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\n<\/strong>(from Empedocles on Etna1<\/sup><\/em>)<\/p>\n
Through the black, rushing smoke-bursts,<\/p>\n
Thick breaks the red flame.<\/p>\n
All Etna heaves fiercely<\/p>\n
Her forest-clothed frame.<\/p>\n
\u22c5<\/span><\/p>\n Not here, O Apollo!<\/p>\n Are haunts meet for thee.<\/p>\n But, where Helicon breaks down<\/p>\n In cliff to the sea.<\/p>\n \u22c5<\/span><\/p>\n Where the moon-silver\u2019d inlets<\/p>\n Send far their light voice<\/p>\n Up the still vale of Thisbe,<\/p>\n O speed, and rejoice!<\/p>\n \u22c5<\/span><\/p>\n On the sward at the cliff-top,<\/p>\n Lie strewn the white flocks;<\/p>\n On the cliff-side, the pigeons<\/p>\n Roost deep in the rocks.<\/p>\n \u22c5<\/span><\/p>\n In the moonlight the shepherds,<\/p>\n Soft lull\u2019d by the rills,<\/p>\n Lie wrapt in their blankets,<\/p>\n Asleep on the hills.<\/p>\n \u22c5<\/span><\/p>\n Matthew Arnold2<\/sup><\/p><\/div>\n \u2014What forms are these coming<\/p>\n So white through the gloom?<\/p>\n What garments out-glistening<\/p>\n The gold-flower\u2019d broom?<\/p>\n \u22c5<\/span><\/p>\n What sweet-breathing Presence<\/p>\n Out-perfumes the thyme?<\/p>\n What voices enrapture<\/p>\n The night\u2019s balmy prime?\u2014<\/p>\n \u22c5<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018Tis Apollo comes leading<\/p>\n His choir, The Nine.<\/p>\n \u2014The Leader is fairest,<\/p>\n But all are divine.<\/p>\n \u22c5<\/span><\/p>\n They are lost in the hollows.<\/p>\n They stream up again.<\/p>\n What seeks on this mountain<\/p>\n The glorified train?\u2014<\/p>\n \u22c5<\/span><\/p>\n They bathe on this mountain,<\/p>\n In the spring by their road.<\/p>\n Then on to Olympus,<\/p>\n Their endless abode. \u2014Whose praise do they mention,<\/p>\n Of what is it told?\u2014<\/p>\n What will be for ever.<\/p>\n What was from of old.<\/p>\n \u22c5<\/span><\/p>\n First hymn they the Father<\/p>\n Of all things: and then,<\/p>\n The rest of Immortals,<\/p>\n The action of men.<\/p>\n \u22c5<\/span><\/p>\n The Day in his hotness,<\/p>\n The strife with the palm;<\/p>\n The Night in her silence,<\/p>\n The Stars in their calm.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n![\"Matthew](\"https:\/\/exit78.com\/poems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/matthew-Arnold.jpg\" "\\"Matthew")
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\nBiographical information on Matthew Arnold<\/h3>\n
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