Whilst light and darkness bound it,
Be their tomb who planned

To make it ours and thine !

Or, with thine harmonizing ardours fill And raise thy sons, as o'er the prone horizon Thy lamp feeds every twilight wave with fire Be man's high hope and unextinct desire, The instrument to work thy will divine!

Then clouds from sunbeams, antelopes from leopards, And frowns and fears from Thee,

Would not more swiftly flee

Than Celtic wolves from the Ausonian shepherds.

Whatever, Spirit, from thy starry shrine
Thou yieldest or withholdest, Oh let be

This city of thy worship ever free!

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LIBERTY.

I.

THE fiery mountains answer each other;

Their thunderings are echoed from zone to zone;

The tempestuous oceans awake one another,

And the ice-rocks are shaken round Winter's throne, When the clarion of the Typhoon is blown.

II.

From a single cloud the lightning flashes,
Whilst a thousand isles are illumined around,
Earthquake is trampling one city to ashes,

An hundred are shuddering and tottering; the sound
Is bellowing underground.

III.

But keener thy gaze than the lightning's glare,
And swifter thy step than the earthquake's tramp;
Thou deafenest the rage of the ocean; thy stare
Makes blind the volcanoes; the sun's bright lamp
To thine is a fen-fire damp.

IV.

From billow and mountain and exhalation

The sunlight is darted through vapour and blast; From spirit to spirit, from nation to nation,

From city to hamlet thy dawning is cast,

And tyrants and slaves are like shadows of night
In the van of the morning light.

THE WORLD'S WANDERERS.

I.

TELL me, thou star, whose wings of light Speed thee in thy fiery flight,

In what cavern of the night

Will thy pinions close now?

II.

Tell me, moon, thou pale and grey
Pilgrim of heaven's homeless way,
In what depth of night or day
Seekest thou repose now?

III.

Weary wind, who wanderest
Like the world's rejected guest,
Hast thou still some secret nest
On the tree or billow ?

AN ALLEGORY.

I.

A PORTAL as of shadowy adamant

Stands yawning on the highway of the Which we all tread, a cavern huge and g Around it rages an unceasing strife

Of shadows, like the restless clouds that The gap of some cleft mountain, lifted hi Into the whirlwinds of the upper sky.

II.

And many pass it by with careless tread, Not knowing that a shadowy ... Tracks every traveller even to where the

Wait peacefully for their companion n But others, by more curious humour led,

Pause to examine, - these are very fe And they learn little there, except to kn That shadows follow them where'er they

TIME LONG PAST.

I.

LIKE the ghost of a dear friend dead
Is time long past.

A tone which is now forever fled,
A hope which is now forever past,
A love so sweet it could not last,
Was time long past.

II.

There were sweet dreams in the night Of time long past :

And, was it sadness or delight,

Each day a shadow onward cast

Which made us wish it yet might last

That time long past.

III.

There is regret, almost remorse,
For time long past.