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While you, my dear spouses, so quietly slept—
The Hens
What kindness, what sacrifice, wonderful bird!
The Cock
All night for your safety my slumber I scorn;
Now when I would utter my ode to the morn
He mimics my melody with his fog-horn.
Wake! Wake!
I spy from my eyrie up here on this heap
That I am myself and the world is asleep.
The Ass
The style of these birds is too fine for to-day;
I see I must waken the world with my bray.
The Pigs
All night we have starved—not a crust, not a crum
And lain awake thinking of breakfast to come;
If we grunt all together, perhaps we’ll get some.
The Hunter
I spring from my bed like one from the dead,
I leap from my lair like the fawn;
The still stars are flashing their fires overhead,
And lo the white light of the dawn.
I rise from my dreams to plunge in the streams;
I run in the rainbows of dew;
I bathe in the wind and the warm sunbeams,
And drink of the light of the blue.
I am strong, I am wise; there is fire in my eyes;
My thews are of marble and blood;
I am that that I am, whate’er may arise;
I am Might, I am Man, I am God.
The Philosopher
Still weary, I wake to watch the dawn break,
Victorious o’er all unawares;
For wisdom is born ’twixt the night and the morn
On the lips of the passionate stars,
As they faint at the gray pale face of day
Peering through cloudy bars.
With my hands so old I gather the gold
Of the flowers around me spread;
For every one is sprouted and spun
From the bones of a wise man dead;
And I plant them again with wisdom and pain,
Until they be perfected.
I am weak, I am old, but I gather the gold
From the sifted sands of the sod,
To crown man a king over everything
On a pinnacle yet untrod;
And when I have done then Heaven is won:
I am Mind, I am Man, I am God.
(The Sun rises with a thunder-clap of light.)
The Sun
From the throng’d and thick world under,
I arise with step of thunder.
Through the mantle of my fire,
Through my flaming locks of hair,
Glows the form that all desire,
But more bright than they can bear;
For although I make men see,
None can dare to gaze on me.
Whether I rise in fire or blood,
Mortals hail me lord or god.
Then, before my battling knees,
Bubbling boil the surging seas,
And the clouds are writhing brent
By my fiery chastisement.
With my right hand held on high,
I let Life, the Angel, fly;
With my left, I grip and quell
Death, the Old Man, drag’d from hell.
But ye men, who bow so low
At my gorgeous orient, know
That for ever in chains I go.
I am lord for I am slave;
Conqueror because I save;
Master for I must obey;
God because I burn away.
Though my lordly planets pace,
Peers before my sovran face,
In them every grain of sand
Governs me with like command.
So within my empery,
Only he who serves is free
And shall win the victory.
The Boy awakes
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