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It Was A Sultry Summer Noon, The Hottest...
PAET II . From a dreaming boy to a thinking man ,
From a score to a score and ten ; f Winters and summers have passed away
Full tenere one autumn evening grey , , We see our Lysias again .
On a sofa stretched , wearied with work , A closed book by his side ;
For many a toilsome happy hour Had he spent in weaving a beautiful , bower ,
To please his next year ' s bride . Now the book he opes ; but seehe starts !
, 'Tis that volume of Grecian song ! For ten long years untouched it has lain ,
It was linked too close with a restless pain , _' Tormenting his soul so long .
The book is closed , and pondering much Amid the grey twilight ;
Keturns that vision bright and clear , Like a shrouded sunbeam drawing near ,
All shining mildly bright . An earthly love his being ruled ,
He felt nor hope nor fear ; But angry mem _' ries swelled his heart ,
And mindful of the long-borne smart , Cried sharply , " Wherefore here I
" _Was't not enough to make my youth Dheavilaway ?
rag y To fool me with a dream—a hope Which gave my higher powers no scope ,
My energy no play ?" " True" said the Spirit , soft and low ,
" I , marr'd your aspiration ; That To he day ad a a motto hlet you which had soug you ht thoug , ht
Would rouse pamp a slumbering nation . " He .
" My thanks for that—opinions change , Or much are modified ;
¦ But printed thoughts are chains in ink , Binding the soul one way to think ,.
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/13/