Eros And Other Poems

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EROS, A PLATONIC MYTH. A strain was handed down from earliest times, Repeated o'er the East, when earth was young, By sacred poets, but well nigh forgot Amid the strifes of warring tribes :â??the strain Was caught by gentle minstrel, rude in verse But ripe in goodness. Where he lived or when I know not. Ruder yet, I

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lifted up The lamp, next in the course, and bade it shine. Therefore ye gentle-hearted hear my song,â?? True, 'neath its veil, for truth its veil removed. Past was that age Saturnian, only known To song, ere history's duller tales began, When earth gave more than fruit enough to all, When every field was free and every wood. The world had grown diseased; a fever wild Of lusts raged fearfully; a youthful race In all its earliest strength, without a guide, Most like a stripling giant, with a will Ripened but reason crude, plunged wildly on, Whatever path allured, and madly warred With heaven and with each other; whence arose Fables of Titans that with mighty hands Piled mountains to the skies. From bad they fell To worse, until, when arts began to bloom, And states arose, and science tried its wings, A generation flourished of such wild And godless sinners, that 'twas marvellous Heaven could its eye keep open, and not dash Mankind, its masterpiece, upon the ground, To mould new vessels of superior clay. For human love had fled, and human shame: They led the blind astray, and starved the poor, And mocked the stranger's cry. nor knew remorse, When morn beheld him stiffened on the snow. They plucked the old man's staff away, and shouts Rang loud, when with the dust his hoary hairs Were levelled, and his face with blood defiled ; Whereat, in fiendish scorn he curst the young, Wishi...

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