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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The 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...