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Title: Fate in Arcadia, and other poems
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Ellis, Edwin John
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Publisher: London : Ward & Downey
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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owd were children suddenly. And danced like ripples dancing with the moon,On silver spaces of some warm lagoon. And then, before to sadness fell the mirth.Melodious woke the choir inspired again. A hundred gods all leaping to the earth. And pouring forth their share of joy to men.Would make a less delight than there was then. So Love and Venus went across the land, By cliffs and woods, by town and stream and field, 66 From spring-time, till the Earth with open handThe wealth of all her fruitage yearned to yield :And ever as they went the music pealed. And though they met with Age, and Pain, and Woe,And though they passed by Anger and Despair, Yet ever did the bright procession go.And ever rang the music in the air.And all the world was served, and rendered fair. And ever,—so a Herald promised all,—Shall these go by for who may rise and see. Ah, Venus, though black Horror shall appal. And though blind Fate shall follow threateningly,Joy has been here, and is, and still shall be. m^
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144 N- wdV r-s^ MeK qoao ot . ^^^^7 67 HER GOOD DEED. Little leaves of Autumns giving Hardly ceased their down spinning,Buried Winter seeds their living Hardly proved to Spring-time viinning ;When w^e saw you last, Young Seeker, Youthful, frowning, dark, and close,While old pious loves grew weaker In your sullen heart morose,While the home your childhood knewLike a prison weighed on you. Now unwearied, though surroundedBy the silver hairs unaltered.You with laugh and light unboundedKiss the care that has not faltered. 68 Liberty to you seems givenLike a gift for days to be, Or a prize, where none have striven,Or release where all are free : Who unbound your bonds ? I cried. * Venus only, he replied. 69 THRICE LOST. First his parents said they lost him : No one knew where to accost him Though his loss had made no showing :He was there, and yet no knowingWhere he was ; he was but growing, Yet his parents said they lost him And the secret to accost him. Then his friends found ou

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