Lisping and babbling Flashcards
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Lisping and babbling
to the splendour of morn
And cling with lyric laughter
round the knees
Of heaven’s daughters
dripping magic rain
Pearl-bright from moon-gold
limbs and cloudy hair,
So are her dawns
like jewelled leaves of light,
So casts she
her felicity on men.
A flame of radiant happiness
she was born
And surely will that flame
set earth alight:
Doom surely will see her
pass and say no word!
But too often here
the careless Mother leaves
Her chosen in the envious
hands of Fate:
The harp of God
falls mute, its call to bliss
Discouraged fails mid earth’s
unhappy sounds;
The strings of the siren Ecstasy
cry not here
Or soon are silenced
in the human heart.
Of sorrow’s songs
we have enough: bid once
Her glad and griefless days
bring heaven here.
Or must fire always test
the great of soul?
Along the dreadful causeway
of the Gods,
Armoured with love and faith
and sacred joy,
A traveller to the
Eternal’s house,
Once let unwouded pass
a mortal life.”
But Narad answered not;
silent he sat,
Knowing that words are vain
and Fate is lord.
