Hylas
JAR in arm, they bade him roveThro’ the alder’s long alcove,Where the hid spring musicallyGushes to the ample valley.(There ’s a bird on the under boughFluting evermore and now:“Keep—young!” but who knows how?)Down the woodland corridor,Odors deepened more and more;Blossomed dogwood, in the briers,Struck her faint delicious fires;Miles of April passed betweenCrevices of closing green,And the moth, the violet-lover,By the wellside saw him hover.Ah, the slippery sylvan dark!Never after shall he markNoisy ploughmen drinking, drinking,On his drownèd cheek down-sinking;Quit of serving is that wild,Absent, and bewitchèd child,Unto action, age, and danger,Thrice a thousand years a stranger.Fathoms low, the naiads singIn a birthday welcoming;Water-white their breasts, and o’er him,Water-gray, their eyes adore him.(There ’s a bird on the under boughFluting evermore and now:“Keep—young!” but who knows how?)
JAR in arm, they bade him roveThro’ the alder’s long alcove,Where the hid spring musicallyGushes to the ample valley.(There ’s a bird on the under boughFluting evermore and now:“Keep—young!” but who knows how?)Down the woodland corridor,Odors deepened more and more;Blossomed dogwood, in the briers,Struck her faint delicious fires;Miles of April passed betweenCrevices of closing green,And the moth, the violet-lover,By the wellside saw him hover.Ah, the slippery sylvan dark!Never after shall he markNoisy ploughmen drinking, drinking,On his drownèd cheek down-sinking;Quit of serving is that wild,Absent, and bewitchèd child,Unto action, age, and danger,Thrice a thousand years a stranger.Fathoms low, the naiads singIn a birthday welcoming;Water-white their breasts, and o’er him,Water-gray, their eyes adore him.(There ’s a bird on the under boughFluting evermore and now:“Keep—young!” but who knows how?)
JAR in arm, they bade him roveThro’ the alder’s long alcove,Where the hid spring musicallyGushes to the ample valley.(There ’s a bird on the under boughFluting evermore and now:“Keep—young!” but who knows how?)
JAR in arm, they bade him rove
Thro’ the alder’s long alcove,
Where the hid spring musically
Gushes to the ample valley.
(There ’s a bird on the under bough
Fluting evermore and now:
“Keep—young!” but who knows how?)
Down the woodland corridor,Odors deepened more and more;Blossomed dogwood, in the briers,Struck her faint delicious fires;Miles of April passed betweenCrevices of closing green,And the moth, the violet-lover,By the wellside saw him hover.
Down the woodland corridor,
Odors deepened more and more;
Blossomed dogwood, in the briers,
Struck her faint delicious fires;
Miles of April passed between
Crevices of closing green,
And the moth, the violet-lover,
By the wellside saw him hover.
Ah, the slippery sylvan dark!Never after shall he markNoisy ploughmen drinking, drinking,On his drownèd cheek down-sinking;Quit of serving is that wild,Absent, and bewitchèd child,Unto action, age, and danger,Thrice a thousand years a stranger.
Ah, the slippery sylvan dark!
Never after shall he mark
Noisy ploughmen drinking, drinking,
On his drownèd cheek down-sinking;
Quit of serving is that wild,
Absent, and bewitchèd child,
Unto action, age, and danger,
Thrice a thousand years a stranger.
Fathoms low, the naiads singIn a birthday welcoming;Water-white their breasts, and o’er him,Water-gray, their eyes adore him.(There ’s a bird on the under boughFluting evermore and now:“Keep—young!” but who knows how?)
Fathoms low, the naiads sing
In a birthday welcoming;
Water-white their breasts, and o’er him,
Water-gray, their eyes adore him.
(There ’s a bird on the under bough
Fluting evermore and now:
“Keep—young!” but who knows how?)