Poems And Romances
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So as the orphans plied their pious toil, They found the waters sunken very low, And saw another thing exceeding strange, A revelation of a searching change Wrought by the bitter sea upon the dead ; For every wrinkle, every paltry soil, Of their hard life was wholly vanished, And every face majestically clear; And yet there fell a horror and a fear On those who gazed thereon, and knew not why : And though there shone high pleasure in the eye Of some, yet this was also hard to bear.
So standing ...on the dead they multiplied ; But if it was the rising of the tide Or sinking of the ship I shall not say, But evermore the first forefathers lay Deeper beneath the surging of the sea, While over them the human masonry Of other later dead rose high and wide, Growing together in a mystery About the anchor and the heavenly vine, Drinking at their sad feasts its bitter wine, Living and dying by the hungry sea.
62 A PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY.
Then as they multiplied their misery, They often strove in their perplexity Even to slaying, and the slain fell down Into the waves, and lay where no one knew • And evermore, with over-mastering swell, The tide rose where the thickest corpses fell, And living lightnings wove an awful crown Above the anchorage of that lorn crew, And danced about the leaden waves, and drew Strange figures in the halls of imagery, Beneath the waters of captivity.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
So as the orphans plied their pious toil, They found the waters sunken very low, And saw another thing exceeding strange, A revelation of a searching change Wrought by the bitter sea upon the dead ; For every wrinkle, every paltry soil, Of their hard life was wholly vanished, And every face majestically clear; And yet there fell a horror and a fear On those who gazed thereon, and knew not why : And though there shone high pleasure in the eye Of some, yet this was also hard to bear.
So standing ...on the dead they multiplied ; But if it was the rising of the tide Or sinking of the ship I shall not say, But evermore the first forefathers lay Deeper beneath the surging of the sea, While over them the human masonry Of other later dead rose high and wide, Growing together in a mystery About the anchor and the heavenly vine, Drinking at their sad feasts its bitter wine, Living and dying by the hungry sea.
62 A PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY.
Then as they multiplied their misery, They often strove in their perplexity Even to slaying, and the slain fell down Into the waves, and lay where no one knew • And evermore, with over-mastering swell, The tide rose where the thickest corpses fell, And living lightnings wove an awful crown Above the anchorage of that lorn crew, And danced about the leaden waves, and drew Strange figures in the halls of imagery, Beneath the waters of captivity.
What to read after Poems And Romances?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by George Augustus Simcox to read onlineMoreLess
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