The Dynasts Volume 2 Author:Thomas Hardy Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: By the unceasing labours of your post, And these cloaked visitors of every clime That market on your magnanimity To gain an audience morning, night, and noon... more », Leaving you no respite. 'Tis true ; 'tis true.— How I shall love my summer holiday At pleasant Saint-Ann's-Hill! [He leans on the secretary's arm, and they go out. SCENE 11 THE ROUTE BETWEEN LONDON AND PARIS A view now nocturnal, now diurnal, from on high over the Straits of Dover, and stretching from city to city. By night Paris and London seem each as a little swarm of lights surrounded by a halo ; by day as a confused glitter of white and grey. The Channel between them is as a mirror reflecting the sky, brightly or faintly, as the hour may be. Spirit Of The Pities What mean these couriers shooting shuttlewise To Paris and to London, turn and turn ? Recording Angels (chanting in antiphons) The aforesaid tidings from the minister, spokesman in England's cause to states afar, Traverse the waters borne by one of such ,- and thereto Bonaparte's responses are: " The principles of honour and of truth which ever actuate the sender's mind " Herein are written largely! Take our thanks : we read that this conjuncture undesigned " Unfolds felicitous means of showing you that still our eyes are set, as yours, on peace, " To which great end the Treaty of Amiens must be the groundwork of our amities." From London then: " The path to amity the King of England studies to pursue ; " With Russia hand in hand he is yours to close the long convulsions thrilling Europe through." Still fare the shadowy missioners across, by Dover-road and Calais Channel-track, From Thames-side towers to Paris palace-gates; from Paris leisurely to London back. Till thus speaks France: " Much grief it...« less