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      That keeps; from the dreamer;
          *The moonbeam away …
        Bright beings !  that ponder;
          With half closing eyes;
      On the stars which your wonder
    Hath drawn from the skies;                   'in the original; this
line is slightly out of alignment'
      Till they glance thro' the shade; and
          Come down to your brow
      Like  eyes of the maiden
          Who calls on you now …
      Arise !  from your dreaming
          In violet bowers;
      To duty beseeming
          These star…litten hours …
      And shake from your tresses
          Encumber'd with dew
      The breath of those kisses
          That cumber them too …
      (O !  how; without you; Love !
          Could angels be blest ?)
      Those kisses of true love
          That lull'd ye to rest !
      Up ! … shake from your wing
          Each hindering thing :
      The dew of the night …
          It would weigh down your flight ;
      And true love caresses …
          O ! leave them apart !

    * In Scripture is this passage … 〃The sun shall not harm thee by day;
nor the moon by night。〃 It is perhaps not generally known that the moon;
in Egypt; has the effect of producing blindness to those who sleep with
the face exposed to its rays; to which circumstance the passage evidently
alludes。

They are light on the tresses;
    But lead on the heart。

Ligeia !  Ligeia !
    My beautiful one !
Whose harshest idea
    Will to melody run;
O !  is it thy will
    On the breezes to toss ?
Or; capriciously still;
    *Like the lone Albatross;
Incumbent on night
    (As she on the air)
To keep watch with delight
    On the harmony there ?

Ligeia !  whatever
    Thy image may be;
No magic shall sever
    Thy music from thee。
Thou hast bound many eyes
    In a dreamy sleep …
But the strains still arise
    Which _thy_ vigilance keep …
The sound of the rain
    Which leaps down to the flower;
And dances again
    In the rhythm of the shower …
員he murmur that springs
    From the growing of grass

    * The Albatross is said to sleep on the wing。

    ?I met with this idea in an old English tale; which I am now unable
to obtain and quote from memory : … 〃The verie essence and; as it were;
springe…heade; and origine of all musiche is the verie pleasaunte sounde
which the trees of the forest do make when they growe。〃

Are the music of things …
    But are modell'd; alas ! …
Away; then my dearest;
    O !  hie thee away
To springs that lie clearest
    Beneath the moon…ray …
 To lone lake that smiles;
    In its dream of deep rest;
At the many star…isles
    That enjewel its breast …
Where wild flowers; creeping;
    Have mingled their shade;
On its margin is sleeping
    Full many a maid …
Some have left the cool glade; and
    * Have slept with the bee …
Arouse them my maiden;
    On moorland and lea …
Go !  breathe on their slumber;
    All softly in ear;
The musical number
    They slumber'd to hear …
For what can awaken
    An angel so soon

    * The wild bee will not sleep in the shade if there be moonlight。
    The rhyme in this verse; as in one about sixty lines before; has an
appearance of affectation。 It is; however; imitated from Sir W。 Scott; or
rather from Claud Halcro … in whose mouth I admired its effect :
                O !  were there an island;
                    Tho' ever so wild
                Where woman might smile; and
                    No man be beguil'd; &c。

Whose sleep hath been taken
    Beneath the cold moon;
As the spell which no slumber
    Of witchery may test;
The rythmical number
    Which lull'd him to rest ?〃

Spirits in wing; and angels to the view;
A thousand seraphs burst th' Empyrean thro';
Young dreams still hovering on their drowsy flight …
Seraphs in all but 〃Knowledge;〃 the keen light
That fell; refracted; thro' thy bounds; afar
O Death !  from eye of God upon that star:
Sweet was that error … sweeter still that death …
Sweet was that error … ev'n with _us_ the breath
Of science dims the mirror of our joy …
To them 'twere the Simoom; and would destroy …
For what (to them) availeth it to know
That Truth is Falsehood … or that Bliss is Woe ?
Sweet was their death … with them to die was rife
With the last ecstacy of satiate life …
Beyond that death no immortality …
But sleep that pondereth and is not 〃to be〃 …
And there … oh !  may my weary spirit dwell …
*Apart from Heaven's Eternity … and yet how far from Hell !

    * With the Arabians there is a medium between Heaven and Hell; where
men suffer no punishment; but yet do not attain that tranquil and even
happiness which they suppose to be characteristic of heavenly enjoyment。
            Un no rompido sueno …
            Un dia puro … allegre … libre
            Quiera …
            Libre de amor … de zelo …
            De odio … de esperanza … de rezelo。  …  _Luis Ponce de Leon_。

    Sorrow is not excluded from 〃Al Aaraaf;〃 but it is that sorrow which
the living love to cherish for the dead; and which; in some minds;
resembles the delirium of opium。 The passionate excitement of Love and the
buoyancy of spirit attendant upon intoxication are its less holy pleasures
… the price of which; to those souls who make choice of 〃Al Aaraaf〃 as
their residence after life; is final death and annihilation。

What guilty spirit; in what shrubbery dim;
Heard not the stirring summons of that hymn ?
But two :  they fell :  for Heaven no grace imparts
To those who hear not for their beating hearts。
A maiden…angel and her seraph…lover …
O !  where (and ye may seek the wide skies over)
Was Love; the blind; near sober Duty known ?
*Unguided Love hath fallen … 'mid 〃tears of perfect moan。〃

   He was a goodly spirit … he who fell :
   A wanderer by moss…y…mantled well …
   A gazer on the lights that shine above …
   A dreamer in the moonbeam by his love :
   What wonder ?  For each star is eye…like there;
   And looks so sweetly down on Beauty's hair …
   And they; and ev'ry mossy spring were holy
   To his love…haunted heart and melancholy。
   The night had found (to him a night of wo)
   Upon a mountain crag; young Angelo …
   Beetling it bends athwart the solemn sky;
   And scowls on starry worlds that down beneath it lie。
   Here sate he with his love … his dark eye bent
   With eagle gaze along the firmament:
   Now turn'd it upon her … but ever then
   It trembled to the orb of EARTH again。

   〃Iante; dearest; see !  how dim that ray !
   How lovely 'tis to look so far away !

* There be tears of perfect moan
    Wept for thee in Helicon。… _Milton。_

   She seem'd not thus upon that autumn eve
   I left her gorgeous halls … nor mourn'd to leave。
   That eve … that eve … I should remember well …
   The sun…ray dropp'd; in Lemnos; with a spell
   On th'Arabesque carving of a gilded hall
   Wherein I sate; and on the draperied wall …
   And on my eye…lids … O the heavy light !
   How drowsily it weigh'd them into night !
   On flowers; before; and mist; and love they ran
   With Persian Saadi in his Gulistan :
   But O that light! … I slumber'd … Death; the while;
   Stole o'er my senses in that lovely isle
   So softly that no single silken hair
   Awoke that slept … or knew that it was there。

   The last spot of Earth's orb I trod upon
   * Was a proud temple call'd the Parthenon …
   More beauty clung around her column'd wall
   員han ev'n thy glowing bosom beats withal;
   And when old Time my wing did disenthral
   Thence sprang I … as the eagle from his tower;
   And years I left behind me in an hour。
   What time upon her airy bounds I hung
   One half the garden of her globe was flung
   Unrolling as a chart unto my view …
   Tenantless cities of the desert too !
   Ianthe; beauty crowded on me then;
   And half I wish'd to be again of men。〃

   〃My Angelo! and why of them to be ?
   A brighter dwelling…place is here for thee …

    * It was entire in 1687 … the most elevated spot in Athens。

    ?Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows
       Than have the white breasts of the Queen of Love。 … _Marlowe。_

   And greener fields than in yon world above;
   And women's loveliness … and passionate love。〃

   〃But; list; Ianthe! when the air so soft
   *Fail'd; as my pennon'd spirit leapt aloft;
   Perhaps my brain grew dizzy … but the world
   I left so late was into chaos hurl'd …
   Sprang from her station; on the winds apart;
   And roll'd; a flame; the fiery Heaven athwart。
   Methought; my sweet one; then I ceased to soar
   And fell … not swiftly as I rose before;
   But with a downward; tremulous motion thro'
   Light; brazen rays; this golden star unto!
   Nor long the measure of my falling hours;
   For nearest of all stars was thine to ours …
   Dread star! that came; amid a night of mirth;
   A red D鎑alion on the timid Earth。

   〃We came … and to thy Earth … but not to us
   Be given our lady's bidding to discuss:
   We came; my love; around; above; below;
   Gay fire…fly of the night we come and go;
   Nor ask a reason save the angel…nod
  _ She_ grants to us; as granted by her God …
   But; Angelo; than thine grey Time unfurl'd
   Never his fairy wing o'er fairier world !
   Dim was its little disk; and angel eyes
   Alone could see the phantom in the skies;
   When first Al Aaraaf knew her course to be
   Headlong thitherward o'er the starry sea …
   But when its glory swell'd upon the sky;
   As glowing Beauty's bust beneath man's eye;

* Pennon … for pinion。 … _Milton_。

   We paus'd before the heritage of men;
   And thy star trembled … as doth Beauty then !〃

   Thus; in discourse; the lovers whiled away
   The night that waned and waned and brought no day。
   They fell :  for Heaven to them no hope imparts
   Who hear not for the beating of their hearts。



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TAMERLANE

KIND solace in a dying hour!
    Such; father; is not (now) my theme …
I will not madly deem that power
        Of Earth may shrive me of the sin
        Unearthly pride hath revell'd in …
    I have no time to dote or dream:
You call it hope … that fire of fire!
It is but agony

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