Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode: Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles; Swinburne—Vol. III — John Shaqi
Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode: Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles; Swinburne—Vol. IIISwinburne, Algernon Charles
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Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode: Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles; Swinburne—Vol. III
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Poetry
"Let us go hence." From the inmost shrine of grace
Where England holds the elect of all her dead
There comes a word like one of old time said
By gods of old cast out. Here is no place
At once for these and one of poisonous race.
Let each rise up from his dishallowed bed
And pass forth silent. Each divine veiled head
Shall speak in silence with averted face.
"Scorn everlasting and eternal shame
Eat out the rotting record of his name
Who had the glory of all these graves in trust
And turned it to a hissing. His offence
Makes havoc of their desecrated dust
Whose place is here no more. Let us go hence."
Feb. 25, 1880.
297. _Les Contemplations_, 1856.
321. _La Legende des Siecles_. _Premiere serie_, 1859; _nouvelle
serie_, 1877.
392. _Les Miserables_, 1862.
409. _Les Travailleurs de la Mer_, 1866.
417. _L'Homme qui Rit_, 1869.
433. _Quatre-vingt-treize_, 1874.
441. _William Shakespeare_, 1864.
448. _Actes et Paroles_; _Avant l'Exil_, 1841-1851; _Pendant
l'Exil_, 1852-1870; _Depuis l'Exil_, 1870-1876.
452. _Paris_, 1867.
455. _Mes Fils_, 1875.
456. _Pour un Soldat_, 1875.
457. _Les Chansons des Rues et des Bois_, 1865.
462. _L'Annee Terrible_, 1872.
464. _L'Art d'etre Grandpere_, 1877.
470. _Le Pape_, 1878.
497. "Septidi ventose an X de la Republique (26 fevrier 1802)."
_Victor Hugo raconte par un temoin de sa vie_, 1863,
_tome_ 1, p. 28.
At the end of such a list, so incomparable as to seem
incredible, of one great man's good works, we may be
forgiven the alteration of a word even in a verse from
AEschylus which we cannot choose but apply once more to
this leader in the advance of men made perfect through
doom of trial and long wayfaring, whose progress he
furthers by example and stimulates by song:--
[Greek: kurios esti throein hodion kratos aision andron
ekteleon; eti gar theothen katapneiei
peitho molpan
alkai sumphutos aion.]
AEsch. _Agam._ 104-8.
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