The New Monthly Magazine/Volume 11/Fragment of a Projected Ode
FRAGMENT OF A PROJECTED ODE
On the Influence of Fancy upon Mythology.
Inspired by thee, the Grecian swain,
On some green cape’s delicious brow,
(Watching the vast and glorious main
That spread its purple robe below,)
With eyes half-closed in reverie
Has seen the ocean’s King afar,
And the young Sisters of the sea
Floating around his pearly car:—
He sees their locks, that fringe the while
With braided green the deep they lave,
And that superb, immortal smile,
Which, where it lingers, lights the wave—
He knows the sound, that swoons along
His golden East’s voluptuous tide,
To be the Nereids’ distant song
Around their Monarch’s path of pride!
And there, as slumber heavier falls,
Fond Fancy still his eye beguiles;
With Nymphs, he treads the blue deep’s halls,
Or, with the Just, their shining isles.[1]J.
On some green cape’s delicious brow,
(Watching the vast and glorious main
That spread its purple robe below,)
With eyes half-closed in reverie
Has seen the ocean’s King afar,
And the young Sisters of the sea
Floating around his pearly car:—
He sees their locks, that fringe the while
With braided green the deep they lave,
And that superb, immortal smile,
Which, where it lingers, lights the wave—
He knows the sound, that swoons along
His golden East’s voluptuous tide,
To be the Nereids’ distant song
Around their Monarch’s path of pride!
And there, as slumber heavier falls,
Fond Fancy still his eye beguiles;
With Nymphs, he treads the blue deep’s halls,
Or, with the Just, their shining isles.[1]J.
- ↑ Allusive to the beautiful superstition of the Fortunate Isles, in which the departed great and good were imagined to re-exist in a state of elysian happiness.
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