A region of life divine:
But I reck not—since all that is lovely here,
The beauty of earth—is mine.
ENTHUSIASM.
FROM THE FRENCH OF ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE.
As erst the eagle of the sky
Bore Ganymede to courts of Jove,
Yearning for earth, the unwilling boy
Against the bird imperial strove;
He, while more closely in their clasp