Robert Bridges, ed. (1844–1930). The Spirit of Man: An Anthology. 1916. | | | | From Nepenthe |
George Darley (1795–1846) |
| | | .. LIGHT-TROOPING 1 o’er the distant lea | |
| A band I saw, where Revelry | |
| Seem’d on her bacchant foot to be; | |
| And heard the dry tambour afar | |
| Before her Corybantian car | 5 |
| Booming the rout to winy war … | |
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| .. Uproar sweet! as when he crost, | |
| Omnipotent Bacchus, with his host, | |
| To farthest Ind; and for his van | |
| Satyrs and other sons of Pan, | 10 |
| With swoln eye-burying cheeks of tan, | |
| Who troll’d him round, which way he ran | |
| His spotted yoke thro’ Hindustan, | |
| And with most victorious scorn | |
| The mild foes of wine to warn, | 15 |
| Blew his dithyrambic horn! | |
| That each river to his source | |
| Trembled and sank beneath his course, | |
| Where, ’tis said of many, they | |
| Mourn undiscover’d till this day … | 20 |
| | | Note 1. Darley. From ‘Nepenthe’. l. 234 and 465. [back] | | |
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