Волшебница Шалотт и другие стихотворения

Whose echo shall not tongue thy glorious doom,

Nor in this pavement but shall ring thy name

To every hoof that clangs it, and the springs

Of Dirce laving yonder battle-plain,

Heard from the roofs by night, will murmur thee

To thine own Thebes, while Thebes thro’ thee shall stand

Firm-based with all her Gods.

The Dragon’s cave

Half hid, they tell me, now in flowing vines —

Where once he dwelt and whence he roll’d himself

At dead of night — thou knowest, and that smooth rock

Before it, altar-fashion’d, where of late

The woman-breasted Sphinx, with wings drawn back,

Folded her lion paws, and look’d to Thebes.

There blanch the bones of whom she slew, and these

Mixt with her own, because the fierce beast found

A wiser than herself, and dash’d herself

Dead in her rage: but thou art wise enough,

Tho’ young, to love thy wiser, blunt the curse

Of Pallas, hear, and tho’ I speak the truth

Believe I speak it, let thine own hand strike

Thy youthful pulses into rest and quench

The red God’s anger, fearing not to plunge

Thy torch of life in darkness, rather — thou

Rejoicing that the sun, the moon, the stars

Send no such light upon the ways of men

As one great deed.

Thither, my son, and there

Thou, that hast never known the embrace of love,

Offer thy maiden life.

This useless hand!

I felt one warm tear fall upon it. Gone!

He will achieve his greatness. But for me,

I would that I were gather’d to my rest,

And mingled with the famous kings of old,

On whom about their ocean-islets flash

The faces of the Gods — the wise man’s word,

Here trampled by the populace underfoot,

There crown’d with worship — and these eyes will find

The men I knew, and watch the chariot whirl

About the goal again, and hunters race

The shadowy lion, and the warrior-kings,

In height and prowess more than human, strive

Again for glory, while the golden lyre

Is ever sounding in heroic ears

Heroic hymns, and every way the vales

Wind, clouded with the grateful incense-fume

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