III. And in the warm hedge grew lush eglantine, With its dark buds and leaves, wandering astray; IV. And nearer to the river's trembling edge There grew broad flag-flowers, purple prankt with white, And starry river buds among the sedge, And floating water-lilies, broad and bright, With moonlight beams of their own watery light; V. Methought that of these visionary flowers I made a nosegay, bound in such a way Kept these imprisoned children of the Hours GOOD NIGHT. I. GOOD night? ah! no; the hour is ill Let us remain together still, Then it will be good night. II. How can I call the lone night good, III. To hearts which near each other move HYMN OF APOLLO. I. THE sleepless Hours who watch me as I lie, Fanning the busy dreams from my dim eyes, Waken me when their Mother, the grey Dawn, Tells them that dreams and that the moon is gone. II. Then I arise, and climbing Heaven's blue dome, I walk over the mountains and the waves, Leaving my robe upon the ocean foam ; My footsteps pave the clouds with fire; the caves Are filled with my bright presence, and the air Leaves the green earth to my embraces bare. III. The sunbeams are my shafts, with which I kill Fly me, and from the glory of my ray IV. I feed the clouds, the rainbows and the flowers With their ætherial colours; the Moon's globe And the pure stars in their eternal bowers Are cinctured with my power as with a robe; Whatever lamps on Earth or Heaven may shine, Are portions of one power, which is mine. V. I stand at noon upon the peak of Heaven, For grief that I depart they weep and frown : VI. I am the eye with which the Universe All prophecy, all medicine are mine, HYMN OF PAN. I. FROM the forests and highlands We come, we come; From the river-girt islands, Where loud waves are dumb Listening to my sweet pipings. The wind in the reeds and the rushes, Listening to my sweet pipings. II. Liquid Peneus was flowing, And all dark Tempe lay In Pelion's shadow, outgrowing The light of the dying day, Speeded by my sweet pipings. The Sileni, and Sylvans, and Fauns, And the Nymphs of the woods and waves, |