The Mermaid Other Poems

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Ye all from dust were made, and once again To dust ye shall return, and so I drive Ye from this Paradise, for fear ye eat The fruit upon the tree of life, and live For aye. " Thus sadly went the twain away 31 Into the world of pain, and standing there A cherubim with flaming sword, that turns In every way, shall safely keep the path Of life, and sternly halt the steps of sin.
32 THE LIGHT-HOUSE The wind-blown off-shoot of a parent stem, Once tendril of the west-most diadem Of Brittany, rough-he
...wn, but now detached From helpless headlands, which in sadness watched Their wayward child, adrift upon the deep And foaming fields; where lo! the dizzy leap, From rocky coast in splendid disarray, Off-clefts, in subtle mode, as night from day, The island from the mainland; thus the waif Goes on its lonely mission, anchored, safe From rude embrace of wanton waves or winds, That senses dull, like wine that slyly binds Its helpless victims at the jewelled feasts, Or like unto the sharp-fanged, snarling beasts, That strike with force their lawful prey but fail To stun them, as the gaping wound, the frail Life blots in crimson tide upon the floor Of tesselated flags.

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