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Excerpt from Helen and Other Poems Helen Before the Coming of the Greeks to Troy I know not why, yet these fair nights and days Filled full to overflowing with the breath Of roses, and the faint far-wafted scent Of distant valleys, that lay burdens on The wings of passing winds - spices and flowers - Still leave me with desires unfulfilled. I say I know not why - I should delight In lovely scenes and dreams well-nigh wrought out In splendour of all life - but yet there comes Upon my soul a loneliness perchance At deepest noon when sleep in on the sea, And hushed are all the birds, and on the fields Peace reigns amid the poppies and the corn. Yea, these long summer hours are sweet indeed And all these lordly palaces are mine To roam from echoing chamber marble-paved, Through corridors of porphyry, richly decked With statuary and all that glads the eye And ministers to mind and intellect; But when all else is deep in rest, there creeps Soft as tho' syllabled by lips unseen About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.