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My false ideal joy and fickle woe,
Out full to light and knowledge; I should fear
Some plait between the brows, some rougher chime
In the free voice. O angels, let your flood
Of bitter scorn dash on me ! do ye hear
What I say who hear calmly all the time
This everlasting face to face with GOD ?...Read more of this...

...h time, I do: so He. 


Well then, 'supposeth He is good i' the main, 
Placable if His mind and ways were guessed, 
But rougher than His handiwork, be sure! 
Oh, He hath made things worthier than Himself, 
And envieth that, so helped, such things do more 
Than He who made them! What consoles but this? 
That they, unless through Him, do nought at all, 
And must submit: what other use in things? 
'Hath cut a pipe of pithless elder-joint 
That, blown through, gives exact the scr...Read more of this...

...ower to that higher sphere. 

So when Amphion did the lute command, 
Which the god gave him, with his gentle hand, 
The rougher stones, unto his measures hewed, 
Danced up in order from the quarries rude; 
This took a lower, that an higher place, 
As he the treble altered, or the bass: 
No note he struck, but a new stone was laid, 
And the great work ascended while he played. 

The listening structures he with wonder eyed, 
And still new stops to various time applied: 
Now th...Read more of this...

...full true,
The first recorded deed that drew
My fathers' house from dark to light.

If thus my grandame told aright,
A rougher place our land was then,
Quoth she, than with us living men,
And other trees were in the wood
And folk of somewhat other blood
Than ours: then were the small-eyed bears
More plenty in the woodland lairs
Than badgers now: no holiday
It was to chase the wolves away,
Yea there were folk who had to tell
Of lyngworms lying on the fell,
And fearful things ...Read more of this...

...less abstruse, my riddling days are past.

Chor: Look now for no inchanting voice, nor fear
The bait of honied words; a rougher tongue
Draws hitherward, I know him by his stride,
The Giant Harapha of Gath, his look
Haughty as is his pile high-built and proud.
Comes he in peace? what wind hath blown him hither 
I less conjecture then when first I saw
The sumptuous Dalila floating this way:
His habit carries peace, his brow defiance.

Sam: Or peace or not, alike to me he comes....Read more of this...

...orm allay'd,
No light propitious shone;
When, snatch'd from all effectual aid,
We perish'd, each alone:
But I beneath a rougher sea,
And whelm'd in deeper gulfs than he....Read more of this...

...mother'd say h'ed done to crost her, 
Though there being crowds about he'd lost her.

Lord, give to men who are old and rougher 
The things that little children suffer, 
And let keep bright and undefiled 
The young years of the little child. 
I pat his head at edge of street 
And gi'm my second pear to eat. 
Right under lamp I pat his head, 
"I'll stay till mother come," I said, 
And stay I did, and joked and talked, 
And shoppers wondered as they walked, 
"There's that Saul ...Read more of this...

...is lower to that higher Sphere.
So when Amphion did the Lute command,
Which the God gave him, with his gentle hand,
The rougher Stones, unto his Measures hew'd,
Dans'd up in order from the Quarreys rude;
This took a Lower, that an Higher place,
As he the Treble alter'd, or the Base:
No Note he struck, but a new Story lay'd,
And the great Work ascended while he play'd.
The listning Structures he with Wonder ey'd,
And still new Stopps to various Time apply'd:
Now through the St...Read more of this...

...r home with cod
From George's bank when winds were blowing.

And I judge from that elysian freight
That all they ask is rougher weather,
And dory and master will sail by fate
To seek the Happy Isles together....Read more of this...

...ce of your madness unforgiven, 
And think that you might mix his draught with death, 
When your skies change again: the rougher hand 
Is safer: on to the tents: take up the Prince.' 

He rose, and while each ear was pricked to attend 
A tempest, through the cloud that dimmed her broke 
A genial warmth and light once more, and shone 
Through glittering drops on her sad friend. 
'Come hither. 
O Psyche,' she cried out, 'embrace me, come, 
Quick while I melt; make reconcilement ...Read more of this...

...ome ballad or a song 
To give us breathing-space.' 
So I began, 
And the rest followed: and the women sang 
Between the rougher voices of the men, 
Like linnets in the pauses of the wind: 
And here I give the story and the songs....Read more of this...

...breast, 
Though oft and long beneath its weight 
Upon his eyes had slumber sate, 
Without or couch or canopy, 
Except a rougher field and sky 
Than now might yield a warrior's bed, 
Than now along the heaven was spread. 
He could not rest, he could not stay 
Within his tent to wait for day, 
But walk'd him forth along the sand, 
Where thousand sleepers strew'd the strand. 
What pillow'd them? and why should he 
More wakeful than the humblest be? 
Since more their peril, worse...Read more of this...

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