General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date:
1906 Original Publisher: J. Lane co. Subjects: Literary Criticism /
Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When
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million books for free. Excerpt: CHANT ROYAL OF THE GOD OF LOVE O
Most fair God O Love both new and old, That wast before the flowers
of morning blew, Before the glad sun in his mail of gold Leapt into
light across the first day's dew, That art the first and last of
our delight, That in the blue day and the purple night Holdest the
heart of servant and of king, Lord of liesse, sovran of sorrowing,
That in thy hand hast heaven's golden key And hell beneath the
shadow of thy wing, Thou art my Lord to whom I bend the knee What
thing rejects thine empery ? Who so bold But at thine altars in the
dusk they sue ? Even the strait pale Goddess, silver-stoled, That
kissed Endymion when the spring was new, To thee did homage in her
own despite, When, in the shadow of her wings of white, She slid
down trembling from her mooned ring To where the Latmian youth lay
slumbering, And in that kiss put off cold chastity. Who but
acclaim, with voice and pipe and string, Thou art my Lord to whom I
bend the knee ? Master of men and gods, in every fold Of thy wide
vans, the sorceries that renew The labouring earth tranced with the
winter's cold Lie hid, the quintessential charms that woo The souls
of flowers, slain with the sullen might Of the dead year, and draw
them to the light. Balsam and blessing to thy garments cling:
Skyward and seaward, whilst thy white palms fling Their spells of
healing over land and sea, One shout of homage makes the welkin
ring, Th...
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