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THE SECEDERS (2) - ZaunköniG - 15.07.2007 1. FAR from the pure Castalian fount our feet Have strayed away where daily we unlearn How Truth is one with Beauty. For we turn No more to hear the strains we sprang to greet When we were young, and love and life were sweet Before the world had taught us how to earn Its baser wealth, and from our doors to spurn The Muse like some poor vagabond and cheat. For we are young, and did not see the baits That in the distance lured us down the roads Where Toil and Care and Doubt, those lurking fates, Subdued our pliant backs to alien loads; Till long since deadened to the Poet's tones, They fall on us as rain on logs and stones. 2. YET what were love, and what were toil and thought, And what were life, bereft of Poesy? Who lingers in a garden where the bee By no rich beds of fragrant flowers is caught — A homely vegetable patch where naught Is prized but for some table-caterer's fee, And Nature pledged to market-ministry? To me another lore was early taught; And rather would I lose the dear delights Of eye and ear, than wilfully forego The power that can transfigure sounds and sights, Can steep the world in symbols, and bestow The free admittance to all depths and heights, And make dull earth a heaven of thought below. |