Wei Dazzi

Reels

Chain'

We stan

Away!

would not depart.

ced no words, nor terms precise,

The paltry jargon of the marble mart,

Where Pedantry gulls Folly-we have eyes :

Blood-pulse-and breast, confirm the Dardan Shepherd's

LI.

Appear'dst thou not to Paris in this guise?
Or to more deeply bless'd Anchises? or,'
In all thy perfect goddess-ship, when lies
Before thee thy own vanquish'd Lord of War?
And gazing in thy face as toward a star,
aid on thy lap, his eyes to thee upturn,
eeding on thy sweet cheek! while thy lips are
ith lava kisses melting while they burn,

er'd on his eyelids, brow, and mouth, as from an urn!

LII.

ing, and circumfused in speechless love,

full divinity inadequate

eeling to express, or to improve,

ds become as mortals, and man's fate

ments like their brightest; but the weight
recoils upon us ;-let it go!

ecal such visions, and create,

it has been, or might be, things which grow ue's form, and look like gods below.

LIII.

earned fingers and wise hands,

artist and his ape, to teach and tell
How well his connoisseurship understands
The graceful bend, and the voluptuous swell:
Let these describe the undescribable :

I would not their vile breath should crisp the stream
Wherein that image shall for ever dwell;

The unruffled mirror of the loveliest dream

We gaze and turn away,

L.

and know not where,

Dazzled and drunk with beauty, till the heart
Reels with its fulness; there for ever there-
Chain'd to the chariot of triumphal Art,

We stand as captives, and would not depart.
Away!-there need no words, nor terms precise,
The paltry jargon of the marble mart,

Where Pedantry gulls Folly-we have eyes:

Blood-pulse-and breast, confirm the Dardan Shepherd's

I leave to learned fingers and wise hands,
The artist and his ape, to teach and tell
How well his connoisseurship understands
The graceful bend, and the voluptuous swell:
Let these describe the undescribable :

I would not their vile breath should crisp the stream
Wherein that image shall for ever dwell;

The unruffled mirror of the loveliest dream

We gaze and turn away, and know not where,
Dazzled and drunk with beauty, till the heart
Reels with its fulness; there for ever there-
Chain'd to the chariot of triumphal Art,
We stand as captives, and would not depart.
Away!—there need no words, nor terms precise,
The paltry jargon of the marble mart,

Where Pedantry gulls Folly-we have eyes :
Blood-pulse-and breast, confirm the Dardan Shepherd's