Such thousands of shut eyes in order
placed;

Such ranges of white feet, and patient lips
All ruddy, for here death no blossom

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nips.
He mark'd their brows and foreheads; saw
their hair

Put sleekly, on one side with nicest care;
And each one's gentle wrists, with rever-

ence,

Put cross-wise to its heart.

'Let us commence,'

Whisper'd the guide, stuttering with joy, 'even now.'

And thou wilt see the issue.' 'Mid the
sound

Of flutes and viols, ravishing his heart,
Endymion from Glaucus stood apart,
And scatter'd in his face some fragments
light.

How lightning-swift the change! a youth-
ful wight

He spake, and, trembling like an aspen- Smiling beneath a coral diadem,

And having done it, took his dark blue Endymion, with quick hand, the charm ap

A power overshadows thee! Oh, brave!
The spite of hell is tumbli g to its grave.
Here is a shell; 't is pearly blank to me, 761
Nor mark'd with any sign or charactery -
Canst thou read aught? O read for pity's
sake!

plied

The nymph arose: he left them to their joy,
And onward went upon his high employ,
Showering those powerful fragments on
the dead.

And, as he pass'd, each lifted up its head,
As doth a flower at Apollo's touch.
Death felt it to his inwards: 't was too
much:

Death fell a-weeping in his charnel-house.
The Latmian persevered along, and thus
All were reanimated. There arose

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A noise of harmony, pulses and throes Of gladness in the air while many, who Had died in mutual arms devout and true, Sprang to each other madly; and the rest Felt a high certainty of being blest. Olympus! we are safe! Now, Carian, They gazed upon Endymion. Enchant

This wand against yon lyre on the pedes- Grew drunken, and would have its head tal.'

'T was done: and straight with sudden

swell and fall

and bent.

Delicious symphonies, like airy flowers,
Budded, and swell'd, and, full-blown, shed

full showers

Moved on for many a league; and gain'd Ripe from hue-golden swoons took all the

Of feather'd Indian darts about, as through Aye, I have seen these signs in one of

New growth about each shell and pendent
lyre;

The which, in disentangling for their fire,
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For dainty toying. Cupid, empire-sure,
Flutter'd and laugh'd, and oft-times through
the throng

Made a delighted way. Then dance, and

song,

As newly come of heaven, dost thou sit
To blend and interknit

Subdued majesty with this glad time.
O shell-borne King sublime!

We lay our hearts before thee evermore

And garlanding, grew wild; and pleasure We sing, and we adore!