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ILLUSIONS

FLOW, flow the waves hated, Accursed, adored,

The waves of mutation;

No anchorage is.

Sleep is not, death is not;
Who seem to die live.
House you were born in,
Friends of your spring-time,
Old man and young maid,
Day's toil and its guerdon,
They are all vanishing,
Fleeing to fables,

Cannot be moored.

See the stars through them, Through treacherous marbles.

Know the stars yonder,

The stars everlasting,

Are fugitive also,

And emulate, vaulted,

The lambent heat lightning

And fire-fly's flight.

When thou dost return

On the wave's circulation,

Behold the shimmer,
The wild dissipation,
And, out of endeavor
To change and to flow,
The gas become solid,

And phantoms and nothings
Return to be things,
And endless imbroglio
Is law and the world,-
Then first shalt thou know,
That in the wild turmoil,
Horsed on the Proteus,
Thou ridest to power,

And to endurance.

IV

QUATRAINS AND TRANSLA

TIONS

QUATRAINS

A. H.

HIGH was her heart, and yet was well inclined,
Her manners made of bounty well refined;

Far capitals and marble courts, her eye still seemed to

see,

Minstrels and kings and high-born dames, and of the

best that be.

HUSH!

EVERY thought is public,

Every nook is wide;

Thy gossips spread each whisper,

And the gods from side to side.

ORATOR

HE who has no hands

Perforce must use his tongue;

Foxes are so cunning

Because they are not strong.

ARTIST

QUIT the hut, frequent the palace,

Reck not what the people say;

For still, where'er the trees grow biggest,

Huntsmen find the easiest way.'

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