Libyssa Author:Edward Farquhar General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: Printed for the author by H.L. McQueen Subjects: History / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get ... more »free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: " What is to follow of this wild grant ? Man will go ravening in the want, Under the brute will stoop; All my deepest-intending pains, Even by his to procure his gains, For empty illusion droop. " Higher device I must now contrive : I of my own true life must give, Portion as he may bear; Heaven of mine shall send its gleams, Passing even his opiate dreams, Here save him, if never there." THE BETTER WORLD. The good Lord thought one day, in the time when he worked by days, " I have made a mistake in the world, I have drawn the lines too hard. For a rest to men and myself, I will try them easier ways; Will see if a little less toil will do, and a little more reward. " There is mistress Lilia now, the daintiest flower of earth; In the mob that delicate bloom to blow, in the mire, is piteous wrong. Go to, I will find her a world, shall her elegant mould be worth; And sorrows of other such will soothe, who have cried to us there so long." So he built her a world, where nought could grate that exquisite sense, Of palm and palace and sea, and the smile of grass was there. There was fulness of books and art, of the vulgar was no offence, Were mates who explained not, neither excused, nor exceeded with vexing care. And Lilia cast those eyes, like the twin-stars opaline hued, O'er her world, and it was good, and little she found to blame. But the lack of her daily grief, of itself the grief renewed; The clime without her was vesture-changed, the dye of the heart the same. She had th...« less