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FULVIA or Supposed Thoughts of a Hooted Candidate in his Garden (2) - ZaunköniG - 27.12.2010 FULVIA, or Supposed Thoughts of a Hooted Candidate in his Garden. Welcome, ye shades of summer eve, that close My day among the tongues of yonder town ! I would not pluck them out nor pin them down, As vengeful Fulvia did with Cicero's — Nor to mere petulance of speech assign The cruel meed of his rare excellence — Enough for me this stillness, and the sense That they no longer vex these ears of mine ; I will not vent my rage on foolish lungs, Nor, even in fancy, re-enact the deed Wrcak'd on the Roman, in the stress and need Of a great anger ; why should ribald songs Scourge like impeaching eloquence ? or why Should either tax our needles for reply ? 'Twas but a moment's ire—the next, withstood — Yet, in that moment, how my hungry spleen Ran to the fierce triumvir's wife for food, Through the long lapse of centuries between ! And, by that ready reference, proved its kin ; Strange ! how my angry mood sped back through time To gust my fancy with the ancient crime ; Impracticable thought ! unwelcome sin ! I gauged again the depth of years, and found My Master, pleading in His hour of grief. For friends who did not minister relief, And foes who mock'd Him, and stood brawling round His divine silence !—How distinct they were, — The woman's \engeancc and the Saviour's prayer ! |