Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Poems

I.
Like a Star in the seas above,
Like a Dream to the waves of sleep-
Up-up-THE INCARNATE LOVE-
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Away with your stories of Hades,
Which the Flamen has forged to affright us-
We laugh at your three Maiden Ladies,
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O'er the sad threshold, where the cypress bough
Supplants the rose that should adorn thy home,
On the last pilgrimage on earth that now
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In the veins of the calix foams and glows
The blood of the mantling vine,
But oh! in the bowl of Youth there glows
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Loved alike by Air and Water
Aye must be Thessalia's daughter;
To us, Olympian hearts, are given
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I.
It is not that our earlier Heaven
Escapes its April showers,
Or that to childhood's heart is given
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Around-about-for ever near thee,
God-OUR GOD-shall mark and hear thee!
On his car of storm He sweeps!
Bow, ye heavens, and shrink, ye deeps!
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I.
Like the sweet Naiad of the Grecian's dreams,
A Spirit born of Song - unseen, all-seeing-
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I.
As leaves left darkling in the flush of day,
When glints the glad sun checkering o'er the tree,
I see the green earth brightening in the ray,
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I.
Hark! through these flowers our music sends its greeting
To your loved halls, where Psilas shuns the day;
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