Canto I.]
Orion.
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And in the front of Akinetos' cave
Shouting with gladness and resounding 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!"
Shouting with gladness and resounding 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,—lightly wrinkling
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.
Within that cave, passed,—lightly wrinkling
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.
'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,
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,
