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ANNIVERSARY POEM.
IX.
Linked sweetly, life with life, how glad should prove
Our annual gathering! since one dear name
We bear; and recognize the vital claim
Of strong resemblances, that strangely move
With sense of adaptation each to each;
Or sharp antagonisms, like wasps, that reach
Into the heart, to get the sweets of love.
Linked sweetly, life with life, how glad should prove
Our annual gathering! since one dear name
We bear; and recognize the vital claim
Of strong resemblances, that strangely move
With sense of adaptation each to each;
Or sharp antagonisms, like wasps, that reach
Into the heart, to get the sweets of love.
X.
For transient raptures of the lesser kinds
Of this, exceeding all, are but rude types;
Or far-off echoes of these music-pipes,
Where lurk the rhythmic powers of poet-minds:
Nature has myriad revelers; but we,
Royally human, hold our jubilee
As princes do, whose hall no peasant finds.
For transient raptures of the lesser kinds
Of this, exceeding all, are but rude types;
Or far-off echoes of these music-pipes,
Where lurk the rhythmic powers of poet-minds:
Nature has myriad revelers; but we,
Royally human, hold our jubilee
As princes do, whose hall no peasant finds.
XI.
Even thus the winds, that, all the season through,
Ply their light wings, and toss the feathery spray
Among the roses, or arise from play
To bend the giant larches, cool with dew,
Merry and wild with aëry willfulness,
In frequent, tuneful revelries congress,
And all their birthnight harmonies renew.
Even thus the winds, that, all the season through,
Ply their light wings, and toss the feathery spray
Among the roses, or arise from play
To bend the giant larches, cool with dew,
Merry and wild with aëry willfulness,
In frequent, tuneful revelries congress,
And all their birthnight harmonies renew.
