Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . £^L^,%2 K^ ^.. ^^ sCr- ^Q^ First Cyprus, then the Syrian shore. To Fharpars hicid rill,Did those two large dark eyes explore. Hut wanted something still. Damascus filled his heart with joy, So sweet her roses were IHe culled them ; but the wayward boy Thouj^ht them ill worth his care. I want them every month, he cried, I want them every hour :Perennial rose, and none beside. Henceforth shall be my TO JOHN FOSTER. Foster I whose zeal has seized each w
Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . £^L^,%2 K^ ^.. ^^ sCr- ^Q^ First Cyprus, then the Syrian shore. To Fharpars hicid rill,Did those two large dark eyes explore. Hut wanted something still. Damascus filled his heart with joy, So sweet her roses were IHe culled them ; but the wayward boy Thouj^ht them ill worth his care. I want them every month, he cried, I want them every hour :Perennial rose, and none beside. Henceforth shall be my TO JOHN FOSTER. Foster I whose zeal has seized each written fell from me, and over many landsHath cleared for me a broad and solid way,Whence one more age, ay, haply more than one,May be arrived at (all through thee), acceptNo false or faint or perishable better men, and greater, friendship turnedThy willing steps to mc. From Eliots cellDeath-dark ; from Hampdens sadder battle-field ;From stedfast Cromwells tribunition throne,Loftier than kings supported knees could mount ;Hast thou departed with me, and hast climbedCecropian heights, and ploughed JEgean it never grieved me when I saw-That she who guards those regions and those seasHath lookt with eyes more gracious upon are no few like that conspiratorWho, under pretext of power-worship, fellAt Caesars feet, only to hold him downWhile others stabbed him with repeated blows :And there are more who fling light jibes, immerstIn gutter-filth, against the car that mounts 231
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