The Works of John Hookham Frere In Verse and Prose Now First Collected with a Prefatory Memoir by his Nephews W. E. and Sir Bartle Frere |
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 | The Works of John Hookham Frere In Verse and Prose |  |
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LXXIV.
My heart exults, the lively call obeying,
When the shrill merry pipes are sweetly playing;
With these, to chaunt aloud or to recite,
To carol and carouse, is my delight:
Or in a stedfast tone, bolder and higher,
To temper with a touch, the manly lyre.
When the shrill merry pipes are sweetly playing;
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To carol and carouse, is my delight:
Or in a stedfast tone, bolder and higher,
To temper with a touch, the manly lyre.
The slavish visage never is erect;
But looks oblique and language indirect
Betray their origin—no lovely rose,
Or hyacinth, from the rude bramble grows;
Nor from a slavish and degraded breed,
Can gentle words or courteous acts proceed.
But looks oblique and language indirect
Betray their origin—no lovely rose,
Or hyacinth, from the rude bramble grows;
Nor from a slavish and degraded breed,
Can gentle words or courteous acts proceed.
From noble Æthon my descent I trace,
Thebes grants me refuge and a resting place;
Forbear then, Arguris, with empty mirth,
Yourself a slave, to scandalize my birth:
Woman! I tell thee, wandering and forlorn,
In exile and distress, much have I borne,
Sorrows and wrongs and evils manifold;
But, to be purchased as a slave and sold
Has never been my fate, nor ever will;
And I retain a town and country still,
Along the banks of the Lethæan river,
In a fair land, where I shall live for ever;
For a firm friend, a steady partizan,
A faithful and an honorable man,
Disdaining every sordid act and mean,
No slave am I, nor slavish have I been.
Thebes grants me refuge and a resting place;
Forbear then, Arguris, with empty mirth,
Yourself a slave, to scandalize my birth:
Woman! I tell thee, wandering and forlorn,
In exile and distress, much have I borne,
Sorrows and wrongs and evils manifold;
But, to be purchased as a slave and sold
Has never been my fate, nor ever will;
And I retain a town and country still,
Along the banks of the Lethæan river,
In a fair land, where I shall live for ever;
For a firm friend, a steady partizan,
A faithful and an honorable man,
Disdaining every sordid act and mean,
No slave am I, nor slavish have I been.
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