| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1089. Maurice de Guérin |
| | | By Maurice Francis Egan |
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| 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. | 5 |
| Brought charmëd 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, | 10 |
| 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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