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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN DALMATIA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poet's Biography
First Line: A brotherhood of bleached, air-scourged peaks
Last Line: Pauses to gaze adown, and, smiling, dives.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Youth; Dead, The; Ocean
First Line: A brotherhood of bleached, air-scourged peaks
Last Line: Pauses to gaze adown, and, smiling, dives.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Youth; Dead, The; Ocean
A brotherhood of bleached, air-scourged peaks
In desolation watch the Illyrian sea.
Them twice the lidless day brings ecstasy;
Their leperous fronts but twice a splendor freaks.
Once, when the anguish-heedful dawn unspeaks
Their woe with rich, deep-blushed divinity;
Again, when 'neath eve's balm they tower free
Like Tyrian tents of purple-amorous sheiks.
As they with light, so man with vision twice
Scorns pain. First, when the bowl of life in bliss
Youth holds, sees all -- grape, dregs, and sleepy spice --
Then stoops his head to drink as tho' to kiss.
And last, when to the verge of death he strives,
Pauses to gaze adown, and, smiling, dives.
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