And seeming-solid walls of use Pour, Bacchus! the remembering wine; Vine for vine be antidote, And the grape requite the lote! Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures with the pen Which on the first day drew, Upon the tablets blue, The dancing Pleiads and eternal men. MEROPS WHAT care I, so they stand the same, Thus far to-day your favors reach, Space grants beyond his fated road THE HOUSE THERE is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan; Slow and warily to choose Rafters of immortal pine, Or cedar incorruptible, Worthy her design, She threads dark Alpine forests Or valleys by the sea, In many lands, with painful steps Ere she can find a tree. She ransacks mines and ledges For each eternal block She lays her beams in music, In music every one, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances round the sun That so they shall not be displaced By lapses or y wars, But for the love of happy souls Outlive the newest stars. SAADI TREES in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, God, who gave to him the lyre, For all breathing men's behoof, No churl, immured in cave or den; He wants them all, Nor can dispense With Persia for his audience; They must give ear, Grow red with joy and white with fear; But he has no companion; Come ten, or come a million, Good Saadi dwells alone. Be thou ware where Saadi dwells; Gladly round that golden lamp And simple maids and noble youth Most welcome they, who need him most, Draws better deed: But, critic, spare thy vanity, Sad-eyed Fakirs swiftly say Pale at overflowing noon Hear wolves barking at the moon ; In the bower of dalliance sweet And shake before those awful Powers, He sends thee from his bitter fount |