| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| An Æolian Harp |
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| DOST thou not hear? Amid dun, lonely hills | |
| Far off a melancholy music shrills, | |
| As for a joy that no fruition fills. | |
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| Who live in that far country of the wind? | |
| The unclaimed hopes, the powers but half-divined, | 5 |
| The shy, heroic passions of mankind. | |
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| And all are young in those reverberant bands; | |
| None marshals them, no mellow voice commands; | |
| They whirl and eddy as the shifting sands. | |
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| There, there is ruin, and no ivy clings; | 10 |
| There pass the mourners for untimely things, | |
| There breaks the stricken cry of crownless kings. | |
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| But ever and anon there spreads a boom | |
| Of wonder through the air, arraigning doom | |
| With ineffectual plaint as from a tomb. | 15 |
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