Excerpt from Paris and Helen

Paris and Helen

Part I

Upon Mount Ida in a dark-watered glen
Amid green forests far from living men
Paris was nurtured. Cold, pure water springs
Ripple in shadows and the ousel sings
A tune shade-ruffled with each wandering cloud
That fills the glade, wavering now low, now loud.
In mossy stillness glide the tranquil days
Whose light among the pebbles quietly plays
With no companion. Arachnè from the grass
Hangs on a silver thread o'er running glass
Where lies the image of the fronded Fern -
Spirit of water, arisen in rocky urn,
A dripping shadow of the murmuring stream,
Moist skeleton hanging in days golden beam.
All down the rocky gorge these frail forms lie
Curled sunbeams fallen through the branch-roofed sky
And turned to shadows or to shapes of mist
Secluded from all winds. And ever hissed
The scattered spray showering on leaf and stone

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