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               XIII

     But by the yellow Tiber
          Was tumult and affright:
     From all the spacious champaign
          To Rome men took their flight.
     A mile around the city,
          The throng stopped up the ways;
     A fearful sight it was to see
          Through two long nights and days.

               XIV

     For aged folks on crutches,
          And women great with child,
     And mothers sobbing over babes
          That clun...Read more of this...

...heroes in His cause. 

 XXI 
The world—the clust'ring spheres He made, 
The glorious light, the soothing shade, 
 Dale, champaign, grove, and hill; 
The multitudinous abyss, 
Where secrecy remains in bliss, 
 And wisdom hides her skill 

 XXII 
Trees, plants, and flow'rs—of virtuous root; 
Gem yielding blossom, yielding fruit, 
 Choice gums and precious balm; 
Bless ye the nosegay in the vale, 
And with the sweetness of the gale 
 Enrich the thankful psalm. 

 XXIII 
Of fowl—...Read more of this...

...egions be
His messenger, his little Mercury.
Some were athirst in soul to see again
Their fellow huntsmen o'er the wide champaign
In times long past; to sit with them, and talk
Of all the chances in their earthly walk;
Comparing, joyfully, their plenteous stores
Of happiness, to when upon the moors,
Benighted, close they huddled from the cold,
And shar'd their famish'd scrips. Thus all out-told
Their fond imaginations,--saving him
Whose eyelids curtain'd up their jewels dim,
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...Balzac age, I felt its burning pain, 
 Chilled to the bone, I couldn't hold my own. 
 The age of balsam wine mixed with champaign!.. 

 So I looked up, and wound the window down. 

 They were young, two pretty-pretty fellows, 
 wearing fur coats, looking slightly careless. 
 "You're free, Miss, aren't you ? Care for delight? 
 Five hundred now. One thousand for the night". 

 I flared up. They took me for a prostitute. 
 My heart was jumping. What an attitude! 
 They want you...Read more of this...

...of the knight's stout heart and tempered will.
Not in Elysian lands they take their way;
Not as of yore across the gay champaign,
Towards some dream city, towered . . .
and my . . .
The path winds forth before me, sweet and plain,
Not now; but though beneath a stone-grey sky
November's russet woodlands toss and wail,
Still the white road goes thro' them, still may I,
Strong in new purpose, God, may still prevail.

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I and my like, improvident sailors!

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At...Read more of this...

...e.

XLIV.
See, as they creep along the river side,
How she doth whisper to that aged Dame,
And, after looking round the champaign wide,
Shows her a knife.--"What feverous hectic flame
"Burns in thee, child?--What good can thee betide,
"That thou should'st smile again?"--The evening came,
And they had found Lorenzo's earthy bed;
The flint was there, the berries at his head.

XLV.
Who hath not loiter'd in a green church-yard,
And let his spirit, like a demon-mole,
Work through ...Read more of this...

...comes 
 Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, 
 Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, 
 As with a rural mound, the champaign head 
 Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides 
Access denied; and overhead upgrew 
 Insuperable height of loftiest shade, 
 Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, 
 A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend, 
 Shade above shade, a woody theatre 
 Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops 
 The verdurous wall of Paradise upsprung; 

Whi...Read more of this...

...circuit wide
Lay pleasant; from his side two rivers flowed,
The one winding, the other straight, and left between
Fair champaign, with less rivers interveined,
Then meeting joined their tribute to the sea.
Fertil of corn the glebe, of oil, and wine;
With herds the pasture thronged, with flocks the hills; 
Huge cities and high-towered, that well might seem
The seats of mightiest monarchs; and so large
The prospect was that here and there was room
For barren desert, fountainle...Read more of this...

...ain or struck, Michel the strong,
Bold Travers, Dnop, Delord, 
Smart Guyot, Reil-le, l’Heriter, Friant. 
Scattered that champaign o’er. 

Fallen likewise wronged Duhesme, and skilled Lobau 
Did that red sunset see;
Colbert, Legros, Blancard!… And of the foe 
Picton and Ponsonby; 

With Gordon, Canning, Blackman, Ompteda, 
L’Estrange, Delancey, Packe, 
Grose, D’Oyly, Stables, Morice, Howard, Hay,
Von Schwerin, Watzdorf, Boek, 

Smith, Phelips, Fuller, Lind, and Battersby, 
And...Read more of this...

...d gained 
The terrace ranged along the Northern front, 
And leaning there on those balusters, high 
Above the empurpled champaign, drank the gale 
That blown about the foliage underneath, 
And sated with the innumerable rose, 
Beat balm upon our eyelids. Hither came 
Cyril, and yawning 'O hard task,' he cried; 
'No fighting shadows here! I forced a way 
Through opposition crabbed and gnarled. 
Better to clear prime forests, heave and thump 
A league of street in summer solsti...Read more of this...

...seman, came 
As comes a pillar of electric cloud, 
Flaying the roofs and sucking up the drains, 
And shadowing down the champaign till it strikes 
On a wood, and takes, and breaks, and cracks, and splits, 
And twists the grain with such a roar that Earth 
Reels, and the herdsmen cry; for everything 
Game way before him: only Florian, he 
That loved me closer than his own right eye, 
Thrust in between; but Arac rode him down: 
And Cyril seeing it, pushed against the Prince, 
W...Read more of this...

...y in the whirlwind did everything pass, 
 The man and the city, the soil and its grass! 
 God burnt this sad, sterile champaign; 
 Naught living was left of this people destroyed, 
 And the unknown wind which blew over the void, 
 Each mountain changed into a plain. 
 
 XI. 
 
 The palm-tree that grows on the rock to this day, 
 Feels its leaf growing yellow, its slight stem decay, 
 In the blasting and ponderous air; 
 These towns are no more! but to mirror their...Read more of this...

...ind and green they grope
Among the honey meal: and last,
Everywhere on the grassy slope
O traced it. Hold it fast!

The champaign with its endless fleece
Of feathery grasses everywhere!
Silence and passion, joy and peace,
An everlasting wash of air—
Rome's ghost since her decease.

Such life here, through such lengths of hours,
Such miracles performed in play,
Such primal naked forms of flowers,
Such letting nature have her way
While heaven looks from its towers!

How say you...Read more of this...

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