Glenaveril; Or, the Metamorphoses: A Poem in Six Books (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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9781330982471: Glenaveril; Or, the Metamorphoses: A Poem in Six Books (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Glenaveril; Or, the Metamorphoses: A Poem in Six Books

Life and Death darkly jostled in the door That opes and shuts upon the days of man The sire had lived scarce thirty years before The sireless son his orphaned life began. That fragile ark in its small bosom bore A race which else had perished, tho' its span Was shorter than a cubit's when one bell Rang birth and burial, welcome and farewell.

Long ere the child hath left its mother's knee The web of the man's character is spun.

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Excerpt from Glenaveril; Or, the Metamorphoses: A Poem in Six Books

Glenaveril.

III.

Long ere the child hath left its mothers knee
The web of the mans character is spun;
Those future paths, no living eye may see,
Ere life's beginning were by Fate begun;
And all the living do, and all they be,
Proceeds from what the dead have been, or done;
For Fate hath no finality on earth.
This is the story of Glenaveril's birth: -

IV.

'Twas nigh the ending of the year and day,
And both in sombre golden splendour glowed;
October prone upon the hillside lay,
Down-drooping, half asleep, his fervid load
Of loosened fruitage; when along the way,
Full light of heart, a youthful horseman rode
With heedless hand, at rapid pace, not knowing
That Death, by chance, the selfsame way was going.

V.

Youth, in its saucy certitude of joy,
Slights and offends, by noticing it not,
The sadness of that shrouded majesty
Whose unseen power is jealous when forgot.
The Austrian Gessler hung his bonnet high
Upon a pole in some conspicuous spot,
And bade the surly Switzer doff his own,
Passing the symbol of an unseen crown.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.