This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...a livelier humor should enhance The slow-time pulse, 't is not for present strife, 10 The sordid zeal with which our age is rife, Its mammon conflicts crowned by fraud or chance, But gleamings of the lost, heroic life, Flashed through the gorgeous vistas of romance. 1 New York, considered by many Southerners at that ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...a livelier humor should enhance The slow-time pulse, 't is not for present strife, 10 The sordid zeal with which our age is rife, Its mammon conflicts crowned by fraud or chance, But gleamings of the lost, heroic life, Flashed through the gorgeous vistas of romance. 1 New York, considered by many Southerners at that time as an unjust competitor for trade. 3 The poems by Paul Hamilton Hayne are printed by courtesy of William H. Hayne, the son of the author. THE PINE'S MYSTERY Paul Hamilton Hayne "Copse Hill," Hayne's Georgia home after his home in Charleston was sacrificed to war, was surrounded by pines. I Listen! the sombre foliage of the Pine, A swart Gitana1 of the woodland trees, Is answering what we may but half divine To those soft whispers of the twilight breeze! II Passion and mystery murmur through the leaves, 5 Passion and mystery, touched by deathless pain. Whose monotone of long, low anguish grieves For something lost that shall not live again! THE WILL AND THE WING Paul Hamilton Hayne To have the will to soar, but not the wings, Eyes fixed forever on a starry height, Whence stately shapes of grand imaginings Flash down the splendors of imperial light; And yet to lack the charm that makes them ours, 5 The obedient vassals of that conquering spell, Whose omnipresent and ethereal powers Encircle Heaven, nor fear to enter Hell; This is the doom of Tantalus--the thirst For beauty's balmy fount to quench the fires 10 1 Gitana, a gypsy dancer. Of the wild passion that oar souls have nurst In hopeless promptings--unfulfilled desires. Yet would I rather in the outward state Of Song's immortal temple lay me down, A beggar basking by that radiant gate, 15 Than bend beneath the haughtiest empire's crown! For sometimes, through the bars, my ravish...
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