Faun

O universal lights most glorious, ye that lead the gliding year along the sky! Liber and Ceres mild, if by your bounty hulpen earth once changed Caonian acorn for the plump wheat-star, and mingled with the grape, your newfound gift, the drops of Eschylus.

And ye Fauns, to rustics ever kind, come foot it, Fauns and Dryad maids together, your gifts I sing.

And thou, for whose delight the war-horse first sprang from earth's womb at thy great trident's stroke, Neptune! And Haunter of the Groves, for whom three hundred snow-white heifers browse the brakes, the fertile brakes of Cyaos.

And clothed in power, thy native forest and Lycaean lawns, Pan, shepherd-god, forsaking as the love of thine own Manilus constrains thee, hear and help, O lord of Tegea.

1b, page 75.

Gervase of Tilbury, in his chapter of Fauns and Satyrs, says, quote, There are likewise others whom the vulgar call follets, who inhabit the houses of the simple rustics, and can be driven away neither by holy water nor exorcisms.

And because they are not seen, they afflict those who are entering with stones, billets, and domestic furniture, whose words for certain are heard in the human manner, and their forms do not appear.

Potia Imperialia, D, 1C, 18.

yet does the laden house thus sweat and scarce endures the master great but where he comes the swelling hull stirs and the square grows spherical which whatever its intention is more absurd than it was intended to be marvel also falls into the even commoner error of images which are overdeveloped or distracting which support nothing but their own misshapen bodies and now the salmon-fishers moist their leathern boats begin to hoist and like antipodes in shoes have shot their heads in their canoes of this sort of image a choice collection may be found in johnson's life of cooley but the images in the coy mistress are not only witty but satisfy the elucidation of imagination given by coleridge This power reveals itself in the balance or reconcilement of opposite or discordant qualities, of sameness with difference, of the general with the concrete, the idea with the image, the individual with the representative, the sense of novelty and freshness with old and familiar objects.

a more than usual state of emotion with more than usual order judgment ever awake and steady self-possession with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement coleridge's statement applies also to the following verses which are selected because of their similarity and because they illustrate the market caesura which marvel often introduces in a short line the tawny mowers enter next who seem like israelites to be walking on foot through a green sea and now the meadows fresher dyed whose grass with moister color dashed seems as green silks but nearly washed he hangs in shades the orange bright like golden lamps in a green night annihilating all that's made to a green thought in a green shade had it lived long it would have been lilies without roses within The whole poem from which the last of these quotations is drawn, The Nymph and the Faun, is built upon a very slight foundation, and we can imagine what some of our modern practitioners of slight themes would have made of it.

But we need not descend to an invidious contemporary naity to point the difference.

Here are six lines from The Nymph and the Faun.

I have a garden of my own, but so with roses overgrown and lilies, that you would it guess to be a little wilderness, and all the springtime of the year it only loved it to be there.

And here are five lines from the Nymph's Song to Hylus in The Life and Death of Jason by William Morris.