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Vernet, preserving substances, April 24

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465

POETRY.

KING ARTHUR.

(By Sir E. Bulwer Lytton.)

Arthur visits the Coral Hall of the Three Kings-The Choice of the Three Arches He turns from the First and Second Arch, and beholds himself in the Third a Corpse The Sleeping King rises at Arthur's Question, " If his Death shall be in vain?"-The Vision of times to be-Cœur de Lion and the Age of ChivalryThe Tudors-Henry VII.-the Restorer of the Line of Arthur and the founder of Civil Freedom-Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought-Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry-The Union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty."

LI.

So turn'd with generous tears in manly eyes
The hardy Lord of heaven-taught Chivalry;
Lo the third arch and last! -In moonlight rise
The Cymrian rocks, dark-shining from the sea,
And all those rocks, some patriot war, foregone,
Hallows with grassy mound and starlit stone.

LII.

And where the softest falls the loving light,

He sees himself, stretch'd lifeless on the sward,
And by the corpse, with sacred robes of white
Leans on his ivory harp a lonely Bard;
Yea, to the Dead the sole still watchers given
Are the Fame-Singer and the Hosts of Heaven.

LIII.

But on the kingly front the kingly crown

Rests;-the pale right hand grasps the diamond glaive;
The brow, on which ev'n strife hath left no frown,

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Calm in the halo Glory gives the Brave.

Mortal, is this thy choice?" the Genius cried.

Here Death; there Pleasure; and there Pomp!-decide!"

LIV.

"Death," answer'd Arthur, "is nor good nor ill
Save in the ends for which men die-and Death

Can oft achieve what Life may not fulfil,

And kindle earth with Valour's dying breath;
But oh, one answer to one terror deign,
My land-my people!—is that death in vain ?"
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LV.

Mute droop'd the Genius, but the unquiet form
Dreaming beside its brother king, arose.
Tho' dreaming still: As leaps the sudden storm
On sands Arabian, as with spasms and throes
Bursts the Fire-mount by soft Parthenopé,
Rose the veil'd Genius of the Things to be!

LVI.

Shook all the hollow caves;-with tortur'd groan,
Shook to their roots in the far core of hell;
Deep howl'd to deep-the monumental throne
Of the dead Giant rock'd;-each coral cell
Flash'd quivering billow like. Unshaken smil'd,
From the calm ruby base, the thorn-crown'd Child.

LVII.

The Genius rose; and thro' the phantom arch
Glided the Shadows of His own pale dreams;
The mortal saw the long procession march

Beside that image which his lemur seems:
An armed King-three lions on his shield-
First by the Bard-watch'd Shadow paused and kneel'd.

LVIII.

Kneel'd, there, his train-upon each mailed breast
A red cross stamp'd; and deep as from a sea
With all its waves-full voices murmur'd-" Rest
Ever unburied, Sire of Chivalry!

Ever by Minstrel watch'd, and Knight ador'd,
King of the halo-brow and diamond sword!"

LIX.

Then, as from all the courts of all the earth,
The reverent pilgrims, countless, clustering came;
They whom the seas of fabled Sirens girth,

Or Baltic freezing in the Boreal flame;

Or they, who watch the Star of Bethlem quiver
By Carmel's Olive mount and Judah's river.

LX.

From violet Provence comes the Troubadour ;
Ferrara sends her clarion-sounding son;
Comes from Iberian halls the turban'd Moor
With cymbals chiming to the clarion ;
And, with large stride, amid the gaudier throng,
Stalks the vast Scald of Scandinavian song.

LXI.

Pass'd he who bore the lions and the cross,
And all that gorgeous pageant left the space
Void as a heart that mourns the golden loss
Of young illusions beautiful. A Race
Sedate, supplants upon the changeful stage,
Light's early sires-the Song-World's hero-age.

LXII.

Slow come the Shapes from out the dim Obscure,
A noon-like quiet circles swarming bays,
Seas gleam with sails, and wall-less towns secure,
Rise from the donjon sites of antique days;

Lo, the calm sovereign of that sober reign!
Unarm'd,-with burghers in his pompless train.

LXIII.

And by the corpse of Arthur kneels that king,
And murmurs,
"Father of the Tudor, hail !
To thee nor bays, nor myrtle wreath I bring;
But in thy Son, the Dragon-born prevail,
And in my rule Right first deposes Wrong;
And first the Weak undaunted face the Strong."

LXIV.

He pass'd-Another, with a Nero's frown,
Shading the quick light of impatient eyes;
Strides on-and casts his sceptre, clattering, down,
And from the sceptre rushingly arise
Fierce sparks; along the heath they hissing run,
And the dull earth glows livid as a sun.

LXV.

And there is heard afar the hollow crash

Of ruin ;-wind-borne, on the flames are driven: But where, round falling shrines, they coil and flash, A seraph's hand extends a scroll from heaven,

And the rude shape cries loud, "Behold, ye blind, I who have trampled Men, have freed the Mind!"

LXVI.

So laughing grim, pass'd the Destroyer on;

And, after two pale shadows, to the sound

Of mutes more musical than Helicon,

A manlike Woman march'd:-The graves around Yawn'd, and the ghosts of Knighthood, more serene In death, arose, and smil'd upon the Queen.