_S’ils ne comprennent pas la poèsie, s’ils ne sentent pas la musique, qu’est ce qu’ils peuvent comprendre de cette passion en comparaison avec laquelle la rose est grossière et le parfum des violettes un tonnerre_?” CAID ALI For three years, diabolus in the scale, He drank ambrosia, All passes, ANANGKE prevails, Came end, at last, to that Arcadia. He had moved amid her phantasmagoria, Amid her galaxies, NUKTIS AGALMA * * * * * Drifted ... drifted precipitate, Asking time to be rid of.... Of his bewilderment; to designate His new found orchid.... To be certain ... certain ... (Amid ærial flowers) ... time for arrangements-- Drifted on To the final estrangement; Unable in the supervening blankness To sift TO AGATHON from the chaff Until he found his seive.... Ultimately, his seismograph: --Given that is his “fundamental passion” This urge to convey the relation Of eye-lid and cheek-bone By verbal manifestations; To present the series Of curious heads in medallion-- He had passed, inconscient, full gaze, The wide-banded irises And botticellian sprays implied In their diastasis; Which anæsthesis, noted a year late, And weighed, revealed his great affect, (Orchid), mandate Of Eros, a retrospect. * * * * * Mouths biting empty air, The still stone dogs, Caught in metamorphosis, were Left him as epilogues. “THE AGE DEMANDED” VIDE POEM II. PAGE 54 For this agility chance found Him of all men, unfit As the red-beaked steeds of The Cytheræan for a chain bit. The glow of porcelain Brought no reforming sense To his perception Of the social inconsequence. Thus, if her colour Came against his gaze, Tempered as if It were through a perfect glaze He made no immediate application Of this to relation of the state To the individual, the month was more temperate Because this beauty had been. * * * * * The coral isle, the lion-coloured sand Burst in upon the porcelain revery: Impetuous troubling Of his imagery. * * * * * Mildness, amid the neo-Neitzschean clatter, His sense of graduations, Quite out of place amid Resistance to current exacerbations, Invitation, mere invitation to perceptivity Gradually led him to the isolation Which these presents place Under a more tolerant, perhaps, examination. By constant elimination The manifest universe Yielded an armour Against utter consternation, A Minoan undulation, Seen, we admit, amid ambrosial circumstances Strengthened him against The discouraging doctrine of chances,