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The New Timon, a Poetical Romance; and St. Stephen's, a Poem.
The New Timon a Poetical Romance and St Stephen's a Poem Author:Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 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: He said, and vanish'd, with a noiseless tread, Within the folds which curtain'd round the dead! So, the stern Dervish of the East inters His sullen soul... more » with Death in sepulchres! His new-found prize, while yet th' unconscious sense Sleeps in the mercy of the brief suspense, With gliding feet, the Father steals away. Grief bends alone above the lonely clay; But over grief and death th' Eternal Eye Shines down, — and Hope lives ever in the sky. END OF PART THE THIRD. PART THE FOURTH, THE NEW TIMON. PART THE FOURTH. lo Joy's brisk ear there's music in the throng; Glorious the life of cities to the strong! What myriad charms, all differing, smile for all The hardier Masks in the Great Carnival! Amidst the vast disguise, some sign betrays To each the appointed pleasure in the maze; Ambition, pleasure, love, applause, and gold, Allure the young, and baby yet the old. For here, the old, if nerves and stubborn will Defy Experience, linger, youthful still, Haunt the same rounds of idlesse — or of toil That lure the freshest footsteps to the soil, "At besl il t,abiei ui." — Young. Still sway the Fashion or controul the State, Gay at the ball, or fierce at the debate. It is not youth, it is the zest of life Surviving youth — in age itself as rife, That fits the Babel and enjoys the strife; But not for you our world's bright tumults are, Soft natures, born beneath the Hesperus star, — To us, the storm is but the native breath; To you, the quickening of the gale is death; Fly from each change our varying sky bestows, — The clime that suits the tender is — Repose! Your's Nature's world, not man's! — the stillest shade Where, all unseen, the cushat's nest is made, Less lone to you than pomps which but bestow...« less