'Stay yet awhile! speak to me once again; Now thou art dead, as if it were a part Of thee, my Adonais! I would give All that I am to be as thou now art, But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart! The life can burn in blood, even while the heart XXVII. "O gentle child, beautiful as thou wert, Why didst thou leave the trodden paths of men Too soon, and with weak hands though mighty heart Dare the unpastured dragon in his den? Defenceless as thou wert, oh! where was then Wisdom the mirror'd shield, or scorn the spear? Or hadst thou waited the full cycle, when Thy spirit should have filled its crescent sphere, The monsters of life's waste had fled from thee like deer. XXVIII. "The herded wolves, bold only to pursue; And smiled!-The spoilers tempt no second blow, They fawn on the proud feet that spurn them lying low. may break. 292 MISCELLANEOUS. TO E*** V***. TO NIGHT. SWIFTLY walk over the western war. Out of the misty eastern cave, Wrap thy form in a mantle grey, Blind with thine hair the eyes of day, Then wander o'er city, and sea, and land, When I arose and saw the dawn, I sighed for thee; When light rode high, and the dew was gone, Thy brother Death came, and cried, Death will come when thou art dead, Sleep will come when thou art fled; ΤΟ MUSIC, when soft voices die, Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, |