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THE

DEATH OF CENONE,

AKBAR'S DREAM,

AND OTHER POEMS

BY

ALFRED

LORD TENNYSON

POET LAUREATE

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD,

1905

All rights reserved

COPYRIGHT, 1892,

BY MACMILLAN AND CO.

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Their oldest, and the same who firs found

Paris, a naked babe, among the wo Of Ida, following lighted on him then And shouted, and the shepherds L. and came.

One raised the Prince, one sleek: squalid hair,

One kiss'd his hand, another closel eyes,

And then, remembering the gay p mate rear'd

Among them, and forgetful of the m Whose crime had half unpeopled these

All that day long labour'd, hewing pines,

And built their shepherd-prince a fucm pile;

And, while the star of eve was draw light

From the dead sun, kindled the p and all

Stood round it, hush'd, or calling on

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ced, following, as in trance, the silent cry.

e waked a bird of prey that scream'd and past;

e roused a snake that hissing writhed away;

panther sprang across her path, she

heard

e shriek of some lost life among the pines,

t when she gain'd the broader vale, and saw

e ring of faces redden'd by the flames folding that dark body which had lain old in her embrace, paused-and then ask'd

lteringly, 'Who lies on yonder pyre?' t every man was mute for reverence. en moving quickly forward till the heat note on her brow, she lifted up a voice shrill command, 'Who burns upon the pyre?'

hereon their oldest and their boldest said,

[e, whom thou wouldst not heal!' and all at once

e morning light of happy marriage broke

ro' all the clouded years of widowhood, d muffling up her comely head, and crying Tusband!' she leapt upon the funeral pile,

d mixt herself with him and past in fire.

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A man who never changed a word with

men,

Fasted and pray'd, Telemachus the Saint. Eve after eve that haggard anchorite Would haunt the desolated fane, and there

Gaze at the ruin, often mutter low 'Vicisti Galilæe'; louder again, Spurning a shatter'd fragment of the God, Vicisti Galilæe!' but-when now Bathed in that lurid crimson-ask'd 'Is earth

On fire to the West? or is the Demon-god Wroth at his fall?' and heard an answer 'Wake

Thou deedless dreamer, lazying out a life Of self-suppression, not of selfless love.' And once a flight of shadowy fighters

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*Copyright, 1892, by Macmillan & Co.

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