The Life of Walter Bagehot by Emily Barrington
Author:Emily Barrington [Barrington, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biographie
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2017-02-05T00:00:00+00:00
ORITHYIA.
·
o What am I and where am I?
o Why do I leave the city of my youth,
o And the sweet streets where linger all I know,
o And the fair home where I have lived and loved?
o To mark how on Hissus gentle face
o The eager north wind venteth his quick will,
o Or how the long ribbed plane leaves vex the air,
o And how subtle and calm the light clouds hang
o In amorous poise upon the breath that wafts them?
o I do remember me that in my youth
o I strayed, where in Aeropolis the hills
o Regard Eubœa, and the sweet air was hushed,
o The distant waves Æolian music made,
o The very hills were faint as the next world,
o And all things murmured. Yet there was nought.
o But all at once the breeze began to murmur
o ‘Orithyia,’ and the calm hills remurmured
o ‘Orithyia,’ and the fair waves re-echoed
o ‘Orithyia,’ and in their hollow throat
o The caves half muttered ‘Orithyia’;
o Yet there was nothing save a too deep calm,
o An overfulness and a weight in air—
o Since then I have not loved what maidens love,
o To me the winding dance, the hasteful words,
o The gentle music and the gentler home,
o The tranquil evening and the pleasant morn,
o The flexile fancies and the talk of friends,
o The converse low and sweet in evening time,
o The taskless work and busy rest were nought,
o Nor all the homely harmony of life.
o Nor them that fain would love me could I love,
o For ever unto me mine own heart seemed
o Too awful to be spent on things of earth,
o But walked I sole and consecrate, as doth
o The moon in heaven. Yet were there longings strange.
o Such as with lisping tongues of half-formed waves
o The tranquil sea doth utter in its musing.
o Longings for one immortal whom I knew
o And yet knew not. And so in sooth was all.
o Now I awake. The dream of this world ends,
o A thickening cloud o’er-shadows all the world,
o A mind is in the air:—for I am called.
o At once a sudden thrill shakes earth and heaven
o For He who rules the awful air doth call me.
o Boreas, I come, I come, I pant and pause,
o I faint, press on, and pause; for what am I
o That He who rules the awful air should love me?
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