Loved alike by Air and Water
Aye must be Thessalia’s daughter;
To us, Olympian hearts, are given
Spells that draw the moon from heaven.
All that Egypt’s learning wrought—
All that Persia’s Magian taught—
Won from song, or wrung from flowers,
Or whisper’d low by fiend—are ours.
Spectre of the viewless air!
Hear the blind Thessalian’s prayer!
By Erictho’s art, that shed
Dews of life when life was fled—
By lone Ithaca’s wise king,
Who could wake the crystal spring
To the voice of prophecy?
By the lost Eurydice,
Summon’d from the shadowy throng,
As the muse-son’s magic song—
By the Colchian’s awful charms,
When fair-haired Jason left her arms-
Spectre of the airy halls,
One who owns thee duly calls!
Breathe along the brimming bowl,
And instruct the fearful soul
In the shadowy things that lie
Dark in dim futurity.
Come, wild demon of the air,
Answer to thy votary’s prayer!
Come! oh, come!
And no god on heaven or earth—
Not the Paphian Queen of Mirth,
Not the vivid Lord of Light,
Nor the triple Maid of Night,
Nor the Thunderer’s self shall be
Blest and honour’d more than thee!
Come! oh, come!
(Edward George Bulwer-Lytton)
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