Fate in Arcadia, and other poems (1892) (14595412197)

Identifier: fateinarcadiaoth00elli (find matches)
Title: Fate in Arcadia, and other poems
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Ellis, Edwin John
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Publisher: London : Ward & Downey
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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151 THEY SAY. Like May, they say, the World was young.And Time was young, and played at mowing. Fortune played at hoops and flung And chased her wheel with laughter glowing. But the three old Fates with laughterLeaned and saw the children kissing. Then dark clouds came following after :The old Serpent laughed with hissing. Jealous old Eternity, Quiet like a lovers languor,Laughed with gentle cruelty. And hushed again in patient anger. Now Time wanders greying, slaying; Fortune rides her wheel to grind us :Still they give us, without praying, One kind gift,—the dust to blind us. 15- THE ART OF THE ANTIQUE. Desire the strong, deride the weak,Love laughing lips while life shall last;For all, except the End, goes past: This is the Art of the Antique.
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153 THE HOPE OF THE ANTIQUE. O Bacchanals who danced, and died,— Who danced to Bacchus, years long gone,You who between the vines espied, A god-like dream, and glorious eyed.Beholding where you danced,—who diedSo many years long gone,— No further ofF than last years dead,Or last years laughter shall you be. Brown and free, and garlanded, Springing from the wine-vats red, Still as near as last years dead,You and your dance shall be. 154 Ah God of Grapes, red-lipped and living,-Dancers, breathless, breathing yet,— Autumn sunshine still deceiving,— Willingly deceived and giving. Life to vv^ine ; w^e see you living,—Breathless, breathing yet.