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SONG OF RUARK TO BHANAVAR THE BEAUTIFUL by GEORGE MEREDITH

Poet Analysis

First Line: SHALL I COUNSEL THE MOON IN HER ASCENDING?
Last Line: FOR A DANGER AND DOLOUR IS THY WENDING!
Subject(s): MOON; SINGING & SINGERS;

SHALL I counsel the moon in her ascending?
Stay under that tall palm-tree through the night;
Rest on the mountain-slope
By the couching antelope,
O thou enthroned supremacy of light!

And for ever the lustre thou art lending,
Lean on the fair long brook that leaps and leaps, --
Silvery leaps and falls.
Hang by the mountain walls,
Moon! and arise no more to crown the steeps,
For a danger and dolour is thy wending!



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