoice with Hesperis Queen's Gilly-Flow'r.",
"",
"Let Perida rejoice with Podded Fumitory.",
"",
"Let Tabbaoth rejoice with Goldy Locks. God be merciful to my wife.",
"",
"Let Bakbuk rejoice with Soft Thistle.",
"",
"Let Hodevah rejoice with Coronilla.",
"",
"Let Tobiah rejoice with Crotolaria. God be praised for his infinite goodness and mercy.",
"",
"Let Mehetabeel rejoice with Hsemanthus the Blood Flower. Blessed be the name of the Blood of the Lord Jesus.",
"",
"Let Bazlith rejoice with the Horned Poppy.",
"",
"Let Hagaba rejoice with the Turnsole. God be gracious to Cutting.",
"",
"Let Shalmai rejoice with Lycopersicum Love-apple. God be gracious to Dunn.",
"",
"Let Arah rejoice with Fritillaria the Chequer'd Tulip.",
"",
"Let Raamiah rejoice with the Double Sweetscented Pione.",
"",
"Let Hashub Son of Pahath-moab rejoice with the French Honeysuckle.",
"",
"Let Ananiah rejoice with the Corn-Flag.",
"",
"Let Nahamani rejoice with the May-apple. God give me fruit to this month.",
"",
"Let Mispereth rejoice with the Ring Parrakeet.",
"",
"Let Nehum rejoice with the Artichoke.",
"",
"Let Ginnithon rejoice with the Bottle Flower.",
"",
"Let Zidkijah rejoice with Mulberry Blight. God be gracious to Gum my fellow Prisoner.",
"",
"Let Malluch rejoice with Methonica Superb Lily.",
"",
"Let Jeremiah rejoice with Hemlock, which is good in outward application.",
"",
"Let Bilgai rejoice with Tamalapatra Indian Leaf.",
"",
"Let Maaziah rejoice with Chick Pease. God be gracious to Harris White 5th of May 1761.",
"",
"Let Kelita rejoice with Xiphion the Bulbous Iris.",
"",
"Let Pelaiah rejoice with Cloud-Berries. God be gracious to Peele and Ferry.",
"",
"Let Azaniah rejoice with the Water Lily.",
"",
"Let Rehob rejoice with Caucalis Bastard Parsley.",
"",
"Let Sherebiah rejoice with Nigella, that bears a white flower.",
"",
"Let Beninu rejoice with Heart-Pear. God be gracious to George Bening.",
"",
"Let Bunni rejoice with Bulbine -- leaves like leek, purple flower.",
"",
"Let Zatthu rejoice with the Wild Service.",
"",
"Let Hizkijah rejoice with the Dwarf American Sun-Flower.",
"",
"Let Azzur rejoice with the Globe-Thistle.",
"",
"Let Hariph rejoice with Summer Savoury.",
"",
"Let Nebai rejoice with the Wild Cucumber.",
"",
"Let Magpiash rejoice with the Musk.",
"",
"Let Hezir rejoice with Scorpion Sena.",
"",
"***",
"",
"For H is a spirit and therefore he is God.",
"",
"For I is person and therefore he is God.",
"",
"For K is king and therefore he is God.",
"",
"For L is love and therefore he is God.",
"",
"For M is musick and therefore he is God.",
"",
"For N is novelty and therefore he is God.",
"",
"For O is over and therefore he is God.",
"",
"For P is power and therefore he is God.",
"",
"For Q is quick and therefore he is God.",
"",
"For R is right and therefore he is God.",
"",
"For S is soul and therefore he is God.",
"",
"For T is truth and therefore he is God.",
"",
"For U is union and therefore he is God.",
"",
"For W is worth and therefore he is God.",
"",
"For X has the pow'r of three and therefore he is God.",
"",
"For Y is yea and therefore he is God.",
"",
"For Z is zeal and therefore he is God, whom I pray to be gracious to the Widow Davis and Davis the Bookseller.",
"",
"For Christ being A and Ω is all the intermediate letters without doubt.",
"",
"For there is a mystery in numbers.",
"",
"For One is perfect and good being at unity in himself.",
"",
"For Two is the most Imperfect of all numbers.",
"",
"For every thing infinitely perfect is Three.",
"",
"For the Devil is two being without God.",
"",
"For he is an evil spirit male and female.",
"",
"For he is called the Duce by foolish invocation on that account.",
"",
"For Three is the simplest and best of all numbers.",
"",
"For Four is good being square.",
"",
"For Five is not so good in itself but works well in combination.",
"",
"For Five is not so good in itself as it consists of two and three.",
"",
"For Six is very good consisting of twice three.",
"",
"For Seven is very good consisting of two compleat numbers.",
"",
"For Eight is good for the same reason and propitious to me Eighth of March 1761 hallelujah.",
"",
"For Nine is a number very good and harmonious.",
"",
"For Cipher is a note of augmentation very good.",
"",
"For innumerable ciphers will amount to something.",
"",
"For the mind of man cannot bear a tedious accumulation of nothings without effect.",
"",
"For infinite upon infinite they make a chain.",
"",
"For the last link is from man very nothing ascending to the first Christ the Lord of All.",
"",
"For the vowell is the female spirit in the Hebrew consonant.",
"",
"For there are more letters in all languages not communicated.",
"",
"For there are some that have the power of sentences. O rare thirteenth of march 1761.",
"",
"For St Paul was caught up into the third heavens.",
"",
"For there he heard certain words which it was not possible for him to understand.",
"",
"For they were constructed by uncommunicated letters.",
"",
"For they are signs of speech too precious to be communicated for ever.",
"",
"For after ת there follows another letter in the Hebrew tongue.",
"",
"For his name is Wau and his figure is thus .",
"",
"For the Æolians knew something of him in the spirit, but could not put him down.",
"",
"For the figures were first communicated to Esaw. God be gracious to Musgrave.",
"",
"For he was blest as a merchant.",
"",
"For the blessing of Jacob was in the spirit and Esau's for temporal thrift.",
"",
"For the story of Orpheus is of the truth.",
"",
"For there was such a person a cunning player on the harp.",
"",
"For he was a believer in the true God and assisted in the spirit.",
"",
"For he play'd upon the harp in the spirit by breathing upon the strings.",
"",
"For this will affect every thing that is sustaind by the spirit, even every thing in nature.",
"",
"For it is the business of a man gifted in the word to prophecy good.",
"",
"For it will be better for England and all the world in a season, as I prophecy this day.",
"",
"For I prophecy that they will obey the motions of the spirit descended upon them as at this day.",
"",
"For they have seen the glory of God already come down upon the trees.",
"",
"For I prophecy that it will descend upon their heads also.",
"",
"For I prophecy that the praise of God will be in every man's mouth in the Publick streets.",
"",
"For I prophecy that there will be Publick worship in the cross ways and fields.",
"",
"For I prophecy that the general salutation will be. The Lord Jesus prosper you. I wish you good luck in the name of the Lord Jesus!",
"",
"For I prophecy that there will be more mercy for criminals.",
"",
"For I prophecy that there will be less mischief concerning women.",
"",
"For I prophecy that they will be cooped up and kept under due controul.",
"",
"For I prophecy that there will be full churches and empty play-houses.",
"",
"For I prophecy that they will learn to take pleasure in glorifying God with great cheerfulness.",
"",
"For I prophecy that they will observe the Rubrick with regard to days of Fasting and Abstinence.",
"",
"For I prophecy that the clergy in particular will set a better example.",
"",
"For I prophecy that they will not dare to imprison a brother or sister for debt.",
"",
"For I prophecy that hospitality and temperance will revive.",
"",
"For I prophecy that men will be much stronger in the body.",
"",
"For I prophecy that the gout, and consumptions will be curable.",
"",
"For I prophecy that man will be as good as a Lupine.",
"",
"For the Lupine professes his Saviour in Grain.",
"",
"For the very Hebrew letter is fairly graven upon his Seed.",
"",
"For with diligence the whole Hebrew Alphabet may be found in a parcel of his seed.",
"",
"For this a stupendous evidence of the communicating God in externals.",
"",
"For I prophecy that they will call the days by better names.",
"",
"For the Lord's day is the first.",
"",
"For the following is the second.",
"",
"For so of the others untill the seventh.",
"",
"For the seventh day is the Sabbath according to the word of God direct for ever and ever.",
"",
"For I prophecy that the King will have grace to put the crown upon the altar.",
"",
"For I prophecy that the name of king in England will be given to Christ alone.",
"",
"For I prophecy that mm will live to a much greater age. This ripens apace God be praised.",
"",
"For I prophecy that they will grow taller and stronger.",
"",
"For degeneracy has done a great deal more than is in general imagined.",
"",
"For men in David's time were ten feet high in general.",
"",
"For they had degenerated also from the strength of their fathers.",
"",
"For I prophecy that players and mimes will not be named amongst us.",
"",
"For I prophecy in the favour of dancing which in mutual benevolence is for the glory of God.",
"",
"For I prophecy that the exactions of Moab will soon be at an end.",
"",
"For the Moabites even the French are in their chastisement for humiliation.",
"",
"For I prophecy that the Reformation will make way in France when Moab is made meek by being well drubbed by the English.",
"",
"For I prophecy that the Reformation will make great way by means of the Venetians.",
"",
"For the Venetian will know that the Englishman is his brother.",
"",
"For the Liturgy will obtain in all languages.",
"",
"For England is the head and not the tail.",
"",
"For England is the head of Europe in the spirit.",
"",
"For Spain, Portugal and France are the heart.",
"",
"For Holland and Germany are the middle.",
"",
"For Italy is one of the legs.",
"",
"For I prophecy that there will not be a meetinghouse within two miles of a church.",
"",
"For I prophecy that schismaticks will be detected.",
"",
"For I prophecy that men will learn the use of their knees.",
"",
"For every thing that can be done in that posture (upon the knees) is better so done than otherwise.",
"",
"For I prophecy that they will understand the blessing and virtue of the rain.",
"",
"For rain is exceedingly good for the human body.",
"",
"For it is good therefore to have flat roofs to the houses, as of old.",
"",
"For it is good to let the rain come upon the naked body unto purity and refreshment.",
"",
"For I prophecy that they will respect decency in all points.",
"",
"For they will do it in conceit, word, and motion.",
"",
"For they will go forth afield.",
"",
"For the Devil can work upon stagnating filth to a very great degree.",
"",
"For I prophecy that we shall have our horns again.",
"",
"For in the day of David Men as yet had a glorious horn upon his forehead.",
"",
"For this horn was a bright substance in colour and consistence as the nail of the hand.",
"",
"For it was broad, thick and strong so as to serve for defence as well as ornament.",
"",
"For it brightened to the Glory of God, which came upon the human face at morning prayer.",
"",
"For it was largest and brightest in the best men.",
"",
"For it was taken away all at once from all of them.",
"",
"For this was done in the divine contempt of a general pusillanimity.",
"",
"For this happened in a season after their return from the Babylonish captivity.",
"",
"For their spirits were broke and their manhood impair'd by foreign vices for exaction.",
"",
"For I prophecy that the English will recover their horns the first.",
"",
"For I prophecy that all the nations in the world will do the like in turn.",
"",
"For I prophecy that all Englishmen will wear their beards again.",
"",
"For a beard is a good step to a horn.",
"",
"For when men get their horns again, they will delight to go uncovered.",
"",
"For it is not good to wear any thing upon the head.",
"",
"For a man should put no obstacle between his head and the blessing of Almighty God.",
"",
"For a hat was an abomination of the heathen. Lord have mercy upon the Quakers.",
"",
"For the ceiling of the house is an obstacle and therefore we pray on the house-top.",
"",
"For the head will be liable to less disorders on the recovery of its horn.",
"",
"For the horn on the forehead is a tower upon an arch.",
"",
"For it is a strong munition against the adversary, who is sickness and death.",
"",
"For it is instrumental in subjecting the woman.",
"",
"For the insolence of the woman has increased ever since Man has been crest-fallen.",
"",
"For they have turned the horn into scoff and derision without ceasing.",
"",
"For we are amerced of God, who has his horn.",
"",
"For we are amerced of the blessed angels, who have their horns.",
"",
"For when they get their horns again they will put them upon the altar.",
"",
"For they give great occasion for mirth and musick.",
"",
"For our Blessed Saviour had not his horn upon the face of the earth.",
"",
"For this was in meekness and condescension to the infirmities of human nature at that time.",
"",
"For at his second coming his horn will be exalted in glory.",
"",
"For his horn is the horn of Salvation.",
"",
"For Christ Jesus has exalted my voice to his own glory.",
"",
"For he has answered me in the air as with a horn from Heaven to the ears of many people.",
"",
"For the horn is of plenty.",
"",
"For this has been the sense of all ages.",
"",
"For Man and Earth suffer together.",
"",
"For when Man was amerced of his horn, earth lost part of her fertility.",
"",
"For the art of Agriculture is improving.",
"",
"For this is evident in flowers.",
"",
"For it is more especially manifest in double flowers.",
"",
"For earth will get it up again by the blessing of God on the industry of man.",
"",
"For the horn is of plenty because of milk and honey.",
"",
"For I pray God be gracious to the Bees and the Beeves this day."
],
"title": "Jubilate Agno: Fragment C"
}
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