The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Buchanan In Two Volumes. With a Portrait |
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IV. Arretez!
O'er this joy I dare not linger:
Stands a Shape with lifted finger
Crying in a low voice, ‘Singer!
Far too much of Eve and Adam.
Stands a Shape with lifted finger
Crying in a low voice, ‘Singer!
Far too much of Eve and Adam.
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‘Details of this dark connection
I desire not for inspection!’
And the Bard, with genuflexion,
Answers, ‘I obey thee, Madam!’
I desire not for inspection!’
And the Bard, with genuflexion,
Answers, ‘I obey thee, Madam!’
Stands the Moral Shape reproving,
While I linger o'er this loving;
Cries the voice, ‘Pass on! be moving!
We are virtuous, here to nor'ward!’
While I linger o'er this loving;
Cries the voice, ‘Pass on! be moving!
We are virtuous, here to nor'ward!’
Constable, I force cessation
To my flood of inspiration;
Such a theme for adumbration!
I resign it, and move forward.
To my flood of inspiration;
Such a theme for adumbration!
I resign it, and move forward.
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