The Song of the Happy Shepherd
And to its lips thy story tell,
Then nowise worship dusty deeds,
Where daffodil and lily wave,
No word of theirs - the cold star-bane
Lest all thy toiling only breeds
My songs of old earths dreamy youth:
The wandering earth herself may be
Seek, then, for this is also sooth,
Yet still she turns her restless head:
Where are now the wat
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ring kings?But O, sick children of the world,
Pierced by my glad singing through,
And they thy comforters will be.
Walking ghostly in the dew,
Only a sudden flaming word,
Of old the world on dreaming fed;
Where are now the warring kings,
And over is their antique joy;
No learning from the starry men,
To hunger fiercely af九九藏书ter truth,
In clanging space a moment heard,
Rewording in melodious guile
With mirthful songs before the dawn.
THE woods of Arcady are dead,
Some twisted, echo-harbouring shell.
To the cracked tune that Chronos sings,
Troubling the endless reverie.
The Song of the Happy Shepherd
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Who follow with the optic glass
Go gather by the humming sea
And still I dream he treads the lawn,
Till they shall singing fade in ruth
Words alone are certain good.
Has cloven and rent their hearts in twain,
I must be gone: there is a grave
Nor seek, for this is also sooth,
And dead is all their human truth.
The kings of the old tihttp://www•99lib.netme are dead;
Reading some entangled story:
Word be-mockers? - By the Rood,
Buried under the sleepy ground,
Grey Truth is now her painted toy;
For words alone are certain good:
The whirling ways of stars that pass -
Sing, then, for this is also sooth.
By the stammering schoolboy said,
Saving in thine own heart. Seek, then,
In dreary danc
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ing past us whirled,Of all the many changing things
Thy fretful words a little while,
Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.
And die a pearly brotherhood;
But ah! she dreams not now; dream thou!
An idle word is now their glory,
His shouting days with mirth were crowned;
New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth
And I would please the hapless faun,