Tasso and the Sisters Tasso's Spirit: The Nuptials of Juno: The Skeletons: The Spirits of the Ocean. Poems, By Thomas Wade |
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Return, my Muse!—The Spirits knelt,
But worshipp'd not with praise, or pray'r;
Sad sighs and tears told all they felt,
And silence—near akin to care:—
And all look'd sorrowful—save one—
'Twas he-the Master's only Son:
Tho' long and low he stoop'd beneath
The crown which deck'd a brow of death,
There was a laughter in his eye,
Wild as the stars thro' heaven that fly,
Showing strange thoughts, and plainly telling
With love, with love his heart was swelling;—
And, whilst he humbly bent the knee
To that pale Maiden of the Sea,
A smile upon his kindling cheek,
(For smiles can eloquently speak)
Told that, altho' his form inclin'd
In worship there, his chainless mind
Had taken to her wings divine,
And bow'd before a lovelier shrine.
But worshipp'd not with praise, or pray'r;
Sad sighs and tears told all they felt,
And silence—near akin to care:—
And all look'd sorrowful—save one—
'Twas he-the Master's only Son:
Tho' long and low he stoop'd beneath
The crown which deck'd a brow of death,
There was a laughter in his eye,
Wild as the stars thro' heaven that fly,
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With love, with love his heart was swelling;—
And, whilst he humbly bent the knee
To that pale Maiden of the Sea,
A smile upon his kindling cheek,
(For smiles can eloquently speak)
Told that, altho' his form inclin'd
In worship there, his chainless mind
Had taken to her wings divine,
And bow'd before a lovelier shrine.
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