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+<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75422 ***</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 85%">
+<img src="images/cover.jpg" alt="Cover">
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<h1>THE SIRENS</h1>
+<p class="center no-indent fs120 wsp bold">AN ODE</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<figure class="figcenter illowp30" id="i_ii" style="max-width: 49.25em;">
+  <img class="w100" src="images/i_ii.jpg" alt="Decoration">
+</figure>
+</div>
+
+<p class="center no-indent wsp">
+MACMILLAN AND CO., <span class="smcap">Limited</span><br>
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+</p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p class="center no-indent fs150 bold">
+THE SIRENS</p>
+<p class="center no-indent fs120 wsp lh">
+AN ODE<br>
+<br>
+<span class="fs70">BY</span><br>
+
+LAURENCE BINYON</p>
+<br>
+<figure class="figcenter illowp5" id="decoration" style="max-width: 5.5em;">
+  <img class="w100" src="images/decoration.jpg" alt="Decoration">
+</figure>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p class="center no-indent wsp lh">MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED<br>
+ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON<br>
+1925</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p class="center no-indent fs80 wsp">
+COPYRIGHT<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN<br>
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p class="center no-indent lh">
+<span class="fs80">TO</span><br>
+CICELY<br>
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_vii">[Pg vii]</span></p>
+
+<p class="center no-indent fs150">NOTE</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="no-indent"><span class="smcap">This</span> poem was printed by hand by Richard
+and Elinor Lambert at the Stanton Press and
+issued by them in 1924 in a limited edition.
+It has been revised for the present edition.</p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</span></p>
+
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="PRELUDE">PRELUDE</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+  <img class="drop-cap" src="images/i_001.jpg" width="65" height="65" alt="drop-cap">
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0 drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">I remember</span> a night of my youth, I remember a night</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Soundless!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The earth and the sea were a shadow, but over me opened</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Heaven into uttermost heaven, and height into height</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Boundless</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">With stars, with stars, with stars.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">I remember the dew on my face, I remember the mingled</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Homely smell of grass and unearthly beauty</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Out of the ends of the air and the unsealed darkness</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Poured in a rain, in a river,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Into my marrow,—thro’ all the veins of delight</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Poured into me.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">O the divine solitude, the intoxicating silence!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">I was a spirit unregioned, worthy of them;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">I, even I, was a creature of infinite flight,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Born to be free.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In the midst of the worlds, as they moved, I moved with them all,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">A sense and a joy; I was hidden, and yet they were nigh;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">For they came to me as lovers,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Those stars from on high.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Thus as my whole soul drank of the star-thrilled air,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">I felt more than heard, like a whisper</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Invading me out of immensity, hinted, haunting</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Sound</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of waves, of waves, of waves.</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And I felt in the blood of my flesh to the roots of my hair,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">That it sought me, a mind in the muteness:</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In the midst of the worlds I trembled,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">I in the night a mortal</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Found!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">What was I? What was I? Nothing</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">But a Moment, aware</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of the ruins of Time!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Yet a memory of memories awaking, I marvelled from where,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Out of shadows unshapen within me, and dust under dust,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">From burial of realms and of ages, and darkness astir</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In the roots of the hungering forest, the ancientest lair,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Rose to claim</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">This my body, the sap of its veins and its secret to share;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To emerge with the star-watching eyes of the venturer, Man.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And my body was brimmed with its meaning; it knew whence it came,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">For I was the word on Earth’s lips</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">That she needed to name.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">But tell me, I cried, O whispering, troubling waves,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Tell me, O journeying wildernesses of stars,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Why do you near me &amp; choose me? Whither would you lure me,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The earth-child?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To be brimmed with desire overflowing the bounds of the world,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To be wingless &amp; stretched on a longing that boundlessly craves,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Who has known not this, in the bloom of a midnight marvelling</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Earth-exiled?</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">But thus to be sought from afar by phantom waves,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In the still of the night to be neared by stooping stars,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">As if all immensity sought for a home in the mind</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">At its core,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">This draws my dark being up from its secret caves,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And the flesh is no longer a home, nor can comforting Earth</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Shelter me more.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">I am known to the Unknown; chosen, charmed, endangered:</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">I flow to a music ocean-wild and starry,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And feel within me, for this mortality’s answer,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Sea without shore.</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</span></p>
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="I_THE_VICTORIES">I. THE VICTORIES</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+  <img class="drop-cap" src="images/i_004.jpg" width="65" height="65" alt="drop-cap">
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0 drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">Masters</span> of the known and found</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Singers of a world completed,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">All to a time and end ordained,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Powers foredestined to their bound</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And truth immutably contained,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">A dominion mapped and meted,—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Like as in Egyptian noon</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Gods of granite throned august</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Gaze on old realms round them strewn</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Far as the horizon dust,—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">All beneath that searching sky</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Gathered into wisdom’s eye!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Prophets of the found and known,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Chanters of the Laws unchanging,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Comes not an hour that undoes all</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">With a whispered homelessness,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">With a sudden touch estranging?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Certainties you deemed your own,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Housing with a friendly wall,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Glide into a doubt and guess</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Swift as when, the low light going,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Darkness on the wind comes flowing</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Out of nothing; and surmise,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Dream, desire, are frontierless;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And the unroofed mind has skies</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To breathe of, where a rumour sings</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of other mind and vaster things</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Wooed to wilder destinies.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Thought throbs: there a power entices</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">(Like, on a wonder-night, all June</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In a draught of stolen spices)</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Not to stay, not to stay,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">But to embark for the outer dark.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Only charms the untrodden way,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Only the unspelt secret rune.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Conqueror with foot superb</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Planted on the last step won,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Whom the trumpet-mouths proclaim</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Destiny’s accepted son,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Robed in a resounding name,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">What profounder pangs disturb</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Something that’s unquarried yet</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In the deep soul? All the gain</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Weighs but as an ashy grain</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In the world those pangs beget.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Fierce fruitions but betray</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And deliver to the hard</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hope of things unhazarded.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Where that world is, who shall say?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Under western evening starred</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Black waves tempt to far-away</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Visioned walls of a wide shore,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Lands the only-coveted,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Gleaming as they gleamed before</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Alexander’s dying eyes</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In the tent at Babylon.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Dumb his soldiers streamed beside him,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Dumb’d with grief that only saw</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The pillar of the world undone,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Nor guessed what potent visions gnaw</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The unsated mind with cruelties,—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Ramparts where Time’s jealous spies,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Sentinelled afar, deride him,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Mocking all that passion willed</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">With the frustrate and the unfulfilled.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">O the inexorable Lure</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Spur to the demon hearts of men!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Ravening Genghis, hot Timour,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And the empire-storming Saracen,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Fate’s infuriate charioteers,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Fly from a whisper in their ears</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">(Earth before them, Time behind)</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Whispering, ‘Haste, ere blood be chill,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Storm and scatter, work your will!’</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hunters hunted in the mind,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hunting what they cannot name,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Thunder over earth, to find</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Nothing. Though the harvest black</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Be reaped in rue and curse and wrong,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">There’s a thing they cannot tame.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Still they keep their torrent-track,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Maddened by a shadowy song</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Sung beyond the reach of sense.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">What song is this which wastes the worth</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of human things, and distastes earth,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And fevers with magnificence</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of swiftness trampling, ruin-crowned,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Toward a goal that none has found?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Is it the song the Adventurer stole</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Body-bound upon the mast</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">For the enchantment of his soul?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Over farthest foam of waves</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">That are sailors’ restless graves,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">He heard exulting as he passed</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Perilous voices challenging</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The mortal heart of him, and fear</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Became a glory, so to hear</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Secure as an immortal, sing</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The Sirens.</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</span></p>
+
+<p>I. 2</p>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Whither is she gone, wing’d by the evening airs,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Yon sail that draws the last of light afar,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">On the sea-verge alone, despising other cares</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Than her own errand and her guiding star?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">She leaves the safe land, leaves the roofs, and the long roads</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Travelling the hills to end for each at his own hearth.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">She leaves the silence under slowly-darkening elms,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The friendly human voices, smell of dew and dust,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And generations of men asleep in the old earth.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Between two solitudes she glides and fades,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And round us falls the darkness she invades.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Waters empty and outcast, O barren waters!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">What have your wastes to do</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">With the earth-treader, the earth-tiller; this frail</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Body of man; the sower, whom the green shoot gladdens;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hewer of trees; the builder, who houses him from the bleak winds,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And whom awaits at last long peace beneath the grass</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In soil his fathers knew?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">What shall he hope for from your careless desolation,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Lion-indolence, or cold roar of your risen wrath?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">What sows he in your furrows, or what fruit gathers</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">But hazard, loss, and his own hard courage?...</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Yon sail goes like a spirit seeking you.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">I heard a trumpet from beyond the moon,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Piercing ice-blue gulfs of air,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Cry down the secret waters of the world,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Under the far sea-streams, to summon there</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The foundered ships, the splendid ships, the lost ships.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In their ribb’d ruin and age-long sleep they heard,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Where each had found her shadowy burial-bed,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Clutched in blind reef, shoal-choked or shingle-bound;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Heard from betraying isles and capes of dread</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In corners of all oceans, where the light</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Gropes faltering over their spilt merchandize:</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And shapes at last were stirred</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">On glimmerless abysses’ oozy floors</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Known to the dark fins only and drowned eyes;—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Sunk out of memory, they that glided forth</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Bound from cold rivers to the tropic shores,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Or questing up the white gloom of the North,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Or shattered in the glory of old wars,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The laden ships, the gallant ships, the lost ships!</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">I saw them clouding up over the verge,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Ghosts that arose out of an unknown grave,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Strange to the buoyant seas that young they rode upon</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And strange to the idle glitter of the wave.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Magically re-builded, rigged and manned,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">They stole in their slow beauty toward the land.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Mariners, O mariners!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">I heard a voice cry; Home, come home!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Here is the rain-fresh earth; leaf-changing seasons; here</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Spring the flowers; and here, older than memory, peace</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Tastes on the air sweet as honey in the honey-comb.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Smells not the hearth-smoke better than spices of India?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Are not children’s kisses dearer than ivory and pearls?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And sleep in the hill kinder than nameless water</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And the cold, wandering foam?</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Dear are the names of home, I heard a far voice answer,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Pleasant the tilled valley, the flocks and farms; and sweet</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The hum in cities of men, and words of our own kin.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">But we have tasted wild fruit, listened to strange music;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And all shores of the earth are but as doors of an inn;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">We knocked at the doors, and slept; to arise at dawn and go.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">We spilt blood for gold, trafficked in costly cargoes,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">But knew in the end it was not these we sailed to win;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Only a wider sea; room for the winds to blow,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And a world to wander in.</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</span></p>
+
+<p>I. 3</p>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">O divine summits and O unascended solitudes!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">O alone soaring over care and stain!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Who without wing shall set foot upon your pinnacles?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Or who your spaciousness of light attain?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Flames in the dawn-cold, towering incredible,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">When else the earth is shadow-drowned and prone,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Veiled and unveiled by the misty-footed winds that guard</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Bright chasm and black gulf round a thunder-throne,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Realmed with a vision beyond reaches of mortality,—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Thither some splendour in the mind aspires,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Sharing the terror of your dark, tumultuous sisterhood,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Silent in glory as of chanting quires.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Changing and changeless, O far-illumined Presences</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In apparition from some world august,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Up from this flesh have you drawn us, as in ecstasy</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">That thirsts to elude this forfeiture of dust.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Even on your last heights man has set his perilous foot,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And mid the void as on some dazzling shore</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Stands in the vast air, stricken and insatiate,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Wingless, a spirit craving wings to soar.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Now at last voyaging a fabulous dominion</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Surpassing all the measures of his kind,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">He, a free rider of the undulating silences,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Has in himself begotten a new mind;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Made him a companion of the winds of Heaven, travelling</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Unpaven streets of cloudy golden snows,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Piercing forlorn mist, cold though it encompass him</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Like a dead mind that nothing sees or knows,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Vacant, a cavern fleecy and immaterial,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">A soundless vapour that he pulses through,</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Suddenly emerging, and swims into the sun again</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And steers his path up toward the topless blue;—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Towers in the frosty flame-apparelled mystery</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of brain-intoxicating sharp sapphire</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Round him and above him, throbbing in the midst of it,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">A daring, a defiance, a desire!</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Mote in the hollow vast, drowned amid the vivid light,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Invading far and far the virgin sky,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Charioting with beats of fire the fiery-beating heart of man</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">(O heart of flesh, O force of dread!) on high!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Careless of death is he, riding in the eagle’s ways</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Above the peak and storm, so dear a sting</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Drives him unresting to strive beyond the boundaries</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of his condition, being so brief a thing,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Being a creature perishable and passionate,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To drink the bright wine, danger, and to woo</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Life on the invisible edge of airy precipices,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">A lover, else to his own faith untrue,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Giving the glory of youth for flower of sacrifice</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Upon the untried way that he must tread,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">So that he savour the breath of life to the uttermost,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Breath only sweet when all is hazarded.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Is it that, moving in a rapture of deliverance</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">From chains of time and paths of dust and stone,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Serving a spirit of swiftness irresistible,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">He makes his pilgrimage, alone, alone,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Seeking a privacy of boundlessness, abandoning</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">A self surpassed, yet other worlds to dare?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Nay, in that element hailing his predestinate</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">World, and exulting to be native there?</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</span></p>
+
+<p>I. 4</p>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hymn the Finders! Hymn the bold</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Trusters of Earth, those patient ones,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">That listen to the subtle words</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of Silence in the streams and stones;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Ponderers of the secret-souled</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Bodies quick with ignorant being;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Followers of the clues that thread</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Differences and accords;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Wooers of what powers agreeing</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">May the hands of man bestead;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Seers who have turned aside</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">From the greeds that ask and ache</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Blinded to all else beside,—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Letting the clear spirit take</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Truth from vision open-eyed.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Breaks the bud for him that sees</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In a world of promises.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hymn the breaker of the dark,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hymn the finder of the flame,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Troubler of the essential spark</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Lurking in the withered pith</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Or from stony prison freed,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Friend and fury, holy need</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And fierce destroyer, hard to tame,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Risen, a God to wrestle with!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hymn the bender of the wheel,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Mother of the shapes of speed!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hymn the launcher of the keel</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Carrying thought’s arrow-aim</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Beyond the sundown,—sowing seed</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of man on coasts untrod before,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To widen memory’s haunted shore</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And add the nearness of a name.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Far-descended old desire!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">That stirred in swarming forest-ages,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Prowled by fear whose stealthy eye</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Watched from glooms, where hunger-rages</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Ravened; see at last the Hand</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Emerging human, stretched to try</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Shapes of things with wondering pleasure,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">When its strength forgets to kill;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Tempted on to understand,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Serving ways of secret will,—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Fit and fashion, poise and measure.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hymn the hand that builds the wall</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And spans the river, and arches over</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Man the worshipper and lover</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Song-like stone; the hand so strong</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To strike, yet in whose touch is all</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Life’s mystery that wooes from things</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Their strength, as music from the strings,—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Touch of the mind that seeks behind</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The world for the befriending Mind.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hymn the openers of the gates,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hymn the changers of the fates!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hymn the seekers! them that saw,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Past the seeming starry roof</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of human earth, in mazy plan</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Bright eternities of law;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Them that neared those orbs to man,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Unafraid, and put to proof</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Divination’s ancient scheme;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Stept into the timeless stream,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Star-like spirits among the stars!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hymn the seekers! Chosen souls,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Grapnel’d in the very marrow</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">By a thought that night and day</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Draws them whither their unknown</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Mighty lover far away</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Beckons them to the frore Poles</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Or new meridians; like to him</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Who climbed in Panama the tree,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And splendour of untravelled sea</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Smote him like a glorious arrow:</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Never shall he rest again</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Till he sail that virgin main!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Or like him who quietly</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Sitting in his Polar tent</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Found so great a way to die;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hope-forsaken, famine-spent,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Wrote his words of faith and cheer</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Till the pen dropt from the hand</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">That wrote them.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent17">Hymn the lost, who never</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Found, but kept high heart to steer</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Onward toward the mark they meant,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Sailing out of sight of land.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Wail not them, nor lost endeavour,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">For they heard what tranced the ear,</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Filled the exulting soul, the song</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Pale and prudent mortals fear,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Song of those who, out of Time,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Sing the heights the immortals climb,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The Sirens.</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</span></p>
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="II_PENUMBRA">II. PENUMBRA</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+  <img class="drop-cap" src="images/i_017.jpg" width="65" height="65" alt="drop-cap">
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0 drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">Hearken</span> to the hammers, endlessly hammering,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The din of wheels, the drone of wheels, the furnaces</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Panting, where Man as in a demon-palace toils</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To forge the giant creatures of his brain.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">He has banished the spring and the innocence of leaves</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">From the blackened waste he has made; the infected sky</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Glooms with a sun aghast, and the murk of the night</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Is peopled with tall flames like spirits insane.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">He strips himself to the heat, not of the jovial sun,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">But of the scorch of furnaces; with naked breast</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Sweating beneath the iron and blear glass, amid</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The hammers’ hammering and the wheels’ roar.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Not with grapes of October trodden underfoot</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Spurting juices of ripeness in runnels, his vats</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Brim, but with gushes flickered-over and blinding,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Unshapen spilth and blaze of molten ore.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">With a finger he lifts the weight of mountain-sides</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Poised; the metal mass he shears red-hot in a trice;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">He has given to the animate iron thews of force,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">A Titan’s pulse, and breath of fiery draught.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Monsters mightier far than himself he creates</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To swim storming seas, and to mount in miles of air,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To deride Space and the old opposition of Time:</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Their speed is like strong drink that he has quaffed.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">He has the tamed lightning to do his bidding, draws</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Energies out of the veins of earth; he is armed</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">From all elements, woven as in a magic web;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">He has stolen seeds of Death, wherewith to fight.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">He holds fabled terrors of the ancient gods in his hand—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In a handful of dust, earthquake and pestilence;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">He exults to destroy, to obliterate, to be</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Lord of the powers of the engulfing night.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Deafened with the hammers, inebriate with the sound</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of the powers he has raised out of their jealous lair,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">He has fever within him, he becomes dizzy,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And craves, and knows not whither he is bound.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Shall he attain god-like felicity of ease,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Supreme articulate voice of nature’s striving,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Or builds he a vast prison for himself, a slave</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">With iron of his own strong forging crowned?</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Insatiable of ransacked worlds, and exulting</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Furiously in feet-supplanting speed, the proud-eyed</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Victor, he who has come so far, so far, looks forth</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To achieve the eluded glory of his goal.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">What solitude is this that suddenly he enters?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Voices of earth no more with anchoring kindness call.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The fevered hammers throb; but deep within he knows</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The desert he has made in his own soul.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">O where is now the dew-dropt radiance of morning,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">That sistered with him leafing tree and rippling stream,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">When simple of heart in the sun with a free body</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">He accepted all the boundaries of his mind?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Full of fears he was then, shadowed with helpless need</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To propitiate Powers that threatened each footstep.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Has he escaped from those old terrors, to be prey</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of fears more terrible because less blind?</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</span></p>
+
+<p>II. 2</p>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Ah, did men feign you once, triumphant Sirens,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Omnipotent in your lure</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">On a far spice-island over legendary surges</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Singing, and divine you with the famished eyes of mariners,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Listen in a trance to your voices, but listen</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In a dream secure?</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Lost amid strange and hungry waters</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">They fabled the storm-worn sailor stung</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">By a vision of arms outstretched at the end of the world,—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Eternal woman, wonderful, with a bosom</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Heaved as with love, and with warm, white eyelids</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Over eyes cruel and young.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">From those voluptuous throats, magical throats,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">As out of a coral-lipped, an ivory-coloured</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Dazzling flower, tormenting sweetness floats,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Sweetness of voices, odour of strange, strange longing</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Felt on the flesh like trail of perfumed hair,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In sound that stole like soft arms round the soul</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Drawn thither and inescapably aware</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of nothing but the extreme ache to press</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Lips on those lips, that thirst to suck the breath,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The heart’s blood, into theirs, till eyes grow dull,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Till lips be lips no longer, and only a skull</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Roll from your feast of death,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">O sated Sirens!</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">But what if it be that fond perfidious Voices</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">With different music lure</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Even us who have cast far from us the fables of old?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">If the pride of our quest undo us, and they enchant us</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Simple as those lost mariners, but no longer</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In dream secure?</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">If not with sorcery of song in a scarlet mouth</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And with eyes of desire</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">You ensnare the easy senses and perishing flesh,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">But with spiritual lure you hunger to entice us</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Beyond the borders of knowledge, O evilly enamoured,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">O terrible choir?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">If shadowy at the end of time you wait,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Wooing subtly the while Man’s spirit, tempted</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">On ever more extravagant quest, and bait</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">His blood with charm of secrecy and peril,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Ay, and waylay the longings of his mind,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Yielding by dear degrees what he exults to seize,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Until he glows to seem the unconfined</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Master of earth, the world’s sole will, but only</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">That you may taste his glory, spent and shared,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Before you press upon his lips the last</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Kiss of annihilation, and he be cast</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Into the void prepared,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Malignant Sirens!</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</span></p>
+
+<p>II. 3</p>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">‘Whither, Whither?’ I heard a crying</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">That asked of Night, and there was none replying.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">‘Whither, into what land of change and wrack,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Into what time out-racing thought and will,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">With feet borne onward and mind beaten back</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Over an earth that our lost loves has buried,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Against a dark wind blowing chill,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Whither are we driven, whither hurried?</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">‘Lovely vales of our youth, where haunted</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Peace of the ripening years, and hope that vaunted</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Its strength so rooted in earth’s purposes</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">That children’s children should possess peace there!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">O sunny vales, and corn, and guardian trees,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Shut off by the blind rain’s down-dropping curtain,—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Vanished, as if they never were,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And doubt alone were certain!</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">‘Heaven we feigned in a time perfecting</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Our missed design, and beauty of our neglecting.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">There should we live completed in an age</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Wise from our loss and rich with all our spoil,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">A race redeeming its lost heritage,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Not by vain fears checked, nor by vain hopes cheated.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">—If that heaven fade, and futureless we toil,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And battle already defeated?</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">‘Words of beauty, words of assuaging</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Majesty saw we on high above time’s raging</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Inscribed as over some vast porch serene;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="smcap">Pardon</span>: the heart flowed out on tides of peace.</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="smcap">Justice</span>: the soiled soul hasted to be clean.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">One word we named not, dreamed not, feared not even,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="smcap">The end</span>.—If All utterly cease;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Earth, Time, Desire, Hell, Heaven?’</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Titan spirit of god-like stature;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Star-measurer, holder of deep clues of nature;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Maker, but half-aware of what he makes,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of what the extravagant flame in him devours,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And what unshapen Vastness he awakes,—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Toiled in the terrible webs his mind invented,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And caught in flame that twists and towers,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Man strives with himself tormented.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Born for ever to move, the Dancer</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of dark Creation’s dream, its destined answer,—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Joy were those limbs created to express!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Now like one darkly stumbling, while his brain</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Puzzles each motion with too anxious stress,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Under the glory of stars that move unhalting</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">He burns with the old need onward still to strain,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Mis-timed, way-lost, defaulting.</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</span></p>
+
+<p>II. 4</p>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hearken to the eternal lovers rejoicing!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">A sunrise in their hearts, a music in their veins,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Their bodies make sweet singing to one another;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">They bathe in beams from one another’s eyes.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">They rejoice to belong to the Eternal Delight</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Upon whose universe of buoyance they are launched,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">That questions not of its way nor of its haven</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">But is both way and haven where it hies.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">They marvel to be born in a new element,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To meet like streams as they go chiming to the sea,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To move like flames that touch and tremble; and marvelling</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">They look back on the voided shell they quit.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Dawn within dawn, light within light, unfolds for them</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The secret of the world that flowing overflows</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The sun and the moon and the farthest of the stars,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And it abounds in them, and they in it.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Beautiful are their fears as the shy-footed fawns</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Safe only in wildness from the old hunter, Time,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To be assured in shadow of the heart’s solitude,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Where joy finds joy that never Time records.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">They have made virgin words of that soiled alphabet</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Wherewith have been written histories of sorrow,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Labour and long defeat, and proud and vain conquest;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And all their lore is those sufficing words.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Magnificent they match the music of a name</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Against abhorred Silence and terrors of the abyss,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The trust of a smile against all-ignoring Night,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And one low voice against Oblivion’s greed.</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Difference drew them to the enamoured wrestle,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Chosen, inevitable dear antagonists;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">They cry one to the other; ‘Alone I was not I,’</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">‘O lovely danger!’ and ‘O my angel need!’</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">‘Because thy sweetness is so troubling and so sharp,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Full of blood-thrilling strangeness, unexplored peril,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Never to be possessed, always to be desired,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Thou unknown world, I will dare all for thee.’</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">‘Though in a moment thou hast made me to forget</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">All that I was and had, triumphing I hold thee;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To thy darkness of strength I give and commit me;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Here is thy world, O sail upon my sea!’</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">As the East that quickens and flushes to the height</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Answering the ardour of the West, and as a rose</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Quivers on the western cloud before the dayspring,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Divided as the East and West they are:</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">But upon ways invisible to mortal sense</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Moves their bright union, where was created new</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Love’s wondrous world; from the darkness it emerges;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">It is their Evening and their Morning Star.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Out of the hollows of unpenetrated Night</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">From afar calls to them, though they have known it not,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">A voice that is theirs, yet is not theirs, a new voice</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Never yet heard, yet older than all things;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Laughter of a child’s voice, sweeter than any sound</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">On the earth or in the air, voice of eternal joy,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Victorious over the bowed wisdom of mortals,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">A well beyond the world, that springs and sings.</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</span></p>
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="III_THE_UNDISCOVERED_WORLD">III. THE UNDISCOVERED WORLD</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+  <img class="drop-cap" src="images/i_025.jpg" width="65" height="65" alt="drop-cap">
+</div>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0 drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">O in</span> a living stream to bathe</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">That runs its course from spring to sea!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And O to cast this aching mesh</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of iron bands that starkly swathe</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Limbs that labour, neck to knee!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To feel the wind upon the flesh,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Wind that was before man was,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Blowing out of blue divine;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Feel the feet on morning grass</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Lightly firm, and body bare</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Over-showered with beams so fine</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">As cleanse the very heart of care!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Sages, had you found but this</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">For the mind, so it could use</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">What the body knows of bliss</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">When all thought it loves to lose</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Merely poising in the sun,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Sure of powers a-spring within it</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Rippling out to leap and run,—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Like for memory’s waiting ear</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Silence, ere the music win it:—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">When unreasoned joy alone</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Brims the body, itself its own</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Infinity unquestioning;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Careless, Life is O so near,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Death a legendary thing,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Breath and blood like bells that ring;—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Sages, had you art to find</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Such a glory for the mind,</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Not with eyes that are too wise</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">But the lover’s wonder-vision</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Seeing far and seeing near</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">As within one radiant sphere</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">All things living, joined and whole,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Bloomed with light of Paradise;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Sages then—but who has taught</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Such an end for labouring thought,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Such a nakedness of soul;—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">What but probing, doubting, and division?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hark, on iron iron’s endless clamour!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The hours, the hours, drive swifter than we strain—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Earth changes not, but who has changed us,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">As if a Fury with a shadowy hammer</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Nailed the nails into the fiery brain?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Who has estranged us?</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">What dark enemy within</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Makes of Earth an enemy?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Is it not he who sought of old</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Secrets of her wealth to win,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hot with greed and overbold,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Aching to possess her? he,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Searching labyrinthine veins,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Thirsted for yet rarer gains,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And through patient nights perused</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Each divided element,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Curious of that pregnant dust</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Which with intent hand he bruised;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Crucibled in fire the grains</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">That should subtly be cajoled</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In the end to yield his lust</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Feasts of gold—a continent</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Molten into dazzling gold!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">(Were not heard the Sirens then</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Deriding the poor dreams of men?)</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Nay, but he would scrutinize</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Even Night’s deep-ordered scheme,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And spell his own proud destinies</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In scripture of the starry stream.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Coveting what power those skies</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Might enthrone, he sought a charm</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">That should warp them and should woo.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To his use, and by such aid</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To disimperil of one harm</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">This brief body, would undo</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">A universe. And he arrayed</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In a constellated robe</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">His heaven-projected effigy,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Because his spirit was afraid</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of its nakedness, nor dared</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Terrors of the truth to probe;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Rather chose itself to ensky</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In a dream. But no night bared</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To him her grandeur, swerved no spheres</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To the wrench of human fears.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Earth and Night to crave of lust</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Yield but fruitlessness and dust;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Dust to lust, to greed a weed!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Mockers rise from those forgotten years:</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">‘This is he, the self-dupe, still the same</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Vaunter of a world of his defiling!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Claiming heavens, with only will to maim.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Who is this to own an earth’s empire,</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In whose blood is mud, and this aviling</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Squalor of desire?’</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Lo, with feet on fiery ashes</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Earth’s foiled master casts his eyes</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Round his world-abode. Time’s heir,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Freed by blood of martyrs, wise</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">With myriad lives of thought and care,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Into Doubt’s dim future gropes,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Black with omen, lit with flashes!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Lo, beneath his heaven of hopes</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Falling palaces of dream,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Proudly pillared; regions wreckt,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Peopled with stray flames that seem</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hot greeds from his burning brain</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And the very earth infect.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Lo, like bodies for his fear</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Shadowy shapes of force insane</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Menacing in murk appear,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Primed with energy to kill,—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Engines of his intellect,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Incarnations of his will!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Those old siren-songs of air</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Change into a song abhorred,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Chanting softly, Revel, Lord!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Triumph, Master! This you sought!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">This your own proud hands have wrought!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Now the lover’s loathing taste</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Comes on him for what he burned</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">So imperiously to clutch.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Where is now the bliss embraced,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Where the conquest? At a touch</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">All’s to desolation turned.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Is it he, or Earth, betrays?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">She that seemed to sting him on</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To possession, once possessed,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Dispossesses him. Her breast</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Stony grows, and hard her gaze.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">—Yet, oh, could she again be wooed</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In her own, her chosen ways,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Shall she not transform her mood,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Glorify with truth his quest,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Give, as lovers give, entire</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Body to body, mind to mind,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Ay, and more than these can find,—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Spirit to spirit? Beauty of Desire,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Beauty beyond possession still is breathing,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Beauty in us defaced!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">O secret spring eternal, muddied here,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Soiled and sunken, troubled into seething!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Torrent of Desire, by greed and fear</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Spilled into waste!</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</span></p>
+
+<p>III. 2</p>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Be still! Wash out this dull roar from the ear</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">That fevers Time; be emptied the hot brain</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of clamorous, intricately-teasing toil.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Let spiritual Silence brim again</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The mind’s well to a mirror virgin-clear;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">All these invented cares smoothe and uncoil.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Contemplate Silence; the wild Silence, ere</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Music or word was; waste, unshapen sound;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Crying of wind; moaning of sea; stammer of storm;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Gropings as for a being nowhere found;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Mateless desires, frustrated throbs of air,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Without home, without form.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">They sought a lodge in haunted flesh, they sought</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The inward tingling sense’s touched accord;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To be delivered, to be born perfect</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">On shapes of lips, a breathed, a living word,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">A flower that seeds its riches, thought from thought,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Incarnate sound, mysterious and elect.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Contemplate Silence! The unwithered womb</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of all music infinite as desire;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">All words, releasing tears and bliss; all song,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">That wins at last a universe for choir,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And there the enlarged spirit has full room,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">There its desires and its delights belong.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">All speech, all song, all music still unborn,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Waits there for its futurity of mind</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To become human; yet it holds some tone</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Drawn from a something vaster than mankind,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">As from profounder heart-strings torn,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And yet complete in man alone;</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">As if behind him travailing, the whole</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Dark world were seeking in this eloquent flesh</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Some other self, and sighing here to be</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Born afresh, born afresh;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To win a world yet undiscovered in the soul:</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">‘O Voice,’ it cries, ‘utter; O Hands, deliver me!’</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">With such a dark quest in desirous eyes,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">From the ancient East, as through a silent gate</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In the mind’s city and labyrinth of thought,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Those Magian Kings, of knowledge satiate,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of riches satiate, and forlornly wise,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Down desert gorges brought</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Gifts for the Unknown: nay, but Earth from far</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In yearning sent them, her ambassadors.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Rocks opened veins of gold, trees oozed their blood,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Spices sighed, gems burned up from cavern-floors,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The very Night had made Desire a star,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">That over against them, strange and certain, stood;</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">And thither laden with Earth’s hope and want,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Her symbol’d sighs and riches of her pain,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Down separate passes of the mountain streaming</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Wound onward each amid his marvelling train,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Those sages drawn from towers of midnight haunt</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">By their prophetic dreaming;</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And trumpet thrilled to trumpet thro’ the night,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And torches told of glistering strange attire,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Where met those three kings on one errand led.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">What image shaped they of the World’s Desire,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">What presence throned in majesty and might,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">As they went musing, deep in hope and dread,</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">And under vast cope of the wheeling skies</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Found but a naked child, a child new-born?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Wisdom resigned the crown of her enthroning;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">All her impassioned question was forsworn:</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In wonder she saw all things with new eyes.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Then, there were songs of joy; now, sound of a world groaning.</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</span></p>
+
+<p>III. 3</p>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Mystery of Dawn, ere yet the glory streams</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Risen over earth, and pauses in that hush</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">When far, as from an ecstasy, clouds flush,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And hills lift up their pureness into dreams</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of light that not yet colours the cold flower,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And the earth-clasping, heaven-desiring tree</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Trembles in virginal expectancy—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">What breath of the unknown Power</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Is this that, spirit to spirit, as with a spousal kiss</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Comes seeking us, even us, through shadow and dew,—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Seeking in this soiled flesh what undiscovered world</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Beyond tears, beyond bliss, beyond wisdom, beyond</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Time? what recaptured harmony of earth and heaven?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">What world made new?</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">A world so strange, the spirit thrills to flame,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Transfigured in a wonder of release!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">A world so near, it has no other name</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Than light and breath! Where lost we, then, this peace?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Wanting what charm to cleanse</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Our eyes? To see; is this the last of gifts,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">That, as the scales drop, the heart so uplifts?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">O world where no possession is of men’s,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Where the will rages not with fever to destroy</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Differing wills, or warp another life to its use,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">But each lives in the light of its own joy!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In one wide vision all have share, and we in all,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Infinitely companioned with the stars, the dust,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Beasts of the field, and stones, and flowers that fall!</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">This body that we use seems in that air</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Marvellous; secret from ourselves; a power</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Without which were no speech, nor deed done anywhere,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Nor could thought range and tower,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Nor seed be sown for the unborn time to reap;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Whose natural motion was ordained to be</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Beautiful as a wave out of a sea</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Boundless as mind asleep;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">So passionately shaped, in every part perfect,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Universes are wounded in its abasement,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Crying from stone to star;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The unimagined height, the immeasurable deep,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hungers, abysses, heavens, millions of ghosts from far</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Meet in this body born to laugh and weep.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Weep; not for the endured, ancestral ill,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Perils and plagues, that ambush all our ways,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Time’s injury, and pain’s deep-wandered maze;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">These need not eyes to see, but only flesh to feel.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">But of the eternal vision to partake,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And see what we have done, and what refused,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To what accepted blindness we grow used,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And what marred shapes of one another make,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">This is to weep such tears as no flesh-throes have cost,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Weep for our loves, our loves, that we ourselves have slain,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The powers of loveliness that we have left forlorn.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Eyes we had and saw not, ears and we did not hear!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Ah, when the heart, full-visioned, breaks in shame and pain,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Then is the world’s hope born.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">The cry of desolation turns to praise.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">If falsehood first enchant the eager mind,</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And if desire be cruel, being blind,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Each by its own infirmity betrays,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And some profounder, more imperious need</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Drives through all smart, whatever world to lose,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The pure vision to choose,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And tho’ Truth kill, there in the end be freed.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Open, open, gates of deliverance, open!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">See, liberated spirits, see, victorious ones,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">For testimony of us from homes of glory shine,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Vindicators of this brief flesh, they mingle us,—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Soiled and despoiled,—with beauty and with felicity,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And sting us from afar with the Divine.</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Hands of men stretched out in so dark a craving!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Baffled heart, clouded vision; filled with ache</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To know you have maimed the world you sought to make</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Your instrument and minister, enslaving</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Powers of earth and air—Hands that have wrought</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">So glorious things, the thoughts of joy to house!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Heart that has pulsed so ardent for its vow’s</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Accomplishment,—O heart so hardly taught!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">O stretched-out hands! of you Eternity has need.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Give but your sacred passion and your shaping art,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The hunger of Eternity is there,—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Barren else, barren: chaos and a wilderness</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of feud and everlasting greed devouring greed,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">The unshapen dream’s despair!</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">Spirit of Man, dear spirit, sore opprest</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">With self-estrangement, and mis-choosing will,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And all satiety of gainful skill,—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Possession that was never yet possessed,—</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">You that have been so great a lover, giving</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">In innocency all for sacrifice;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Whom neither Time nor earth’s regions suffice—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">You too are sought, where still your dream is living.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Over the secret oceans of uncharted mind</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Who knows what voyagers, what sails invisibly</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Press on, for all the lost, the foundered hopes untrue?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Who knows, through ignorant mists and storm upon that sea</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">What Lover, what unweariable Adventurer,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Makes still his quest of you?</div>
+  </div>
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">O world that is within us, yet must still</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Out of the eternal mystery be wooed</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Ere it be ours and, breathing in the blood,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Live in its beauty, as the miracle</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Of the divine colour of flowers in night</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Was not, and is not of themselves alone</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Nor of the dawn-beam, but of both made one,—</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">A marriage-mystery of earth and light!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">O undiscovered world that all about us lies</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">When spirit to Spirit surrenders, and like young Love sees</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Heaven with human eyes!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">World of radiant morning! Joy’s untravelled region!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Why lies it solitary? and O why tarry we?</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Why daily wander out from Paradise?</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</span></p>
+
+<p>III. 4</p>
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <div class="verse indent0">World-besieging Storm, from horizon heaped and menacing</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Rear up the walls of thunder, till they tower</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Shattering over earth, and from heart to heart reverberate,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Lancing that bright fear through the ruin-shower!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Revel, Winds, severing the bough of leafy promises</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">With rages from returning chaos sent!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Mockers and Destroyers, come; here is Man, predestinate</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">To all your arrows at his bosom bent.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Strip him of his splendours, of his conquests and dominions,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">His secure boast to be earth’s lord enthroned,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Humble him: he stands forth greater in his nakedness</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Than in the wealth and safety that he owned.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">He that has so loved peril in all experience,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">He that has gone with Sorrow all her way,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Will not now refuse or shrink; prove him to the innermost,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">With worse than worst confront him: come what may,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Lo, you awake, O Trumpets of Calamity,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Some fragment of old Darkness in his breast;</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Lo, to him fraternal is the stony and the terrible place:</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">His stricken Genius out of deeps unguessed</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Rises up, grappling his reality to reality,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And still the secret in himself explores,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Bound beyond fear, the discovered and discoverer,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And in his own soul touches farthest shores.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Though he be stript of all, Powers from far replenish him,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Powers of the streaming worlds that through him stream.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">O throbbing heart, O lifted arms, O tenderness,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">O only capable of grief supreme!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">O earth for ever mingled with unearthliness</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Because the eternal with the brief is twined!</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Wonder of breath that is momentary and tremulous</div><span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</span>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Suffices him who breathes eternal mind.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Vision that dawns beyond knowledge shall deliver him</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">From all that flattered, threatened, foiled, betrayed.</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">Lo, having nothing, he is free of all the universe,</div>
+    <div class="verse indent0">And where light is, he enters unafraid.</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+<br>
+<br>
+
+<p class="center no-indent fs80">THE END</p>
+
+
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+</figure>
+</div>
+
+<p class="center no-indent fs80">
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