Maud, Locksley hall, and other poems . -earnest eye —The rhymes are dazzled from their place, And orderd words asunder fly. (139) I40 The Day-Dream. THE SLEEPING PALACE. The varying year with blade and sheaf Clothes and reclothes the happy plains,Here rests the sap within the leaf, Here stays the blood along the shadows, vaponrs lightly curld, Faint murmurs from the meadows come,Like hints and echoes of the world To spirits folded in the womb. Soft lustre bathes the range of urns On every slanting fountain to his place returns Deep in the garden lake
Maud, Locksley hall, and other poems . -earnest eye —The rhymes are dazzled from their place, And orderd words asunder fly. (139) I40 The Day-Dream. THE SLEEPING PALACE. The varying year with blade and sheaf Clothes and reclothes the happy plains,Here rests the sap within the leaf, Here stays the blood along the shadows, vaponrs lightly curld, Faint murmurs from the meadows come,Like hints and echoes of the world To spirits folded in the womb. Soft lustre bathes the range of urns On every slanting fountain to his place returns Deep in the garden lake droops the banner on the tower, On the hall-hearths the festal fires,The peacock in his laurel bower. The parrot in his gilded wires. Roof-haunting martins warm their eggs:In these, in those the life is stayd. The mantles from the golden pegsDroop sleepily . no sound is made, The Day-Dream. 141 Not even of a gnat that sings. More like a picture seemeth allThan those old portraits of old kings, That watch the sleepers from the
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