Ranolf and Amohia [A Poem]

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: Canto the Third, Love and Nature luxuriant. I. The happy I.over. 2. Love's young dream. 3. A Latter-day Eden. 4. A suitable home for the fascinating dread Deity. 5. Rest in the Forest. The beautiful Palm. 6. Expressions of trees ? suggest more than the ' pathetic fallacy.' J. Forest luxuriance. A King?a God?a little Child Your happy Lover is; a Saint With all the Eternal Powers at one? Serene?confiding?reconciled: He thinks no ill?believes in none; There is for him no sin, no taint, No room for doubt, disgust, complaint, Misgiving or despondence faint: Life's mystery flies, her secret won, Like morning frost before the sun; How should its cobweb ties arrest The triumph of his bounding breast! How should he feel, with actual heaven In measureless fruition given, The mounting spirit's mortal load ? Feel, steeped in empyrean day And rapture without stint bestowed, The Mind too big for its abode, The Soul's discomfort in its clay ? Why look to some seraphic sphere For light, for love, so lavish here ? In this our gorgeous Paradise Why bend to grief?why stoop to vice ? Ah why distrest and sorrow-prest? Why not be right and brave and blest ? How easy, in a world so bright To be, to live, blest, brave and right!? He breathes Elysium?walks on wings; His own unbounded bliss he flings O'er all deformed, unhappy things: Transfigured are they?glorified; Or vanish and cannot abide The flood of splendour, the full tide Of joy that from his heart so wide Wells over all the world beside. O Melodist unequalled?Pride Of Nature's self-taught songsters he ! Inspired?unconscious?mute too soon? Who sets and sings his lyric Life-song free To glad Creation's high triumphant tune ! So for herself and most for her beloved All anxious cares...