’Twas in that mellow1 season of the year
When the hot sun singes2 the yellow leaves
Till they be gold — and with a broader sphere
The Moon looks down on Ceres and her sheaves;
When more abundantly the spider weaves,
And the cold wind breathes from a chillier3 clime; —
That forth4 I fared, on one of those still eves,
Touch’d with the dewy sadness of the time,
To think how the bright months had spent their prime,
2.
So that, wherever I address’d my way,
I seem’d to track the melancholy5 feet
Of him that is the Father of Decay,
And spoils at once the sour weed and the sweet; —
Wherefore regretfully I made retreat
To some unwasted regions of my brain,
Charm’d with the light of summer and the heat,
And bade that bounteous6 season bloom again,
And sprout7 fresh flowers in mine own domain9.
3.
It was a shady and sequester’d scene,
Like those famed gardens of Boccaccio,
Planted with his own laurels10 evergreen11,
And roses that for endless summer blow;
And there were fountain springs to overflow12
Their marble basins — and cool green arcades14
Of tall o’erarching sycamores, to throw
Athwart the dappled path their dancing shades —
With timid coneys cropping the green blades.
4.
And there were crystal pools, peopled with fish,
Argent and gold; and some of Tyrian skin,
Some crimson-barr’d; — and ever at a wish
They rose obsequious16 till the wave grew thin
As glass upon their backs, and then dived in,
Quenching17 their ardent19 scales in watery20 gloom;
Whilst others with fresh hues21 row’d forth to win
My changeable regard — for so we doom22
Things born of thought to vanish or to bloom.
5.
And there were many birds of many dyes,
From tree to tree still faring to and fro,
And stately peacocks with their splendid eyes,
And gorgeous pheasants with their golden glow,
Like Iris23 just bedabbled in her bow,
Beside some vocalists, without a name,
That oft on fairy errands come and go,
With accents magical; — and all were tame,
And peckled at my hand where’er I came.
6.
And for my sylvan25 company, in lieu
Of Pampinea with her lively peers,
Sate26 Queen Titania with her pretty crew,
All in their liveries quaint27, with elfin gears,
For she was gracious to my childish years,
And made me free of her enchanted28 round;
Wherefore this dreamy scene she still endears,
And plants her court upon a verdant29 mound30,
Fenced with umbrageous31 woods and groves32 profound.
7.
“Ah me,” she cries, “was ever moonlight seen
So clear and tender for our midnight trips?
Go some one forth, and with a trump34 convene35
My lieges all!”— Away the goblin skips
A pace or two apart, and deftly36 strips
The ruddy skin from a sweet rose’s cheek,
Then blows the shuddering37 leaf between his lips,
Making it utter forth a shrill38 small shriek39,
Like a fray40’d bird in the gray owlet’s beak42.
8.
And lo! upon my fix’d delighted ken43
Appear’d the loyal Fays. — Some by degrees
Crept from the primrose44 buds that open’d then,
Ana some from bell-shaped blossoms like the bees,
Some from the dewy meads, and rushy leas,
Flew up like chafers when the rustics49 pass;
Some from the rivers, others from tall trees
Dropp’d, like shed blossoms, silent to the grass,
Spirits and elfins small, of every class.
9.
Peri and Pixy, and quaint Puck the Antic,
Brought Robin51 Goodfellow, that merry swain;
And stealthy Mab, queen of old realms romantic,
Came too, from distance, in her tiny wain,
Fresh dripping from a cloud — some bloomy rain,
Then circling the bright Moon, had wash’d her car,
And still bedew’d it with a various stain:
Lastly came Ariel, shooting from a star,
Who bears all fairy embassies afar.
10.
But Oberon, that night elsewhere exiled,
Was absent, whether some distemper’d spleen
Kept him and his fair mate unreconciled,
Or warfare53 with the Gnome54 (whose race had been
Sometime obnoxious), kept him from his queen,
And made her now peruse55 the starry56 skies
Prophetical, with such an absent mien57;
Howbeit, the tears stole often to her eyes,
And oft the Moon was incensed59 with her sighs —
11.
Which made the elves sport drearily60, and soon
Their hushing dances languish’d to a stand,
Like midnight leaves, when, as the Zephyrs63 swoon,
All on their drooping64 stems they sink unfann’d —
So into silence droop65’d the fairy band,
To see their empress dear so pale and still,
Crowding her softly round on either hand,
As pale as frosty snowdrops, and as chill,
To whom the sceptred dame66 reveals her ill.
12.
“Alas67,” quoth she, “ye know our fairy lives
Are leased upon the fickle68 faith of men;
Not measured out against Fate’s mortal knives,
Like human gosamers — we perish when
We fade and are forgot in worldly kens69 —
Though poesy has thus prolong’d our date,
Thanks be to the sweet Bard70’s auspicious71 pen
That rescued us so long! — howbeit of late
I feel some dark misgivings72 of our fate.”
13.
“And this dull day my melancholy sleep
Hath been so thronged73 with images of woe75,
That even now I cannot choose but weep
To think this was some sad prophetic show
Of future horror to befall us so,
Of mortal wreck76 and uttermost distress77,
Yea, our poor empire’s fall and overthrow78,
For this was my long vision’s dreadful stress,
And when I waked my trouble was not less.”
14.
“Whenever to the clouds I tried to seek,
Such leaden weight dragg’d these Icarian wings,
My faithless wand was wavering and weak,
And slimy toads81 had trespass’d in our rings —
The birds refused to sing for me — all things
Disown’d their old allegiance to our spells;
The rude bees prick’d me with their rebel stings;
And, when I pass’d, the valley-lily’s bells
Rang out, methought, most melancholy knells82.”
15.
“And ever on the faint and flagging air
A doleful spirit with a dreary84 note
Cried in my fearful ear, ‘Prepare! prepare!’
Which soon I knew came from a raven’s throat,
Perch’d on a cypress85-bough86 not far remote —
A cursed bird, too crafty88 to be shot,
That alway cometh with his soot-black coat
To make hearts dreary:— for he is a blot89
Upon the book of life, as well ye wot! —”
16.
“Wherefore some while I bribed90 him to be mute,
With bitter acorns91 stuffing his foul92 maw,
Which barely I appeased93, when some fresh bruit94
Startled me all aheap! — and soon I saw
The horridest shape that ever raised my awe96 —
A monstrous97 giant, very huge and tall,
Such as in elder times, devoid98 of law,
With wicked might grieved the primeval ball,
And this was sure the deadliest of them all!”
17.
“Gaunt was he as a wolf of Languedoc,
With bloody99 jaws100, and frost upon his crown
So from his barren poll one hoary101 lock
Over his wrinkled front fell far adown,
Well nigh to where his frosty brows did frown
Like jagged icicles at cottage eaves;
And for his coronal he wore some brown
And bristled102 ears gather’d from Ceres’ sheaves,
Entwined with certain sere103 and russet leaves.”
18.
“And lo! upon a mast rear’d far aloft,
He bore a very bright and crescent blade,
The which he waved so dreadfully, and oft,
In meditative104 spite, that, sore dismay’d,
I crept into an acorn-cup for shade;
Meanwhile the horrid95 effigy105 went by:
I trow his look was dreadful, for it made
The trembling birds betake them to the sky,
For every leaf was lifted by his sigh.”
19.
“And ever, as he sigh’d, his foggy breath
Blurr’d out the landscape like a flight of smoke:
Thence knew I this was either dreary Death
Or Time, who leads all creatures to his stroke.
Ah wretched me!”— Here, even as she spoke107,
The melancholy Shape came gliding108 in,
And lean’d his back against an antique oak,
Folding his wings, that were so fine and thin,
They scarce were seen against the Dryad’s skin.
20.
Then what a fear seized all the little rout8!
Look how a flock of panick’d sheep will stare —
And huddle109 close — and start — and wheel about,
Watching the roaming mongrel here and there —
So did that sudden Apparition110 scare
All close aheap those small affrighted things;
Nor sought they now the safety of the air,
As if some leaden spell withheld111 their wings;
But who can fly that ancientest of Kings?
21.
Whom now the Queen, with a forestalling112 tear
And previous sigh, beginneth to entreat113,
Bidding him spare, for love, her lieges dear:
“Alas!” quoth she, “is there no nodding wheat
Ripe for thy crooked114 weapon, and more meet —
Or wither’d leaves to ravish from the tree —
Or crumbling115 battlements for thy defeat?
Think but what vaunting monuments there be
Builded in spite and mockery of thee.”
22.
“O fret116 away the fabric117 walls of Fame,
And grind down marble C?sars with the dust:
Make tombs inscriptionless — raze118 each high name,
And waste old armors of renown119 with rust48:
Do all of this, and thy revenge is just:
Make such decays the trophies120 of thy prime,
And check Ambition’s overweening lust121,
That dares exterminating122 war with Time —
But we are guiltless of that lofty crime.”
23.
“Frail123 feeble spirits! — the children of a dream!
Leased on the sufferance of fickle men,
Like motes124 dependent on the sunny beam,
Living but in the sun’s indulgent ken,
And when that light withdraws, withdrawing then; —
So do we flutter in the glance of youth
And fervid125 fancy — and so perish when
The eye of faith grows aged126; — in sad truth,
Feeling thy sway, O Time! though not thy tooth!”
24.
“Where be those old divinities forlorn,
That dwelt in trees, or haunted in a stream?
Alas! their memories are dimm’d and torn,
Like the remainder tatters of a dream:
So will it fare with our poor thrones, I deem; —
For us the same dark trench127 Oblivion delves128,
That holds the wastes of every human scheme.
O spare us then — and these our pretty elves —
We soon, alas! shall perish of ourselves!”
25.
Now as she ended, with a sigh, to name
Those old Olympians, scatter130’d by the whirl
Of Fortune’s giddy wheel and brought to shame,
Methought a scornful and malignant131 curl
Show’d on the lips of that malicious132 churl133,
To think what noble havocs136 he had made;
So that I fear’d he all at once would hurl134
The harmless fairies into endless shade —
Howbeit he stopp’d awhile to whet52 his blade.
26.
Pity it was to hear the elfins’ wail137
Rise up in concert from their mingled139 dread79,
Pity it was to see them, all so pale,
Gaze on the grass as for a dying bed; —
But Puck was seated on a spider’s thread,
That hung between two branches of a briar,
And ‘gan to swing and gambol140, heels o’er head,
Like any Southwark tumbler on a wire,
For him no present grief could long inspire.
27.
Meanwhile the Queen with many piteous drops,
Falling like tiny sparks full fast and free,
Bedews a pathway from her throne; — and stops
Before the foot of her arch enemy,
And with her little arms enfolds his knee,
That shows more grisly from that fair embrace;
But she will ne’er depart. “Alas!” quoth she,
“My painful fingers I will here enlace
Till I have gain’d your pity for our race.”
28.
“What have we ever done to earn this grudge141,
And hate —(if not too humble142 for thy hating?)—
Look o’er our labors143 and our lives, and judge
If there be any ills of our creating;
For we are very kindly144 creatures, dating
With nature’s charities still sweet and bland145:—
O think this murder worthy146 of debating!”
Herewith she makes a signal with her hand,
To beckon147 some one from the Fairy band.
29.
Anon I saw one of those elfin things,
Clad all in white like any chorister,
Come fluttering forth on his melodious148 wings,
That made soft music at each little stir,
But something louder than a bee’s demur149
Before he lights upon a bunch of broom,
And thus ‘gan he with Saturn150 to confer —
And O his voice was sweet, touch’d with the gloom
Of that sad theme that argued of his doom!
30.
Quoth he, “We make all melodies our care,
That no false discords152 may offend the Sun,
Music’s great master — tuning153 everywhere
All pastoral sounds and melodies, each one
Duly to place and season, so that none
May harshly interfere154. We rouse at morn
The shrill sweet lark155; and when the day is done,
Hush61 silent pauses for the bird forlorn,
That singeth with her breast against a thorn.”
31.
“We gather in loud choirs156 the twittering race,
That make a chorus with their single note;
And tend on new-fledged birds in every place,
That duly they may get their tunes157 by rote158;
And oft, like echoes, answering remote,
We hide in thickets159 from the feather’d throng74,
And strain in rivalship each throbbing160 throat,
Singing in shrill responses all day long,
Whilst the glad truant161 listens to our song.”
32.
“Wherefore, great King of Years, as thou dost love
The raining music from a morning cloud,
When vanish’d larks162 are carolling above,
To wake Apollo with their pipings loud; —
If ever thou hast heard in leafy shroud163
The sweet and plaintive164 Sappho of the dell,
Show thy sweet mercy on this little crowd,
And we will muffle165 up the sheepfold bell
Whene’er thou listenest to Philomel.”
33.
Then Saturn thus; —“Sweet is the merry lark,
That carols in man’s ear so clear and strong;
And youth must love to listen in the dark
That tuneful elegy166 of Tereus’ wrong;
But I have heard that ancient strain too long,
For sweet is sweet but when a little strange,
And I grow weary for some newer song;
For wherefore had I wings, unless to range
Through all things mutable, from change to change?”
34.
“But would’st thou hear the melodies of Time,
Listen when sleep and drowsy167 darkness roll
Over hush’d cities, and the midnight chime
Sounds from their hundred clocks, and deep bells toll168
Like a last knell83 over the dead world’s soul,
Saying, ‘Time shall be final of all things,
Whose late, last voice must elegize the whole,’—
O then I clap aloft my brave broad wings,
And make the wide air tremble while it rings!”
35.
Then next a fair Eve-Fay made meek169 address,
Saying, “We be the handmaids of the Spring;
In sign whereof, May, the quaint broideress,
Hath wrought170 her samplers on our gauzy wing.
We tend upon buds birth and blossoming,
And count the leafy tributes that they owe —
As, so much to the earth — so much to fling
In showers to the brook171 — so much to go
In whirlwinds to the clouds that made them grow.”
36.
“The pastoral cowslips are our little pets,
And daisy stars, whose firmament172 is green;
Pansies, and those veil’d nuns173, meek violets,
Sighing to that warm world from which they screen;
And golden daffodils, pluck’d for May’s Queen;
And lonely harebells, quaking on the heath;
And Hyacinth, long since a fair youth seen,
Whose tuneful voice, turn’d fragrance175 in his breath,
Kiss’d by sad Zephyr62, guilty of his death.”
37.
“The widow’d primrose weeping to the moon
And saffron crocus in whose chalice176 bright
A cool libation hoarded177 for the noon
Is kept — and she that purifies the light,
The virgin178 lily, faithful to her white,
Whereon Eve wept in Eden for her shame;
And the most dainty rose, Aurora’s spright,
Our every godchild, by whatever name —
Spares us our lives, for we did nurse the same!”
38.
Then that old Mower180 stamp’d his heel, and struck
His hurtful scythe181 against the harmless ground,
Saying, “Ye foolish imps183, when am I stuck
With gaudy184 buds, or like a wooer crown’d
With flow’ry chaplets, save when they are found
Withered185? — Whenever have I pluck’d a rose,
Except to scatter its vain leaves around?
For so all gloss186 of beauty I oppose,
And bring decay on every flow’r that blows.”
39.
“Or when am I so wroth as when I view
The wanton pride of Summer; — how she decks
The birthday world with blossoms ever-new,
As if Time had not lived, and heap’d great wrecks187
Of years on years? — O then I bravely vex188
And catch the gay Months in their gaudy plight189,
And slay190 them with the wreaths about their necks,
Like foolish heifers in the holy rite191,
And raise great trophies to my ancient might.”
40.
Then saith another, “We are kindly things,
And like her offspring nestle with the dove —
Witness these hearts embroidered192 on our wings,
To show our constant patronage193 of love:—
We sit at even, in sweet bow’rs above
Lovers, and shake rich odors on the air,
To mingle138 with their sighs; and still remove
The startling owl41, and bid the bat forbear
Their privacy, and haunt some other where.”
41.
“And we are near the mother when she sits
Beside her infant in its wicker bed;
And we are in the fairy scene that flits
Across its tender brain: sweet dreams we shed,
And whilst the tender little soul is fled,
Away, to sport with our young elves, the while
We touch the dimpled cheek with roses red,
And tickle195 the soft lips until they smile,
So that their careful parents they beguile196.”
42.
“O then, if ever thou hast breathed a vow197
At Love’s dear portal, or at pale moon-rise
Crush’d the dear curl on a regardful brow,
That did not frown thee from thy honey prize —
If ever thy sweet son sat on thy thighs198,
And wooed thee from thy careful thoughts within
To watch the harmless beauty of his eyes,
Or glad thy fingers on his smooth soft skin,
For Love’s dear sake, let us thy pity win!”
43.
Then Saturn fiercely thus:—“What joy have I
In tender babes, that have devour’d mine own,
Whenever to the light I heard them cry,
Till foolish Rhea cheated me with stone?
Whereon, till now, is my great hunger shown,
In monstrous dint199 of my enormous tooth;
And — but the peopled world is too full grown
For hunger’s edge — I would consume all youth
At one great meal, without delay or ruth!”
44.
“For I am well nigh crazed and wild to hear
How boastful fathers taunt201 me with their breed,
Saying, ‘We shall not die nor disappear,
But, in these other selves, ourselves succeed
Ev’n as ripe flowers pass into their seed
Only to be renew’d from prime to prime,’
All of which boastings I am forced to read,
Besides a thousand challenges to Time,
Which bragging202 lovers have compiled in rhyme.”
45.
“Wherefore, when they are sweetly met o’ nights,
There will I steal and with my hurried hand
Startle them suddenly from their delights
Before the next encounter hath been plann’d,
Ravishing hours in little minutes spann’d;
But when they say farewell, and grieve apart,
Then like a leaden statue I will stand,
Meanwhile their many tears encrust my dart203,
And with a ragged204 edge cut heart from heart.”
46.
Then next a merry Woodsman, clad in green,
Step vanward from his mates, that idly stood
Each at his proper ease, as they had been
Nursed in the liberty of old Shérwood,
And wore the livery of Robin Hood205,
Who wont206 in forest shades to dine and sup —
So came this chief right frankly207, and made good
His haunch against his axe208, and thus spoke up,
Doffing209 his cap, which was an acorn’s cup:—
47.
“We be small foresters and gay, who tend
On trees, and all their furniture of green,
Training the young boughs210 airily to bend,
And show blue snatches of the sky between; —
Or knit more close intricacies, to screen
Birds’ crafty dwellings211, as may hide them best,
But most the timid blackbird’s — she that, seen,
Will bear black poisonous berries to her nest,
Lest man should cage the darlings of her breast.”
48.
“We bend each tree in proper attitude,
And founting willows212 train in silvery falls;
We frame all shady roofs and arches rude,
And verdant aisles213 leading to Dryads’ halls,
Or deep recesses214 where the Echo calls; —
We shape all plumy trees against the sky,
And carve tall elms’ Corinthian capitals —
When sometimes, as our tiny hatchets215 ply216,
Men say, the tapping woodpecker is nigh.”
49.
“Sometimes we scoop217 the squirrel’s hollow cell,
And sometimes carve quaint letters on trees’ rind,
That haply some lone174 musing218 wight may spell
Dainty Aminta — Gentle Rosalind —
Or chastest Laura — sweetly call’d to mind
In sylvan solitudes219, ere he lies down; —
And sometimes we enrich gray stems with twined
And vagrant220 ivy221 — or rich moss222, whose brown
Burns into gold as the warm sun goes down.”
50.
“And, lastly, for mirth’s sake and Christmas cheer,
We bear the seedling223 berries, for increase,
To graft224 the Druid oaks, from year to year,
Careful that mistletoe may never cease; —
Wherefore, if thou dost prize the shady peace
Of sombre forests, or to see light break
Through sylvan cloisters225, and in spring release
Thy spirit amongst leaves from careful ake,
Spare us our lives for the Green Dryad’s sake.”
51.
Then Saturn, with a frown:—“Go forth, and fell
Oak for your coffins226, and thenceforth lay by
Your axes for the rust, and bid farewell
To all sweet birds, and the blue peeps of sky
Through tangled228 branches, for ye shall not spy
The next green generation of the tree;
But hence with the dead leaves, whene’e they fly —
Which in the bleak229 air I would rather see,
Than flights of the most tuneful birds that be.”
52.
“For I dislike all prime, and verdant pets,
Ivy except, that on the aged wall
Prays with its worm-like roots, and daily frets230
The crumbled231 tower it seems to league withal,
King-like, worn down by its own coronal:—
Neither in forest haunts love I to won,
Before the golden plumage ‘gins to fall,
And leaves the brown bleak limbs with few leaves on,
Or bare — like Nature in her skeleton.”
53.
“For then sit I amongst the crooked boughs,
Wooing dull Memory with kindred sighs;
And there in rustling232 nuptials233 we espouse234,
Smit by the sadness in each other’s eyes; —
But Hope must have green bowers235 and blue skies,
And must be courted with the gauds of Spring;
Whilst Youth leans god-like on her lap, and cries,
‘What shall we always do, but love and sing?’—
And Time is reckon’d a discarded thing.”
54.
Here in my dream it made me fret to see
How Puck, the antic, all this dreary while
Had blithely237 jested with calamity238,
With mis-timed mirth mocking the doleful style
Of his sad comrades, till it raised my bile
To see him so reflect their grief aside,
Turning their solemn looks to have a smile —
Like a straight stick shown crooked in the tide; —
But soon a novel advocate I spied.
55.
Quoth he —“We teach all natures to fulfil
Their fore-appointed crafts, and instincts meet —
The bee’s sweet alchemy — the spider’s skill —
The pismire’s care to garner240 up his wheat —
And rustic47 masonry241 to swallows fleet —
The lapwing’s cunning to preserve her nest —
But most, that lesser242 pelican243, the sweet
And shrilly244 ruddock, with its bleeding breast,
Its tender pity of poor babes distrest.”
56.
“Sometimes we cast our shapes, and in sleek245 skins
Delve129 with the timid mole246, that aptly delves
From our example; so the spider spins,
And eke247 the silk-worm, pattern’d by ourselves:
Sometimes we travail248 on the summer shelves
Of early bees, and busy toils249 commence,
Watch’d of wise men, that know not we are elves,
But gaze and marvel250 at our stretch of sense,
And praise our human-like intelligence.”
57.
“Wherefore, by thy delight in that old tale,
And plaintive dirges251 the late robins252 sing,
What time the leaves are scatter’d by the gale253,
Mindful of that old forest burying; —
As thou dost love to watch each tiny thing,
For whom our craft most curiously254 contrives255,
If thou hast caught a bee upon the wing,
To take his honey-bag — spare us our lives,
And we will pay the ransom256 in full hives.”
58.
“Now by my glass,” quoth Time, “ye do offend
In teaching the brown bees that careful lore257,
And frugal258 ants, whose millions would have end,
But they lay up for need a timely store,
And travail with the seasons evermore;
Whereas Great Mammoth259 long hath pass’d away,
And none but I can tell what hide he wore;
Whilst purblind260 men, the creatures of a day,
In riddling261 wonder his great bones survey.”
59.
Then came an elf, right beauteous to behold262,
Whose coat was like a brooklet263 that the sun
Hath all embroider’d with its crooked gold,
It was so quaintly264 wrought and overrun
With spangled traceries — most meet for one
That was a warden265 of the pearly streams; —
And as he stept out of the shadows dun,
His jewels sparkled in the pale moon’s gleams,
And shot into the air their pointed239 beams.
60.
Quoth he — “We bear the gold and silver keys
Of bubbling springs and fountains, that below
Course thro’ the veiny266 earth — which when they freeze
Into hard crysolites, we bid to flow,
Creeping like subtle snakes, when, as they go,
We guide their windings267 to melodious falls,
At whose soft murmurings, so sweet and low,
Poets have tuned268 their smoothest madrigals,
To sing to ladies in their banquet-halls.”
61.
“And when the hot sun with his steadfast269 heat
Parches270 the river god — whose dusty urn151
Drips miserly, till soon his crystal feet
Against his pebbly271 floor wax faint and burn
And languid fish, unpoised, grow sick and yearn272 —
Then scoop we hollows in some sandy nook,
And little channels dig, wherein we turn
The thread-worn rivulet273, that all forsook274
The Naiad-lily, pining for her brook.”
62.
“Wherefore, by thy delight in cool green meads,
With living sapphires275 daintily inlaid —
In all soft songs of waters and their reeds —
And all reflections in a streamlet made,
Haply of thy own love, that, disarray’d,
Kills the fair lily with a livelier white —
By silver trouts upspringing from green shade,
And winking276 stars reduplicate at night,
Spare us, poor ministers to such delight.”
63.
Howbeit his pleading and his gentle looks
Moved not the spiteful Shade:— Quoth he, “Your taste
Shoots wide of mine, for I despise the brooks277
And slavish rivulets278 that run to waste
In noontide sweats, or, like poor vassals279, haste
To swell280 the vast dominion281 of the sea,
In whose great presence I am held disgraced,
And neighbor’d with a king that rivals me
In ancient might and hoary majesty282.”
64.
“Whereas I ruled in Chaos283, and still keep
The awful secrets of that ancient dearth284,
Before the briny285 fountains of the deep
Brimm’d up the hollow cavities of earth; —
I saw each trickling286 Sea-God at his birth,
Each pearly Naiad with her oozy287 locks,
And infant Titans of enormous girth,
Whose huge young feet yet stumbled on the rocks,
Stunning288 the early world with frequent shocks.”
65.
“Where now is Titan, with his cumbrous brood,
That scared the world? — By this sharp scythe they fell,
And half the sky was curdled289 with their blood:
So have all primal290 giants sigh’d farewell.
No wardens291 now by sedgy fountains dwell,
Nor pearly Naiads. All their days are done
That strove with Time, untimely, to excel;
Wherefore I razed200 their progenies, and none
But my great shadow intercepts292 the sun!”
66.
Then saith the timid Fay —“Oh, mighty293 Time!
Well hast thou wrought the cruel Titans’ fall,
For they were stain’d with many a bloody crime:
Great giants work great wrongs — but we are small,
For love goes lowly; — but Oppression’s tall,
And with surpassing strides goes foremost still
Where love indeed can hardly reach at all;
Like a poor dwarf295 o’erburthen’d with good will,
That labors to efface296 the tracks of ill. —”
67.
“Man even strives with Man, but we eschew297
The guilty feud298, and all fierce strifes abhor300;
Nay301, we are gentle as the sweet heaven’s dew,
Beside the red and horrid drops of war,
Weeping the cruel hates men battle for,
Which worldly bosoms302 nourish in our spite:
For in the gentle breast we ne’er withdraw,
But only when all love hath taken flight,
And youth’s warm gracious heart is hardened quite.”
68.
“So are our gentle natures intertwined
With sweet humanities, and closely knit
In kindly sympathy with human kind.
Witness how we befriend, with elfin wit,
All hopeless maids and lovers — nor omit
Magical succors304 unto hearts forlorn:—
We charm man’s life, and do not perish it; —
So judge us by the helps we showed this morn,
To one who held his wretched days in scorn.”
69.
“’Twas nigh sweet Amwell; — for the Queen had task’d
Our skill to-day amidst the silver Lea,
Whereon the noontide sun had not yet bask’d,
Wherefore some patient man we thought to see,
Planted in moss-grown rushes to the knee,
Beside the cloudy margin306 cold and dim; —
Howbeit no patient fisherman was he
That cast his sudden shadow from the brim,
Making us leave our toils to gaze on him.”
70.
“His face was ashy pale, and leaden care
Had sunk the levell’d arches of his brow,
Once bridges for his joyous307 thoughts to fare
Over those melancholy springs and slow,
That from his piteous eyes began to flow,
And fell anon into the chilly308 stream;
Which, as his mimick’d image show’d below,
Wrinkled his face with many a needless seam,
Making grief sadder in its own esteem309.”
71.
“And lo! upon the air we saw him stretch
His passionate310 arms; and, in a wayward strain,
He ‘gan to elegize that fellow wretch106
That with mute gestures answer’d him again,
Saying, ‘Poor slave, how long wilt311 thou remain
Life’s sad weak captive in a prison strong,
Hoping with tears to rust away thy chain,
In bitter servitude to worldly wrong? —
Thou wear’st that mortal livery too long!’”
72.
“This, with more spleenful speeches and some tears,
When he had spent upon the imaged wave,
Speedily I convened312 my elfin peers
Under the lily-cups, that we might save
This woeful mortal from a wilful313 grave
By shrewd diversions of his mind’s regret,
Seeing he was mere314 Melancholy’s slave,
That sank wherever a dark cloud he met,
And straight was tangled in her secret net.”
73.
“Therefore, as still he watch’d the water’s flow,
Daintily we transform’d, and with bright fins50
Came glancing through the gloom; some from below
Rose like dim fancies when a dream begins,
Snatching the light upon their purple skins;
Then under the broad leaves made slow retire:
One like a golden galley315 bravely wins
Its radiant course — another glows like fire —
Making that wayward man our pranks316 admire.”
74.
“And so he banish’d thought, and quite forgot
All contemplation of that wretched face;
And so we wiled317 him from that lonely spot
Along the river’s brink318; till, by heaven’s grace,
He met a gentle haunter of the place,
Full of sweet wisdom gather’d from the brooks,
Who there discuss’d his melancholy case
With wholesome319 texts learned from kind nature’s books,
Meanwhile he newly trimm’d his lines and hooks.”
75.
Herewith the Fairy ceased. Quoth Ariel now —
“Let me remember how I saved a man,
Whose fatal noose320 was fastened on a bough,
Intended to abridge321 his sad life’s span;
For haply I was by when he began
His stern soliloquy in life dispraise,
And overheard his melancholy plan,
How he had made a vow to end his days,
And therefore follow’d him in all his ways.”
76.
“Through brake and tangled copse, for much he loathed322
All populous323 haunts, and roam’d in forests rude,
To hide himself from man. But I had clothed
My delicate limbs with plumes324, and still pursued,
Where only foxes and wild cats intrude325,
Till we were come beside an ancient tree
Late blasted by a storm. Here he renew’d
His loud complaints — choosing that spot to be
The scene of his last horrid tragedy.”
77.
“It was a wild and melancholy glen,
Made gloomy by tall firs and cypress dark,
Whose roots, like any bones of buried men,
Push’d through the rotten sod for fear’s remark;
A hundred horrid stems, jagged and stark326,
Wrestled327 with crooked arms in hideous328 fray,
Besides sleek ashes with their dappled bark,
Like crafty serpents climbing for a prey329,
With many blasted oaks moss-grown and gray.”
78.
“But here upon his final desperate clause
Suddenly I pronounced so sweet a strain,
Like a pang’d nightingale, it made him pause,
Till half the frenzy330 of his grief was slain331,
The sad remainder oozing332 from his brain
In timely ecstasies333 of healing tears,
Which through his ardent eyes began to drain; —
Meanwhile the deadly Fates unclosed their shears:—
So pity me and all my fated peers!”
79.
Thus Ariel ended, and was some time hush’d:
When with the hoary shape a fresh tongue pleads,
And red as rose the gentle Fairy blush’d
To read the records of her own good deeds:—
“It chanced,” quoth she, “in seeking through the meads
For honied cowslips, sweetest in the morn,
Whilst yet the buds were hung with dewy beads334.”
And Echo answered to the huntsman’s horn,
We found a babe left in the swaths forlorn.
80.
“A little, sorrowful, deserted335 thing,
Begot336 of love, and yet no love begetting337;
Guiltless of shame, and yet for shame to wring338;
And too soon banish’d from a mother’s petting,
To churlish nurture339 and the wide world’s fretting340,
For alien pity and unnatural341 care; —
Alas! to see how the cold dew kept wetting
His childish coats, and dabbled24 all his hair,
Like gossamers across his forehead fair.”
81.
“His pretty pouting342 mouth, witless of speech,
Lay half-way open like a rose-lipp’d shell;
And his young cheek was softer than a peach,
Whereon his tears, for roundness, could not dwell,
But quickly roll’d themselves to pearls, and fell,
Some on the grass, and some against his hand,
Or haply wander’d to the dimpled well,
Which love beside his mouth had sweetly plann’d,
Yet not for tears, but mirth and smilings bland.”
82.
“Pity it was to see those frequent tears
Falling regardless from his friendless eyes;
There was such beauty in those twin blue spheres,
As any mother’s heart might leap to prize;
Blue were they, like the zenith of the skies
Softened343 betwixt two clouds, both clear and mild; —
Just touched with thought, and yet not over wise,
They show’d the gentle spirit of a child,
Not yet by care or any craft defiled344.”
83.
“Pity it was to see the ardent sun
Scorching345 his helpless limbs — it shone so warm;
For kindly shade or shelter he had none,
Nor mother’s gentle breast, come fair or storm.
Meanwhile I bade my pitying mates transform
Like grasshoppers346, and then, with shrilly cries,
All round the infant noisily we swarm348,
Haply some passing rustic to advise —
Whilst providential Heaven our care espies349.”
84.
“And sends full soon a tender-hearted hind350,
Who, wond’ring at our loud unusual note,
Strays curiously aside, and so doth find
The orphan351 child laid in the grass remote,
And laps the foundling in his russet coat,
Who thence was nurtured352 in his kindly cot:—
But how he prosper353’d let proud London quote,
How wise, how rich, and how renown’d he got,
And chief of all her citizens, I wot.”
85.
“Witness his goodly vessels354 on the Thames,
Whose holds were fraught355 with costly356 merchandise —
Jewels from Ind, and pearls for courtly dames357,
And gorgeous silks that Samarcand supplies:
Witness that Royal Bourse he bade arise,
The mart of merchants from the East and West:
Whose slender summit, pointing to the skies,
Still bears, in token of his grateful breast,
The tender grasshopper347, his chosen crest358 —”
86.
“The tender grasshopper, his chosen crest,
That all the summer, with a tuneful wing,
Makes merry chirpings in its grassy359 nest,
Inspirited with dew to leap and sing:—
So let us also live, eternal King!
Partakers of the green and pleasant earth:—
Pity it is to slay the meanest thing,
That, like a mote87, shines in the smile of mirth:—
Enough there is of joy’s decrease and dearth!”
87.
“Enough of pleasure, and delight, and beauty,
Perish’d and gone, and hasting to decay; —
Enough to sadden even thee, whose duty
Or spite it is to havoc135 and to slay:
Too many a lovely race razed quite away,
Hath left large gaps in life and human loving; —
Here then begin thy cruel war to stay,
And spare fresh sighs, and tears, and groans360, reproving
Thy desolating361 hand for our removing.”
88.
Now here I heard a shrill and sudden cry,
And, looking up, I saw the antic Puck
Grappling with Time, who clutch’d him like a fly,
Victim of his own sport — the jester’s luck!
He, whilst his fellows grieved, poor wight, had stuck
His freakish gauds upon the Ancient’s brow,
And now his ear, and now his beard, would pluck;
Whereas the angry churl had snatched him now,
Crying, “Thou impish mischief362, who art thou?”
89.
“Alas!” quoth Puck, “a little random363 elf,
Born in the sport of nature, like a weed,
For simple sweet enjoyment364 of myself,
But for no other purpose, worth, or need;
And yet withal of a most happy breed;
And there is Robin Goodfellow besides,
My partner dear in many a prankish365 deed
To make dame Laughter hold her jolly sides,
Like merry mummers twain on holy tides.”
90.
“’Tis we that bob the angler’s idle cork366,
Till e’en the patient man breathes half a curse;
We steal the morsel367 from the gossip’s fork,
And curdling368 looks with secret straws disperse369,
Or stop the sneezing chanter at mid15 verse:
And when an infant’s beauty prospers370 ill,
We change, some mothers say, the child at nurse:
But any graver purpose to fulfil,
We have not wit enough, and scarce the will.”
91.
“We never let the canker melancholy
To gather on our faces like a rust,
But glass our features with some change of folly371,
Taking life’s fabled372 miseries373 on trust,
But only sorrowing when sorrow must:
We ruminate374 no sage’s solemn cud,
But own ourselves a pinch of lively dust
To frisk upon a wind — whereas the flood
Of tears would turn us into heavy mud.”
92.
“Beshrew those sad interpreters of nature,
Who gloze her lively universal law,
As if she had not form’d our cheerful feature
To be so tickled375 with the slightest straw!
So let them vex their mumbling376 mouths, and draw
The corners downward, like a wat’ry moon,
And deal in gusty377 sighs and rainy flaw —
We will not woo foul weather all too soon,
Or nurse November on the lap of June.”
93.
“For ours are winging sprites, like any bird,
That shun378 all stagnant379 settlements of grief;
And even in our rest our hearts are stirr’d,
Like insects settled on a dancing leaf:—
This is our small philosophy in brief,
Which thus to teach hath set me all agape:
But dost thou relish380 it? O hoary chief!
Unclasp thy crooked fingers from my nape,
And I will show thee many a pleasant scrape.”
94.
Then Saturn thus:— shaking his crooked blade
O’erhead, which made aloft a lightning flash
In all the fairies’ eyes, dismally381 fray’d!
His ensuing voice came like the thunder crash —
Meanwhile the bolt shatters some pine or ash —
“Thou feeble, wanton, foolish, fickle thing!
Whom nought382 can frighten, sadden, or abash383 —
To hope my solemn countenance384 to wring
To idiot smiles! — but I will prune385 thy wing!”
95.
“Lo! this most awful handle of my scythe
Stood once a May-pole, with a flowery crown,
Which rustics danced around, and maidens386 blithe236,
To wanton pipings; — but I pluck’d it down,
And robed the May Queen in a churchyard gown,
Turning her buds to rosemary and rue294;
And all their merry minstrelsy did drown,
And laid each lusty leaper in the dew; —
So thou shalt fare — and every jovial387 crew!”
96.
Here he lets go the struggling imp182, to clutch.
His mortal engine with each grisly hand,
Which frights the elfin progeny388 so much,
They huddle in a heap, and trembling stand
All round Titania, like the queen bee’s band,
With sighs and tears and very shrieks389 of woe! —
Meanwhile, some moving argument I plann’d,
To make the stern Shade merciful — when lo!
He drops his fatal scythe without a blow!
97.
For, just at need, a timely Apparition
Steps in between, to bear the awful brunt;
Making him change his horrible position,
To marvel at this comer, brave and blunt,
That dares Time’s irresistible390 affront391,
Whose strokes have scarr’d even the gods of old; —
Whereas this seem’d a mortal, at mere hunt
For coneys, lighted by the moonshine cold,
Or stalker of stray deer, stealthy and bold.
98.
Who, turning to the small assembled fays,
Doffs392 to the lily queen his courteous393 cap,
And holds her beauty for a while in gaze,
With bright eyes kindling394 at this pleasant hap45;
And thence upon the fair moon’s silver map,
As if in question of this magic chance,
Laid like a dream upon the green earth’s lap;
And then upon old Saturn turns askance,
Exclaiming, with a glad and kindly glance:—
99.
“Oh, these be Fancy’s revelers by night!
Stealthy companions of the downy moth194 —
Diana’s motes, that flit in her pale light,
Shunners of sunbeams in diurnal395 sloth396; —
These be the feasters on night’s silver cloth; —
The gnat397 with shrilly trump is their convener,
Forth from their flowery chambers398, nothing loth,
With lulling399 tunes to charm the air serener400,
Or dance upon the grass to make it greener.”
100.
“These be the pretty genii of the flow’rs,
Daintily fed with honey and pure dew —
Midsummer’s phantoms401 in her dreaming hours,
King Oberon, and all his merry crew,
The darling puppets of romance’s view;
Fairies, and sprites, and goblin elves we call them,
Famous for patronage of lovers true; —
No harm they act, neither shall harm befall them,
So do not thus with crabbed403 frowns appal404 them.”
101.
O what a cry was Saturn’s then! — it made
The fairies quake. “What care I for their pranks,
However they may lovers choose to aid,
Or dance their roundelays on flow’ry banks? —
Long must they dance before they earn my thanks —
So step aside, to some far safer spot,
Whilst with my hungry scythe I mow179 their ranks,
And leave them in the sun, like weeds, to rot,
And with the next day’s sun to be forgot.”
102.
Anon, he raised afresh his weapon keen;
But still the gracious Shade disarm’d his aim,
Stepping with brave alacrity405 between,
And made his sore arm powerless and tame.
His be perpetual glory, for the shame
Of hoary Saturn in that grand defeat! —
But I must tell how here Titania, came
With all her kneeling lieges, to entreat
His kindly succor303, in sad tones, but sweet.
103.
Saying, “Thou seest a wretched queen before thee,
The fading power of a failing land,
Who for a kingdom kneeleth to implore406 thee,
Now menaced by this tyrant’s spoiling hand;
No one but thee can hopefully withstand
That crooked blade, he longeth so to lift.
I pray thee blind him with his own vile407 sand,
Which only times all ruins by its drift,
Or prune his eagle wings that are so swift.”
104.
“Or take him by that sole and grizzled tuft,
That hangs upon his bald and barren crown;
And we will sing to see him so rebuff’d,
And lend our little mights to pull him down,
And make brave sport of his malicious frown,
For all his boastful mockery o’er men.
For thou wast born, I know, for this renown,
By my most magical and inward ken,
That readeth ev’n at Fate’s forestalling pen.”
105.
“Nay, by the golden lustre408 of thine eye,
And by thy brow’s most fair and ample span,
Thought’s glorious palace, framed for fancies high,
And by thy cheek thus passionately409 wan80,
I know the signs of an immortal410 man —
Nature’s chief darling, and illustrious mate,
Destined411 to foil old Death’s oblivious412 plan,
And shine untarnish’d by the fogs of Fate,
Time’s famous rival till the final date!”
106.
“O shield us then from this usurping413 Time,
And we will visit thee in moonlight dreams;
And teach thee tunes, to wed305 unto thy rhyme,
And dance about thee in all midnight gleams,
Giving thee glimpses of our magic schemes,
Such as no mortal’s eye hath ever seen;
And, for thy love to us in our extremes,
Will ever keep thy chaplet fresh and green,
Such as no poet’s wreath hath ever been!”
107.
“And we’ll distil414 thee aromatic415 dews,
To charm thy sense, when there shall be no flow’rs;
And flavor’d syrups416 in thy drinks infuse,
And teach the nightingale to haunt thy bow’rs,
And with our games divert thy weariest hours,
With all that elfin wits can e’er devise.
And, this churl dead, there’ll be no hasting hours
To rob thee of thy joys, as now joy flies”:—
Here she was stopp’d by Saturn’s furious cries.
108.
Whom, therefore, the kind Shade rebukes417 anew,
Saying, “Thou haggard Sin, go forth, and scoop
Thy hollow coffin227 in some churchyard yew418,
Or make th’ autumnal flow’rs turn pale, and droop;
Or fell the bearded corn, till gleaners stoop
Under fat sheaves — or blast the piny grove33; —
But here thou shall not harm this pretty group,
Whose lives are not so frail and feebly wove,
But leased on Nature’s loveliness and love.”
109.
“’Tis these that free the small entangled419 fly,
Caught in the venom’d spider’s crafty snare420; —
These be the petty surgeons that apply
The healing balsams to the wounded hare,
Bedded in bloody fern, no creature’s care! —
These be providers for the orphan brood,
Whose tender mother hath been slain in air,
Quitting with gaping421 bill her darling’s food,
Hard by the verge422 of her domestic wood.”
110.
“’Tis these befriend the timid trembling stag,
When, with a bursting heart beset423 with fears,
He feels his saving speed begin to flag;
For then they quench18 the fatal taint424 with tears,
And prompt fresh shifts in his alarum’d ears,
So piteously they view all bloody morts;
Or if the gunner, with his arms, appears,
Like noisy pyes and jays, with harsh reports,
They warn the wild fowl425 of his deadly sports.”
111.
“For these are kindly ministers of nature,
To soothe426 all covert427 hurts and dumb distress;
Pretty they be, and very small of stature428 —
For mercy still consorts429 with littleness; —
Wherefore the sum of good is still the less,
And mischief grossest in this world of wrong; —
So do these charitable dwarfs430 redress431
The tenfold ravages432 of giants strong,
To whom great malice433 and great might belong.”
112.
“Likewise to them are Poets much beholden
For secret favors in the midnight glooms;
Brave Spenser quaff’d out of their goblets434 golden,
And saw their tables spread of prompt mushrooms,
And heard their horns of honeysuckle blooms
Sounding upon the air most soothing435 soft,
Like humming bees busy about the brooms —
And glanced this fair queen’s witchery full oft,
And in her magic wain soar’d far aloft.”
113.
“Nay I myself, though mortal, once was nursed
By fairy gossips, friendly at my birth,
And in my childish ear glib436 Mab rehearsed
Her breezy travels round our planet’s girth,
Telling me wonders of the moon and earth;
My gramarye at her grave lap I conn’d,
Where Puck hath been convened to make me mirth;
I have had from Queen Titania tokens fond,
And toy’d with Oberon’s permitted wand.”
114.
“With figs437 and plums and Persian dates they fed me,
And delicate cates after my sunset meal,
And took me by my childish hand, and led me
By craggy rocks crested438 with keeps of steel,
Whose awful bases deep dark woods conceal439,
Staining some dead lake with their verdant dyes.
And when the West sparkled at Phoebus’ wheel,
With fairy euphrasy they purged440 mine eyes,
To let me see their cities in the skies.”
115.
“’Twas they first school’d my young imagination
To take its flights like any new-fledged bird,
And show’d the span of winged meditation441
Stretch’d wider than things grossly seen or heard.
With sweet swift Ariel how I soar’d and stirr’d
The fragrant442 blooms of spiritual bow’rs!
’Twas they endear’d what I have still preferr’d,
Nature’s blest attributes and balmy pow’rs,
Her hills and vales and brooks, sweet birds and flow’rs.”
116.
“Wherefore with all true loyalty443 and duty
Will I regard them in my honoring rhyme,
With love for love, and homages to beauty,
And magic thoughts gather’d in night’s cool clime,
With studious verse trancing the dragon Time,
Strong as old Merlin’s necromantic444 spells;
So these dear monarchs445 of the summer’s prime
Shall live unstartled by his dreadful yells,
Till shrill larks warn them to their flowery cells.”
117.
Look how a poison’d man turns livid black,
Drugg’d with a cup of deadly hellebore,
That sets his horrid features all at rack —
So seem’d these words into the ear to pour
Of ghastly Saturn, answering with a roar
Of mortal pain and spite and utmost rage,
Wherewith his grisly arm he raised once more,
And bade the cluster’d sinews all engage,
As if at one fell stroke to wreck an age.
118.
Whereas the blade flash’d on the dinted ground,
Down through his steadfast foe446, yet made no scar
On that immortal Shade, or death-like wound;
But Time was long benumb’d, and stood ajar,
And then with baffled rage took flight afar,
To weep his hurt in some Cimmerian gloom,
Or meaner fames (like mine) to mock and mar13,
Or sharp his scythe for royal strokes of doom,
Whetting447 its edge on some old C?sar’s tomb.
119.
Howbeit he vanish’d in the forest shade,
Distantly heard as if some grumbling448 pard,
And, like Nymph Echo, to a sound decay’d; —
Meanwhile the fays cluster’d the gracious Bard,
The darling centre of their dear regard:
Besides of sundry449 dances on the green,
Never was mortal man so brightly starr’d,
Or won such pretty homages, I ween.
“Nod to him, Elves!” cries the melodious queen.
120.
“Nod to him, Elves, and flutter round about him,
And quite enclose him with your pretty crowd,
And touch him lovingly, for that, without him,
The silkworm now had spun450 our dreary shroud; —
But he hath all dispersed451 Death’s tearful cloud,
And Time’s dread effigy scared quite away:
Bow to him then, as though to me ye bow’d,
And his dear wishes prosper and obey
Wherever love and wit can find a way!”
121.
“‘Noint him with fairy dews of magic savors452,
Shaken from orient buds still pearly wet,
Roses and spicy453 pinks — and, of all favors,
Plant in his walks the purple violet,
And meadow-sweet under the hedges set,
To mingle breaths with dainty eglantine
And honeysuckles sweet — nor yet forget
Some pastoral flowery chaplets to entwine,
To vie the thoughts about his brow benign454!”
122.
“Let no wild things astonish him or fear him,
But tell them all how mild he is of heart,
Till e’en the timid hares go frankly near him,
And eke the dappled does, yet never start;
Nor shall their fawns455 into the thickets dart,
Nor wrens456 forsake457 their nests among the leaves,
Nor speckled thrushes flutter far apart; —
But bid the sacred swallow haunt his eaves,
To guard his roof from lightning and from thieves.”
123.
“Or when he goes the nimble squirrel’s visitor,
Let the brown hermit458 bring his hoarded nuts,
For, tell him, this is Nature’s kind Inquisitor —
Though man keeps cautious doors that conscience shuts,
For conscious wrong all curious quest rebuts459 —
Nor yet shall bees uncase their jealous stings,
However he may watch their straw-built huts; —
So let him learn the crafts of all small things,
Which he will hint most aptly when he sings.”
124.
Here she leaves off, and with a graceful460 hand
Waves thrice three splendid circles round his head;
Which, though deserted by the radiant wand,
Wears still the glory which her waving shed,
Such as erst crown’d the old Apostle’s head,
To show the thoughts there harbor’d were divine,
And on immortal contemplations fed:—
Goodly it was to see that glory shine
Around a brow so lofty and benign! —
125.
Goodly it was to see the elfin brood
Contend for kisses of his gentle hand,
That had their mortal enemy withstood,
And stay’d their lives, fast ebbing461 with the sand.
Long while this strife299 engaged the pretty band;
But now bold Chanticleer, from farm to farm,
Challenged the dawn creeping o’er eastern land,
And well the fairies knew that shrill alarm,
Which sounds the knell of every elfish charm.
126.
And soon the rolling mist, that ‘gan arise
From plashy mead46 and undiscover’d stream,
Earth’s morning incense58 to the early skies,
Crept o’er the failing landscape of my dream.
Soon faded then the Phantom402 of my theme —
A shapeless shade, that fancy disavowed,
And shrank to nothing in the mist extreme,
Then flew Titania — and her little crowd,
Like flocking linnets, vanished in a cloud.
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truant
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majesty
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briny
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trickling
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stunning
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wardens
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intercepts
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mighty
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margin
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wilt
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convened
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wiled
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slain
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alacrity
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vile
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lustre
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passionately
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immortal
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oblivious
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distil
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aromatic
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syrups
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yew
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entangled
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beset
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taint
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fowl
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soothe
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covert
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stature
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redress
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malice
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goblets
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soothing
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glib
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figs
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conceal
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fragrant
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loyalty
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monarchs
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foe
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sundry
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savors
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spicy
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forsake
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hermit
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