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Title: The beggar's vision
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: More, Brookes, 1859-1942 Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962
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Publisher: Boston, The Cornhill Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Shadows and Lost Souls! What glory is it for these wretched wells,Deep in the void whence Night her chariot rolls, To mure the light of sweet Arcadian dells? Is this the dark fate virtue may expect, The pure destroyed to ease the spleen of Sin; What final good can evil deed effect; Must virtue lose that wickedness may win? 0 Pluto, Lord of human destiny, What deed of lustful sin must this requite. To blot my beautiful Eurydice, Star of my life, in this opaquous night? Release that Child of Beauty, O grim Death! Life, light and love should never gild a tomb;Her place is where the pure breeze wandereth, Loving the rose to lovelier blush.and bloom. Strong in the frailty of harmonic laws, I come to quell the wrath of death and strife; My love release! — loves pure and primal cause.That I may bear her to the land of life. So sings he God-like to his tuneful lyre.While stops the torture of Ixions wheel. While Tantalus forgets tormenting fire. And the fierce Furies piteous languor feel. 42
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ff/^frifj. ^ ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE And all the clangour of wide Hades hushed,The sad-eyed shadows flutter as the leaves When wreathed Spring, with tender buds new-flushed.In floating green the amorous Wind receives. And in an ecstacy of quivering sighs Dark dungeons tremble, stricken with delight; The rock-ribbed pit that death and time defiesGlows with a joy too luminous for night. The deep foundations of that vale of woe Sway to the rhythm of one souls complaint; Grim Pluto shudders lest that mortal foeMay shatter his strict portals of restraint. Hatred destroyed lies vanquished by pure love; Discord disabled, harmony has quelled;Pluto in panic, dazzled from above, Seeks to restore sweet hfe, obdurate held. Wrung from his might that Lord of Woe replied,Brief is the boon of blessed life above. No mortal may recross the Stygian tide.But this I grant to thee and to thy love; Return with her in thy protecting arms.And rise together to the sun-lit skies; But if thy glance should turn to v

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