. Poems . 256 POEMS. \ THE RIVIERA. PEERLESS shore of peerless sea,Ere mortal eye had gazed on thee,\Vhat god was lover first of deep of thy unvintaged wine,And lying on thy shining breastKnew all thy passion and thy rest;And when thy love he must resign,O generous god, first love of thine,Left such a dower of wealth to thee,Thou peerless shore of peerless sea !Thy balmy air, thy stintless orange-flowering never myrtle, olive, palm, and golden figs, thy ruddy wine,Thy subtle and resistless spellWhich all men feel and none can tell?O peerless shore of peerl
. Poems . 256 POEMS. \ THE RIVIERA. PEERLESS shore of peerless sea,Ere mortal eye had gazed on thee,\Vhat god was lover first of deep of thy unvintaged wine,And lying on thy shining breastKnew all thy passion and thy rest;And when thy love he must resign,O generous god, first love of thine,Left such a dower of wealth to thee,Thou peerless shore of peerless sea !Thy balmy air, thy stintless orange-flowering never myrtle, olive, palm, and golden figs, thy ruddy wine,Thy subtle and resistless spellWhich all men feel and none can tell?O peerless shore of peerless sea !From all the world we turn to thee;No wonder deem we thee divine !Some god was lover first of thine. SEMITONES. H me, the subtle boundary betweenWhat pleases and what pains ! The dif-ference Between the word that thrills our every senseWith joy and one which hurts, although it mean. IN THE DARK. 257 No hurt! It is the things that are unseen, Invisible, not things of violence, For which the mightiest are without defence. On kine most fair to see one may grow lean With hunger. Many a snowy bread is doled Which is iix harder than the hardest stones. T is but a narrow line divides the zones Where suns are warm from those where suns are cold. Twixt harmonies divine as chords can hold And torturing discords, lie but semitones ! IN THE DARK. S one who journeys on a stormy nightThrough mountain passes which he does notknow Shields like his life from savage gusts that blowThe swaying flame of his frail torchs light,So each of us through lifes long groping fightClings fast to one dear faith, one love, whose glowMakes darkness noonday to our trusting joys of perils into which we help us, when this precious shining markThe raging storms of deep distrust assailWith icy, poisoned breath and deadly aim,Till we, with hearts that shrink and cower and quailIn terr
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