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excess celestial 'scape life's earthly mask? 0 frail Moeonian bird,
thou fail'st thy task? Alas, it was too much of thee to ask In
fixed madness lost, my bold intrusion, So thoughtless, covers her
with sweet confusion, As though a placid soul, 'fore love's
affright, Is bathed all o'er in rosy crystal light; And I,?who, but
a fleeting space, o'erborne On passion's pinions to the empyreal
bourne Of Flora, by the love-god's blandishments,? Now in the toils
of other ravishments Beheld myself,?and in the kingdom stood, Of
all that breathes of beautiful and good; Ay, fadeless fair as
amaranth;?as true; Love's dream-world in Rhodanthe born anew And,
like a pent-up storm, which night enshrouds, With groaning rages in
the laboring clouds, Forecasted by the fitful lightning's flashes,
At last, unleashed, in fury fiercely crashes Thorough the
flood-gates of the skies afire, And mercilessly beats with scourges
dire The unhappy face of nature,?my spirit lorn,? Which ever seemed
to nurse a love unborn,? Dreaming of dreams, ethereal and eternal,
But never seemingly attainable, Through all the lashing
tempest-time of youth,? Now swift the current feels of love's sweet
truth Impulsive sweep all barriers away, And pour o'er pied and
lilied runnels gay, In frenzied and ungovernable bliss, Enamelling
the world with daedal artifice, In fairy likeness of Hesperian
Fields Now thrilled with all the emotions young love yields; Now
iced with the fear of scorn; now wild To woo this being frighted as
a child, At heavenly-winged love; now all afire To face for her
fell Ate's perils dire; Or for her sake, with Phaeton's bribery, To
scale the heights of heaven's empery; It matters not,?naught is
impossible? Her magic soul casts o'er me such a sp...
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