Stones from The Quarry or, Moods of Mind. By Henry Browne [i.e. Henry Ellison] |
THE ART OF KEEPING YOUNG. |
Stones from The Quarry | ||
THE ART OF KEEPING YOUNG.
Old fable, dabbling in “black art” and spell,Life's ebbing tide re-turned in Æson's veins,
Gave youth's hot pulses back, and seething brains.
We too can magic circles draw, compel
Spirits to rise, and Death and Time repel;
Enlarge our being with vicarious pains
And joys, till more than “Plutarch's Lives” it gains,
And Nestor's years, our many lives to tell!
Did we not dream with Jacob in Bethel?
Hear Hector cheer his wife?—Love's choicest theme!
With Dante, disembodied, safe-pass “Hell;”
With Shakespear live all life, and dream all dream?
O true Magicians, Time and Death ye quell;
Re-youthed, immortal, while with you we seem!
Stones from The Quarry | ||