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ORION 
 
 AN EPIC POEM 
 
 IN THREE BOOKS 
 
 By R. H. HORNE, 
 
 AUTHOR OF 
 THE TRAGEDIES OF ' COSMO DE' MEDICI,' * GREGORY VII.' 
 *THE DEATH OF MARLOWE,' THE MYSTERY PLAY OF ' JUDAS ISCARIOT,' 
 'ballad romances,' ETC. ' 
 
 NINTH EDITION. 
 
 LONDON : 
 ELLIS AND GREEN, 
 
 33 KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 
 1872. 
 
 IaW 
 
BRIEF COMMENTARY. 
 
 Every Preface, or introductory commentary, 
 has a certain number of readers, who may be 
 described as the natural friends of Prefaces, or 
 their natural enemies. Let me hope to mitigate 
 the animosity of the latter (being one of the 
 number myself) by informing them, that, al- 
 though this Poem has passed through six edi- 
 tions in England, and several more in foreign 
 countries, the present Commentary — a portion 
 of which was, in a manner, forced from me in 
 Australia, some sixteen years ago — is the only 
 one that has been written for it, — that the 
 remarks will be as concise as possible, — and 
 that, in my own opinion, there really is no 
 
iv Brief Commentary. 
 
 great need that anybody should read them. 
 They are offered, however, in deference to the 
 judgment of others. 
 
 The poem of ' Orion' was intended to work 
 out a special design, applicable to all times, by 
 means of antique or classical imagery and asso- 
 ciations ; and this design, with the hero and 
 the several characters who appear on the scene, 
 as well as the general structure and distribution 
 of the action, were long considered before a 
 line was written. A sort of cartoon of the 
 whole was then made, and submitt-ed to my 
 friend Dr. Leonhard Schmitz, long since recog- 
 nised as one of the most learned men of the 
 day, and equally possessed of a profound philo- 
 sophical spirit. To his kind and thoughtful 
 revision I have great pleasure in acknow- 
 ledging my obligations. 
 
 Orion, the hero of my fable, is meant to 
 present a type of the struggle of man with him- 
 
Brief Commentary. v 
 
 self, i. e. the contest between the intellect and 
 the senses, when powerful energies are equally 
 balanced. Orion is man standing naked before 
 Heaven and Destiny, resolved to work as a 
 really free agent to the utmost pitch of his 
 powers for the good of his race. He is a truly 
 practical believer in his gods, and in his own 
 conscience; a child with the strength of a giant; 
 innocently wise ; with a heart expanding to- 
 wards the largeness and warmth of Nature, and 
 a spirit unconsciously aspiring to the stars. He 
 is a dreamer of noble dreams," and a hunter of 
 grand shadows (in accordance with the an- 
 cient symbolic mythos), all tending to healthy 
 thought, or to practical action and structure. 
 He is the type of a Worker and a Builder for 
 his fellow-men. He presents the picture (well 
 or ill painted, the author cannot certainly know) 
 of a great and simple nature, struggling to de- 
 velope all its loftiest energies — determined to 
 
vi Brief Commentary. 
 
 be, and to do, to obtain knowledge, and to use 
 it — to live up to its faculties — feeling and 
 acting nobly and powerfully for the service of 
 the world, and seeking its own reward and 
 happiness in the consciousness of a well-worked 
 life, and the possession of a perfect sympathy 
 enshrined in some lovely object.* 
 
 With regard to this intense sympathy with 
 some lovely object of personal passion and af- 
 fection, a witty authoress once said to me, — 
 ''But why should it require three goddesses to 
 perfect one giant?' The question, though put 
 playfully, is too profound to be answered in the 
 
 * On the first appearance of this poem, two young 
 poets, who have since become eminent in various ways 
 (Edmund OlUer and George Meredith), wrote to me their 
 several views of the design and character of Orion, each 
 of which was far better said than the above, and in less 
 than half the space. I am ashamed to say that I cannot 
 recollect their words, or they would have stood in the place 
 of mine. 
 
Brief Commentary. vii 
 
 same vein. It may be briefly said, however, 
 tliat the three great phases of the ordeal of the 
 passion of love, which most strong natures pass 
 through, are fairly portrayed in the story of 
 ' Orion.' He might have been represented as 
 finding perfection at the outset ; but since the 
 lot of humanity is seldom (if ever) so fortunate, 
 it seemed best that he should pass through the 
 several gradations of disappointment and suf- 
 fering, in order to arrive at the highest refine- 
 ments of sympathy and happiness. If the happi- 
 ness was short-lived, and met with destruction 
 at the selfish hands of a limited nature (an im- 
 perfect sympathy), who resented the bliss it 
 was itself incapable of attaining or conferring, 
 that also is the type of a melancholy truth. 
 The law of progress forbids man to rest in hap- 
 piness : in his misery he will not, cannot rest ; 
 but this law generally cuts short the work of 
 a man, not merely when he has done his best. 
 
viii Brief Commentary. 
 
 or perhaps before, but even when he has done 
 as much as his age is capable of using. He 
 must go away, and make room for a different 
 greatness. The needs of a future age must be 
 supplied by future genius, because to see too 
 far in advance is just so much intellectual ac- 
 tivity projected into the air. Nothing can be 
 done with it. And the only result is the ridi- 
 cule, persecution, or utter neglect of the day. 
 
 Mr. G. H. Lewes, at the time this poem 
 was first published, being specially occupied 
 with the German metaphysicians, among whom 
 the business of a long life has often been that 
 of abstract speculation, and a kind of illustration 
 of the Hegelian subjectivity and objectivity 
 interpenetrating each other, endeavoured one 
 day to show me that the real hero of my poem 
 was not Orion, but Akinetos. Now, I had 
 studiously drawn the character of the giant 
 Akinetos — the Great Unmoved— in contradis- 
 
Brief Commentary. ix 
 
 tinction to that of Orion — a Great Mover of 
 the world — the one all action, the other all 
 thought leading to no action. Had Akinetos 
 heard the remark, he would have scorned to 
 be called a hero of any kind : he would have 
 asked what was the good of building houses on 
 the sands of the sea-shore ? The amusement 
 of fools incapable of sitting still. The philo- 
 sophy of Akinetos may be difficult to refute in 
 the abstract, but since human life is a mixture 
 of hard realities, with perfect illusions, Akinetos 
 was no hero, nor a good model for any. one 
 to follow, and therefore I finally set him in 
 stone, while Orion shines for ever. 
 
 The other characters speak for themselves. 
 My friend Mr. Tennyson smilingly accused me 
 about the same period, of intending the plau- 
 sible giant Encolyon as a largely outlined por- 
 trait of a certain eminent statesman of the day. 
 There was, perhaps, an amusing resemblance in 
 
X Brief Commentary. 
 
 some respects ; but I had no such intention. 
 Besides, it would have been unbecoming the 
 dignity of Epic story. For a similar reason 
 some objection has been taken to the corn- 
 dealing episode of the inhabitants of stony 
 Ithaca during a famine, in Canto ii. B. i. But 
 while I believe the principles there set forth in 
 fable, are simple and universal — applicable in 
 all ages — I trust the form and picture are suffi- 
 ciently idealized to be in perfect harmony with 
 the rest of the story, its imagery, local scenery, 
 and characteristics. The reader, therefore, 
 ought not, I think, to reproach me for this, 
 especially as it is not certain that many people 
 would have found it out, if I had not told 
 them. 
 
 Of the design and structure of this poem, as 
 a work of imagination, and also of its execution, 
 it does not become me to speak ; but as various 
 complimentary remarks on its philosophy were 
 
Brief Commentary. xi 
 
 made in England and America (more especi- 
 ally in the Times, and in the critical essays of 
 so accomplished a genius as Edgar Allan Poe) 
 — remarks to which I never offered any due 
 acknowledgment or reply — a few words may 
 now be permitted me in explanation. 
 
 The philosophy of ' Orion ' gives the widest 
 Scope to nature, natural action, and genius ; it 
 advocates the broadest views, and most ener- 
 getic progress, with a belief in the constant ad- 
 vancement of mankind, here and hereafter. It 
 may be said that the converse of all this can be 
 shown by the quotation of certain passages ; 
 and the words of the starving man gathering 
 gum from the lentisk-trees have been cited : — 
 
 ' Like the hot springs 
 That boil themselves away, and serve for nought, 
 Which yet must have some office, rightly used, 
 Man hath a secret source for some great end, 
 Which by delay seems wasted. Ignorance 
 Chokes us, and Time outwits us.'-^B. i. canto iii. 
 
xii Brief Commentary. 
 
 This is admitted ; nor need I be ashamed to 
 confess that, like many others, I have myself 
 had hours, even days, of extreme despondency 
 (never of despair), during which the foregoing 
 lines were realized to a degree that, had I then 
 been dying, might have induced me to choose 
 those words for my epitaph. But garbled ex- 
 tracts are no proof of a desponding philoso- 
 phy, nor of anything else in most cases. The 
 morbid is burnt up in the sanguine. With all 
 vigorous natures these periods of gloom and 
 hopelessness are very brief; and for every 
 single passage of such tendency in ' Orion,' a 
 dozen may be found of the opposite : and this 
 belief in the pre-arranged and constant progress 
 of man is expressly developed in the opening 
 of Book iii. Canto i. Although it may be true, 
 in some rare instances, that — - 
 
 ' The man, who for his race might supersede 
 The work of ages, dies worn out — not used !' 
 
Brief Commentary, xiii 
 
 Yet it is shown that his influence continues :— 
 
 ' The circle widens as the world spins round — 
 The earth hath tough rind, but a subtle heart — 
 His soul works on, while he sleeps 'neath the grass.' 
 
 The opening of the last Canto, and the con- 
 cluding Song of Orion, after death, while taking 
 his station among the constellated thrones, cer- 
 tainly place the philosophy of the poem beyond 
 question as a whole, whatever speeches or re- 
 marks may be cited from Akinetos. 
 
 With similar design, the Intellectual and 
 the Sensuous have each been given a fair and 
 open field. Detached passages might be found 
 equally forcible on each side ; and in order to 
 render this equi-vocal philosophy not equivocal 
 in the dishonest sense of the word, a certain sage, 
 in opposition to the courtiers of Oinopions palace, 
 hazards an opinion on this all-important point, — 
 
 ' That human nerves, 
 And what they wrought, were wondrous as the mind, 
 And in the eye of Zeus none could decide 
 Which held the higher place.' — B. ii. canto i. 
 
xiv Brief Commentary. 
 
 If the temeritous sage, by promulgating the 
 above opinion, became a martyr to the hypo- 
 critical mind of society {i. e. the outward pre- 
 tences of minds that know better), nobody can 
 find anything unusual in such a result, down to 
 this very day of our self-deluding civilization. 
 The early ages in their philosophies, their 
 ' loves and wars,' only display the same generic 
 characteristics as at present — the American 
 Civil War, and the late Franco- Prussian fero- 
 cities being a perfect settlement of the question 
 of Christian authorities and influence ; — and 
 those who have seen savage life as well as 
 the highest modern refinements, can but have 
 observed that the savage man and the ci- 
 vilized man are identical in first principles. 
 There is only a sheet of papyrus between them. 
 When the great sanitary reformer, the late Dr. 
 Southwood Smith, wrote his Philosophy of 
 Health, and his work on The Divine Govern- 
 
Brief Commentary. xv 
 
 ment, one may clearly see that opinions on the 
 right estimation of our corporeal conditions 
 must have passed through his mind, which, had 
 he given them a more palpable enunciation, 
 with a practical bearing, would have caused the 
 loss of all his private practice as a physician. 
 But as it is, ' his soul works on, while he sleeps 
 'neath the grass ;' and we may also say with 
 the author of the Songs before Sunrise, — 
 
 ' Thou art not dead, as these are dead who live 
 Full of blind years, a sorrow-shaken kind : 
 * • * » 
 
 The savour of heroic lives that were, 
 Is it not mixed into thy common air ? 
 The sense of them is shed about thee now !' 
 
 Whether the hypocrisies of a fundamental 
 part of the present social scheme be unwise or 
 wise, with a view to keeping the born-savage 
 In order, a great change in our so-called 'science 
 of ethics,' as far as relates both to ' frail ' and 
 forcible animal nature, will have to accompany, 
 
xvi Brief Commentary. 
 
 if it does not precede, the Church of the Future. 
 And it is clear to me, that instead of resisting 
 the idea of our Darwinian ' promotion,' we 
 should gratefully and hopefully regard it as 
 promissory of a series of higher grades for 
 ever-aspiring humanity. 
 
 From time immemorial, though this mono- 
 mania of superstition seemed to reach its height 
 in the cruel self-martyrdom of old monastic 
 devotees and their deluded victims, the system 
 of ' mortifying the flesh,' and the general view 
 taken of the human body, with all its immut- 
 able laws and functions, has continued down 
 to the present day. Notwithstanding all the 
 knowledge of physiology, and the psychology 
 inextricably involved in our corporeal fabric 
 and conditions, the same dead-set against man's 
 body is constantly made. Man seems deter- 
 mined to know better than his Maker, and not 
 merely to regulate dogmatically, but altogether 
 
Brief Commentary. xvii 
 
 to check, if rtot expunge, some of the Divine 
 ordinatioiis. Among the latest signs of this 
 asceticism, we may point to an article that has 
 just appeared — and in one of the most intel- 
 lectual of our periodicals — entitled The Fleshly 
 School of Poetry. Supposing there were such 
 a school, why should it not exist as well as 
 schools that preach exclusively of the spirit ? 
 Are we gravely to be told, at this day, that 
 'the flesh, and the devil,' are almost cognate 
 terms, and that the spirit and the devil never 
 cause men to commit evil deeds ? 
 
 The direct tendency of my fable, as far as 
 it relates to the passion of love, is clearly shown 
 to advocate that combination of the intellectual 
 and the sensuous which is most conducive to 
 the noble progress and happiness of special 
 natures. 
 
 Thus, when a critique which appeared in the 
 Athenceum (written by the greatest poetess of 
 
xviii Brief Commentary. 
 
 the age — of any age — need I say, Mrs. Eliza- 
 beth Barrett Browning ?) designated ' Orion ' 
 as a ' spiritual epic,' it might with equal truth 
 have been termed a corporeal epic, or one of 
 mere external action. It is both. The life of 
 Orion begins amidst ' ponderous substance,' and 
 is continually employed in physical action, when 
 not absorbed with the converse. The poem is 
 intended equally to advocate the real and the 
 ideal, the precursive dream, theory, or shadow 
 — and the substance and action which originate 
 therefrom. The opinion that it was a ' spiritual 
 epic' is a remarkable illustration of the tone 
 which a highly-refined spirit can give to all 
 that it contemplates; and how it can touch 
 what the world calls ' pitch ' without soiling the 
 pearl and coral of the fairy fingers. Howbeit, 
 the writer of this poem having been a sailor in 
 many a stormy sea, intends to stick fast by the 
 timbers of our mortal vessel. 
 
XIX 
 
 After the allusions to 'ponderous substance' 
 and other bodily forces, the reader, if he has 
 duly observed my design, ought not to be sur- 
 prised on reverting to a passage in the first 
 Canto, commendng with-^ 
 
 ' " Hunter of Shadows, thou thyself a Shade," 
 Be comforted in this, — that substance holds 
 No higher attributes,' 5z:c. 
 
 The elucidatory justification which follows may 
 not, by everybody, be considered as satisfac- 
 tory ; siiffice it for the writer that he honestly 
 thought, and thinks, it was so. 
 
 I have been very frequently requested, par- 
 ticularly by letters from total strangers, to make 
 some explanations of this kind concerning the 
 design of ' Orion,' and have always resisted, 
 simply because it seemed fo me that It was 
 plain enough, or at least open to such study 
 as any epic poem, at all worthy of the name, 
 mi^ht fairly ask of all lovers of poetry. I 
 
XX Brief Commentary. 
 
 trust, however, that my tardy consent will not 
 have made any of my old readers, in various 
 parts of the world, angry or indifferent, since 
 I have ever regarded an intellectual sym- 
 pathy as the highest treasure an author can 
 obtain, — the only heartfelt reward of all his 
 labours. 
 
 As for the allegorical vein running through 
 the poem, transparently enough, no one need 
 be in the least troubled about that matter, if 
 the underworking be not sufficiently obvious. 
 A child may read the story. And here let me 
 borrow Hazlitt's excellent and graphic settle- 
 ment of the question. ' Some people,' he re- 
 marks, in his Lecture on the English Poets, 
 ' will say that all this may be very fine, but that 
 they cannot understand it on account of the 
 allegory. They are afraid of the allegory, as if 
 they thought it would bite them. They look 
 at it as a child looks at a painted dragon, and 
 
Brief Commentary. xxi 
 
 think that it will strangle them in its shining 
 folds. This is very idle. If they do not 
 meddle with the allegory, the allegory will not 
 meddle with them. Without minding it at all, 
 ' the whole is as plain as a pike-stafF. It might 
 as well be pretended that we cannot see Pous- 
 sin's pictures for the allegory.' 
 
 In a few instances, it is admitted, a certain 
 fabulous aureola may render a passage not so 
 clear to the understanding as if it had been ela 
 borated in prose. There are occasions in ima- 
 ginative compositions in which it is best not to 
 strive to be too definite, because some designs 
 are destroyed by a hard outline ; and also be- 
 cause poems often suggest one thing to one 
 person, and another thing to another person, by 
 the variety of our memories and special natures, 
 — and, in certain cases, poems ' suggest things 
 differing in some degree from the poet's mean- 
 ing and intention. 
 
xxii Brief Commentary. 
 
 I must add one remark to this, which of 
 course will be regarded by most persons as 
 heretical ; viz. that in many instances, the mo- 
 ment a poetical passage is ' laid upon the table ' 
 for analysis, the soul vanishes ! The moving 
 principle, the partner for life, is gone. This 
 opinion obviously does not refer to philoso- 
 phical, didactic, or what are called ' practical 
 poems,' but only tp those which depend, like 
 most first impressions, upon sympathy. In Ife 
 manner, the silly fellow who pauses in reading 
 a beautiful lyric in order to examine if the 
 rhymes suit his eye or his ear, need not read 
 any more, for the essence of that beauty has 
 evaporated for ever. In fine, it is quite certain, 
 that what has been so constantly said about 
 poets being born poets, applies in a similar 
 sense to their readers. Many people, and of 
 very great understanding in other respects, are 
 born with the impossibility of understanding 
 
Brief Commentary. xxiii 
 
 poetry in its highest essence, or even perhaps 
 in its humblest, if it be true poetry. The Ele- 
 phant who was introduced to Pegasus, said 
 there must be a mistake somewhere ! 
 
 The reader may smile to hear, or to re- 
 member, that in the preliminary Note to the 
 early ecfitions of ' Orion ' it was said that the 
 poem was, in several respects, ' an experiment 
 upon the mind of a nation.' But considering 
 that about that period the far-sweeping tide of 
 broad-farce literature, caricature, and burlesque, 
 had set in, and that it has continued with accu- 
 mulating and desecrating influence during the 
 last twenty years and more, my ' experiment ' 
 has been a success in the main. If the super- 
 stitious asceticism of ancient dogmas and le- 
 gends still holds out in its old stone fortresses, 
 •^ Orion ' has nevertheless starred the rock, and 
 let in some clear rays of healthy light. 
 
 ' But because,' writes Thomas Hobbes, 
 
xxiv Brief Commentary. 
 
 ' there be many men called Criticks, and Wits, 
 and Virtuosi, that are accustomed to censure 
 the Poets, and most of them of divers Judg- 
 ments : how is it possible (you'll say) to please 
 them all ? Yes, very well ; if the Poem be as 
 it should be. For, men can judge what's Good 
 that know not what is Best. For he that can 
 judge what is best must have considered all 
 these things (though they be almost innumer- 
 able) that concur to make the reading of an 
 Heroick Poem pleasant. Whereof I'll name 
 as many as shall come into my mind.' * Now, 
 while it will be obvious that no writer can be 
 so purblind and rash in self-opinion as to as- 
 sume that even the majority must regard his 
 work as good, there is one of the conditions 
 set down by Hobbes as fourth in his list, 
 to which I do make claim, viz. ' The Justice 
 
 * Preface to the Translation of the I/tads and Odysses, 
 by Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. 1686. 
 
Brief Commentary. xxv 
 
 and Impartiality :of the Poet.' The last he 
 mentions is, ' Amplitude of the Subject ;' — but 
 this, of course, is in the nature of things, and 
 the 'servant of Nature' can only lay claim to 
 a profound and reverent sympathy. 
 
 In the early editions of ' Orion,' a sort of 
 explanatory apology was offered for employing 
 the old Greek names in a Greek fable, on the 
 grounds that ' the Gods and Goddesses of an- 
 cient Italy were perfectly distinct from those of 
 the ancient Hellenic races ;' and that I had also 
 adopted the latter 'with a view to getting rid 
 of commonizing associations.' The Bacchus 
 and Neptune, for instance, of the present day, 
 are singularly vulgar and technical non-repre- 
 sentatives of the beautiful lacchus and the 
 grand Poseidon, — while Phoibos, Aphrodite, 
 and Artemis may be truly said to be utterly 
 burlesqued, and only worthy of the places in 
 which they are most commonly found. The 
 
xxvi Briif Commentary. 
 
 present Poem of elaborate design was the first 
 that ventured to give, with one or two discre- 
 tionary variations, the old Greek names : but 
 there is no need to apologize for this at the 
 present time. 
 
 It only remains to offer a word concerning 
 several amusing speculations and idle fancies 
 that have been extensively promulgated, and 
 which have enabled those who know nothing of 
 the poem to seem to say something. I allude 
 to the unusual circumstance (which ought to be 
 common enough with all those authors who 
 could so much better afford it) of the book 
 having been given away in the first instance. 
 As there was scarcely any instance of an Epic 
 Poem attaining any reasonable circulation dur- 
 ing its author's lifetime (qertainly not up to 
 that period, with the exception of Voltaire's 
 'Henriade'), the first, second, and third editions 
 of 'Orion' were published gratuitously, — that 
 
Brief Commentary. xxvii 
 
 is, they were published at a nominal price, the 
 least coin of the realm, to avoid the trouble 
 and greatly additional expense of forwarding 
 presentation copies ; which, moreover, are not 
 always particularly desired by those who receive 
 them. After the third edition, there were se- 
 veral editions at a price which amply remune- 
 rated the publisher, and left the author no 
 great loser. There has also been an Australian 
 edition, and, I believe, more than one in Ame- 
 rica ; but all have long been out of print. 
 
 The present is the first Library Edition, 
 and has the author's latest, and probably his 
 final corrections. Two lines have been erased 
 from the poem as previously published, and 
 some forty lines have been added to the last 
 Canto. Hail ! and farewell ! 
 
 R. H. H. 
 
 London, November 1871. 
 
ORION. 
 
 BOOK I. 
 
BOOK I. 
 
 CANTO THE FIRST. 
 
 Ye rocky heights of Chios, where the snow, 
 
 Lit by the far-off and receding moon. 
 
 Now feels the soft dawn's purpling twilight creep 
 
 Over your ridges, while the mystic dews 
 
 Swarm down, and wait to be instinct with gold 
 
 And solar fire ! — ye mountains waving brown 
 
 With thick-winged woods, and blotted with deep 
 
 caves 
 In secret places ; and ye paths that stray 
 E'en as ye list ; what odours and what sighs 
 Tend your sweet silence through the star-showered 
 
 night. 
 
4 ORION. [book I. 
 
 Like memories breathing of the Goddess forms 
 That left your haunts, yet with the day return ! 
 
 And still more distant through the grey sky floats 
 The faint blue fragment of the dead moon's shell ; 
 Not dead indeed, but vacant, since 't is now 
 Left by its bright Divinity. The snows 
 On steepest heights grave tints of dawn receive, 
 And mountains from the misty woodland rise 
 More clear of outline, while thick vapours curl 
 From off the valley streams, and spread away, 
 Till one by one the brooks and pools unveil 
 Their cold blue mirrors. From the great repose 
 What echoes now float on the listening air — 
 Now die away — and now again ascend. 
 Soft ringing from the valleys, caves, and groves, 
 Beyond the reddening heights .' 'Tis Artemis come 
 With all her buskined Nymphs and sylvan rout, 
 To scare the silence and the sacred shades. 
 And with dim music break their rapturous trance ! 
 
 But soon the music swells, and as the gleam 
 
CANTO I.] ORION. 
 
 Of sunrise tips the summits tremblingly, 
 And the dense forests on their sides exchange 
 Shadows opaque for warm transparent tones. 
 Though still of depth and grandeur, nearer grows 
 The revelry ; and echoes multiply 
 Behind the rocks and uplands, with the din 
 Of reed-pipe, timbrel, and clear silver horns, 
 With cry of Wood-nymphs, Fauns, and chasing 
 hounds. 
 
 Afar the hunt in vales below has sped. 
 But now behind the wooded mount ascends. 
 Threading its upward mazes of rough boughs. 
 Mossed trunks and thickets, still invisible. 
 Although its jocund music fills the air 
 With cries and laughing echoes, mellowed all 
 By intervening woods and the deep hills. 
 
 The scene in front two sloping mountain sides 
 Displayed ; in shadow one, and one in light. 
 The loftiest on its summit now sustained 
 The sun-beams, raying like a mighty wheel 
 
6 ORION. [book I. 
 
 Half seen, which left the front-ward surface dark 
 In its full breadth of shade ; the coming sun 
 Hidden as yet behind : the other mount, 
 Slanting opposed, swept with an eastward face, 
 Catching the golden light. Now, while the peal 
 Of the ascending chase told that the rout 
 Still midway rent the thickets, suddenly 
 Along the broad and sunny slope appeared 
 The shadow of a stag that fled across. 
 Followed by a Giant's shadow with a spear ! 
 
 ' Hunter of Shadows, thou thyself a Shade,' 
 Be comforted in this, — that substance holds 
 No higher attributes ; one sovran law 
 Alike develops both, and each shall hunt 
 Its proper object, each in turn commanding 
 The primal impulse, till gaunt Time become 
 A Shadow cast on Space — to fluctuate — 
 Waiting the breath of the Creative Power 
 To give new types for substance yet unknown : 
 So from faint nebulae bright worlds are born ; 
 So worlds return to vapour. Dreams design 
 
CANTO I.] ORION. 
 
 Most solid lasting things, and from the eye 
 That searches life, death evermore retreats. 
 
 Substance unseen, pure mythos, or mirage. 
 The shadowy chase has vanished ; round the swell 
 Of the near mountain sweeps a bounding stag — 
 Round whirls a god-like Giant close behind — 
 O'er a fallen trunk the stag with slippery hoofs 
 Stumbles — his sleek knees Kghtly touch the 
 
 grass — 
 Upwards he springs — but in his forward leap, 
 The Giant's hand hath caught him fast beneath 
 One shoulder tuft, and, lifted high in air. 
 Sustains ! Now Phoibos' chariot rising bursts 
 Over the summits with a circling blaze. 
 Gilding those frantic antlers, and the head 
 Of that so glorious Giant in his youth, 
 Who, as he turns, the form succinct beholds 
 Of Artemis, — her bow, with points drawn back, 
 A golden hue on her white rounded breast 
 Reflecting, while the arrow's ample barb 
 Gleams o'er her hand, and at his heart is aimed. 
 
8 ORION. [book I. 
 
 The Giant lowered his arm — away the stag 
 Breast forward plunged into a thicket near ; 
 The Goddess paused, and dropt her arrow's point — 
 Raised it again — and then again relaxed 
 Her tension, and while slow the shaft came gliding 
 Over the centre of the bow, beside 
 Her hand, and gently drooped, so did the knee 
 Of that heroic shape do reverence 
 Before the Goddess. Their clear eyes had ceased 
 To flash, and gazed with earnest softening light. 
 
 His stature, though colossal, scarcely seemed 
 Beyond the heroic mould, such symmetry 
 His form displayed ; and in his countenance 
 A noble honesty and ardour beamed. 
 With child-like faith, unconscious of themselves. 
 And of the world, its vanities and guile. 
 Eyes of deep blue, large waves of chestnut locks, 
 A forehead wide, and every feature strong. 
 Yet without heaviness or angry line. 
 Had he ; and as he knelt, a trustful smile 
 That dreads no consequence, and quite forgets 
 
CANTO I.] ORION. ( 
 
 All danger, lightly played around his mouth. 
 Meanwhile the Nymphs and all the sylvan troop, 
 Like wave on wave when coloured by the clouds. 
 Pell-mell come rolling round the mountain side, 
 And crowd about the Goddess, who commands 
 The hunt to pause. At once the music stops — 
 And all the hounds, with wistful looks, crouch down. 
 
 ' Young Giant of the woods,' said Artemis, 
 ' The bow, that ne'er till now its glittering points 
 Bent back without recoil and whirring twang — 
 That sound a shaft's flight, and that flight a death — 
 For once to its quiescent shape returns 
 Unsated. Midst these woodland vales and heights 
 Seldom I rove, but from my train have Nymphs 
 Permission sought full oft the chase to lead 
 Among these echoes and these fleeting shades. 
 Thee have they seen, as now, bounding beyond 
 Their swiftest hounds to bear the stag away. 
 As thou once more hadst surely done this morn. 
 But for my presence. Say, then, whence thou 
 spring'st — 
 
lo ORION. [book 1. 
 
 Where dwell'st thou — how art called — and wherefore 
 
 thus 
 Dar'st thou the sports of these my Wood-nymphs mar?' 
 
 ' Goddess !' the Giant answered, ' I am sprung 
 From the great Trident-bearer, who sustains 
 And rocks the floating earth, and from the nymph — 
 A huntress joying in the dreamy woods — 
 Euryal6. Little am I wont to speak. 
 Save to my kindred giants, who in caves 
 Amid yon forest dwell, beyond the rocks. 
 Or the Cyclopes ; neither know what words 
 Best suit a Goddess' ear. I and the winds 
 Do better hold our colloquies, when shadows, 
 After long hunting, vanish from my sight 
 Into some field of gloom. I am called " Orion," — 
 And for the sport I have so often marred, 
 'T was for my own I did it, but without 
 A thought of whose the Nymphs, or least design 
 Of evil. Wherefore, Artemis, pardon me ; 
 Or if again thou 'It bend thy bow, first let me 
 To great Poseidon offer up a prayer. 
 
CANTO I.] ORION. 1 1 
 
 That his divine waves with absorbing arms 
 May take my body rather than dull earth.' 
 
 With attitude relaxed from queenly pride 
 To yet more queenly grace, the shaft she placed 
 Within her burnished quiver, and the bow 
 A Nymph unstrung, while with averted face — 
 As gazing down the woodland vista slopes, 
 Which oft her bright orb silvered through black shades 
 When midnight throbbed to silence — Artemis asked, 
 • And who are those thy brothers of the cave. 
 And why with the Cyclopes dost consort ?' 
 
 ' My wood-friends all of ancestry renowned. 
 Claim for their sires heroes, or kings, or gods ; 
 And two of them have seen the ways of men ;' 
 Orion answered, while with uplifted breast, 
 Like a smooth wave o'ergilded by the morn. 
 High heaving ere it cast itself ashore, 
 Buoyant, elate, and massively erect. 
 He stood. ' They are my kindred thus descended. 
 And, though not brothers, yet we recognise 
 
12 ORION. [book I. 
 
 A sort of brotherhood in this decree 
 Df fate, or Zeus, — that nature filled our frames 
 With larger share of bodily elements 
 Than others mortal born. Seven giants we. 
 Of different minds, and destinies, and powers, 
 Yet glorified alike in corporal forms. 
 Few are my years, O Artemis ! few my needs, 
 Though large my fancied wants, and small my know- 
 ledge 
 Save of one art. Earth's deep metallic veins 
 Hephaistos taught me to refine and forge 
 To shapes that in my fancy I devised. 
 For use or ornament. To the lame God 
 Grateful I felt, nor knew what thanks to give ; 
 But, ere a shadow-hunter I became — 
 A dreamer of strange dreams by day and night — 
 For him I built a palace underground. 
 Of iron, black and rough as his own hands. 
 Deep in the groaning disembowelled earth, 
 The tower-broad pillars and huge stanchions, 
 And slant supporting wedges I set up, 
 By the Cyclopes aided — at my voice 
 
CANTO I.] ORION. 3 3 
 
 Which through the metal fabric rang and pealed 
 In orders echoing far, like thunder-dreams. 
 With arches, galleries, and domes all carved — 
 So that great figures started from the roof 
 And lofty coignes, or sat and downward gazed 
 On those who strode below and gazed above — 
 I filled it ; in the centre framed a hall : 
 Central in that, a throne ; and for the light. 
 Forged mighty hammers that should rise and fall 
 On slanted rocks of granite and of flint, 
 Worked by a torrent, for whose passage down 
 A chasm I hewed. And here the God could take, 
 Midst showery sparks and swathes of broad gold fire. 
 His lone repose, lulled by the sounds he loved ; 
 Or, casting back the hammer-heads till they choked 
 The water's course, enjoy, if so he wished. 
 Midnight tremendous, silence, and iron sleep.' 
 
 Thus in rough phrase, and with no other grace 
 Than forthright truth, Orion told his tale ; 
 Then smiling looked around upon the Nymphs 
 Till all their bright eyes glowed and turned aside ; 
 
14 ORION. [book I. 
 
 And then he gazed down at the couchant hounds, 
 
 Whose eyes and ears grew interrogative, 
 
 For well the fleet-heeled robber they all knew. 
 
 Now spake an Ocean-nymph with sea-green eyes : 
 ' Goddess, he hath not told thee all ; his skill 
 And strength, unaided — singing as he wrought — 
 Scooped out the bay of Zankl6, framed its port ; 
 Banked up the rampire that forbids the surge 
 To break o'er Sicily ; and a temple built 
 To the sea-deities.' ' I had forgot ;' 
 Orion said : ' These things, long since were done.' 
 
 ' Hunter, I pardon thee, and from my Nymphs 
 All memory of late offence I take, 
 As though they ne'er had seen thee :' Artemis said, 
 With a sweet voice and look. ' Retire awhile. 
 Ye sylvan troop, to yonder deep-mossed dell ; 
 And thou, Orion, henceforth in my train 
 Thy station take.' More had the Goddess said. 
 But o'er the whiteness of a neck that ne'er 
 One tanned kiss from the ardent sun received. 
 
CANTO I.J ORION. 15 
 
 A soft suffusion came ; and waiting not 
 
 Reply, her silver sandals glanced i' the rays, 
 
 As doth a lizard playing on a hill. 
 
 And on the spot where she that instant stood. 
 
 Nought but the bent and quivering grass was seen. 
 
 Above the isle of Chios, night by night. 
 The clear moon lingered ever on her course. 
 Covering the forest foliage, where it swept 
 In its unbroken breadth along the slopes. 
 With placid silver ; edging leaf and trunk 
 Where gloom clung deep around ; but chiefly sought 
 With melancholy splendour to illume 
 The dark-mouthed caverns where Orion lay 
 Dreaming among his kinsmen. Ere the breath 
 Of Phoibos' steeds rose from the wakening sea. 
 And long before the immortal wheel-spokes cast 
 Their hazy apparition up the sky 
 Behind the mountain peaks, pale Artemis left 
 Her fainting orb, and touched the loftiest snows 
 With feet as pure, and white, and crystal-cold. 
 In the sweet misty woodland to rejoin 
 
i6 ORION. [book 
 
 Orion with her Nymphs. And he was blest 
 In her divine smile, and his life began 
 A new and higher period, nor the haunts 
 Of those his giant brethren sought he now. 
 But shunned them and their ways, and slept alone 
 Upon a verdant rock, while o'er him floated 
 The clear moon, causing music in his brain 
 Until the skylark rose. He felt 't was love. 
 
 END OF CANTO I. 
 
ORION. 
 
 CANTO THE SECOND. 
 
 Midst ponderous substance had Orion's life 
 Dawned, and his acts were massive as his form. 
 Those his companions of the forest owned 
 Like corporal forces, but their several minds 
 And aims were not as his. The Worker he, 
 The builder-up of things, and of himself : 
 His wood-friends were Rhexergon, of descent 
 Royal, heroic — breaker down of things — 
 A coaster, skilled in fishing and in ships ; — 
 Hormetes, arch-backed like the forest boar, 
 Short-haired, harsh-voiced, of fierce and wayward 
 will ; — 
 
 c 
 
1 8 ORION. [book I. 
 
 Harpax, with large loose mouth, and restless hand, 
 
 Son of the God of Folly by a maid 
 
 Who cursed him — and the child, an idiot else, 
 
 Grew keen, in rapine taking huge delight ; — 
 
 Forceful Biastor; — smooth Encolyon, 
 
 The son of Hermes, yet in all things slow. 
 
 With sight oblique and forehead slanting high, 
 
 The dull retarder, chainer of the wheel ; — 
 
 And Akinetos — who, since first the dawn 
 
 Sat on his marble forehead, ne'er had gazed 
 
 Onward with purpose of activity, 
 
 Nor felled a tree, nor hollowed out a cave. 
 
 Nor built a roof, nor aided any work. 
 
 Nor heaved a sigh, nor cared for anything 
 
 Save contemplation of the eternal scheme — 
 
 The Great Unmoved — a giant much revered. 
 
 Forgotten by their sires in other loves. 
 Here had th^ chiefly dwelt, and in these caves. 
 Save two, Encolyon and the Great Unmoved, 
 Who came from Ithaca. The islanders 
 Had driven them thence ; and this the idle cause. 
 
CANTO II.] ORION. 19 
 
 The barren stony land had ne'er produced 
 
 Enough of grain for food ; but by the skill 
 
 Of their artificers in iron and brass, 
 
 And by their herds of goats and cloud-woolled sheep, 
 
 With other isles the Ithacans exchanged, 
 
 And each was well supplied. Encolyon's brain 
 
 Some goddess — and 't was Discord, as results 
 
 Made plain — one night inspired with sage alarms, 
 
 And straight the King of Ithaca he sought. 
 
 Imploring him, ' if that he duly prized 
 
 A heaven-blest crown and subjects all content, 
 
 To drive the ships, sent from the neighbouring isles. 
 
 Forth from his port, or sink the grain they brought : 
 
 Else would his people, over-fed, grow slothful, 
 
 Rude, and importunate with new conceits, 
 
 And soon degenerating in their race, 
 
 Neglect their proper island, and their King. 
 
 But, on its own resources nobly forced. 
 
 Then would the stony Ithaca become 
 
 Great in herself by self-dependent power.' 
 
 To this the King gave ear, and on the shore 
 
20 ORION. [book I. 
 
 He, with Encolyon, for an omen prayed ; 
 
 And soon along the horizontal line 
 
 Rising, they saw a threatening rack of clouds. 
 
 Black as the fleet from Aulis 'gainst doomed Troy, — 
 
 In after-time well known. Encolyon cried, 
 
 ' Behold propitious anger on the isle. 
 
 For its wrong doings !' Wherefore all the grain 
 
 From friendly islands they, with scorn, sent back. 
 
 A famine soon in Ithaca spread wide, 
 
 And hungry people prowled about at night. 
 
 Then clamoured, and took arms — their war-cr>', 
 
 ' Bread !' 
 Thus was the dormant evil of their hearts 
 Attested, and the King his people knew. 
 And bitterly their want of reverence felt. 
 
 Encolyon, in his stature tall confiding. 
 Though Akinetos warned him not to move, 
 Went gravely forth the rebel throngs to meet. 
 The politic giant's staid demeanour awed 
 The angry mass at first, and with their eyes 
 They seemed to listen, doubtful of their ears. 
 
CANTO II.] ORION. 
 
 So puzzling was his speech. He to the King 
 
 And his chief heroes then discoursed apart, 
 
 Convincing them that all the wheels went well. 
 
 With head bent sideways from the light, he looked 
 
 Like to some statesman of consummate mind 
 
 Working an ancient problem ; and then spake 
 
 In language critical, final, stolid, astute, 
 
 Concluding with affectionate appeal 
 
 To common sense, and all we hold most dear. 
 
 ' Keep down — put back — prevent ! O Gods, prevent !' 
 
 This was his famous saying. Now the King 
 
 Led out his patriot army ; but ere long 
 
 The army hungered too — the King was slain — 
 
 Encolyon fled, and hid within a ship. 
 
 Forthwith a crowd to Akinetos thronged, 
 Crying, ' What say'st thou, giant, who art wise .'' 
 What shall we do V And Akinetos said, 
 ' Great hunger is a single thing — one want : 
 Satisfy that, and strength will be acquired 
 To multiply desire — wants without end ! 
 Therefore be patient : leave all else to fate.' 
 
22 ORION. [book I. 
 
 The people, stubborn as their own dry rocks — 
 Enraged as the wild winds — to reason deaf — 
 And also wanting food — cursed his calm thought — 
 Cast stones upon him, and had surely slain 
 But that without resistance he bore all. 
 And without word ; so they, being tired, relented. 
 And bore him to the ship, where, in the hold, 
 Encolyon lay at length with in-drawn breath. 
 To Chios sailed the ship. The Ithacans 
 Chose a new king, and traded with the isles. 
 
 In this companionship Orion's bent 
 Of nature had not merged ; his working spirit 
 Sought from the fallen trunks and rocks to frame 
 Rude image of his fancies, till at length 
 He won Hephaistos' love, from whom he learnt 
 The god's own solid art. But this attained, 
 And proved by mastery, a restless dream 
 Dawned on his soul which he desired to shape. 
 Yet knew not how, nor saw its like around. 
 But vaguely felt at times, and thought he saw 
 In shadows. Wherefore through the forest depths, 
 
CANTO n.J ORION. 23, 
 
 Through vales and over hills, a hunter fleet, 
 He chased his unknown hopes; and when the stag. 
 Or goat, or ounce, he overtook and seized. 
 Ever he set them free, and e'en the bear 
 And raging boar his spear refrained to strike,, 
 Save by its shadow, as they roaring fled. 
 The bodily thing became to him as nought 
 When gained ; nor could past efforts satisfy; 
 
 Now from a Goddess did he quickly learn 
 The mystery of his mood, and saw how vain 
 His early life had been, and felt new roots 
 Quicken within him, branches new that sprang 
 Aloft, and with expanding energies 
 Tingled, and for immortal fruit prepared. 
 
 She met him in her beauty. Oft when dawn 
 With a grave red looked through the ash-pale woods^ 
 And quick dews singing fell, while with a pulse 
 As quick, Orion stood beneath the trees. 
 And gazed upon the uncertain scene, — his heart 
 Forewarned his senses with a rapturous thrill. 
 
24 ORION. [book I. 
 
 He turned, and from the misty green afar, 
 
 In silence did the Goddess' train appear 
 
 Rounding a thicket. Slow the crowding hounds 
 
 Tript circling onward ; Nymphs with quivered backs, 
 
 And clear elastic limbs of nut-brown hue, 
 
 Or like tanned wall-fruit, ripening and compact ; 
 
 And short-horned Fauns down-gazing on their pipes ; 
 
 And Oceanides with tresses green 
 
 Plaited in order, or by golden nets 
 
 In various device confined, each bearing 
 
 Shell-lyres and pearl-mouthed trumpets of the sea ; 
 
 Dryads and Oreads decked with oak-leaf crowns 
 
 And heath-bells, dancing in the fragrant air ; 
 
 And Sylvans, who, half Faun, half shepherd, lead 
 
 A grassy life, with cymbals in each hand 
 
 Pressed cross-wise on the breast, waiting the sign ; — 
 
 Attendant round a pale-gold chariot moved : 
 
 By two large-antlered milk-white stags 't was drawn. 
 
 Their sleek hides 'neath the fine dews quivering, 
 
 In delicate delight. Above them rose 
 
 The fair-haired Goddess, onward softly gliding, 
 
 As though erect she stood on wafted clouds. 
 
CANTO II.] ORION. 25 
 
 She smiled not ; but the crescent on her brow 
 Gleamed with a tender light. He knew 't was love. 
 
 Giddy with happiness Orion's spirit 
 Now danced in air; his heart tumultuous beat, 
 Too high a measure and too wild to taste 
 The fulness that he dreamed encompassed him, 
 But he could not encompass, nor scarce dare 
 Clearly to recognise. And Artemis smiled 
 Upon him with a radiance silver sweet. 
 And o'er his forehead oft her hand she waved, 
 Till visions of the purity of love 
 Above him floated, and his being filled. 
 
 Language of Gods she taught him; and portrayed. 
 Far as 't was fitting, and from all gross acts 
 Refined, their several wondrous histories : 
 But chief of all, in accents grandly sad, 
 She told of kindness by Poseidon done, 
 His ocean sire, when swan-necked Leto bearing 
 Twins of bright destiny and heirs of heaven — 
 Herself and Phoibos — cruelly was driven 
 
26 ORION. [book I. 
 
 Through the bleak ways of earth, and found no rest, 
 
 Pursued by serpent jealousy, for Zeus 
 
 Had loved fair Leto ; how Orion's sire 
 
 A floating isle that sometimes 'neath the waves 
 
 Drifted unseen, sometimes showed watery rocks, 
 
 Smote with his trident, and, majestical, 
 
 Delos arose — stood fast — and gave a home 
 
 To fainting Leto, — and a place of birth 
 
 For deities — the Sun, and his loved Orb. 
 
 The mysteries, worship, and the sacrifice 
 
 Of her Ephesian Temple, she displayed 
 
 Before his wondering thought, and oft he knelt 
 
 In solitude, when of its hundred columns. 
 
 Each reared by kingly hands, wakeful he dreamed. 
 
 And felt his Goddess love too high removed. 
 
 The ocean realm below, and all its caves 
 
 And bristling vegetation, plant and flower, 
 
 And forests in their dense petrific shade 
 
 Where the tides moan for sleep which never comes ; 
 
 All this she taught him, and continually 
 
 Knowledge of human life made clear to him 
 
 Through facts and fables. He the intricate web 
 
CANTO II.] ORION. 27 
 
 Of nature, gradually of himself began 
 
 To unwind, and see that gods and men were one — 
 
 Born of one element, imperfect both. 
 
 Yet aspirant, and with perfection's germ 
 
 Somewhere within. He brooded o'er these things. 
 
 One day, at noontide, when the chase was done. 
 Which with unresting speed since dawn had held. 
 The woods were all with golden fires alive, 
 And heavy limbs tingled with glowing heat. 
 Sylvans and Fauns at full length cast them down, 
 And cooled their flame-red faces in the grass. 
 Or o'er a streamlet bent, and dipped their heads 
 Deep as the top hair of their pointed ears ; 
 While Nymphs and Oceanides retired 
 To grots and sa,cred groves, with loitering steps. 
 And bosoms swelled and throbbing, like a bird's 
 Held between human hands. The hounds with -tongues 
 Crimson, and lolling hot upon the green. 
 And outstretched noses, flatly crouched ; their skins 
 Clouded or spotted, like the field-bean's flower, 
 Or tiger-lily, painted the wide lawns. 
 
28 ORION. [book I. 
 
 Orion wandered deep into a vale 
 Alone ; from all the rest his steps he bent, 
 Thoughtful, yet with no object in his mind ; 
 Languid, yet restless. Near a hazel copse, 
 Whose ripe nuts hung in clusters twined with grapes. 
 He paused, down gazing, till upon his sense 
 A fragrance stole, as of ambrosia wafted 
 Through the warm shades by some divinity 
 Amid the woods. With gradual step he moved 
 Onward, and soon the poppied entrance found 
 Of a secluded bower. He entered straight. 
 Unconsciously attracted, and beheld 
 His Goddess love, who slept — her robe cast off. 
 Her sandals, bow and quiver, thrown aside. 
 Yet with her hair still braided, and her brow 
 Decked with her crescent light. Awed and alarmed 
 By loving reverence — which dreads offence 
 E'en though the wrong were never known, and feels 
 Its heart's religion for religion's self, 
 Besides its object's claim — swift he retired. 
 
 The entrance gain'd, what thoughts, what visions his \ 
 
CANTO II.] ORION. 29 
 
 What danger had he 'scaped, what innocent crime, 
 Which Artemis might yet have felt so deep ! 
 He blest the God of Sleep who thus had held 
 Her senses ! Yet, what loveliness had glanced 
 Before his mind — scarce seen ! Might it not be 
 Illusion ? — some bright shadow of a hope 
 First dawning ? Would not sleep's God still exert 
 Safe influence, if he once more stole back 
 And gazed an instant ? 'T were not well to do. 
 And would o'erstain with doubt the accident 
 Which first had led him there. He dare not risk 
 
 The chance 't were not illusion oh, if true ! 
 
 While thus he murmured hesitating, slow. 
 As slow and hesitating he returned 
 Instinctively, and on the Goddess gazed ! 
 
 With adoration and delicious fear. 
 Lingering he stood ; then pace by pace retired, 
 Till in the hazel copse sighing he paused. 
 And with most earnest face, and vacant eye. 
 And brow perplexed, stared at a tree. His hands 
 Were clenched; his burning feet pressed down the soil. 
 
30 ORION. [book I. 
 
 And changed their place. Suddenly he turned round, 
 And made his way direct into the bower. 
 
 There was a slumb'rous silence in the air, 
 By noon-tide's sultry murmurs from without 
 Made more oblivious. Not a pipe was heard 
 From field or wood ; but the grave beetle's drone 
 Passed near the entrance ; once the cuckoo called 
 O'er distant meads, and once a horn began 
 Melodious plaint, then died away. A sound 
 Of murmurous music yet was in the breeze. 
 For silver gnats that harp on glassy strings. 
 And rise and fall in sparkling clouds, sustained 
 Their dizzy dances o'er the seething meads. 
 With brain as dizzy stood Orion now 
 r the quivering bower. There rapturous he beheld. 
 As in a trance, not conscious of himself, 
 The perfect sculpture of that naked form. 
 Whose Parian whiteness and clear outline gleamed 
 In its own hue, nor from the foliage took 
 One tint, nor from his ample frame one shade. 
 Her lovely hair hung drooping, half unbound, — 
 
CANTO II.] ORION. 31 
 
 Fair silken braids, fawn-tinted delicately, 
 That on one shoulder lodged their opening coil. 
 Her large round arms of dazzling beauty lay 
 In matchless symmetry and inviolate grace, 
 Along the mossy floor. At length he dropped 
 Softly upon his knees, his clasped hands raised 
 Above his head, till by resistless impulse 
 
 His arms descending, were expanded wide 
 
 Swift as a flash, erect the Goddess rose ! 
 
 Her eyes shot through Orion, and he felt 
 Within his breast an icy dart. Confronted, 
 Mutely they stood, but all the bower was filled 
 With rising mist that chilled him to the bones. 
 Colder, as more obscure the space became ; 
 And ere the last collected shape he saw 
 Of Artemis, dispersing fast amid 
 Dense vapoury clouds, the aching wintriness 
 Had risen to his teeth, and fixed his eyes. 
 Like glistening stones in the congealing air. 
 
 END OF CANTO II. 
 
ORION. 
 
 CANTO THE THIRD. 
 
 O'er plastic nature any change may come, 
 Save that which seeks to crush the primal germ ; 
 And outward circumstance may breed within, 
 A second nature which o'ercomes the first. 
 But ne'er destroys, though dormant or subdued. 
 More toil for him whose wandering fancies teem 
 With too much life, and that vitality 
 Which eats into itself ; more toil of brain 
 And limb, sole panacea for the change 
 From tyrant senses to pure intellect. 
 Wherefore, his work redoubled, Artemis 
 Directs Orion's course ; not as before 
 
CANTO III.] ORION. 33 
 
 With grave and all-subduing tenderness, 
 While with white fingers midst his chestnut locks, 
 In her speech pausing, gently would she hang 
 Violets, as white as her own hands, and sprigs 
 Of Cretan dittany, whose nodding spikes 
 Flushed deeper pink beneath the sacred touch, — 
 But with a penetrating influence 
 And front austere, as suiting best the Queen 
 Of maiden immortality. His soul 
 Strove hard to ascend and leave the earth behind ; 
 And by the Goddess' guidance every hour 
 Had its fixed duties. Husbandry of fields 
 She taught those giant hands, and how to raise 
 The sweetest herbs and roots, which now his food 
 Became ; nor taste and culture of the vine 
 Permitted, nor the flesh of slaughtered kine, 
 Nor forest boar, nor other thing that owns 
 An animal life. Lastly, she taught his mind 
 To reason on itself, far as the bounds 
 Of sense external furnish images 
 And types in attestation of each phase 
 Of man's internal sphere— large orbit space 
 
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34 ORION. [book i. 
 
 For varied lights — and also showed the way 
 Rightly his complex knowledge to employ, 
 And from their shadows trace substantial things, 
 Things back again to shadows — thus evolving 
 The principle of thought, from root to air. 
 
 This done, the blossom and the fruit of all 
 Was her prime truth, into each element 
 Of his life's feelings and its acts, to instil : 
 'T was Love's divinest essence. In the soul, 
 Central its altar's flame for ever burns 
 Inviolate, and knowing not the change 
 Which time and fate o'er all else in the world 
 Bring speedily, or with a creeping film 
 That hides decay. Ever at peace it dwells 
 With its secure desires, which are soul-fed, 
 Nor on idolatrous devotion made' 
 Dependent, nor on will and wa3nvard moods 
 Of others ; 't is self-centred as a star, 
 And in the music of the conscious nerves. 
 Finds bliss, which e'en the slightest touch or look 
 Of this magnetic passion can create. 
 
CANTO III.] ORION. 35 
 
 And render perfect. Nor doth absence break 
 
 The links of ecstasy, which from a heart 
 
 By a heart are drawn, but midst the glare of day. 
 
 The depths of night, alone, or in a crowd, 
 
 Imagination of love's balmy breath 
 
 Can to the spirit fashion and expand 
 
 Love's own pure rapture and delirium. 
 
 To this fixed sublimation there belong 
 
 No conflicts of pale doubts, anxieties. 
 
 Mean jealousies, anguish of heart-crushed slaves, 
 
 And forlorn faces looking out on seas 
 
 Of coming madness, from the stony gaps 
 
 Through which departed truth and bliss have fled ; 
 
 But high communion, and a rapturous sense 
 
 Of passion's element, whereof all life 
 
 Is made ; and therefore life should ne'er attain 
 
 A mastery o'er its pure creative light. 
 
 Midst chequered sunbeams through the glancing 
 woods 
 No more Orion hunted ; from the dawn 
 Till eve, within some lonely grot he sat. 
 
36 ORION. [book i. 
 
 His thoughts reviewing, or beneath a Tock 
 
 Stood, back reclined, and watching the slow clouds, 
 
 As doth a shepherd in a vacant mood. 
 
 Oft to some highest peak would he ascend. 
 
 And gaze below upon his giant friends, 
 
 Who looked like moving spots, — so dark and small ; 
 
 And oft, upon some gjeen cliff ledge reclined. 
 
 Watch with sad eye the jocund chase afar 
 
 In the green landscape, where the quivering line 
 
 Led by the stag — who drew its rout behind 
 
 Of woodland shapes, confused as were their cries, 
 
 And sparkling bodies of fleet-chasing hounds, — 
 
 Passed like a magic picture, and was gone. 
 
 His husbandry soon ceased ; he hated toil 
 
 Unvaried, ending always in itself. 
 
 And to the Goddess pleaded thoughtful hours 
 
 For his excuse, and indolent self-disgust. 
 
 Small profit found his thought ; his sympathies 
 
 Were driven inward, and corroded there. 
 
 Sometimes he wandered to the lowland fens. 
 Where the wild marcs toss their sharp manes i'the blast, 
 
CANTO III.] ORION. 37 
 
 And scour through washy reeds and hollows damp — 
 Hardened in after-ages by long droughts — 
 And midst the elements he sought relief 
 From inward tempests. Once for many hours, 
 In silence, only broken from afar 
 By the deep lowing of some straying herd, 
 Moveless and without speech he watched a hind 
 Weeding a marsh ; a brutish clod, half built, 
 Hog-faced and hog-backed with his daily toil, 
 Mudded and root-stained by the steaming ooze, 
 As he himself were some unnatural growth ; 
 Who yet, at times, whistled through broken fangs-* 
 ' Happier than I, this hind,' Orion thought. 
 
 Once tow'rds the city outskirts strayed his 
 steps. 
 With a half purpose some relief to seek 
 Midst haunts of men, and on the way he met 
 A mastic-sifter with his fresh-oiled face. 
 ' O friend,' Orion said, ' why dost thou walk 
 With shining cheek so sadly in the sun .'' 
 Sighing, the melancholy man replied : — 
 
38 ORION. [book i. 
 
 ' The lentisk-trees have ceased to shed their gums ; 
 Their tears are changed for mine, since by that tree 
 Myself and children live. My toil stands still. 
 Hard lot for man, who something hath within 
 More than a tree, and higher than its top. 
 Or circling clouds, to live by a mere root 
 And its dark graspings ! Clearly I see this, 
 And know how 't is that toil unequally 
 Is shared on earth : but knowledge is not power 
 To a poor man alone 'gainst all the world. 
 Who, meantime, needs to eat. Like the hot springs 
 That boil themselves away, and serve for nought, 
 Which yet must have some office, rightly used, 
 Man hath a secret source, for some great end. 
 Which by delay seems wasted. Ignorance 
 Chokes us, and time outwits us.' — On he passed. 
 ' That soul hath greater cause for grief than I,' 
 Orion thought — yet not the less was sad. 
 
 Away disconsolate the giant went, 
 Now clambering forest slopes, now hurrying down 
 Precipitous brakes, tearing the berried boughs 
 
CANTO ni.J ORION. 39 
 
 For food, scarce tasted, and oft gathering Husks, 
 Or wind-eggs of strange birds dropt in tKe fens. 
 To toss them in some rapid brook, and watch 
 Their wavering flight. But now a tingling sound 
 Wakes his dull ear ! — a distant rising drone 
 Upon the air, as of a wintry wind — 
 And dry leaves rustle like a coming rain. 
 The wind is here ; and, following soon, descends 
 A tempest, which relieves its rage in tears. 
 Kneeling he stooped, and drank the hissing flood, 
 And wished the Ogygian deluge were returned ; 
 Then sat in very wilfulness beside 
 The banks while they o'erflowed, till starting up. 
 Bounding he sought his early giant friends. 
 
 Them, in their pastoral yet half-savage haunts 
 Found, as of yore, he with brief speech addressed, 
 And bade them to an orgie on the plain. 
 By rocks and forests amphitheatred. 
 Such greeting high they with a gleeful roar 
 Received, and forthwith rose to follow him, 
 Save Akinetos, who seemed not to hear, 
 
40 ORION. [book I. 
 
 But looked more grave still seated on a stone, 
 While they betook them to the plains below. 
 
 Thither at once they sped, and on the way 
 Rhexergon tore down boughs, while Harpax slew 
 Oxen and deer, more than was need ; and soon 
 On the green space Orion built the pile 
 With cross logs, underwood, dry turf and ferns. 
 And cast upon it fat of kine, and heaps 
 Of crisp dry leaves ; and fired the pile, and beat 
 A hollow shield, and called the Bacchic train. 
 Who brought their skins of wincj and loaded poles 
 That bent with mighty clusters of black grapes 
 Slung midway. In the blaze Orion threw 
 Choice gums and oils, that with explosion bright 
 Of broad and lucid flame alarmed the sky. 
 And fragrant spice, then set the Fauns to dance. 
 While whirled the timbrels, and the reed-pipes blew 
 A full-toned melody of mad delight. 
 Down came the Maenads from the sun-browned hills, 
 Down flocked the laughing Nymphs of groves and 
 brooks ; 
 
CANTO III.] ORION. 41 
 
 With whom came Opis, singing to a lyre, 
 
 And Sida, ivory-limbed and crowned with flowers. 
 
 High swelled the orgie ; and the roasting bulk 
 
 Of bull and deer was scarce distinguishable 
 
 'Mid the loud-crackling boughs that sprawled in flame 
 
 Now richest odours rose, and filled the air — 
 
 Made glittering with the cymbals spun on high 
 
 Through jets of nectar upward cast in sport, 
 
 And raging with songs and laughter and wild cries ! 
 
 In the first pause for breath and deeper draughts, 
 A Faun who on a quiet green knoll sat — 
 Somewhat apart — sang a melodious ode. 
 Made rich by harmonies of hidden strings, 
 Unto bright Merop^ the island's pride, 
 And daughter of the king ; whereto a quire 
 Gave chorus, and her loveliness rehearsing, 
 Wished that Orion shared with her the throne. 
 
 The wine ran wastefully, and o'er the ears 
 Of the tall jars that stood too near the fire. 
 Bubbled and leapt, and streamed in crimsoning foam. 
 
42 ORION. [book I. 
 
 Hot as the hissing sap of the green logs. 
 
 But none took heed of that, nor anything. 
 
 Thus song and feast, dance, and wild revelry. 
 
 Succeeded ; now in turn, now all at once 
 
 Mingling tempestuously. In a blind whirl 
 
 Around the fire Biastor dragged a rout 
 
 In osier bands and garlands ; Harpax fiercely 
 
 The violet scarfs and autumn-tinted robes 
 
 From Nymph and Maenad tore ; and by the hoofs 
 
 Hormetes seized a Satyr, with intent. 
 
 Despite his writhing freaks and furious face, 
 
 To dash him on a gong, but that amidst 
 
 The struggling mass Encolyon thrust a pine, 
 
 Heavy and black as Charon's ferrying pole, 
 
 O'er which they, like a bursting billow, fell. 
 
 At length, when night came folding round the 
 scene, 
 And golden lights grew red and terrible. 
 Flashed torch and spear, while reed-pipes deeper blew 
 Sonorous dirgings and melodious storm. 
 And timbrels groaned and jangled to the tones 
 
CANTO III.] ORION. 43 
 
 Of high-sustaining horns, — then round the blaze, 
 
 Their shadows brandishing afar and athwart 
 
 Over the level space and up the hills. 
 
 Six Giants held portentous dance, nor ceased 
 
 Till one by one in bare Bacchante arms. 
 
 Brim-full of nectar, helplessly they rolled 
 
 Deep down oblivion. Sleep absorbed their souls. 
 
 Region of Dreams ! ye seething procreant beds 
 For germs of life's solidities and power ; 
 Whether ye render up from other spheres 
 Our past or future beings to the ken 
 Of this brief state ; or, wiser, are designed. 
 With all your fleeting images confused, 
 To scatter, during half our mortal hours, 
 The concentrating passions and the thoughts 
 Which else were madness ; O maternal realm, 
 Console each troubled heart I — with opiate hand 
 Gently the senses charm, and lead astray 
 The vulture thoughts by thy blest phantasies. 
 Beckoning with vague yet irresistible smile t 
 
44 ORION. [book i. 
 
 Sleep's God the prayer well pleased received, but 
 said, 
 ' Not such the meed of those who seek my courts 
 Through Bacchanalian orgies.' O'er the brain 
 Of fallen Orion visions suitable 
 Came with voluptuous gorgeousness, preceded 
 By a dim ode ; and as it nearer swelled, 
 In rapturous beauty Merop6 swept by. 
 Who on him gazed in ecstasy ! He strove 
 To rise — to speak — in vain. Yet still she gazed, 
 And still he strove ; till a voice cried in his ear, 
 ' Depart from Artemis ! — she loves thee not — 
 Thou art too full of earth !' He started awake ! 
 The piercing voice that cast him forth, still rang 
 Within his soul ; the vision of delight 
 Still ached along each nerve ; and slowly turning 
 A look perplexed around the spectral air. 
 Himself he found alone 'neath the cold sky 
 Of day-break — midst black ashes and ruins drear. 
 
 END OF CANTO III. 
 
ORION. 
 
 BOOK II. 
 
BOOK II. 
 
 CANTO THE FIRST. 
 
 Beneath a tree, whose heaped-up burthen swayed 
 In the high wind, and made a hustling sound. 
 As of a distant host that scale a hill, 
 Hormetes and Encolyon gravely sat. 
 Sometimes they spake aloud, then murmured low, 
 Then paused as if perplexed, — looked round and 
 
 snuffed 
 The odour of wood-fires in the fresh forest air, — 
 And then again addressed them to their theme. 
 Of cloudy-brained Orion they discoursed, 
 Lost to companionship, and led by dreams. 
 
48 ORION. [book ii. 
 
 ' Once,' said Hormetes, ' he was great on earth ; 
 A worker in iron, and a hunter fleet 
 Who oft ran down the stag ; when, by some chance, 
 He pleaseth Artemis, and in her train. 
 All his high worth resigning, and his friends. 
 Dwindles to suit her fancy, and becomes 
 A giant of lost mind.' Encolyon thrust 
 His heavy heel into the soil, and spake 
 With serious gesture. ' Ever Orion sought 
 Some new device, some hateful onward deed 
 Through strange ways hurrying, scorning wise delay. 
 A victim fell he soon to Artemis 
 And her cold spells, for of his Ocean-sire 
 Orion's soul hath many a headlong tide. 
 But most of all her gleamy illusions fell 
 Upon his mind, which soon became a maze 
 For ghostly wanderings, and wild echoes heard 
 Through mists; and none could comprehend his 
 speech.' 
 
 ' Methought the orgie had recalled his sense. 
 So fairly he bespake us to the mirth ; 
 
CANTO I.] ORION. 49 
 
 So full and giant-like was his disport 
 Throughout the night,' Hormetes now rejoined. 
 Encolyon raised one hand : — ' That orgie's waste 
 Of energies,' he murmured, ' and the hours 
 Far better given to rest, I much deplore. 
 Why joined I in the mirth ? — how was I lost ! 
 But when a regulated mind sedate. 
 Its perfect poise permits to waver aside 
 One tittle, certainly the man must fall 
 Somewhat in dignity, howe'er retrieved. 
 
 Hence, when a regulated ' Here his speech 
 
 Hormetes interrupted hastily. 
 
 Since, for his share, no self-reproach felt he. 
 
 ' I say the orgie, and his high disport. 
 
 Showed in Orion some return to sense : 
 
 And when next morn I saw him near a brook. 
 
 Where I had stooped to drink — by him unseen — 
 
 Down ran he like a panther close pursued. 
 
 Then stopped and listened — now looked up on high — 
 
 Now stared into the brook as he would drink, 
 
 And drain its ripplings to the last white stone — 
 
 Then went away forgetful. This methought, 
 
 E 
 
50 ORION. [book II. 
 
 E'en by its wildness and its strenuous throes, 
 Savoured of hope, and of his safe return 
 To corporal sense, by shaking off these nets 
 Of moonbeams from his soul; but when I rose 
 And crossed his path, and bade him speak to me. 
 Again 't was all of vapour and dark thoughts. 
 Unlike the natural thoughts of bone and thews. 
 As we of yore were taught, and found enough 
 For all our needs, and for our songs and prayers. 
 Yet had he, as it seemed, some plan within, 
 And ever tended to some central point 
 In some place — nought more could I understand : 
 Wherefore I deem that he is surely mad.' 
 ' And so deem I,' rejoined Encolyon : 
 ' Ever advancing — working a new way — 
 Tasking his heart, forgetful of his life 
 And present good — of madness the sure sign.' 
 
 While thus they talked, Harpax with speed ap- 
 proached, 
 Shouting his tidings — ' Merop^ loves Orion — 
 Orion hath gone mad for Merop6 !' 
 
CANTO I.] . ORION. 51- 
 
 The twain who had erewhile the cause discerned, 
 
 And signs of reason's loss, at this fresh news. 
 
 So little dreamed of from his recent mood, 
 
 A minute looked each other in the face 
 
 With sheep-like gravity, then backward sank 
 
 Against the tree, loud laughing. ' This were good,' 
 
 Checking his laughter with a straight-lined face, 
 
 Encolyon said, ' if not too deeply burning. 
 
 And that a power he hold within himself 
 
 To pause at will.' But Harpax quick rejoined, 
 
 ' I, for myself, would have this Merop6, 
 
 And force Oinopion render up his crown. 
 
 If ye will aid me.' ' We will give our aid,' 
 
 Hormetes cried — 'and yet methinks this love 
 
 Affecting doubly, as by the self-same blow. 
 
 Might from some spells in the orgie-fumes arise .' 
 
 Ye marked, wise Akinetos would not move.' 
 
 ' Doubtless 't was wise,' Encolyon said. ' More care 
 
 Befits our steps.' They rose and strode away. 
 
 There is a voice that floats upon the breeze 
 From a heathed mountain ; voice of sad lament 
 
52 ORION. [book ii. 
 
 For love left desolate ere its fruits were known, 
 Yet by the memory of its own truth sweetened. 
 If not consoled. To this Orion listens 
 Now, while he stands within the mountain's shade. 
 
 ' The scarf of gold you sent to me, was bright 
 As any streak on cloud or sea, when morn 
 Or sunset light most lovely strives to be. 
 But that delicious hour can come no more, 
 When, on the wave-lulled shore, mutely we sat, 
 And felt love's power, which melted in fast dews 
 Our being and our fate, as doth a shower 
 Deep foot-marks left upon a sandy moor. 
 We thought not of our mountains and our streams, 
 Our birth-place, and the home of our life's date. 
 But only of our dreams — and heaven's blest face. 
 Never renew thy vision, passionate lover — 
 Heart-rifled maiden — nor the hope pursue, 
 If once it vanish from thee ; but believe 
 'T is better thou shouldst rue this sweet loss ever 
 Than newly grieve, or risk another chill 
 On false love's icy river, which betraying 
 
CANTO I.] ORION. S3 
 
 With mirrors bright to see, and voids beneath, 
 Its broken spell should find no faith in thee.' 
 
 Thus sang a gentle Oread, who had loved 
 A River-god with gold-reflecting streams. 
 But found him all too cold — while yet she stood 
 Scarce ankle-deep — and droopingly retired 
 To sing of fond hopes past. Orion's hand 
 A jewelled armlet held, whereon his eyes 
 Earnestly rested. By a lovely boy. 
 Smiling, 't was brought to him while he reclined 
 Desponding, o'er a rock. ' This gift, still warm. 
 My mistress sends thee, giant son of Ocean, 
 Once having seen thee in the hunting train 
 Of Artemis. Her name, if thou wouldst know. 
 Is Merop4 daughter of Chios' king, 
 The proud Oinopion, lord of a hundred ships.' 
 
 Orion to the palace of the king 
 Forthwith departed. Merop^ once seen. 
 His eyes resign their clear external power. 
 And see through feeling, utterly possessed 
 
54 ORION. [book ii. 
 
 With her rare image ; and his deep desire, 
 Deeper by energies so long confused, 
 When half his earth-born nature was subdued. 
 Struggled and bounded onward to the goal. 
 
 Her beauty awed the common race of men. 
 Her's was a shape made for a serpent dance. 
 Which charmed to stillness and to burning dreams. 
 But she herself the illusive charm o'erruled 
 As doth an element, merging for a time. 
 Ne'er lost ; and none could steadily confront 
 Her sphynx-like bosom, and high watchful head. 
 Dark were her eyes, and beautiful as Death's, 
 With a mysterious meaning, such as lurks 
 In that pale Ecstasy, the Queen of Shades. 
 All deemed her passion was a mortal flame, 
 Volcanic, corporal, ending with its hour 
 Of sacrifice, dissolving in fine air ; 
 Save one bald sage, who s&id that human nerves. 
 And what they wrought, were wondrous as the mind, 
 And in the eye of Zeus none could decide 
 Which held the higher place. For, to the nerves 
 
CANTO I.J ORIOk. 5S 
 
 Perfect abstraction and pure bliss belonged, 
 As parent of all life, and might in death 
 Continuance through some subtler medium find, — 
 Whence, life renewed, and heaven at length attained. 
 
 Nought of this sage's lore recked Merop6, 
 And, for Orion, he was sick of thought, 
 Save that which round his present object played 
 Delicious gambols and high phaatasies. 
 Together they, the groves and templed glades 
 That, like old Twilight's vague and gleamy abode. 
 In mist and maze clung round the palace towers. 
 Roved, mute with passion's inward eloquence. 
 They loitered near the founts that sprang elate 
 Into the dazzled air, or pouring rolled 
 A crystal torrent into oval shapes 
 Of blood-veined marble ; and oft gazed within 
 Profoundly tranquil and secluded pools. 
 Whose lovely depths of mirrored blackness clear — 
 Oblivion's lucid-surfaced mystery — 
 Their earnest faces and enraptured eyes 
 Visibly, and to each burning heart, revealed. 
 
S5 ORION. [book n. 
 
 ' And art thou mine to the last gushing drop 
 Of these high throbbing veins ?' each visage said. 
 Orion straightway sought Oinopion's court. 
 And his hfe's service to the gloomy king 
 He proffered for the hand of Merope. 
 
 Oinopion strode about his pillared hall. 
 And the dun chequers of its marble floor 
 Counted perplexed, while pondering his reply. 
 Orion's strength and giant friends he feared ; 
 Nor to accept the alliance, nor refuse. 
 Seemed wise. Thereto, Poseidon's empire rolled 
 Too near, and might surround his towers with waves ; 
 Wherefore the king a double face assumed. 
 ' Orion, I consent,' mildly he said : 
 ' Thy service I accept, and to thee give. 
 When thou shalt have performed it, Merop6. 
 Clear me our Chios of its savage beasts. 
 Dragon and hippogrif, wolves, serpents dire, 
 Within six days, and Meropd is thine.' 
 
 Through the high palace-gates Orion passed. 
 
CANTO I.] ORION. 57 
 
 Speeding to seek strong aid for this hard task 
 Among his forest friends. Old memories 
 Slumbrously hung above the purple line 
 Of distance, to the east, while odorously 
 Glistened the tear-drops of a new-fallen shower ; 
 And sunset forced its beams through strangling 
 
 boughs, 
 Gilding green shadows, till it blazed athwart 
 The giant-caves, and touched with watery fires 
 The heavy foot-marks which had plashed the sward 
 On vacant paths, through foliaged vistas steep, 
 Where gloom was mellowing to a grand repose. 
 At intervals, as from beneath the ground. 
 Far in the depth of these primeval cells. 
 Low respirations came. There, in great shade. 
 The Giants sleep. Lost sons are they of Time. 
 
 There is no hour when rest is sacred held 
 By him who works and builds ; and eve and night. 
 Alike with day, his toil oft-times will claim. 
 ' Awake, companions ! 'tis Orion calls !' 
 And straight the giants rose, and came to him. 
 
5 8 ORION. [book ii. 
 
 Save Akinetos, into whose low cave 
 
 They with a torch now entered, there to hold 
 
 The conference, for he was very wise, 
 
 And ne'er proposed, nor did a thing that failed. 
 
 Orion's tale is told ; Hormetes then 
 For Merop^ proposed fair lots to draw. 
 Whereat Orion glared, — but speech refrained 
 When Harpax fiercely on Hormetes turned 
 With loud reproach, since he had sworn to him 
 Far different purpose ; so Orion smiled. 
 And of Rhexergon and Biastor sought 
 Aid in his heavy task. They promised this — 
 When each one, by an arm, Encolyon 
 Grasped, and reminded of the darkness. ' Night 
 Is the fit time,' Orion cried, ' to dig 
 The pitfalls, throw up mounds with bristling stakes 
 At top, as barriers, and the nets and toils 
 Fix and prepare, and choose our clubs and 
 
 spears.' 
 But still Encolyon urged a day's delay, 
 For dignity of movements thus combined, 
 
CANTO I.] ORION. 59 
 
 If not for need. To Akinetos now 
 All turned with reverence, waiting the result 
 Of silent wisdom and of calm profound ; 
 But from these small things he had long with- 
 drawn 
 His godlike mind, and was again abstract. 
 
 Orion took the torch, and led the way 
 Into the dark damp air. Each to his post 
 Assigning ; one, for the chief mountain pass, 
 Soon as the grey dawn touched the highest peaks ; 
 One, in the plains below ; two, for the woods ; 
 The while Biastor and himself would range 
 The island, driving to the centre all 
 That should escape their spears. 'Twas thus 
 
 resolved. 
 Meantime, Rhexergon and Biastor joined 
 Orion, who went forth to dig the pits. 
 Break down high tops of trees, and weave their 
 
 boughs 
 In barrier walls, and fix sharp stakes on mounds 
 And river banks. When they were gone, a yell, 
 
6o ORION. \ [book II. 
 
 Mocking the wild beasts doomed to be destroyed, 
 Harpax sent forth. ' Mine be the task/ he said, 
 ' To ravage the King's pastures — slay his bulls — 
 And into our own woods and meadows drive 
 His goats and stags.' ' Rather collect alive,' 
 IJormetes interposed, 'with strong-meshed nets, 
 All the mad beasts, and loose them suddenly 
 Within Oinopion's palace ! That were sport 
 Worthy our toil ; small joy for us to aid 
 Orion's freaks for love of Meropd, — 
 Whom yet, methinks, he wisely hath preferred 
 To crystal-bosomed, wintry Artemis, — 
 Pale huntress, exiled from our sunny woods. 
 With crescent trembling bloody in eclipse. 
 
 Had my will power ' ' But all her nymphs 
 
 detained. 
 And, like our vines, of the ripe golden fruit 
 Deep rifled through their leaves,' Harpax rejoined : 
 ' Or placed,' Encolyon muttered to himself, 
 
 ' On pedestals, until they changed to stone,' 
 
 And something worse he said, not safe to tell ; — 
 ' All votive statues to the Goddess famed 
 
CANTO I.] ORION. 6 1 
 
 For cruel purity and marble heart ! — ' 
 Hofmetes shouted, staring up on high. 
 
 All this heard Artemis, who o'er the caves 
 Rolled her faint orb before the coming dawn, 
 In lonely sadness ; and with an inward cry 
 Of jealous anguish and of vengeful ire. 
 Like an electric spark that knows not space. 
 Shot from her throne into the eastern heaven. 
 
 END OF CANTO I. 
 
ORION. 
 
 CANTO THE SECOND. 
 
 The Sun-god's tresses o'er the whirling reins 
 That scarcely ruled the swift-ascending steeds, 
 Fell, like a golden torrent, while his head, 
 Answering his goddess sister's brief request, 
 Smiling, he bowed, — and the clouds closed behind 
 His blazing wheels. Four of those giants' sires 
 Were gods, who with their earth-born sons might hold 
 Communion ; wherefore Artemis, alone. 
 Deemed not her power sufficed for safe revenge ; 
 Of which now sure, her course to earth she bent. 
 
 The night-work done, his friends Orion left 
 
CANTO II.] ORION. 63 
 
 Their further preparations to complete, 
 And to the caves returned, hopeful that now 
 The others would assist. There sat the three. 
 Listening the slow speech of Encolyon, 
 Who with change-hating eyes, fixed on the earth, 
 Discoursed, and to Orion's anxious looks 
 Thus made reply: — ' We have resolved to give 
 Our utmost aid — or aid that may suffice, — 
 In furtherance of thy task, which many days 
 Rightly requires.' ' Six days,' Orion said, — 
 And turned to go ; when Harpax interposed : 
 ' Be it then six, but our conditions hear. 
 Take Merope, thy prize ; the rest be ours. 
 Oinopion's kingdom we shall duly share. 
 And make Encolyon king, as fitted best 
 For cares of state and governance of men.' 
 ' Not altogether King,' Encolyon said 
 With meekness — ' but, in sooth, I would return 
 Among mankind, and dictate to small towns.' 
 
 Orion answered, ' This were breach of faith 
 In me; the King and all his subjects, still 
 
64 ORION. [book ii. 
 
 Must as I found them rest, until he die ; 
 Then, as ye will, among ye take the crown, 
 Which, having Merop6, I ne'er shall claim. 
 Away now to our work !' Hormetes rose. 
 ' This we accept,' he said, ' for brief is life 
 Of man — and insecure. But further thought 
 Should prompt us rather choose Encolyon 
 As guiding minister and staid high priest. 
 While Akinetos rule as Chios' king.' 
 
 At mention of the name so reverenced, 
 Silently all assented. ' See, the light 
 Of day spreads warmly down the valley slopes ! ' 
 Orion cried. Now Phoibos through the cave 
 Sent a broad ray ! Harpax arose, and then, — 
 Pondering on rules for safest monarchy, — 
 Encolyon heavily. The solar beam 
 Filled the great cave with radiance equable, 
 And not a cranny held one speck of shade. 
 A moony halo round Orion came. 
 As of some pure protecting influence. 
 While with intense light glared the waUs and roof, 
 
CANTO II.] ORION. 6s 
 
 The heat increasing. The three giants, stood 
 With glazing eyes, fixed. Terribly the light 
 Beat on the dazzled stone, and the cave hummed 
 With reddening heat, till the red hair and beard 
 Of Harpax showed no difference from the rest, 
 Which once were iron-black. The sullen walls 
 Then smouldered down to steady oven-heat,. 
 Like that with care attained when bread h?is ceased 
 Its steaming, and displays an angry tan. 
 The appalled faces of the giants showed 
 Full consciousness of their immediate doom ! 
 And soon the cave a potter's furnace glowed. 
 Or kiln for largest bricks, and thus remained 
 The while Orion, in his halo clasped 
 By' some invisible power, beheld the clay. 
 Of these his early friends, change. Life was gone ! 
 
 Now sank the heat — the cave-walls lost their 
 glare — 
 The red lights faded, and the halo pale 
 Around him, into chilly air expanded. 
 There stood the three great images, in hue 
 
 F 
 
66 ORION. [book ii. 
 
 Of chalky white and red, like those strange shapes 
 In Egypt's regal tombs; — but presently 
 Each visage and each form with cracks and flaws 
 Was seamed, and the lost countenance brake up. 
 As, with brief toppling, forward prone they fell, — 
 And, in dismay, uttering a sudden cry, 
 Orion headlong from the cavern fled! 
 
 Fierce Harpax, and wind-steered Hormetes, reft 
 Of life thus early, may by few be wept ; 
 But long laments by the chief rulers made. 
 Of Chios, for the sage Encolyon, 
 Far echoed, and still echo through the world — 
 Which feels, e'en now, for his great principle 
 A secret reverence. ' Chainer of the wheel ! 
 Hater of all new things ! — to whom the acts 
 Of men seemed erring ever in each hope 
 And effort to advance, save in a round, 
 Taught by the high example of the spheres ! — 
 Oh champion grave, who with a boundary stone 
 Stood'st in improvement's door -way like a god. 
 Ready by wholesome chastisement to grant 
 
CANTO II. j ORION. 67 
 
 Crushing protection ; regulator old 
 Of science, scorning genius and its dreams, 
 And all the first ideas and germs of things, — 
 Time and his broods of children shall prolong 
 Thy fame, thy maxims, and thy practice staid. 
 Fraught with experience turning on itself.' 
 
 O'er the far rocks, midst gorge and glen profound ; 
 Now from close thickets, now from grassy plains ; 
 The sounds of raging contest, flight and death. 
 Told where Rhexergon and Biastor wrought 
 Their well-directed work. Them, quickly joined 
 Their head in this destruction, and ere night. 
 Huge forms, ferocious, mighty in the dawn. 
 When hoar rime glistened on each hairy shape. 
 Nought fearing, swift, brimfull of raging life, 
 Lay stiffening in black pools of jellied gore. 
 Nor with the day ceased their tremendous task. 
 But all night long Orion led the way 
 Through moonless passes to most secret lairs, 
 Where in their deep abodes fierce monsters crouched — 
 Dragons, and sea-beasts, and compounded forms, — 
 
68 OJi'/OM [book II. 
 
 And in the pitchy blackness madly huddlirig, 
 Midst deafenifi'g yells and hisses they were slaift. 
 
 Next day the unabated toil displayed 
 Like prowess and result ; but with the eve 
 Fatigue o'ercame the giants, and they slept. 
 Dense were the rolling clouds, starless the glooms, 
 But o'er a narrow rift, once drawn apart. 
 Showing a field remote of violet hue. 
 The high Moon floated, and her do\ynward gleam 
 Shone on the upturned giant faces. Rigid 
 Each upper feature, loose the nether jaw ; 
 Their arms cast wide with open palms ; their chests 
 Heaving like some large engine. Near them lay 
 Their bloody clubs with dust and hair begrimed. 
 Their spears and girdles, and the long-noosed thongs. 
 Artemis vanished ; all again was dark. 
 
 With day's first streak Orion rose, and loudly * 
 His prone companions called. But still they slept. 
 Again he shouted ; yet no limb they stirred, 
 Though scarcely seven strides distant. He approached. 
 
CANTO II.] OS-ION. 69 
 
 And found the spofj so sweet with clpvier-jlower 
 
 When they had cast them down, was aow arrayed 
 
 With many-headed poppies, like a ^crowd 
 
 Of dusky Ethiops ,in a piagic cirque, 
 
 Which had sprung up beneath tJjestn in the night, 
 
 And all entranced the air. .Orion paced 
 
 Around their Useless bodies 'thoughtfully. 
 
 ' Three giants slain outright by Plioibos' beams,- — 
 
 Now hath a dead sleep fallen on my friends. 
 
 'T was wise in Akinetos not to move.' 
 
 An earthquake would not wake them. Artemis 
 
 Rejoices, and the hopes of Merope, 
 
 To whom the inews .a breathless shepherd bore. 
 
 Throbbed fearfully suspended o'er the brink 
 
 Of this e,yent. Not long Orion .paused : 
 
 ' Though all may fail, the utmost shall be tried : 
 
 Secure is he who on himself relies.' 
 
 This, hastening to his work, was all he said. 
 
 Four days remain. Fresh trees he felled, and 
 wove 
 More barriers and fences ; inaccessible 
 
70 ORION. [book II. 
 
 To fiercest charge of droves, and to o'erleap 
 
 Impossible. These walls he so arranged, 
 
 That to a common centre each should force 
 
 The flight of those pursued ; and from that centre 
 
 Diverged three outlets. One, the wide expanse, 
 
 Which from the rocks and inland forests led ; 
 
 One, was the clear-skied windy gap above 
 
 A precipice ; the third, a long ravine. 
 
 Which, through steep slopes, down to the sea-shore 
 
 ran 
 Winding, and then direct into the sea. 
 
 Two days remain. Orion, in each hand '• 
 Waving a torch, his course at night began, 
 Through wildest haunts and lairs of savage beasts. 
 With long-drawn howl before him trooped the wolves — 
 The panthers, terror-stricken — and the bears. 
 With wonder and gruff rage ; from desolate crags. 
 Leering hyaenas, griffin, hippogrif. 
 Skulked, or sprang madly, as the tossing brands 
 Flashed through the midnight hollows and cold nooks. 
 Sudden as fire from flint ; o'er crashing thickets, 
 
CANTO II. J ORION. 71 
 
 With crouched head and curled fangs, dashed the 
 
 wild boar, 
 Gnashing forth on with reckless impulses, 
 While the clear-purposed fox crept closely down 
 Into the underwood, to let the storm, 
 Whate'er its cause, pass over. Through dark fens, 
 Marshes, green rushy swamps, and margins reedy, 
 Orion held his way, — and rolling shapes 
 Of serpent and of dragon moved before him 
 With high-reared crests, swan-like yet terrible, 
 And often looking back with gem-like eyes. 
 All night Orion urged his rapid course 
 In the vexed rear of the swift-drpving din. 
 And when the dawn had peered, the monsters all 
 Were hemmed in barriers. These he now o'erheaped 
 With fuel through the day, and when again 
 Night darkened, and the sea a gulf-like voice 
 Sent forth, the barriers at all points he fired. 
 Midst prayers to Hephaistos and his Ocean-sire. 
 
 Soon as the flames had eaten out a gap 
 In the great barrier fronting the ravine 
 
73 ORION. [book II. 
 
 That ran down to the sea, Orion grasped 
 Two blazing boughs ; one high in air he raised, 
 The other with its roaring foHage trailed 
 Behind him as he sped. Onward the droves 
 Of frantic creatures with one impulse rolled 
 Before this night-devouring thing of flames, 
 With multitudinous voice and downward sweep 
 Into the sea, which now first knew a tide. 
 And, ere they made one effort to regain 
 The shore, had caught them in its flowing arms, 
 And bore them past all hope. The living mass. 
 Dark heaving o'er the waves resistlessly. 
 At length, in distance, seemed a circle small. 
 Midst which, one creature in the centre rose, 
 Conspicuous in the long red quivering gleams 
 That from the dying brands streamed o'er the waves. 
 It was the oldest dragon of the fens, 
 Whose forky flag-wings and horn-crested head 
 O'er crags and marshes regal sway had held ; 
 And now he rose up, like an embodied curse 
 From all the doomed, fast sinking — some just 
 sunk — 
 
CANTO ii.J ORION. 73 
 
 Looked land-ward o'er the sea, and flapped his vans, 
 Until Poseidon drew them swirling down. 
 
 Along the courts and lofty terraces. 
 Within Oinopion's palace echoing. 
 The choral voices and triumphal dang 
 Of music, ordered by the royal maid, 
 Advanced to greet Orion. She with flushed neck 
 And arms ; large eyes of flashing jet and fire. 
 And raven tresses fallen from their bands, 
 The loud procession led. But soon ithey met 
 A phalanx armed with mandate from the Jcing, 
 And all the triumph ceased. Oinopion then 
 Gnawed on his lip, and gathered up his robe 
 In one large knot Forthwith the whispering guards 
 His daughter to the strongest tower convey ; 
 Then silently return. Orion comes : 
 ' The work is done, O King J and Merope, 
 My bride, I claim — my. second father thou,!' 
 This said, he bent his knee. With wandering eye, — 
 Like one who seems to seek within the air 
 An object, while his thoughts would gather time 
 
74 ORION. [book II. 
 
 For guile — and with averted face, the king 
 
 Answered, ' Thou claim'st too soon !' and inwardly 
 
 Oinopion said, ' Three of his giant friends 
 
 Are dead ; the others spell-bound sleep.' The voice 
 
 Of wronged Orion rose within the hall, 
 
 Demanding Merop6 ; but image-like, 
 
 Hard as if hewn out from a flinty cliff, 
 
 And stately, stood the king, as he replied, 
 
 ' She waits the voice of our mute oracles.' 
 
 In a deep forest, where the night-black spires 
 Of pines begin to swing, and breathe a dirge 
 Whose pauses are filled up with yearning tones 
 Of oaks, that few external throes display 
 Midst their robust unyielding boughs — the winds 
 Are flying now in gusts, and soon a storm 
 Bursts howling through them, like a Fury sent 
 In quest of one who hath outstripped his fate, 
 And been caught up to heaven. But no escape 
 Or premature release his course attends 
 Whose passions boil above mortality ; 
 Nor till those mortal struggles have transpired 
 
CANTO II.] ORION. 75 
 
 Can satisfaction or repose be found. 
 Vainly shall he, with self-deluding pride 
 Of weakness, masked with power, seek solitude 
 And high remoteness from his fellow-men, 
 In all their bitter littleness and strife ; 
 Their noble efforts, suffering, martyrdom. 
 He conquers not who flies, except he bear 
 Conquest within ; nor flies he who believes 
 The object of his passion he can grasp, 
 Save for design to consummate the end. 
 
 ' O raging forest, do I seek once more 
 Your solitude for my secure abode .'' 
 Orion cried, with wild arms cast abroad. 
 Fronting a tree whose branches lashed the air. 
 While its leaves showered around ; — 'And shall I not 
 In your direct communion with the earth 
 And heavens, find sympathy with this branched frame 
 I bear, thus shaken ; yet unlike your storm. 
 Which may be wholesome, coming from without, 
 And from the operative round of things. 
 While mine is centred in myself, and rends 
 
76 ORION. [book ii. 
 
 But does not remedy. Let me then shun 
 
 The baleful haunts of men — worse than the beasts 
 
 Whom I have exiled, and to shadows changed — 
 
 Savage as beasts, with less of open force ; 
 
 As wily, with less .skill and promptitude ; 
 
 As little reasonings save for selfish .ends ; 
 
 Less faithful, true, and honest, than the dog ; 
 
 But hypocritical, which beasts are not, 
 
 Save in the fables which men make for them ! 
 
 Into myself will I henceforth retire, 
 
 And find the world I dreamed of when a child. 
 
 Nor this alone ; but worlds of higher mould 
 
 And loftier attributes shall roll before 
 
 My constant coiitemplation, in the cave 
 
 Of Akinetos, whom at times I'll seek, 
 
 And emulate Jiis wisdom ; ever right 
 
 In never moving, more than absolute need. 
 
 Thus shall I find my solace in disdain 
 
 Of earth's inhabitants, whom through city and field 
 
 I've found sheer clay, save in the visions bright 
 
 Of Goddess, and of Nymph,-— O Merop^ ! 
 
 And where art thou, while idly thus I rave ? 
 
CANTO II.] ^JHONl 77 
 
 Runs there no iiope^— no fever throtigh tliy veirts. 
 
 Like that which leaps and courses round my heart ? 
 
 Shall I resign thee, passion-perfect maid, 
 
 Who in mortality's most finished work 
 
 Rank'st highest —and loy'st me, even as' I love ? 
 
 Rather possess thee with a tenfold stress 
 
 Of love ungovernable, being denied f 
 
 'Gainst fraud what should I cast down in reply ? — - 
 
 What but a sword, since force must do me right. 
 
 And strength was given unto me with my birth. 
 
 In mine own hand, and by ascendancy 
 
 Over my giant brethren. Two remain. 
 
 Whom prayers to dark Hephaistos and my sire 
 
 Poseidon, shall awaken into life ; 
 
 And we will tear up gates, and scatter towers. 
 
 Until I bear off Merope. Sing on ! 
 
 Sing on, great tempest ! in the darkness sing ! 
 
 Thy madness is a music that brings calm 
 
 Into my central soul ; and from its waves 
 
 That now with joy begin to heave and gush, 
 
 The burning Image of all life's desire. 
 
 Like an absorbing fire-breath'd phantom-god, 
 
78 ORION, [book ii. 
 
 Rises and floats ! — here touching on the foam, 
 There hovering over it ; ascending swift 
 Starward, then swooping down the hemisphere 
 Upon the lengthening javelins of the blast ! 
 Why paused I in the palace-groves to dream 
 Of bliss, with all its substance in my reach ? 
 Why not at once, with thee enfolded, whirl 
 Deep down the abyss of ecstasy, to melt 
 All brain and being where no reason is, 
 Or else the source of reason ? But the roar 
 Of Time's great wings, which ne'er had driven me 
 By dread events, nor broken-down old age. 
 Back on myself, the close experience 
 Of false mankind, with whispers cold and dry 
 As snake-songs midst stone hollows, thus has 
 
 taught me, — 
 The giant hunter, laughed at by the world, 
 Not to forget the substance in the dream 
 Which breeds it. Both must melt and merge in one. 
 Now shall I overcome thee, body and soul. 
 And like a new-made element brood o'er thee 
 With all devouring murmurs ! Come, my love ! 
 
CANTO II.] ORION. 79 
 
 Come, life's blood-tempest ! — come, thou blinding 
 
 storm, 
 And clasp the rigid pine — this mortal frame 
 Wrap with thy whirlwinds, rend and wrestle down, 
 And let my being solve its destiny, 
 Defying, seeking, thine extremest power, — 
 Famished and thirsty for the absorbing doom 
 Of that immortal death which leads to life. 
 And gives a glimpse of Heaven's parental scheme.' 
 
 END OF CANTO II. 
 
ORION. 
 
 CANTO THE THIRD. 
 
 In parching summer, when the mulberry-leaves 
 Drooped broad and gleaming, and the myrtles curled, 
 While the pomegranate's rind grew thin and hard. 
 The vegetation of the isle looked pale. 
 Flaccid, and fading in despondency 
 For rain, and the young corn in every field. 
 With dry and rustling murmur as it waved. 
 Glistened impatiently, till autumn's tomb 
 Received the husky voice, and spring's dead hopes. 
 The vine-hills, and wild turpentines that grew 
 Along the road beneath, all basked content, 
 As did the lentisk-trees ; but many a pant 
 
CANTO III.] ORION. 8 1 
 
 And sultry sigh came from the fields and meads, 
 The city's gardens, where no fountains played, 
 And hot stone temples in the sacred groves. 
 Such lack of moisture oft had been endured, 
 And even the latest winter, whose thick breath 
 Solemnly wafted o'er the .^gean sea. 
 Had not resigned a single peak of snow 
 To melt and flow down for the brooks of spring. 
 
 But since the breath of spring had stirred the 
 woods. 
 Through which the joyous tidings busily ran, 
 And oval buds of delicate pink and green 
 Broke, infant-like, through bark of sapling boughs, — 
 The vapours from the ocean had ascended. 
 Fume after fume, wreath upon wreath, and floor 
 On floor, till a grey curtain upward spread 
 From sea to sky, and both as one appeared. 
 Now came the snorting and intolerant steeds 
 Of the Sun's chariot tow'rds the summer signs ; 
 At first obscurely, then with dazzling beams ; 
 And cleared the heavens, but held the vapours there, 
 
 G 
 
82 ORION. [book n. 
 
 In cloudy architecture of all hues. 
 
 The stately fabrics and the Eastern pomps, 
 
 Tents, tombs, processions veiled, and temples vast. 
 
 Remained not long in their august repose. 
 
 But sank to ruins, and re-formed in likeness 
 
 Of monstrous beasts in lands and seas unknown. 
 
 These gradually dilating, limb from limb, 
 
 And head from bulk, were drawn apart, and floated 
 
 Hither and thither, till in ridges strewn. 
 
 Like to a rich and newly-furrowed field — 
 
 Then breaking into purple isles and spots, 
 
 Faded to faintness, and dissolved in air. 
 
 One midnight dark a spirit electric came. 
 And shot an invisible arrow through the sky, 
 Which instantly the wide-spread moisture called 
 To congregate in heavy drops, that fell 
 As suddenly. Like armies, host on host. 
 Pouring upon the mountains, vales, and plains, 
 The showers clashed down. Each runnel and thin 
 
 stream 
 A branching brook became, or flowing river ; 
 
CANTO in.] ORTON. 83 
 
 Each once small river rolled a goodly flood 
 With laughing falls ; and many a Naiad bright. 
 And rush-crowned River-god, was newly born, 
 While all the land- veins with fresh spirit. ran 
 In this quick season of Orion's life. 
 
 The snows on every height had drunk the showers. 
 Till, heavy with the moisture, each steep ridge 
 Lost its pure whiteness and transparent frost ; 
 Sank down as humbly as a maid once proud, 
 Who droops, and kneels, and weeps ; and from 
 
 beneath 
 Its stagnant foam melted quick-running rills, 
 Down slopes, with sunny music and loud hum, 
 Precipitous, ere through dark craggy rifts 
 Sparkling it dashed, and poured towards the plain. 
 Unusual growth of corn was in the land. 
 Whose fields with tender-flowing greenness Smiled, 
 As winds with shades ran dances over them ; 
 And even the vineyards, oliveyards, and groves 
 Of citron, were in their abundant fruits 
 Abundantly increased : all works increased. 
 
84 ORION. [book ii. 
 
 Dark as an eagle on a cloudy rock, 
 Oinopion sat upon his ancient throne. 
 ' Fixed was his face, while, through a distant gate, 
 Upon the ruins of a tower he gazed. 
 That like a Titan's shattered skeleton 
 Still in its place stuck fast. But she was gone. 
 His daughter Merop6 was borne away; 
 And willingly he knew ; and whither fled. 
 He knew. But how recover, or revenge 
 The loss .■" — new dangers, outrage, how avert .' 
 . Infuriate were his people at the deed. 
 For by the giants many had been slain. 
 Ere they had won their prize. 'Gainst Merop4 
 Some spake aloud ; against Orion, all, — 
 Save the bald sage, who said ' 'T was natural.' 
 ' Natural !' they cried : ' O wretch !' The sage was 
 stoned. 
 
 Within his cave, in his accustomed place, 
 With passive dignity that ever holds 
 Unwise activity in check and awe — 
 And active wisdom where the will 's not strong — 
 
CANTO III.] ORION. 8s 
 
 Sat Akinetos, listening to the tale 
 Thus by Rhexergon told ; Biastor leaning 
 Against a rock, with folded arms, the while. 
 
 ' We from our trance with aching brows awoke 
 Starting, and on our elbows raised, with chins 
 Set in our hands, collected our mazed minds. 
 We both had dreamed one dream. In Chios' walls 
 A feast we held in honour of the king, 
 Encolyon, newly chosen — as we thought — 
 By the chief rulers, while Orion stood 
 Chained to the throne. But Merop6, 'twas said. 
 Should still be his, if loyal, hand and soul. 
 Yet ere Orion answered, rushing came 
 A small dark shape — some airy messenger — 
 Darting on all sides, diving, nestling, leaping. 
 Swift as a mullet coursing the sea-hare, 
 And strong, as when within the shore-hauled net 
 It searches, like a keen hound, to and fro. 
 And no gap finding, bounds o'er the high-drawn line : 
 One leaps — all follow like a flock of sheep 
 Over a wattle. So, this headlong shape. 
 
86 ORION. [book ii. 
 
 Which, in our dream, now multiplied to shoals, 
 
 And thus confused the feasters. But what 't was 
 
 None saw, nor knew ; but all the feast they marred, 
 
 While, in the place of meats and frujts, we found 
 
 Dust — dry-baked dustj the dust of the gone king, 
 
 Encolyon — as a bird in the air screamed forth — 
 
 By Phoibos smitten. Now a sound we heard. 
 
 Like to some well-known voice in prayer ; and next 
 
 An iron clang that seemed to break great bonds 
 
 Beneath the earth, shook us to conscious life. 
 
 A briny current passing through our hearts 
 
 Stung all our faculties back to former power ; 
 
 And as we rose, across a distant field 
 
 We saw Orion coming with a sword. 
 
 Our dream thus ended in reality, 
 
 Without a boundary line. What followed seemed 
 
 Continuous, for Orion urged us on. 
 
 Fresh work had he in hand ; few words explained ; 
 
 And to Oinopion's city we repaired, 
 
 Entering at eve of a great festival, 
 
 I with a club, iron bound, of ponderous weight ; 
 
 Biastor with a shield, forged by Orion, 
 
CANTO III.] ORION: 87 
 
 Whose disk enormous would protect all three, 
 
 And, set with ray-like spikes around the rim, 
 
 Looked like a fallen star. Onward we drove 
 
 Behind this threatening orb, down-trampling all 
 
 Who fled not, or our impulse strove to oppose ; 
 
 Feasters and dancers, chieftainSj priests, and guards ; 
 
 I tell it as it happened — blow by blow— 
 
 Till near a high tower, doubtful of our course. 
 
 At bay, like bulls, within a circle clear 
 
 By terror made, we paused. The archers soon, 
 
 With bow-arm forward thrust, on all sides twanged. 
 
 Around, below, above. Behind the shield. 
 
 That on its spikes stood grimly, we retired, 
 
 And heard the rattling storm ; when from the tower 
 
 A light flashed down one side, and at the top 
 
 Stood Merope, who cried, " Orion, see ! 
 
 My prison I have fired, and in my haste 
 
 Fired first below. I cannot pass the flames !" 
 
 E'en while she spake a hydra-wreath of smoke 
 
 Ran coiling up the stony stair, and peered 
 
 Into each chamber with its widening head. 
 
 As if to seek its prey. Again she cried, — 
 
88 ORION. [book ii. 
 
 " I will leap down into thine arms !" " Forbear !" 
 Shouted Orion. " First let us try our strength 
 With skill." I on the groaning gate-posts smote, 
 Until their bolts and nails started like tusks 
 From battered jaws, and inward sank the gates, 
 Crushing armed men behind. O'er all we passed. 
 Orion, now in front, amidst a cloud 
 Of smoke, dust, slaughter, and confusing cries, 
 The blackened slabs of winding stair ascended ; 
 And, in the same fierce uproar and dismay 
 Of men, not fit to cope with sons of Gods, 
 Unscathed came down with Merop^. 'T was good. 
 He bore her to the cedar-grove afar, 
 Where in brief space a palace he had built. 
 While we, remaining midway, called a rout 
 Around us, and great revel held that night.' 
 
 Rhexergon ceased, while in the sunny air 
 His large eyes shone, and, pleased with what he told— 
 For well he spake with deep-voiced cadences — . 
 Looked like a monarch who hath made a verse. 
 Now Akinetos spake. ' Your efforts done. 
 
CANTO III.] ORION, 89 
 
 What good to ye is wrought ? To him, what good ? 
 
 Not long will Merope be his : if long. 
 
 What good, since both must tire ? Oinopion soon, 
 
 The king of ships and armies, may reclaim 
 
 This Merop^ by force : perchance her own 
 
 Inconstant will may save these ships and men.' 
 
 ' If we defend the prize,' Biastor said, 
 
 ' Substantial good unto ourselves were due ; 
 
 Wise are thy words ; wherefore large terms of spoil 
 
 We with Orion will in future make, 
 
 That shall secure our constant revelry. 
 
 As in Dodona, once, ere driven thence 
 
 By Zeus, for that Rhexergon burnt some oaks. 
 
 Thrust we the king from off his throne, or thrust 
 
 His throne from under him to some fresh place, 
 
 And with our daily fancies we'll sit crowned, 
 
 And feast, and order armies to march forth, 
 
 And ships to sail, and music, and more feast.' 
 
 ' Better pull down the city, and destroy 
 The fleet,' Rhexergon said. ' Then, all despoiled, 
 And made as slaves, leave we our woodland homes : 
 
90 ORION. [book n. 
 
 There live, with Akinetos for our king ! 
 
 Aught we destroy Orion can rebuild. 
 
 If we should need ; or frame aught else we need : 
 
 Rise, therefore, Akinetos ; thou art king !' 
 
 So saying, in his hand he placed a spear. 
 
 As though against a wall 't were set aslant, 
 Flatly the long spear fell upon the ground. 
 ' He will not be a king ; nor will he aid 
 Your purposes,' murmured the Great Unmoved. 
 ' Hormetes, Harpax, aided, and both died ; 
 Orion's work will shortly work his end ; 
 Encolyon, ever meddling to prevent, 
 Wasted his mind and care, and found his death. 
 Those who have wisdom aid not, nor prevent. 
 Nought good has followed aught that ye have done, 
 Nor will good follow aught that ye can do, 
 Or I can do, — or any one can do, — 
 Except such good as of itself will come. 
 If so 't was ordered. Leave Zeus to his work, 
 The Supreme Mover of all things, and best, 
 Who, if we move not, must Himself sustain 
 
CANTO III.] ORION. 91 
 
 His scheme : hence, never moved by hands unskilled, 
 But moved as best may be. Be warned ; sit still.' 
 
 Within the isle, far from the walks of men, 
 Where jocund chase was never heard, nor hoof 
 Of Satyr broke the moss, nor any bird 
 Sang, save at times the nightingale — but only 
 In his prolonged and swelling tones, nor e'er 
 With wild joy and hoarse laughing melody. 
 Closing the ecstasy, as is his wont,-^ 
 A forest, separate and far withdrawn 
 From all the rest, there grew. Old as the earth, 
 Of cedar was it, lofty in its glooms 
 When the sun hung o'erhead, and, in its darkness. 
 Like Night when giving birth to Time's first pulse. 
 Silence had ever dwelt there ; but of late 
 Came faint sounds, with a cadence droning low. 
 From the far depths, as of a cataract 
 Whose echoes midst incumbent foliage died. 
 From one high mountain gushed a flowing stream. 
 Which through the forest passed, and found a fall 
 Within, none knew where, then rolled tow'rds the sea. 
 
92 ORION. [book II. 
 
 There, underneath the boughs, mark where the 
 gleam 
 Of sunrise through the roofing's chasm is thrown 
 Upon a grassy plot below, whereon 
 The shadow of a stag stoops to the stream 
 Swift rolling tow'rds the cataract, and drinks deeply. 
 Throughout the day unceasingly it drinks, 
 While ever and anon the nightingale. 
 Not waiting for the evening, swells his hymn — 
 His one sustained and heaven-aspiring tone — 
 And when the sun hath vanished utterly, 
 Arm over arm the cedars spread their shade. 
 With arching wrist and long extended hands. 
 And graveward fingers lengthening in the moon, 
 Above that shadowy stag whose antlers still 
 Hang o'er the stream. Now came a rich-toned voice 
 Out of the forest depths, and sang this lay. 
 With deep speech intervalled and tender pause. 
 
 ' If we have lost the world what gain is ours ! 
 Hast thou not built a palace of more grace 
 Than marble towers .' These trunks are pillars rare, 
 
CANTO III.] , ORION. 93 
 
 Whose roof embowers with far more grandeur. Say ; 
 
 Hast thou not found a bliss with Merop6, 
 
 As- full of rapture as existence new ? 
 
 'Tis thus with me. I know that thou art blest. 
 
 Our inmost powers, fresh winged, shall soar and dream 
 
 In realms of Elysian gleam, whose air — light — 
 
 flowers. 
 Will ever be, though vague, most fair — most sweet — 
 
 Better than memory. Look yonder, love ! 
 
 What solemn image through the trunks is straying .-• 
 
 And now he doth not move, yet never turns 
 
 On us his visage of rapt vacancy ! 
 
 It is Oblivion. In his hand — though nought 
 
 Knows he of this — a dusky purple flower 
 
 Droops over its tall stem. Again, ah see ! 
 
 He wanders into mist, and now is lost. 
 
 Within his brain what lovely realms of death 
 
 Are pictured, and what knowledge through the doors 
 
 Of his forgetfulness of all the earth 
 
 A path may gain t Then turn thee, love, to me : 
 
 Was I not worth thy winning, and thy toil, 
 
 O earth-born son of Ocean .' Melt to rain.' 
 
94 ORION. [book ii. 
 
 No foot may enter midst these cedar glooms : 
 Passion is there — a spell is on the place — 
 It hath its own protecting atmosphere, 
 Needing no walls nor bars. But Chios' king 
 Hath framed his purpose ; the sworn instruments 
 Chosen ; and from the palace now depart 
 In brazen chariots, richly armed, ten chiefs. 
 ' Watch well your moment !' — lastly spake the King; 
 ' Slay not outright — but make his future life 
 A blot — a blank !' They bent their plumed helms, 
 And through the gates in thunder whirled away. 
 
 Beyond the cedar forest lay the cliffs 
 That overhung the beach, but midway swept 
 Fair swelling lands, some green with brightest grass, 
 Some golden in the sun. Mute was the scene. 
 And moveless. Not a breeze came o'er the edge 
 Of the high-heaving fields and fallow lands ; 
 Only the zephyrs at long intervals 
 Drew a deep sigh, as of some blissful thought. 
 Then swooned to silence. Not a bird was seen 
 Nor heard : all marble gleamed the steadfast sky. 
 
CANTO III.] ORION. 95 
 
 Hither Orion slowly walked a4one, 
 
 And passing round between two swelling slopes 
 
 Of green and golden light, beheld afar 
 
 The broad grey horizontal wall o' the dead-calm sea. 
 
 O'ersteeped in bliss ; prone on its ebbing tide ; 
 With hope's completeness vaguely sorrowful. 
 And sense of life-bounds too enlarged ; his thoughts 
 Sank faintly through each other, fused and lost, 
 Till his o'ersatisfied existence drooped ; 
 Like fruit-boughs heavily laden above a stream, 
 In which they gaze so closely on themselves. 
 That, touching, they grow drowsy, and submerge, 
 Losing all vision. Sense of thankful prayers 
 Came over him, while downward to the shore 
 Slowly his steps he bent, seeking to hold 
 Communion with his sire. The eternal Sea 
 Before him passively at full length lay. 
 As in a dream of the uranian Heavens. 
 With hands stretched forward he began his prayer ; 
 
 ' Receive, Poseidon ! ' but no further words 
 
 Found utterance. And again he prayed, and said, 
 
96 ORION. [book ii. 
 
 ' Receive, O Sire !' yet still the emotion rose 
 
 Too full for words, and with no meaning clear. 
 He turned, and sinking on a sandy mound, 
 With dim look o'er the sea, deeply he slept. 
 
 What altars burn afar — what smoke arises 
 Beyond the swelling lands above the cliffs .■' 
 Or is it but a rolling cloud of dust 
 That onward moves, driven by the wind .-' And now 
 A rumbling sound is gathering in the breeze, 
 And nearer swells — now dies away — like wheels 
 That pass from stony ground to grassy plains. 
 Again ! — it rings and jars — and passing swift 
 Along the cliffs, till lost in a ravine, 
 Five brazen chariots fling the sunset rays 
 Angrily back upon the startled air! 
 In one, the last, struggles a lovely form. 
 Half pinioned by a chieftain's broidered scarf, 
 Her wild black tresses coiling round an arm 
 Which still she raises, striving to make a sign. 
 All disappeared. No voice, no sound, was heard. 
 The moon arose, and still Orion slept, — 
 
CANTO III.J ORION. 97 
 
 The profound sleep of life's satiety, 
 
 In him whose senses else had quick regained 
 
 The sure protection of his healthy powers. 
 
 Forth from a dark chasm issue figures armed. 
 Close conference they hold, like ravens met 
 For ominous talk of death. No more : their shields, 
 Plumed helms, and swords, two chieftains lay aside, 
 Then stoop, and softly creep tow'rds him who 
 
 sleeps ; 
 While o'er their heads the long protecting spears 
 Are held by seven, who noiselessly and slow 
 Follow their stealthy progress. Step by step 
 The deadly crescent moves behind the twain. 
 Who, flat as reptiles, and with face thrust out. 
 Breathless, all senses sharpen. Now! — 'tis done!. 
 The poison falls upon the dreamer's lids. 
 
 Away, aghast at their own evil deed. 
 As though some dark curse on themselves had fallen. 
 Flashed the mailed moon-lit miscreants into shade. 
 Like fish at sudden dropping of a stone ! 
 
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98 ORION. [book ii. 
 
 The Moon now hid her face. The sea-shore lay 
 In hollowness beneath the rising stars, 
 And blind Orion, starting at once erect 
 Amid his darkness, with extended arms, 
 And open mouth that uttered not a word, 
 Stood statue-like, and heard the Ocean moan. 
 
 END OF BOOK II. 
 
ORION. 
 
 BOOK III. 
 
BOOK III. 
 
 CANTO THE FIRST. 
 
 There is an age of action in the world; 
 An age of thought; lastly, an age of both, 
 When thought guides action and men know them- 
 selves. 
 What they would have, and how to compass it. 
 Yet are not these great periods so distinct 
 Each from the other, — or from all the rest 
 Of intermediate degrees and powers. 
 Cut off, — but that strong links of nature run 
 Throughout, and prove one central heart, wherein 
 Time beats twin-pulses with Humanity. 
 In every age an emblem and a type, 
 
102 ORION. [book III. 
 
 Premature, single, ending with itself. 
 
 Of loftier being in an after-time. 
 
 May germinate, develope, radiate. 
 
 And, like a star go out, and leave no mark 
 
 Save a high memory. One such is our theme. 
 
 The wisdom of mankind creeps slowly on, 
 Subject to every doubt that can retard, 
 Or fling it back upon an earlier time ; 
 So timid are man's footsteps in the dark, 
 But blindest those who have no inward light. 
 One mind, perchance, in every age contains 
 The sum of all before, and much to come ; 
 Much that's far distant still ; but that full mind. 
 Companioned oft by others of like scope. 
 Belief, and tendency, and anxious will, 
 A circle small transpierces and illumes : 
 Expanding, soon its subtle radiance 
 Falls blunted from the mass of flesh and bone. 
 The man who for his race might supersede 
 The work of ages, dies worn out — not used. 
 And in his track disciples onward strive, 
 
CANTO I.J ORION. 103 
 
 Some hairs'-breadths only from his starting-point : 
 
 Yet lives he not in vain ; for if his soul 
 
 Hath entered others, though imperfectly, 
 
 The circle widens as the world spins round, — 
 
 His soul works on while he sleeps 'neath the grass. 
 
 So, let the firm Philosopher renew 
 
 His wasted lamp — the lamp wastes not in vain. 
 
 Though he no mirrors for its rays may see. 
 
 Nor trace them through the darkness ; — let the Hand 
 
 Which feels primeval impulses, direct 
 
 A forthright plough, and make his furrow broad. 
 
 With heart untiring while one field remains ; 
 
 So, let the herald Poet shed his thoughts, 
 
 Like seeds that seem but lost upon the wind. 
 
 Work in the night, thou sage, while Mammon's 
 
 brain 
 Teems with low visions on his couch of down ; — 
 Break, thou, the clods while high-throned Vanity, 
 Midst glaring lights and trumpets, holds its court ; — 
 Sing, thou, thy song amidst the stoning crowd. 
 Then stand apart, obscure to man, with God. 
 The poet of the future knows his place, 
 
104 ORION. [book m. 
 
 Though in the present shady be his seat, 
 And all his laurels deepening but the shade. 
 
 But what is yonder vague and uncouth shape, 
 That like a burthened giant bending moves, 
 With outspread arms groping its upward way 
 Along a misty hill ? In the blear shades, 
 Sad twilight, and thick dews darkening the paths 
 Whereon the slow dawn hath not yet advanced 
 A chilly foot, nor tinged the colourless air — 
 The labouring figure fades as it ascends. 
 
 'T was he, the giant builder-up of things. 
 And of himself, now blind ; the worker great. 
 Who sees no more the substance near his hands, 
 Nor in them, nor the objects that his mind 
 Desires and would embody. All is dark. 
 It is Orion now bereft of sight. 
 Whose eyes aspired to luminous designs. 
 The siin and moon and stars are blotted out. 
 With their familiar glories, which become 
 Henceforth like chronicles remote. The earth 
 
CANTO I.] ORION. 105 
 
 Forbids him to cleave deep and trace her roots, 
 And veins, and quarries : Whose wide purposes 
 Are narrowed now into the safest path : 
 Whose lofty visions are ail packed in his brain, 
 As though the heavens no further could unfold 
 Their wonders, but turned inward on themselves ; 
 Like a bright flower that closes in the night 
 For the last time, and dreams of by-gone suns 
 Ne'er to be clasped again : Thou art reduced 
 To ask for sympathy and to need help ; 
 Stooping to pluck up pity from all soils — 
 Bitterest of roots that round Pride's temple grow — 
 Losing self-centred power, and in its place 
 Pressed with humiliation almost down : 
 Whose soul had in one passion been absorbed, 
 Which, though illimitable in itself, 
 Profound and primal, yet had wrapped him rqund 
 Beyond advance, or further use of hand. 
 Purpose and service to the needy earth : 
 Whose passion, being less than his true scope, ' 
 Had lowered his life and quelled aspiring dreams. 
 But that it led to blindness and distress. 
 
io6 ORION. [book III. 
 
 Self-pride's abasement, more extensive truth, 
 A higher consciousness and efforts new. 
 
 In that dark hour when anguished he awoke, 
 Orion from the sea-shore made his way. 
 Feeling from cliff to cliff, from tree to tree. 
 Guided by knowledge of the varied tracks 
 Of land, — the rocks, the mounds of fern, the grass, 
 That 'neath his feet made known each spot he 
 
 passed — 
 Hill, vale, and woodland ; till he reached the caves, 
 Once his rude happy dwelling. All was silent. 
 Rhexergon and Biastor were abroad. 
 Searching the jasper quarries for a lynx 
 That had escaped the wreck. Deeply he sighed. 
 The quiet freshness came upon his he^rt. 
 Not sweetly, but with aching sense of loss. 
 He felt his way, and listened at the cave 
 Of Akinetos, whom he heard within 
 Sing to himself And Akinetos rose, — 
 Perceiving he was blind — and with slow care 
 Rolled forth a stone, and placed him by his side. 
 
CANTO I.J ORION. 107 
 
 Orion's tale soon closed ; its outward acts 
 And sad results were all that he could speak : 
 The rest writhed inwardly, and — like the leads 
 That sink the nets and all the struggles hide, 
 Till a strong hand drags forth the prize — his words 
 Kept down the torment, uttered all within 
 In hurrying anguish. Yet the clear, cold eye. 
 Grey, deep-set, steady, of the Great Unmoved, 
 Saw much of this beneath, and thus he spake. 
 
 ' My son, why wouldst thou ever work and build. 
 And so bestir thyself, when certain grief. 
 Mischief, or error, and not seldom death. 
 Follows on all that individual will 
 Can of itself attain ? I told thee this : 
 Nor for reproach repeat it, but to soothe 
 Thy mind with consciousness that not in thee 
 Was failure born. Its law preceded thine : 
 It governs every act, which needs must fail — 
 I mean, give place — to make room for the next. 
 Each thinks he fails, because he thinks himself 
 A chain and centre, not a link that runs 
 
io8 ORION. [book hi. 
 
 In large and complex circles, all unknown. 
 
 Sit still. Remain with me. No difference 
 
 Will in the world be found : 't will know no change, 
 
 Be sure. Say that an act hath been ordained ? 
 
 Some hand must do it : therefore do not move : 
 
 An instrument of action must be found, 
 
 And you escape both toil and consequence, 
 
 Which run their rounds with restless fools ; for ever 
 
 One act leads to another, and disturbs 
 
 Man's rest, and Reason — which foresees no end.' 
 
 ' I feel that thou art wise,' Orion said ; 
 ' The worker ever comes to thee cast down ! 
 Who with alacrity would frame, toil, build. 
 If he had wisdom in results, like thee .' 
 Would Strength life's soil upheave, though close it 
 
 clung. 
 And heavy, like a spade that digs in clay, 
 Therein to plant roots certain not to grow ? 
 O miserable man ! O fool of hope ! 
 All I have done has wrought me no fixt good. 
 But grief more bitter as the bliss was sweet, 
 
CANTO I.] ORION. 109 
 
 Because so fleeting. Why did Artemis 
 
 Me from my rough and useful life withdraw ? 
 
 O'er wood and iron I had mastery, 
 
 And hunted shadows knowing they were shades. 
 
 Since then, my intellect she filled, and taught me 
 
 To hunt for lasting truth in the pale moon. 
 
 Such proved my love for her ; and such hath proved 
 
 My love for Merop4 to me now lost. 
 
 I will remain here : I will build no more.' 
 
 He paused : but Akinetos was asleep. 
 Wherefore Orion at his feet sank down, 
 Tired of himself, of grief, and all the world, 
 And also slept. Ere dawn he had a dream : 
 'T was hopeful, lovely, though of no clear sense. 
 He said, ' Methinks it must betoken good ; 
 Some help from Artemis, who may relent, 
 And think of me as one she sought to lift 
 To her own sphere of purity ; or, indeed, 
 Some God may deem me worthy of a fate 
 Better than that which locks up all design 
 In pausing night. Perchance the dream may bode 
 
no ORION. [book III. 
 
 That Merop^ shall be to me restored, 
 And I see nature through her, death-deep eyes, 
 And know the glorious mysteries of the grave. 
 Which, through extremes of blissful passion's life 
 Methought I saw. Oh, wherefore am I blind V 
 
 ' Abandon all such hopes of Merop^,' 
 Murmur'd the Great Unmoved : ' her truth was strong, 
 First to herself, and through herself to thee. 
 While that it lasted ; but that's done and gone. 
 How should she love a giant who is blind. 
 And sees no beauty but the secret heart 
 Panting in darkness .? That is not her world.' 
 Orion rose erect ' She is not false — 
 Although she may fbi^et. I will go forth : 
 I may find aid, or cause some help to come 
 That shall restore my sight.' The sage replied, 
 ' Thou'st seen enough already, and too much 
 For happiness- This passion prematurely 
 Endeth ; and therefore endeth as seems best, 
 Ere it wear out itself with languor and pain, 
 Or prostrate all thy mind to its small use — 
 
CANTO I.] ORION. Ill 
 
 Far worse, methinks,' ' Hast thou/ Orion cried, 
 
 ' No impulses-;-desires — no promptings kind ?' 
 
 The sage his memory tasked ; then slow replied : 
 
 ' Once I gave water to a thirsty plant : 
 
 'T was a weak moment with us both. Next morn 
 
 It craved the like — but I, for "Nature" calling, > 
 
 Passed on. It drooped — then died, and rotted soon, 
 
 And living things, more highly organized. 
 
 With quick eyes and fine horns, reproached my hand 
 
 Which had delayed their birth. What wrong we do 
 
 By interfering with life's balanced plan ! 
 
 Do nothing — wait — and all that must come, comes !' 
 
 Silent awhile they stood. Orion sighed, 
 
 ' I know thy words are wise—' and went his way. 
 
 The blindness of their leader, and his woe. 
 Now had Rhexergon and Biastor learnt, 
 And thoughts of plunder cried out for revenge. 
 Which on Oinopion they proposed to wreak. 
 And make good pastime round his ruined throne. 
 ' Revenige is useless,' Akinetos said : 
 •* It undoes nothing, and prevents repentance 
 
112 ORION. [book III. 
 
 Which might advantage others.' Both replied, 
 
 ' Thou speakest truth and wisdom ;' and at eve 
 
 Departed for the city, bent to choose 
 
 Some rebel chieftains for their aid, or slaves, 
 
 Or robbers who inhabited the rocks 
 
 North of the isle. A great revenge they vowed. 
 
 And where was Merop^ t The cruel deed 
 Her sire had compassed for Orion's fall, 
 Smote through her full breast, and at every beat 
 Entered her heart; nor settled there, but coursed 
 Through all her veins in anguish. Her despair 
 Was boundless, many days, until her strength. 
 Worn with much misery and the need of sleep. 
 Gave way, and slumber opened 'neath her .soul 
 Like an abyss. The deed, beyond recall. 
 Was done. She woke, and thought on this with grief 
 The cruel separation, and the loss 
 Of sight, had been completed. Nothing now 
 Of passion past remained but memory. 
 Which soon grew painful ; and her thoughts oft turned 
 For some relief, to listen to the songs 
 
CANTO I.] ORION. 113 
 
 That minstrels sang, sent by the youthful King 
 
 Of Syros, rich in pastures and in corn. 
 
 Beardless he was, dwarf-shaped, and delicate, 
 
 Freckled and moled, with saffron tresses fair ; 
 
 Yet were his minstrels touched with secret fires, 
 
 And beauty was the theme of all their lays. 
 
 Of her they sang — sole object of desire — 
 
 And with rare presents the pale king preferred 
 
 His suit for Merope. Her sire approved ; — 
 
 Invited him ; — he came ; — and Merope 
 
 With him departed in a high-beaked ship ; 
 
 And as it sped along, she closely pressed 
 
 The rich globes of her bosom on the side, 
 
 O'er which she bent with those black eyes, and gazed 
 
 Into the sea that fled beneath her face. 
 
 All this Orion heard : his blind eyes wept. 
 Now was each step a new experiment ; 
 Within him all was care ; without, all chance ; 
 Dark doubts sat in his brain ; danger prowled round. 
 He wandered lost and lone, and often prayed. 
 Standing beside the tree 'neath which he slept, 
 
 I 
 
114 ORION. [book III. 
 
 And would have offered pious sacrifice, 
 But that himself a victim blindly strayed. 
 His forehead's dark with wrinkles premature 
 Of vexing action ; his cheek scored all down 
 With debts of will that, never can be paid ; 
 Chagrin, pain, disappointment, and wronged heart. 
 At length, one day, some shepherd as he passed, 
 With voice that mingled with the bleat of lambs, 
 Cried, ' Seek the source of light ! — begin anew !' 
 
 On went he thinking, pausing, listening, 
 Till sounds smote on his ear, whereby he knew 
 That near the subterranean palace-gates 
 Which for Hephaistos he of iron had framed. 
 His feet approached. He entered there, and found 
 Brontes, the cyclops, whom he straight besought 
 His shoulders to ascend, and guide his course 
 Eastward, to meet the Morning as she rose. 
 'T was done. Their hazy forms erewhile we saw. 
 
 Swift down the misty eastern hill, whose top 
 Through broken vapours, swooning as they creep 
 
CANTO I.] ORION. 115 
 
 Along the edges into the wide heavens, 
 Shows Morn's first ruddy gleam, a shape uncouth, 
 And lumbering forward in half-falls and bounds, 
 Comes with tossed arms ! The Cyclops hoar with 
 
 rime. 
 His coarse hair flying, through the wet woods ran. 
 And in the front of Akinetos' cave. 
 Shouting the jovial thunder of his life, 
 Performed a hideous but full-hearted dance. 
 ' Dance, rocks and forests ! Akinetos, dance ! 
 The Worker and the Builder hath his sight ! 
 Ho ! ho ! come forth — with either eye he sees ! 
 Come forth, O Akinetos ! laugh, ye rocks !' 
 
 A shadow o'er the face of him who sat 
 Within that cave, passed, — wrinkling with slight grains 
 The ledge-like brow, which, though of granite, 
 
 smoothed. 
 Not vexed, by ocean's tempests, now relaxed. 
 As it would say, 'I pity this return 
 Of means for seeking fresh distress;' — and then 
 The broad great features their fixed calm resumed. 
 
ii6 ORION. [book III. 
 
 'T was thus Orion fared ; and this the scene. 
 Fast through the clouds retiring, the pale orb 
 Of Artemis a moment seemed to hang 
 Suspended in a halo, phantom-like, 
 Over a restless sea of jasper fire, 
 While bending forward tow'rds the eastern mount. 
 She gazed and hearkened. Soon the fervent voice 
 Of one who prayed beneath amid the mist. 
 Rose thrilling on the air ; and onward slow 
 Her car its voyage held, and waned more pale 
 And distant, as the prayer ascended heaven. 
 
 ' Eos ! blest Goddess of the Morning, hear 
 The blind Orion praying on thy hill. 
 And in thine odorous breath his spirit steep, 
 That he, the soft gold of thy gleaming hand 
 Passing across his heavy lids, sealed down 
 With weight of many nights, and night-like days. 
 May feel as keenly as a new-born child. 
 And, through it, learn as purely to behold 
 The face of nature. Oh, restore my sight !' 
 
CANTO I.] ORION. 117 
 
 His prayer paused tremulous. O'er his brow he 
 felt 
 A balmy beam, that with its warmth conveyed 
 Divine suffusion and deep sense of peace 
 Throughout his being ; and amidst a pile, 
 Far in the distance, gleaming like the bloom 
 Of almond-trees seen through long floating halls 
 Of pale ethereal blue and virgin gold, 
 A Goddess, smiling like a new-blown flower, 
 Orion saw! And as he gazed he wept. 
 The tears ran mingling with the morning dews 
 Down his thick locks. At length once more he spoke. 
 
 ' Blest Eos ! mother of the hopeful star, 
 Which I, with sweet joy, take into my soul ; 
 Star-rays that first played o'er my blinded orbs. 
 Even as they glance above the lids of Sleep, 
 Who else had never known surprise, nor hope. 
 Nor useful action ; Golden Visitant, 
 So lovely and benign, whose eyes drive home 
 Night's foulest ghosts, and men as foul ; who bring'st 
 Not only my redemption, but who art 
 
ii8 ORION. [book III. 
 
 The intermediate beauty that unites 
 
 The fierce Sun with the Earth, and moderates 
 
 His beams with dews and tenderness and smiles ; 
 
 O bird-awakener ! giver of fresh life, 
 
 New hopes, or to old hopes new wings, — receive 
 
 Within thy care, one who with many things 
 
 Is weary, and though nought in energy 
 
 Abated for good work, would seek thine aid 
 
 To some fresh course and service for his hand ; 
 
 Of peace, meantime, and steadfast truth, secure !' 
 
 END OF CANTO I. 
 
ORION. 
 
 CANTO THE SECOND. 
 
 Level with the summit of that eastern mount. 
 By slow approach, and like a promontory 
 Which seems to glide and meet a coming ship, 
 The pale-gold platform of the morning came 
 Towards the gliding mount. Against a sky 
 Of delicate purple, snow-bright courts and halls. 
 Touched with light silvery green, gleaming across, 
 Fronted by pillars vast, cloud-capitalled, 
 With shafts of changeful pearl, all reared upon 
 An isle of clear aerial gold, came floating ; 
 And in the centre, clad in fieecy white. 
 With lucid lilies in her golden hair, 
 Eos, sweet Goddess of the Morning, stood. 
 
120 ORION. [book III. 
 
 From the bright peak of that surrounded mount, 
 One step sufficed to gain the tremulous floor 
 Whereon the Palace of the Morning shone, 
 Scarcely a bow-shot distant ; but that step, 
 Orion's humbled and still mortal feet 
 Dared not adventure. In the Goddess' face 
 Imploringly he gazed. 'Advance!' she said, 
 In tones more sweet than when some heavenly bird. 
 Hid in a rosy cloud, its morning hymn 
 Warbles unseen, wet with delicious dews. 
 And to earth's flowers, all looking up in prayer, 
 Tells of the coming bliss. ' Believe — advance ! — 
 Or, as the spheres move onward with their song 
 That calls me to awaken other lands, 
 That moment will escape which ne'er returns.' 
 Forward Orion stepped : the platform bright 
 Shook like the reflex of a star in water 
 Moved by the breeze, throughout its whole expanse ; 
 And even the palace glistened fitfully, 
 As with electric shiver it sent forth 
 Odours of flowers divine and all fresh life. 
 Still stood he where he stepped, nor to return 
 
CANTO II.] ORION. 12] 
 
 Attempted. To essay one pace' beyond 
 He. felt no power — yet onward he advanced 
 Safe to the Goddess, who, with hand outstretched, 
 Into the palace led him. Grace and strength. 
 With sense of happy change to finer earth, 
 Freshness of nature, and belief in good. 
 Came flowing o'er his soul, and he was blest. 
 
 'T is always morning somewhere in the world. 
 And Eos rises, circling constantly 
 The varied regions of mankind. No pause 
 Of renovation and of freshening rays 
 She knows, but evermore her love breathes forth 
 On field and forest, as on human hope, 
 Health, beauty, power, thought, action, and advance. 
 All this Orion witnessed, and rejoiced. 
 The turmoil he had known, the late distress 
 By losp of passion's object, and of sight. 
 Were now exchanged for these serene delights 
 Of contemplation, as the influence 
 That Eos wrought around for ever, dawned 
 Upon his vision and his inmost heart, 
 
122 ORION. [book HI. 
 
 In sweetness and success. All sympathy 
 
 With all fair things that in her circle lay, 
 
 She gave, and all received ; nor knew of strife ; 
 
 For from the Sun her cheek its bloom withdrew. 
 
 And, ere intolerant noon, the floating realm 
 
 Of Eos — queen of the awakening earth — 
 
 Was brightening other lands, wherefrom black Night 
 
 Her faded chariot down the sky had driven 
 
 Behind the sea. Thus from the earth upraised. 
 
 And over its tumultuous breast sustained 
 
 In peace and tranquil glory — oh blest state ! — 
 
 Clear-browed Orion, full of thankfulness. 
 
 And pure devotion to the Goddess, dwelt 
 
 Within the glowing Palace of the Morn. 
 
 But these serene airs did not therefore bring 
 A death-sleep o'er the waves of memory. 
 Where all its clouds and colours, specks of sails, 
 Its car-borne Gods, shipwrecks and drowning men, 
 Passed full in view ; yet with a mellowing sense 
 Ideal, and from pain sublimed. Thus came 
 Mirrors of nature to him, and full oft 
 
CANTO II.] ORION. 123 
 
 Downward on Chios turned his happy eyes, 
 
 With grateful thoughts that o'er life's sorrows woVe 
 
 The present texture of a sweet content, 
 
 Passing all wisdom, or its rarest flower. 
 
 He saw the woods, and blessed them for the sake 
 
 Of Artemis ; the city, and rich gloom 
 
 That o'er the cedar forest ever hung, 
 
 He also blessed for Meropd ; the isle, 
 
 And all that dwelt there, he with smiles beheld, — 
 
 Nor, it may be, without prophetic thrill 
 
 When on Mount Epos turned his parting glance. 
 
 There, in an after age, close at its foot, 
 
 In the stone level was a basin broad 
 
 Scooped out, and central on a low shaft sat 
 
 A sage with silver hair, and taught his school, 
 
 Where the boy Homer on the stony rim 
 
 Sat with the rest around. Bright were his eyes. 
 
 With re-awakened love, and sight enlarged 
 For all things beautiful, and nobly true 
 To the great elements that rule the world, 
 Orion's mind, left to itself, reviewed 
 
124 ORION. [book III. 
 
 Past knowledge, and of wisdom saw the fruit 
 
 Far nearer than before, the path less rough, 
 
 The true possession not austere and cold, 
 
 But natural in its strength and balance just 
 
 Of body and of soul ; each to respect. 
 
 And to the other minister, and both 
 
 Their one harmonious being to employ 
 
 For general happiness, and for their own. 
 
 Such was the lore which now his thoughts attained, 
 
 And he to Eos humbly would display. 
 
 Beseeching her response ! She only gazed 
 
 With a benignant smile upon the earth 
 
 That rolled beneath, and rendered back the gleam 
 
 With tender radiance over many a field. 
 
 The story of his life Orion told — 
 His youth — his labours — lastly of his loves ; 
 Nor what for Artemis his opening soul 
 Had felt — what deep desire for Merop6 — 
 Sought to conceal. How much his intellect. 
 And entire nature, owed to the pale Queen 
 Of night's illumined vault, with grateful sighs 
 
CANTO II.] ORION. 125 
 
 Of reverential memory he declared; 
 
 To Eos turning with a pleading look, 
 
 Lest she might not approve. She took his hand. 
 
 And placed it on her side beneath her heart, 
 
 Which beat a sphery music audibly. 
 
 He, listening, still enraptured, countless echoes 
 
 Rang sweetly faint from distant groves beneath 
 
 Upon the earth. Within his hurrying heart 
 
 The trembling echoes now Orion felt. 
 
 And silent stood, as one who apprehends 
 
 Some new and blissful hope that round him soars. 
 
 Which still eludes his vision and his mind. 
 
 Not in like doubt was Artemis, whose car — 
 Blank as it passed away before the morn, 
 Herself invisible — collapsed and yearned 
 Beneath the Goddess' spurning foot. At once 
 The lasting love of Eos she foresaw. 
 When at the tale of other loves he told 
 Sincerely, fully, with kind memories rife, 
 Orion's hand she pressed. His earnest eyes 
 All filled with new-born light, she also read, 
 
1 26 ORION. [book III. 
 
 As in a mirror where the future's writ — 
 And, reading, closed her own as she retired. 
 
 Meantime Rhexergon through the Chian streets 
 Triumphant, with Biastor and a host 
 Of rebel chieftains and their armed bands, 
 And drunken slaves and robbers, drove the King 
 From his lost throne. Beyond the suburb fields 
 Oinopion fled, and secret refuge found 
 Among the tombs, beneath a chain of hills, 
 Where dense cold gloom his robe and crown 
 
 became, 
 While over head along the hill-sides ran 
 The sunny vines. Tumult now choaked the city 
 With adverse crowds, and deafened it with cries 
 Of slayers, and of those who fled or fell. 
 The giants led the slaughter, oft commencing 
 Pillage, then turning yet again to slay, 
 Having no plan. They paused but to blaspheme 
 The Gods, like giants doomed to die. Rich spoil 
 Was found, seized, left — and trampled into mire 
 By feet that onward sprang for other spoil. 
 
CANTO II.] ORION. 127 
 
 Or to tear down, wrench, overthrow, destroy ; 
 Till thus Rhexergon rendered up his life : — 
 
 All the chief rulers, priests, and sages old, 
 And heroes most renowned, Rhexergon vowed 
 Within the temple of Zeus to congregate ; 
 Wall up each means of egress, and from gaps 
 Made in the roof, pour down a rocky hail 
 From broken fanes, cliff, quarry and sea beach. 
 Upon their heads ; nor cease the crashing shower 
 Until the temple was filled up with stones. 
 To make the gaps, he with his club advanced. 
 Where central, 'neath the roof, a pillar rose. 
 Which was its main support. Blow upon blow 
 He smote ; the base gave way ; the pillar fell ; 
 And with it fell the roof, and buried him. 
 
 With equal skill Biastor wrought his fate. 
 On a long terrace, which precipitously 
 Looked down on suburb gardens deep below, 
 Near to the edge upon a pediment stood 
 A great gilt statue to Encolyon, 
 
128 ORION. [book III. 
 
 By the high rulers reverently set up ; 
 And this inscription bearing on its base ;-t- 
 ' To the wheel-chainer ! Reiner-in of steeds ! 
 August preserver of revered decay; 
 Votive — erected by a people's love. ' 
 
 Biastor, covered with a brazen shield, 
 Whirling his sword, and seeing not his way, 
 A panic-stricken crowd before him drove 
 On tow'rds the parapet. Thence to escape, 
 Some desperately rush back — are cloven down — 
 The rest throng round the statue. It was carved 
 Of wood, and at its flat square base the sun 
 Had often turned a scornful glance, and made 
 Dry flaws, wherein had crept and nestled, rot. 
 They cling around its knees ! — the giant Force 
 Comes like a mighty wind ; — and, as a mast 
 In shipwreck, black with rigging flanking loose. 
 And black with wild-haired creatures clinging round, 
 With crash and horrid slant its blasted tree 
 Surrenders sidelong, — so the statue fell. 
 With it the crowd were carried ; after it 
 
CANTO II.] ORION. 129 
 
 Biastor, knowing not the depths beyond, 
 Or his strong impulse having no power to check. 
 Followed head foremost. Down the hollow banks 
 He, floundering o'e"r the statue's tangled coil. 
 Into an orchard midst the vale below. 
 Deep in the mould lay prone ; and over him 
 The fallen statue lay athwart. 'T was thus, 
 The Builder absent, and at that time blind, 
 Force, and the Breaker-down their course fulfilled. 
 
 'What have I done on earth V Orion said. 
 While pensive on the platform of the morn 
 He stood. ' My youth's companions are destroyed, 
 And Akinetos evermore seems right. 
 Predicting failure to our human acts: 
 Or good, or ill, alike untoward prove. 
 I have not well directed mine own strength, 
 Nor theirs.' As thus he mused, a skylark sang 
 Within the gleaming Palace, and a voice 
 Followed melodious as it spake, t^iesfe words. 
 
 ' Well hast thou striven, and due reward shalt find ; 
 
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13° ORION. [book hi. 
 
 For though reward held dalliance with thy hopes 
 
 Of former days, and for thyself thou wrought'st, 
 
 The suffering and the lesson have sufficed 
 
 To fit thee for more noble aims. Sigh not 
 
 That those companions of thine unformed youth 
 
 Their rude career have closed : evil was all 
 
 They could have done without thee. Thou hast won 
 
 The love of Eos : doubt not of her truth, 
 
 And to thyself be constant, as to her.' 
 
 He turned, and at his side the Goddess smiled. 
 With tenderness of grace, such as the soul 
 Can through the heart convey, where both accord 
 One object to exalt. Orion knelt. 
 And looked up in her face, then rose and clasped 
 Her yielding loveliness. - As they retired. 
 An eye glanced fire-like through the clear blue air. 
 And saw the embrace! — and marked the glowing 
 
 beams 
 On Eos' bosom, rosy yet all gold. 
 Like ripened peaches in the morning light. 
 That eye grew deadly — flashed — and it was gone, 
 
CANTO II.] ORION. 131 
 
 As onward in its course the Palace moved. 
 'T was Artemis ! — beware her fatal dart. 
 
 O'er meadows green or solitary lawn, 
 When birds appear earth's sole inhabitants, 
 The long clear shadows of the morning differ 
 From those of eve, which are more soft and vague, 
 Touched with old day-dreams and a mellowed grief. 
 The lights of morning, even as her shades. 
 Are architectural, and pre-eminent 
 In quiet freshness, midst the pause that holds 
 Prelusive energies. All life awakes. 
 Morn comes at first with white uncertain light ; 
 Then takes a faint red, like an opening bud 
 Seen through grey mist : the mist clears off; the 
 
 sky 
 Unfolds ; grows ruddy ; takes a crimson flush ; 
 Puts forth bright sprigs of gold, which soon expanding 
 In saffron, thence pure golden shines the morn ; 
 Uplifts its clear bright fabric of white clouds. 
 All tinted, like a shell of polished pearl. 
 With varied glancings, violet gleam and blush ; 
 
132 ORION. [book III. 
 
 Embraces Nature ; and then passes on, 
 Leaving the Sun to perfect his great work. 
 
 So came thy love upon Orion's heart, 
 O life-awakening Queen of early light. 
 And the devotion he, at first, had deemed 
 All spiritual, now quickened, glowed, attained 
 Entire vitality, and that highest state 
 Which every noblest faculty employs 
 With self-enjoyment and beneficence. 
 
 True happiness no idle course endures, 
 But by activity renews its strength. 
 Which else would fail, and happiness revolve 
 Within itself, still dwindling to the point 
 Where pain first stings. Far otherwise it fared 
 With thee, Orion. Watchful tow'rds«the world 
 His eye oft turned. The pure realm where he dwelt 
 Absorbed' not all his sympathies in itself. 
 Which, yet sprang forth, and sighed o!er ills below ; 
 Like one uplifted in abstraction's mood. 
 Who sits alone, and gazes in the fire. 
 
CANTO II.] ORION. 133 
 
 Watching red ruins as they fall and" change 
 To glorious fabrics, — which forthwith dissolve, 
 Or by some hideous conflict sink to nought. 
 While from a black mass issues tawny smoke, 
 Followed by a trumpet flame. War, and the waste — 
 So far as man's one life and purpose feel — 
 Of human labour — both its hand and heart — 
 Came crowding on his mind. Nor less his eye 
 Earth's loveliness perceived ; nor less his thoughts 
 Of Eos, who in all his fresh designs. 
 Feelings, and wishes, shared, and urged him on 
 With constant impulse, hidden in sweet smiles. 
 And perfect love that thinks not of itself; — 
 Conscious, contented, sphered beyond fresh hopes. 
 Earth was their child ; and constant morn their home. 
 
 Three things Orion contemplated oft : 
 The first, his gratitude to Artemis 
 Inspired ; its general service and import 
 To human happiness, a duty made. 
 Her temple in Delos darkened to the east 
 With towering trees, amidst whose hollowed roots 
 
134 ORION. [book hi. 
 
 Dwelt poisonous Harpies. These to dislodge, destroy; 
 And hew the trees down, that the morning light, 
 Followed by radiant warmth, might penetrate 
 Its depths, even to the temple's central shine, 
 He purposed. Thus would Eos give her love 
 To Artemis, and all be reconciled. 
 
 His second purpose this : beneath the earth, 
 So might the Father of the Gods give aid. 
 To build a dungeon for the God of War, 
 Wherein, confined in a tumultuous sleep. 
 The visions of his madness should present 
 The roar of battles and its sanguine joys, 
 Its devastations, glories, and vain graves. 
 Here might he gloat on death, while o'er his head 
 The sea-wide corn-fields smiled in golden waves. 
 
 The last would need Poseidon's trident hand, 
 Which, fervent prayers and filial offerings 
 Would fail not to obtain ; whereby a blow, — 
 Such as had lifted out of the frothed sea 
 Delos, — Kalliste, with its fathomless bay, — 
 
CANTO II.] ORION. 135 
 
 Mountains and coral rocks, — repeated oft. 
 Might many mountains cause at once to rise,. 
 Higher and higher, till their summits kissed 
 The clouds. Then Eos, casting forth her robe 
 From peak to peak, and her immortal breath 
 Combining and sustaining that bright floor, — 
 A web of perfect skill, and guileless art, 
 Unlike the dark artificers below, — 
 Large space for mortals of the earth would thus 
 Be lifted to the platform of the morn. 
 There, by the Goddess beckoned, and beholding 
 Her face, divine in youth, the lengthened toil 
 Of the ascent were but a test of worth. 
 And hollow sounds of roaring from the sea 
 Beneath, cause none, who should ascend, to fall. 
 
 To Delos now Orion made, descent 
 With Eos, hand in hand, when lofty Night 
 Advanced her shadowy shoulder on the sky. 
 Good speed made he with his well-practised hand ; 
 The Harpies slew ; the eastward trees hewed down ; 
 And laid the temple open to the morn. 
 
136 ORION. [book III. 
 
 With all her genial beams. Then Eos first 
 Felt doubt ; and trembled as she saw the fane 
 Gleam with her presence, glancing like the light 
 Within an angry eye-ball. A keen breeze 
 Now whistled all around, and as it rose 
 The high green corn, like rapids tow'rds a fall. 
 Flowed, wave on wave, before the strenuous wind. 
 She gazed with a cold cheek, till underneath 
 The sea she heard the coming Sun rejoice ; 
 And felt the isle for blest events prepare. 
 Yet was she silent. The untended Sun, 
 While Eos lingered midst the southern groves. 
 Made Delos vocal to its lowest roots. 
 Yet stood she with Orion in the shade, 
 Who noting not her tender, anxious face. 
 In generous feelings happy, took his rest. 
 
 Midst songs and garlands and uplifted joy, 
 Day's bright beam sped. Night came ; but not the 
 
 Moon. 
 Night passed. Two spectral armies in the air 
 Appeared, and with mute fury fought ;. then died 
 
CANTO ii.]i ORION. 137 
 
 In mist. A cloud of pale and livid blue, 
 Lit from behind, hangs low amid the west ! 
 
 What scarce-apparent ray ! what wavering light 
 Down glances, arching through the silent vault ! 
 Again it flies ! — and yet again the ray ! 
 The omen and the deed unite — in death ! 
 Slain is Orion ! slain is the Friend of Man ! 
 Into the grove, and to the self-same spot 
 The darts flew ! They thy naked breast have 
 
 reached, 
 O Giant ! child-like in thy truthfulness. 
 Yet full of noblest gifts, and hard-earned skill : 
 Cut off" when love was perfect, and in the midst 
 Of all thy fresh designs for human weal. 
 To make the morning feel itself in vain. 
 And men turn pale who never shed a tear ! 
 Thy task is finished — thou canst work no more — 
 Thy Maker takes thee, for He loved thee well. 
 
 Haggard and chill as a lost ghost, the Morn, 
 With hair unbraided and unsandalled feet, — 
 
i^H ORION. [book III. 
 
 Her colourless robe like a poor wandering smoke, — 
 Moved feebly up the heavens, and in her arms 
 A shadowy burden heavily bore ; soon fading 
 In a dark rain, through which the sun arose 
 Scarce visible, and in his orb confused. 
 
 END OF CANTO II. 
 
ORION. 
 
 CANTO THE THIRD. 
 
 Strong Spirit of Nature ! if with pious hand, 
 Of all humanity sensitive, and true 
 To the first heart of childhood, thou hast striven 
 Good to effect, and seemingly hast failed. 
 Lament it not ; that impulse on the frame 
 Of the dense earth, which no result displays. 
 Effect or consciousness, not utterly 
 Shall turn aside, and glancing into space 
 Be lost and cast away. As with a thought 
 That, dormant in the brain well nigh a score 
 Of years, will suddenly, we know not how, 
 Rise bright before the mind, thus recognised 
 
140 ORION. [book hi. 
 
 As that so long forgotten, — while two brains 
 
 Entire, have their material parts used up. 
 
 Given off, and changed for new ; — so shall the deeds 
 
 Of virtuous power, in their appointed day. 
 
 Rise with due strength above the buried hand 
 
 That called them first to light. Know this, and hope : 
 
 The earth has hard rind, but a subtle heart. 
 
 Therefore amidst those shadows, by no form 
 
 Projected ; which in secret regions flit. 
 
 Of future being, through unnumbered states, 
 
 Which are most truly the substantial dreams. 
 
 Nor less the aspirations most unearthly, 
 
 Of man ; shadows oft hunted, never caught. 
 
 Yet traced beyond the grave ; to thought well known ; 
 
 Amidst these shadows stride not thou forlorn, 
 
 O Giant sublime, whom death shall not destroy. 
 
 'T was eve, and Time his vigorous course pursuing, 
 Met Akinetos walking by the sea. 
 At sight of him the Father of the Hours 
 Paused on the sand, — which shrank, grew moist, and 
 trembled 
 
CANTO III.] ORION. 141 
 
 At that unwonted pressure of the God. 
 And thus with look and accent stern, he spake : 
 
 ' Thou art the mortal who, with hand unmoved, 
 Eatest the fruit of others' toil ; whose heart 
 Is but a vital engine that conveys 
 Blood, to no purpose, up and down thy- frame ; 
 Whose forehead is a large stone sepulchre 
 Of knowledge ! and whose 'life but turns to waste 
 My measured hours, and earth's material mass !' 
 
 Whereto the Great Unmoved no answer made, — 
 And Time continued, sterner than before : 
 ' Thy sire, Tithonos, living nine score years. 
 Knew many things ; but when thou wert begot, 
 Olympos chimed with crystal laughter bright, 
 Since, for thy mother, his dim vision chose 
 A fallen statue which he deemed a nymph, 
 White as a flint amid a field of corn. 
 I warn thee by that memory ! — thou mistakest 
 A prostrate stone for the fair truth of life.' 
 
142 ORION. [book III. 
 
 Whereto the Great Unmoved no answer made, — 
 And Time continued, sterner than before : 
 ' O not -to -be -approved ! thou Apathy, 
 Who gazest downward on that empty shell, — 
 Is it for thee, who bear'st the common lot 
 Of man, and art his brother in the fields, 
 From birth to funeral pyre ; is it for thee, 
 Who didst derive from thy long-living sire 
 More knowledge than endows far better sons, — 
 Thy lamp to burn within, and turn aside 
 Thy face from all humanity, or behold it 
 Without emotion, like some sea-shelled thing 
 Staring around from a green hollowed rock, 
 Not aiding, loving, caring — hoping aught — 
 Forgetting Nature, and by her forgot ?' 
 
 Whereto, with mildness, Akinetos said, 
 ' Hast thou considered of Eternity ?' 
 ' Profoundly have I done so, in my youth,' 
 Chronos replied, and bowed his furrowed head ; 
 ' Most, when my tender feet from Chaos trod 
 Stumbling, — and, doubtful of my eyes, my hands 
 
CANTO III.] ORION. 143 
 
 The dazzling air explored. But, since that date, 
 So many ages have I told ; so many, 
 Fleet after fleet on newly opening seas, 
 Descry before me, that of late my thoughts 
 Have rather dwelt on all around my path. 
 With anxious care. Well were it thus with thee.' 
 
 Then Akinetos calmly spake once more. 
 With eyes still bent upon the tide-ribbed sands : 
 ' And dost thou of To-morrow also think ?' 
 Whereat — as one dismayed by sudden thought 
 Of many crowding things that call him thence, — 
 Time, with bent brows, went hurrying on his way. 
 
 Slow tow'rds his cave the Great Unmoved re- 
 paired, 
 And, with his back against the rock, sat down 
 Outside, half smiling in the pleasant air ; 
 And in the lonely silence of the place 
 He thus, at length, discoursed unto himself: 
 
 'Orion, ever active and at work. 
 
144 ORION. [book III. 
 
 Honest and skilful, not to be surpassed, 
 Drew misery on himself and those he loved ; 
 Wrought his companions' death, — and now hath 
 
 found, 
 At Artemis' hand, his own. So fares it ever 
 With the world's builder. He, from wall to beam. 
 From pillar to roof, from shade to corporal form, 
 From the first vague Thought to the Temple vast, ' 
 A ceaseless contest with the crowd endures, 
 For whom he labours. Why then should we move ? 
 Our wisdom cannot change whate'er 's decreed. 
 Nor e'en the acts or thoughts of brainless men : 
 Why then be moved ? Best reason is most vain. 
 He who will do and suffer, must — and end. 
 Hence, death is not an evil, since it l^ads 
 To somewhat permanent, beyond the noise 
 Man maketh on the tabor of his will, 
 Until the small round burst, and pale he falls. 
 His ear is stuffed with. the grave's e;art]i, yet feels 
 The inaudible whispers of. Eternity, 
 While Time runs shouting to Oblivion 
 In the upper fields ! I would not swell that cry.' 
 
CANTO III.] ORION. 14s 
 
 Thus Akinetos sat from day to day, 
 Absorbed in indolent sublimity, 
 Reviewing thoughts and knowledge o'er and o'er ; 
 And now he spake, now sang unto himself, 
 Now sank to brooding silence. From above. 
 While passing. Time the rock touched ! — and it oozed 
 Petrific drops — gently at first — and slow. 
 Reclining lonely in his fixt repose, 
 The Great Unmoved unconsciously became 
 Attached to that he pressed, — and gradually — 
 While his thoughts drifted to no shore — a part 
 O' the rock. There clung the dead excrescence, till 
 Strong hands, descended from Orion, made 
 Large roads, built markets, granaries, and steep 
 
 walls, — 
 Squaring down rocks for use, and common good. 
 
 When Death with moth-like wing and in-drawn 
 breath 
 Hovers above a dying brain of power, 
 And the soul knows the moment of its flight 
 Is surely near, there floats a crowding train 
 
 L 
 
146 ORION. [book III. 
 
 Of passions, thoughts, actions, events, and hopes — 
 Tenderest affections, and those storms and calms 
 Wherein the man each complex scene reviews. 
 And in swift visions lives his course again. 
 Then sigh the vain regrets o'er wasted days, 
 And wasted efforts, bred of ignorance, 
 Pride, folly, vanity — or the world's gross wrongs. 
 Exasperating once — now pitied. Then — 
 No casuist baseness making ill acts good — 
 Hurried self-questionings dart to and fro. 
 If thisor that were right, or wrong — or kind. 
 Mean, or magnanimous — forgiving — hard — 
 Generous, or selfish ; — if the sum of all. 
 Balanced in fairness, were the heart's best aim ? 
 Nor less the painful sense of means yet strong — 
 The consciousness of so much power to do. 
 And no more time for doing. How they float 
 Away in mist, all those rare plans, designs — 
 Clear-outlined fabrics reared on solid truths. 
 Doomed to resolve themselves into the brain 
 That bred them, and be lost for evermore ! 
 This, and a reverent hopeful resignation. 
 
CANTO III.] ORION. 147 
 
 For many might suffice, without the fears 
 
 Of crippled souls, that crawl to fancied hells, 
 
 Who are mere grave-worms in reality. 
 
 But of his stern philosophy what thoughts 
 
 Were last in Akinetos' mind .■' Said he, 
 
 ' Annihilation means but perfect change — 
 
 All are annihilated in the end ; 
 
 Or if there be no end, why that's the same. 
 
 If the dead know not their connecting past. 
 
 Nor present being.' Held he thus to the last ? 
 
 There might have been misgivings — not unwise — 
 
 That wisdom should be put to use .' But he 
 
 Knew better, as he thought — and there were none. 
 
 Now had Poseidon with tridental spear 
 Torn up the smitten sea, which raged on high 
 With grief and anger for Orion slain ; 
 And black Hephaistos deep beneath the earth 
 A cold thrill felt through his metallic veins, 
 Which soon with sparkling fire began to writhe 
 Like serpents, till from each volcanic peak 
 Burst smoke and threatening flames. Day hid his head. 
 
148 ORION. [book III. 
 
 And while the body of Orion sank, 
 Drawn down into the embraceis of the Sea, 
 The four winds with confronting fury arose, 
 And to a common centre drove their blasts, 
 Which, meeting, brake like thunder-stone, or shells 
 Of war, far scattering. Shipwreck fed the deep. 
 No Moon had dared the ringing vault to climb ; 
 No star, no meteor's steed ; and ancient Night 
 Shook the dishevelled lightening from her brows, 
 Then sank in deeper gloom. Ere long the roar 
 Rolled through a distant yawning chasm of flame, 
 Dying away, and in the air obscure, 
 Feverish and trembling, — like the breath of one 
 Recovering from convulsion's throes, — appeared 
 Two wavering misty shapes upon a mount : 
 Whence now a solemn and reproachful voice. 
 With broken pauses spake, and thus lamented : — 
 
 ' Call it not love ! — oh never yet for thee 
 Did Love's ambrosial pinions fan the hours. 
 To lose themselves in bliss, which memory 
 Alone can find, so to renew their life. 
 
CANTO III.] ORION. 149 
 
 Thou couldst not ever thus enjoy, thus give 
 
 Thy nature fully up, — thine attributes, 
 
 Whate'er of beauty and supreme estate 
 
 They owned, — surrendering all before Love's feet. 
 
 And in his breath to melt. How shall we name 
 
 Thy passion, — ice-pure, self-entire, exacting 
 
 All worship, for a limited return ? 
 
 But how, ah me ! shall time record the hour. 
 
 When with thy bow — its points curved stiffly back, 
 
 Like a snake's neck preparing for a spring. 
 
 Thou stood'st in lurid ire behind a cloud. 
 
 And loosed the fatal shaft ! Where then was love ? 
 
 O Artemis ! O miserable Queen ! 
 
 Call it pride, jealousy, revenge — self-love ; 
 
 No other. Thou repliest not. Wherefore pride .' 
 
 Thou gav'st thyself that wound, rejecting one 
 
 Who to thee tendered all his nature ; noble. 
 
 Though earth-born, as thou knew'st when first ye met. 
 
 And thou not Zeus with a creator's power 
 
 His being to re-make .' Thou answerest not. 
 
 Why jealous,' but because thou saVst him happy 
 
 Without thee, though cast off by thee .' Then why 
 
ISO ORION. [book III. 
 
 Destroy ? Revenge, the champion of self-love. 
 Can make his well-known sign. O horrible ! 
 Despair to all springs up from murdered love. 
 And smites revenge with idiocy of grief. 
 Seeing itself. But wake, and look upon 
 My loss unutterable. What hast thou gained .' 
 Nothing but anguish ; and for this accomplished 
 His death, my loss, and the earth's loss beside. 
 Of that much-needed hand. I curse thee not — 
 Thou hast, indeed, cursed me — thou know'st it well.' 
 
 With face bowed o'er her bosom, Artemis, 
 As in sad trance, remained. The night was gone ; 
 The day had dawned, but she perceived it not ; 
 Nor Eos knew that any light had passed 
 From her rent robes. But hope unconsciously 
 Grew up in her, and yet again she spake : 
 
 ' Ah, me ! alas ! why came this great affliction. 
 Which seems, indeed, beyond all remedy, 
 Though scalding tears from our immortal eyes 
 Make constant arcs in heaven. Beauty avails not 
 
CANTO III. J ORION. 151 
 
 Where power is needed. Seek we, then, for power. 
 That some reviving or renewing beam 
 May call him back, now pale in the deep sea ! 
 Thou answerest not. I think thou hast a heart. 
 Which beats thy reasoning down to silent truth. 
 And therefore deem I thou with me wilt seek 
 The throne of Zeus, who may receive our prayers. 
 Nor from our supplications utterly , 
 
 Take sorrow's sweetness, which hath secret hope, 
 Like honey drops in some down-fallen flower.' 
 
 Her lofty, pallid visage, Artemis 
 Raised slowly, but with eyes still downward bent 
 Upon the Ocean rolling dark below, 
 And answered, — ' I will go with thee.' The twain 
 Departed heavily on their ascent 
 Through the grey air, and paused not till they 
 
 reached 
 The region of Olympos, where their course 
 Was barriered by a mass of angry cloud 
 Piled up in surging blackness, with a gleam 
 Of smouldering red seen through at intervals. 
 
152 ORION. [book III. 
 
 The sign well understood, both Goddesses 
 Knelt down before the cloud, and Artemis 
 Brake silence first, with firm yet hollow voice : 
 
 ' Father of Gods, and of the populous earth ! 
 Who know'st the thoughts and deeds we most would 
 
 hide; 
 And also know'st the secret thrill within, 
 Which owns no thought nor action, yet comprises 
 Life's sole excuse for what seems worthiest hate — 
 Extremes and maddened self-opposing springs — 
 Not always thus excused, — O Zeus ! receive 
 Our prayers, and chiefly mine, which pardon sue. 
 Besides the dear request. Grant that the life 
 Of him these hands, once dazzling white, have slain. 
 May be to earth restored.' More had she said, 
 But the dark pile of cloud shook with the voice 
 Of Zeus, who answered : ' He shall be restored ; 
 But not returned to earth. His cycle moves 
 Ascending !' The deep Sea the announcement heard ; 
 And from beneath its ever-shifting thrones 
 The murmuring of a solemn joy sent up. 
 
CANTO III.] ORION. I S3 
 
 The cloud expanded darkly o'er the heavens, 
 Which, like a vault preparing to give back 
 The heroic dead, yawned with its sacred gloom, 
 And iron-crowned Night her black breath poured 
 
 around. 
 To meet the clouds that from Olympos rolled 
 Billows of darkness with a dirging roar, 
 Which by gradations of high harmony 
 Merged in triumphal strains. Their earnest eyes, 
 Filled with the darkness, and their hands still 
 
 clasped, 
 Kneeling the Goddesses' bright rays perceived, 
 Reflected, glance before them. Mute they rose 
 ' With tender consciousness ; and, hand in hand, 
 Turning, they saw slow rising from the sea 
 The luminous Giant clad in blazing stars. 
 New-born and trembling from their Maker's breath, — 
 Divine, refulgent effluence of Love. 
 Though to his insubstantial form no gleam 
 Of mortal life's rich colours now gave warmth, 
 Yet was the image he had worn on earth, 
 With all its memories of the old dim woods — 
 
154 ORION. [book hi. 
 
 The caves — his toils, joys, griefs — the fond old 
 
 ways — 
 The same — his heart the same, e'en as of yore. 
 With pale gold shield, like a translucent Moon 
 Through which the Morning with ascending cheek 
 Sheds a soft blush, warming cerulean veins ; — 
 With radiant belt of glory, typical 
 Of happy change that o'er the zodiac round 
 Of the world's monstrous phantasies shall come ; 
 And in his hand a sword of peaceful power. 
 Streaming like a meteor to direct the earth 
 To victory over life's distress, and show 
 The future path whose light runs through death's 
 
 glooms ; — 
 In grandeur, like the birth of Motion, rose 
 The glorious Giant, tow'rds his place in heaven ; 
 And, while ascending, thus his Spirit sang : 
 
 ' I came into the world a mortal creature. 
 Lights flitting upwards through my unwrought clay, 
 Not knowing what they were, nor whither tending. 
 But of some goodness conscious in my soul. 
 
CANTO III.] ORION. 155 
 
 With earth's rude elements my first endeavour 
 I made ; attained rare mastery, and was proud 
 Then felt strange longings in the grassy woodlands, 
 And hunted shadows under the slant sun. 
 
 ' O Artemis ! bright queen ! high benefactress ! 
 My love forgive, that with its human feet 
 Could not to thy pure altitude ascend, — 
 Nor couldst thou stoop to me. A fiery passion, 
 Deep as mortality, possessed my life ; 
 Nor shall I from my destiny, star-bright 
 Henceforth, and from transforming change exempt. 
 Banish the grateful thoughts of Merop6, 
 Though blindness followed that ecstatic dream. 
 
 ' On thee I gaze, blest Goddess of the Morning ! 
 In whose sweet smile these stars shall ever melt. 
 All human beauty perfected in thee. 
 Divine with human blending. In my heart 
 Bared full before thee, to the essence fine 
 Wherewith, by whisperings of my Maker's breath. 
 These stars of my new life are now inspired — 
 
iS6 ORION. [book III. 
 
 In this pure essence shall thy treasured love 
 
 Receive my adoration ; and the thoughts 
 
 Of thee shall open ever in my mind 
 
 Like the bland meads in flower when thou appear'st. 
 
 ' Thou Earth, whom I have left, and all my 
 brothers ! 
 Followers of Time through steep and thorny ways ; 
 Wrestlers with strong Calamity, and falling 
 For ever, as with generations new 
 Ye carry on the strife, — deem it no loss 
 That in full vigour of his fresh designs, 
 Your Worker and your Builder hath been called 
 To rest thus undesired. Though for himself 
 Too soon, and not enough of labour done 
 For high desires ; sufficient yet to give 
 The impulse ye are fitted to receive : 
 More, were a vain ambition. Therefore strive, 
 My course, without its blindness, to pursue, 
 So that ye may through night, as ye behold me. 
 And also through the day by faithful hope. 
 Ascend to me ; and he who faints half way, 
 
CANTO III.] ORION. 157 
 
 Gains yet a noble eminence o'er those 
 
 Whose feet still plod the earth with hearts o'erdusted. 
 
 ' Then with aspiring love behold Orion ! 
 Not for his need, but for thine own behoof: 
 He loved thy race, and calls thee to his side. 
 The human spirit is a mountain thing, 
 But ere it reach the constellated thrones, 
 It may attain, and on mankind bestow, 
 Substance, precision, mastery of hand. 
 Beauty intense, and power that shapes new life. 
 So shall each honest heart become a champion. 
 Each high-wrought soul a builder beyond Time — 
 The ever-hunted, ne'er-o'ertaken Time, 
 For whom so many youthful hours are slain 
 Vainly: the grave's brink shows we have been deceived, 
 And still the aged God his flight maintains ! 
 But not in vain the earth-born shall pursue. 
 E'en though with wayward, often stumbling feet, 
 That substance-bearing Shadow, if with a soul 
 That to an absolute unadulterate truth 
 Aspires, and would make active through the world. 
 
iS8 ORION. [book in. 
 
 He hath resolved to plant for future years. 
 And thus, in the end, each soul may to itself. 
 With truth before it as its polar guide, 
 Become both Time and Nature, whose fixt paths 
 Are spiral, and when lost will find new stars. 
 Beyond man's unconceived infinities. 
 And in the Universal Movement join.' 
 
 The song ceased ; and at once a chorus burst 
 From all the stars in heaven, which now shone forth f 
 The Moon ascends in her rapt loveliness ; 
 The Ocean swells to her forgivingly ; 
 Bright comes the dawn, and Eos hides her face. 
 Glowing with tears divine, within the bosom 
 Of great Poseidon, in his rocking car 
 Standing erect to gaze upon his son, 
 Installed midst golden fires, which ever melt 
 In Eos' breath and beauty ; rising still 
 With nightly brilliance, merging in the dawn, — 
 And circling onward in eternal youth. 
 
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