Its complement; but if I could, Lead you rightly to my altar, And worship that world-warming spark Equalizing small and large, While the soul it doth surcharge, That were a man's and lover's part, That were Freedom's whitest chart. COMPENSATION. WHY should I keep holiday When other men have none? Why but because, when these are gay, And why, when mirth unseals all tongues, Should mine alone be dumb? Ah! late I spoke to silent throngs, And now their hour is come. 78 FORBEARANCE. - THE PARK. FORBEARANCE. HAST thou named all the birds without a gun? Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk? At rich men's tables eaten bread and pulse? Unarmed, faced danger with a heart of trust? And loved so well a high behavior, In man or maid, that thou from speech refrained, Nobility more nobly to repay? O, be my friend, and teach me to be thine! THE PARK. THE prosperous and beautiful I cannot shake off the god; I look at my face in the glass, Your gold makes you seem wise; Yet spake yon purple mountain, That Night or Day, that Love or Crime, FORERUNNERS. LONG I followed happy guides, On and away, their hasting feet Leaves on the wind melodious trace; Who the road had surely kept; They saw not my fine revellers, These had crossed them while they slept. Some had heard their fair report, In the country or the court. Fleetest couriers alive Never yet could once arrive, As they went or they returned, Sometimes their strong speed they slacken, Though they are not overtaken; In sleep their jubilant troop is near, I tuneful voices overhear; It may be in wood or waste, - SURSUM CORDA. SEEK not the spirit, if it hide Inexorable to thy zeal: Trembler, do not whine and chide: Stoop not then to poor excuse; Turn on the accuser roundly; say, 'Here am I, here will I abide Forever to myself soothfast; Go thou, sweet Heaven, or at thy pleasure stay!' Already Heaven with thee its lot has cast, For only it can absolutely deal. VOL. IX. ODE TO BEAUTY. WHO gave thee, O Beauty, Of blest and unblest? Lavish, lavish promiser, 6 |