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Io In Egypt.*
IO IN EGYPT . *
Hi' EICHAKD GAKNJ 3 TT . No palm grove , green mid lion colour'd sands , No forest heaving mount , no river coiled Involving in clear silver fair champaigns , Saw Io , mad and dizzied vagabond , Full thirty days , so long the visible wrath Of Hera as a gadfly followed her .
hirst from the awful pinnacle , whereon Like a wrecked star the lorn Prometheus lay Precipitated . Pine on pine was crashed ; Stone—dusty , fiery—bounded after stone ; The startled eagles scream , a moment ' s space Vanquished the clash of cataracts . Then on Through deep Armeniawhere the baffled snow
, Glares on the plenteous mulberry secure In sheltering glens . Then headlong through the still Mesopotamia ' s plash'd , unbroken plain ; Then ever hungering deserts , no man ' s land , By Syria and Arabia both disowned , Till her strength failed her , and she fell at once Unwittinsr where .
Grey cushioned on soft mist Fumed from broad fens , reposed the sullied moon ; A slow stream nursed her image , as a weak Down couching mother holds her new born babe Up towards the father's face . Greeii curtainers 'The rigid reeds upstood ; and tressv sed ge Bathed iu the water . Ever and anon
The crocodile plunged stonelike ; herded bulks Of tumbling , snorting hippopotami , Churned the smooth light , or drippingly emerged , Pash'd the tall flowering marsh where io slept .
She woke in sunlight . As an alchymist From crucible to chalice , Lybia poured A molten flood on E gypt ; golden sheets L ' nbeaded by a bubble . Like a cloud , Ibis and pelican and feathery rose Of flushed flamingo hovcr'd o ' er the stream
Where the winged anguish vanished . In its stead Stood mighty female forms , austerely proud Li the calm grandeur of colossal limbs ; Linen their raiment , needle-wrought with gold .
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Io In Egypt.*
IO IN EGYPT . *
Hi' EICHAKD GAKNJ 3 TT . No palm grove , green mid lion colour'd sands , No forest heaving mount , no river coiled Involving in clear silver fair champaigns , Saw Io , mad and dizzied vagabond , Full thirty days , so long the visible wrath Of Hera as a gadfly followed her .
hirst from the awful pinnacle , whereon Like a wrecked star the lorn Prometheus lay Precipitated . Pine on pine was crashed ; Stone—dusty , fiery—bounded after stone ; The startled eagles scream , a moment ' s space Vanquished the clash of cataracts . Then on Through deep Armeniawhere the baffled snow
, Glares on the plenteous mulberry secure In sheltering glens . Then headlong through the still Mesopotamia ' s plash'd , unbroken plain ; Then ever hungering deserts , no man ' s land , By Syria and Arabia both disowned , Till her strength failed her , and she fell at once Unwittinsr where .
Grey cushioned on soft mist Fumed from broad fens , reposed the sullied moon ; A slow stream nursed her image , as a weak Down couching mother holds her new born babe Up towards the father's face . Greeii curtainers 'The rigid reeds upstood ; and tressv sed ge Bathed iu the water . Ever and anon
The crocodile plunged stonelike ; herded bulks Of tumbling , snorting hippopotami , Churned the smooth light , or drippingly emerged , Pash'd the tall flowering marsh where io slept .
She woke in sunlight . As an alchymist From crucible to chalice , Lybia poured A molten flood on E gypt ; golden sheets L ' nbeaded by a bubble . Like a cloud , Ibis and pelican and feathery rose Of flushed flamingo hovcr'd o ' er the stream
Where the winged anguish vanished . In its stead Stood mighty female forms , austerely proud Li the calm grandeur of colossal limbs ; Linen their raiment , needle-wrought with gold .