Life, Here And There: Or, Sketches of Society And Adventure At Far-Apart ...
Life, Here And There: Or, Sketches of Society And Adventure At Far-Apart ...
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867
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In secret, amid splendor } No ! In the street and the vulgar gaze } No ! In the bosom of love } She only remembers it. Where, then, is the intoxicating cup of homage — the delirious draught for which brain, soul,, and nerve, are tasked, tortured, and spent — whe^e^ is it lifted to the lips } The answer brings me back. Ey^s shining from amid jewels, voices softened with gentie breeding, smiles awakening beneath costiy lamps— an atmosphere of perfume, splendor, and courtesy — ^these form the poet...'s Hebe, and the hero's Ganymede. These LATER DAYS. 245 pour, fbr Ambition, ihe draught that slakes his fever — ^these hold the cup to Hps, drinking eagerly, that would turn away, in solitude firom the ambrosia of the gods ! Clay's walk through the sumptuous rooms of Mrs. R was Hke a Roman triumph. He was borne on from lip to lip — those before him anticipating his greeting, and those he left, still send- ing their bright and kind words after him. He breathed incense. Suddenly, behind him, he heard the voice of Eve Gore.
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