Poems; with introdby Richard Garnett and illusby Byam Shaw . ere all the little locks could bear. Now read here. Protus ends a period Of empery beginning with a god : Born in the porphyry chamber at Byzant; Queens by his cradle, proud and ministrant. And if he quickened breath there, twould like firePantingly through the dim vast realm fame that he was missing, spread afar—The world, from its four corners, rose in he was borne out on a balconyTo pacify the world when it should captains ranged before him, one, his handMade baby points at, gained the chief
Poems; with introdby Richard Garnett and illusby Byam Shaw . ere all the little locks could bear. Now read here. Protus ends a period Of empery beginning with a god : Born in the porphyry chamber at Byzant; Queens by his cradle, proud and ministrant. And if he quickened breath there, twould like firePantingly through the dim vast realm fame that he was missing, spread afar—The world, from its four corners, rose in he was borne out on a balconyTo pacify the world when it should captains ranged before him, one, his handMade baby points at, gained the chief day by day more beautiful he grewIn shape, all said, in feature and in young Greek sculptors gazing on the childWere, so, with old Greek sculpture, sages laboured to condenseIn easy tomes a lifes experience:And artists took grave counsel to impartIn one breath and one hand-sweep, all their art—To make his graces prompt as blossomingOf plentifully-watered palms in spring :Since well beseems it, whoso mounts the throne, 341. PROTUS For beauty, knowledge, strength, should stand alone,And mortals love the letters of his name. —Stop ! Have you turned two pages ? Still the same. New reign, same date. The scribe goes on to say How that same year, on such a month and day, John the Pannonian, groundedly believed A blacksmiths bastard, whose hard hand reprieved The Empire from its fate the year before,— Came, had a mind to take the crown, and wore The same for six years, (during which the Huns Kept off their fingers from us) till his sons Put something in his liquor —and so forth. Then a new reign. Stay— Take at its just worth (Subjoins an annotator) what I give As hearsay. Some think John let Protus live And slip away. Tis said he reached mans age At some blind northern court ; made first a page, Then, tutor to the children—last, of use About the hunting-stables. I deduce. He wrote the little tract On worming dogs, Whereof the name in sundry
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