Wild honey from various thyme By Michael Field [i.e. K. H. Bradley and E. E. Cooper] |
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OUT OF THE EAST
Jasper and jacinth, amber and fine gold,
The topaz, ruby, the fire opal, grey
And lucent agate covered thee with glory,
O Eastern Prince, from fuming China hoary,
That on thy orient rug celestial lay,
Thy coat a web of treasure manifold!
The topaz, ruby, the fire opal, grey
And lucent agate covered thee with glory,
O Eastern Prince, from fuming China hoary,
That on thy orient rug celestial lay,
Thy coat a web of treasure manifold!
And from thy glinted eye what lust of eye,
What joy in having joy to thy desire,
What potency out of thy gold to fashion
Thy slaves to aptness for each regal passion,
What ambush and what ease of rampant fire!
What somnolence of ancient cruelty!
What joy in having joy to thy desire,
What potency out of thy gold to fashion
Thy slaves to aptness for each regal passion,
What ambush and what ease of rampant fire!
What somnolence of ancient cruelty!
And mysteries, old mysteries like stars
Rose in thy spread gaze, and thy thought was filled
With worship, with perpetual adoration;
The very breath of being an oblation;
Infinitude a faith life never stilled,
The lustier for its chains, its wrongs and jars.
Rose in thy spread gaze, and thy thought was filled
With worship, with perpetual adoration;
The very breath of being an oblation;
Infinitude a faith life never stilled,
The lustier for its chains, its wrongs and jars.
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Thou wouldst not break thy trance save at the hour
Of welcome: then the glories of thy race,
Then dance and sovereign courtesy, elation
As thou wouldst heap the substance of a nation
At feet that had the ritual of thy face,
And all thy gems in flash, thy gold in shower.
Of welcome: then the glories of thy race,
Then dance and sovereign courtesy, elation
As thou wouldst heap the substance of a nation
At feet that had the ritual of thy face,
And all thy gems in flash, thy gold in shower.
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