Page:Hephaestus, Persephone at Enna, and Sappho in Leucadia.djvu/35

 :Reckless of time, should waken not and find
 * Our hearts grown old, but evermore live on
 * As do the stars and Earth’s untroubled trees,
 * While seasons came, like birds, and went again,—
 * Though Greece and her green islands were no more,
 * And all her marbled glory should go down
 * Like flowers that die and fall, and one by one
 * Like lamps her lofty cities should go out.


 * Your voice, like dew, falls deep in my dry heart,
 * And like a bell your name swings through my dreams;
 * Now all my being throbs and cries for you;
 * Come back with me; but come, and I will speak
 * A thousand gentle words for each poor tear
 * That dimmed your eyes! Come back, and I will crown
 * Your days with love so enduring it shall light
 * The eternal stars to bed!


 * Ask me no more,—
 * My Phaon, you must ask me nevermore:
 * Though Music pipe from Memory’s darkest pine
 * Her tenderest note, all time her wings are torn;
 * The assuaging founts of tears themselves have failed.
 * Life to the lees I drained, and I have grown
 * Too lightly wayward with its wine of love,
 * Too sadly troubled with its wind of change,
 * And some keen madness burns through all my blood.
 * The whimpering velvet whelps of Passion once
 * I warmed in my white breast, and now full-grown