Dramatic Scenes With Other Poems, Now First Printed. By Barry Cornwall [i.e. Bryan Waller Procter]. Illustrated |
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LE SCÉLÉRAT. |
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LE SCÉLÉRAT.
Still are you here, a poisonous life
Outbreathing?
Still are you bands of deadly strife
Enwreathing?
Outbreathing?
Still are you bands of deadly strife
Enwreathing?
Your friends, are they now foes? grown old
And stronger?
Your gold, is that all spent? Your gold
No longer?
And stronger?
Your gold, is that all spent? Your gold
No longer?
Your thoughts that were so low, so blanched
By care,
Are they now buoyant, roselike, launched
In air?
By care,
Are they now buoyant, roselike, launched
In air?
No! On your shoulder still that freak
Of birth,
(The hump), still reigns, and bids you seek
The earth.
Of birth,
(The hump), still reigns, and bids you seek
The earth.
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No! You help none, please none; nor love,
Nor give:
How is it, O slave, you dare to move?
To live?
Nor give:
How is it, O slave, you dare to move?
To live?
Vile Shame! usurping still in space
A part,
Which else might own some earthly grace;
—Depart!
A part,
Which else might own some earthly grace;
—Depart!
Thou, who ne'er earn'dst beneath Heaven's dome
A friend,
Into the black abyss, thy home,
Descend!
A friend,
Into the black abyss, thy home,
Descend!
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