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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MAURICE DE GUERIN, by MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN Poet's Biography
First Line: The old wine filled him, and he saw, with eyes
Last Line: And lost his gods in deep, christ-given rest.
Subject(s): Geurin, Maurice De
First Line: The old wine filled him, and he saw, with eyes
Last Line: And lost his gods in deep, christ-given rest.
Subject(s): Geurin, Maurice De
THE old wine filled him, and he saw, with eyes
Anoint of Nature, fauns and dryads fair
Unseen by others; to him maidenhair
And waxen lilacs, and those birds that rise
A-sudden from tall reeds at slight surprise,
Brought charmed thoughts; and in earth everywhere
He, like sad Jaques, found a music rare
As that of Syrinx to old Grecians wise.
A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he,
He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,
Till earth and heaven met within his breast;
As if Theocritus in Sicily
Had come upon the Figure crucified
And lost his gods in deep, Christ-given rest.
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