Wild honey from various thyme By Michael Field [i.e. K. H. Bradley and E. E. Cooper] |
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SILENUS SOBER
As a man looking down from a hill-browI look down on all creatures that begin,
On Night, on Saturn, on the heavy din
Round chaos when the Titans fight enow:
Sometimes a mortal, questioning me how
Life fareth smoothest some slight jest doth win,
Sometimes a-gape I watch the Fates that spin,
Or in my wood-lair track the snuffling sow.
Sometimes I watch the satyrs growing old
And call them the Sileni, but no fold
Is in my heart; my wisdom is to ride,
Benignant to a fair god at my side—
To drink, to drink with him, to sway his mood,
Then home to fill myself with solitude.
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