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DAKRTSI DIOISO POTMON 'APOTMON.
Oh! there are spirits of the air,And genii of the evening breeze,And gentle ghosts, with eyes as fairAs star-beams among twilight trees:--Such lovely ministers to meetOft hast thou turned from men thy lonely feet.
With mountain winds, and babbling springs,And moonlight seas, that are the voiceOf these inexplicable things,Thou didst hold commune, and rejoiceWhen they did answer thee; but theyCast, like a worthless boon, thy love away.
And thou hast sought in starry eyesBeams that were never meant for thine,Another's wealth:--tame sacrificeTo a fond faith! still dost thou pine?Still dost thou hope that greeting hands,Voice, looks, or lips, may answer thy demands?
Ah! wherefore didst thou build thine hopeOn the false earth's inconstancy?Did thine own mind afford no scopeOf love, or moving thoughts to thee?That natural scenes or human smilesCould steal the power to wind thee in their wiles?
Yes, all the faithless smiles are fledWhose falsehood left thee broken-hearted;The glory of the moon is dead;Night's ghosts and dreams have now departed;Thine own soul still is true to thee,But changed to a foul fiend through misery.
This fiend, whose ghastly presence everBeside thee like thy shadow hangs,Dream not to chase;--the mad endeavourWould scourge thee to severer pangs.Be as thou art. Thy settled fate,Dark as it is, all change would aggravate.
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