Oh, hasten !-oh, let us not linger ! Oh, fly !—let us fly !-for we must." In terror she spoke, letting sink her Wings until they trailed in the dust In agony sobbed, letting sink her Plumes till they trailed in the dust— I replied—“ This is nothing but dreaming : Let us bathe in this crystalline light! Its Sybilic splendour is beaming With Hope and in Beauty to-night :— See it flickers up the sky through the night! Ah, we safely may trust to its gleaming, And be sure it will lead us aright, We safely may trust to a gleaming That cannot but guide us aright, Since it flickers up to Heaven through the night." Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her, And conquered her scruples and gloom; But were stopped by the door of a tomb- And I said "What is written, sweet sister, Then my heart it grew ashen and sober As the leaves that were crisped and sere As the leaves that were withering and sere And I cried- "It was surely October On this very night of last year That I journeyed-I journeyed down here- Well I know, now, this dim lake of Auber This misty mid region of Weir Well I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber, This ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir." THE BELLS. I. HEAR the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. II. Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten-golden notes, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon! Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the Future! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing |