Subsided on itself; awhile transpired Some vestige of a Face no pangs convulse, Venture to probe again the vault bereft But where may hide what came and loved our clay? How shall the sage detect in yon expanse The star which chose to stoop and stay for us? Nor doubt that, were mankind inert and numb, Sad sway of sceptre whose mere touch appals, THIRD SPEAKER. I Witless alike of will and way divine, How heaven's high with earth's low should intertwine! Friends, I have seen through your eyes: now use mine! II Take the least man of all mankind, as I; Look at his head and heart, find how and why He differs from his fellows utterly: II Then, like me, watch when nature by degrees IV Toward some elected point of central rock, V With radiance caught for the occasion,-hues VI The mimic monarch of the whirlpool, king VII And hasten off, to play again elsewhere VIII When you see what I tell you,-nature dance As though the pageant's end were to enhance IX His worth, and once the life, his product, gained— Roll away elsewhere, keep the strife sustained, And show thus real, a thing the North but feigned,— X When you acknowledge that one world could do Divide us, each from other, me from you, XI Why, where's the need of Temple, when the walls XII That one Face, far from vanish, rather grows, Or decomposes but to recompose, Become my universe that feels and knows ! SPOTTISWOODE LONDON PRINTED BY AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET BY ELIZABETH BARRÉTT BROWNING. POEMS BY ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. Thirteenth Edition. 5 vols. With Portrait. Crown 8vo. 30s. AURORA LEIGH. With Portrait. Eighteenth Edition. gilt edges, 8s. 6d. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. ; A SELECTION FROM THE POETRY OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. With Portrait and Vignette. FIRST SERIES. Thirteenth Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. ; gilt edges, 8s. 6d. **New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. A SELECTION FROM THE POETRY OF ELIZABETH SECOND SERIES. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. ; ***New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place. FIRST SERIES. Second Edition. Fcp. 8vo. 5s. LA SAISIAZ: THE TWO POETS OF CROISIC. THE AGAMEMNON OF ÆSCHYLUS. Fcp. 8vo. 5s. PACCHIAROTTO, AND HOW HE WORKED IN DISTEMPER, WITH OTHER POEMS. Fcp. 8vo. 7s. 6d. THE INN ALBUM. Fcp. 8vo. 7s. BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE; INCLUDING A TRANSCRIPT FROM EURIPIDES. London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place. |