VIII. O broken heart, O broken vow, That wore so proud a feature! God, grasping as a thunderbolt The man's rejected nature, Smote him therewith i' the presence high Of his so worshipped earth and sky That looked on all indifferently-- A wailing human creature. IX. A human creature found too weak To bear his human pain-- (May Heaven's dear grace have spoken peace To his dying heart and brain!) For when they came at dawn of day To lift the lady's corpse away, Her bier was holding twain. X. They dug beneath the kirkyard grass, For born one dwelling deep; To which, when years had mossed the stone, Sir Roland brought his little son To watch the funeral heap: And when the happy boy would rather Turn upward his blithe eyes to see The wood-doves nodding from the tree, "Nay, boy, look downward," said his father, "Upon this human dust asleep. And hold it in thy constant ken That God's own unity compresses (One into one) the human many, And that his everlastingness is The bond which is not loosed by any: That thou and I this law must keep, If not in love, in sorrow then,-- Though smiling not like other men, Still, like them we must weep." END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE LONDON +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Notes: | | | | Words surrounded by _ are italicized. | | | | Words encased in = are in Hebrew. Due to the restriction of the | | latin-1 font, they have been converted into latin characters. | | | | The author's punctuations have been kept, except on page 221, | | a fullstop added to the end of the poem (thee for weeping.) | | | | On page xx (Contents), page number "155" for Epilogue corrected | | to be "150." | | | | All apparent printer's errors and variable spellings retained. | | This includes: | | - The use of both modern and archaic spellings of the same | | word, for example: | | "corpse" and "corse" | | "like" and "liker" | | "obtain" and "obtayne" | | - The variable use of accent in the same word, for example: | | "Aphrodité" and "Aphroditè" |