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The Vanished World (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Vanished World
The Vanished World
On other altars newer sacrifices
Are heaped forever to a changing name,
Others the hands that bear the balms and spices -
Only the spirit that heeds them is the same
Which looked on you, when hand in hand you came,
Phantoms of youth! with flowers heavy and pale,
And aromatics for the tapering flame
Which now no more the fanes of earth exhale:
Faint are those ecstasies which knew no leaven,
Perfect in earth, being ignorant of heaven.
Then breathe to tell us that no loves are lost,
Or still unbreathing, touch our dreams to say
Where float those petals on the river tossed
Of rolling time, what harbour is your stay?
Why all those passions if no other way
Guide the descending feet of perished men
Than that which leads to withered silence grey,
Ending in dust and loveless earth again?
The most we bode, and all that ruth will give
Is, having loved, it was enough to live.
And if by any pool I cup my palm,
Bending to watch the circles it has made
Corrode and shiver that grave shining calm,
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