Certain stanzas once intended for the original are here given. They are set down according to the chapters in which they were to have appeared.
Chapter Two
Of trees that stirred in early Spring
The slow sap moving in their veins;
Of flowers that dyed the woodland slopes
The primrose pale, and daisy-chains;
Sun-kissed betimes, or overmourned
By shimmery tears of sobbing rains.
Chapter Four
And all night long the restless sea
Against its barriers rose and fell,
Till grey-eyed Dawn, by lonely sands
Saw flash and fade the last broad swell,
Before her there the ebb-tide's gleam
And at her feet a murmuring shell.
And then were heard the Elder Bards
In full, Prophetic tone sublime,
Their eyes ablaze with ecstacy
And on their lips the living rhyme;
King-honored in an age of Kings
And on their beards the frosts of Time.
Chapter Eight
And when a-down the bare brown lanes
Pattered the swift, white feet of Spring,
I saw the velvet-golden flash
That marked the yellow-hammer's wing
A-curve on high; and later heard
The robin, and the blue-bird sing.
Far seaward on unnumbered isles
Mid scent of spice and drowsy balm,
The lotos-eating Islanders
Lay soothed to sleep by utter calm;
Low at their feet the pulsing tides
And o'er their heads the tufted palm.
Chapter Nine
Stark warriors of the Age of Stone
With pristine valor all elate,
Who sought and slew the great Cave Bear
And robbed the tigress of her mate;
And, weaponed with the ax and spear,
Defied the towering mammoth's hate.
And slant-eyed Mongols, yellow-skinned,
Who traversed Western Steppes afar,
Drank mare's milk, and observed their flocks
White-clustered 'neath the Morning Star;
Or, sallying forth with lance and bow
Engaged in fierce Nomadic war.
On vine-clad hills was found the Gaul;
Above him glistened Alpine snows:
And lower down where valleys lay
Loved of the lily and the rose,
By moon-light tranced, the nightingale
Sang silvery-sweet adagios.
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