 
|
Songs
of the Sea Children
by
Bliss Carman
|
LXIII
|
|
And
then I knew the first vague bliss
That swept through Lilith like strange fire,
Consuming all her loveliness
With one imperious desire,
When in the twilight she beheld,
|
5 |
Through
the green apple shades obscure,
The Lord God moulding from the dust
Her splendid virgin paramour.
I
knew what aching shudder ran
Through the dark bearers, file on file,
|
10 |
When
Pharaoh's daughter went to merge
Her peerless beauty in the Nile;
What
slumbering deliciousness
Awoke beside the Dorian stream
When the young prince from over sea
|
15 |
Broke
on the lovely Spartan's dream;
And
all the fervour and desire,
The raptures and the ecstasies,
Of Aucassin and Nicollette,
Of Abelard and Hélöise,
|
20 |
And all the passionate despair,
So bravely borne for many a year,
Of Tristram and the dark Iseult,
Of Launcelot and Guinevere! |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
