1. Cogida and death
At five in the afternoon.
They left the vine-wreathed cottage and the mansion on the hill,
The houses in the busy streets where life is never still,
He crouches, and buries his face on his knees, And hides in the dark of his hair;
My father, he was a mountaineer,
His fist was a knotty hammer;
I love you for your brownness, And the rounded darkness of your breast,
I saw thee once &mdash once only &mdash years ago: I must not say how many &mdash but not many.
Before the glare o dawn I rise
To milk the sleepy cows, an shake
I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm,
Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
God, consider the soul's need
of Owain son of Urien!
He's gone. I do not understand.
From such depth his glances came
One could hardly see them flame
These are the men with the sun-tanned faces
and the keen far-sighted eyes-
I weep for Adonais -he is dead! O, weep for Adonais! though our tears
I hate you for your weakness,
your strong arm and tearful face
In all my days of troubled loneliness
And fretted grief Cervantes is to me
As when at Delphi, Thymus close behind, He flew through stadium to applause's roar,
Before Geraint, the enemy's scourge,
I saw white horses, tensed, red,
Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has lingered, intimate an
In a sailormen's restaurant Rotherhithe way,
Where the din of the docksides is loud all the day,
Urien of Yrechwydd most generous of Christian men,
much do you give to the people of your land;
Better than the whole wide world is our India;
we're its nightingales, it is our flower-garden.
Descend ye Nine! descend and sing;
The breathing instruments inspire,
The man was loved, the man was idolized, The man had every just and noble gift.
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Behind him lay the gray Azores,
Behind the Gates of Hercules;
When painters leave this world, we grieve
For the hand that will work no more,
Let's go see Old Abe
Sitting in the marble and the moonlight,
Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm cloud's thunderous melody,
At Tauba's death I swore
I would not cry
With troubled heart and trembling hand I write.
The heavens have changed to sorrow my delight.
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