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And the wind that beat Dull wings of pain On the seas without. All night a Voice That broke in my brain And blew blind thoughts about. All night they whirled As a haunted throng From some dim world Where there is no rest. All night the rain. And the wind that swirled, And the Infinite's lone quest. LAD AND LASS I heard the buds open their lips and whisper, Whisper, "Spring is here!" The robins listened And sang it loud. The blue-birds came In a fluttering crowd. The cardinal preached It high and proud, Spring! And thro the warm earth their song went trilling, Trilling, "Wake! Arise!" The kingcups quickly Assembled, strong. The bluets stept From the moss in throng. Like fairies too Came the cress along. Spring! And love in your breast, my lass, awaking-- Waking. _Love_ was born! Your eyes were kindled, Your lips were warm. Wild beauties broke From your face and form. And all my heart Was a heaven-storm, Was Spring! THE STRONG MAN TO HIS SIRES Tonight as I was riding on a wave Of triumph and of glory, A Question suddenly, as from the grave, Rose in me, culpatory. "Whence come to you this joyance and this strength" It said, "this might of vision? This will that measures all things to its length, That cuts with calm decision? "This blood within your veins, that is as wine Which Destiny's self blesses. Whence flows it, from what grape that is divine, Or trodden from what presses? "Do you so proud forget what hands have borne You to the heights and crowned you? Would you behold what sackcloth has been worn That laurels may surround you?"... "I would--O lips invisible! whose breath"-- I answered--"so arraigns me; Whose voice is as a sound sent forth of Death, And like to Death entrains me. "I would! For if the flesh of me and soul Are fibred with the ages, My triumph is of them and manifold Of all life's mystic stages." So, forth they came--a vast ancestral line, Upon my vision teeming, All shapes
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