"I never saw the sun-rise? We will wake here To-morrow; thou shalt look on it with me." That night the youth and lady mingled lay Let none believe that God in mercy gave For but to see her were to read the tale Woven by some subtlest bard, to make hard hearts Her eyelashes were worn away with tears, so pale; Her lips and cheeks were like things dead Day's ruddy light. The tomb of thy dead self "Inheritor of more than earth can give, Passionless calm and silence unreproved, Whether the dead find, oh, not sleep! but rest, MARIANNE'S DREAM. I. A PALE dream came to a Lady fair, And things are lost in the glare of day, п. And thou shalt know of things unknown, The veiny lids, whose fringe is thrown Over thine eyes so dark and sheen : At first all deadly shapes were driven And o'er the vast cope of bending heaven If the golden sun shone forth on high. IV. And as towards the east she turned, V. The sky was blue as the summer sea, The depths were cloudless over head, The air was calm as it could be, There was no sight or sound of dread, But that black Anchor floating still Over the piny eastern hill. VI. The Lady grew sick with a weight of fear, And veiled her eyes; she then did hear The sound as of a dim low clanging, And looked abroad if she might know Of the blood in her own veins, to and fro. VII. There was a mist in the sunless air, Which shook as it were with an earthquake's shock, But the very weeds that blossomed there Were moveless, and each mighty rock Stood on its basis steadfastly; The Anchor was seen no more on high. VIII. But piled around, with summits hid In lines of cloud at intervals, Stood many a mountain pyramid Among whose everlasting walls Two mighty cities shone, and ever Through the red mist their domes did quiver. IX. On two dread mountains, from whose crest, Might seem, the eagle, for her brood, Would ne'er have hung her dizzy nest, Those tower-encircled cities stood. A vision strange such towers to see, Sculptured and wrought so gorgeously, Where human art could never be. X. And columns framed of marble white, From touch of mortal instrument, Shot o'er the vales, or lustre lent From its own shapes magnificent. XI. But still the Lady heard that clang Among the mountains shook alway, On those high domes her look she cast. |