Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908. Excerpt: ... MELAS AND ANAXE MMORTAL he who faithful is in love. Immortal he who, while new beauties wait A lover's ardent wooing, in his heart Holds one ideal, and dies in constancy. IN years now long forgotten, ere the Greeks Went singing to the slaughter of their foe, The Persian, on the bay of Salamis, Whose sapphire waves turn'd crimson with the blood That pour'd from high-beak'd trireme, there abode Within the town a youth who herded sheep, A comely lad named Melas, born a slave. Ere yet the sun had splash'd with faintest gold The valley's dew-pearl'd velvet, he was seen Climbing the hills behind his silly flock, Whose whiteness made men wonder--if they gazed From lowly vale upon the sloping heights--What cloud allured their shepherd, and with whom He linger'd thus in speech. The custom then, In those dead days whose memories we sing As sings the lark remember'd songs of heav'n, For gods to mate with mortals. Hoary trees Have witness'd lovers' meetings, heard the speech That ends in sweeter silence and is one With holy music's spirit. Dark and dawn, And languid day's gold interlude, have seen White splendors from Olympus at the feet Of Greece's ivory girlhood; and have heard Her shepherds and her fishers woo with song Dryad and nymph and starry goddesses. For men were then still simple, and the gods Were fond of them as we to-day are fond Of little children, in whose eyes abide Faint hints of things we long ago forgot. But now the woods are sadder. Long ago Diana left the forests. Merry Pan No longer haunts the valleys; on the hills No oreads trace the footprints of the wind; And though the foam'd seas thunder as of yore The Tritons sleep, unheeding, in their deeps. All now is changed; and though we sing thereof, In song whose flight is burden'd with regret, Nor...
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