The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume I Part 148

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume I Part 148

? 1815.


FOOTNOTES:


[425:1] First published in _Sibylline Leaves_, 1817: included in 1828, 1829, and 1834.


[425:2] Halitus = anima animae tabernaculum _MS. Note_ (? _S. T. C._)


LINENOTES:


[5] are] _are_ S. L., 1828, 1829. whole] _whole_ S. L., 1828, 1829.


[19] the] each 1887-80, 1893.


SONG[426:1]


FROM _ZAPOLYA_


A Sunny shaft did I behold, From sky to earth it slanted: And poised therein a bird so bold-- Sweet bird, thou wert enchanted!


He sank, he rose, he twinkled, he trolled 5 Within that shaft of sunny mist; His eyes of fire, his beak of gold, All else of amethyst!


And thus he sang: Adieu! adieu!


Loves dreams prove seldom true. 10 The blossoms they make no delay: The sparkling dew-drops will not stay.


Sweet month of May, We must away; Far, far away! 15 To-day! to-day!


1815.


FOOTNOTES:


[426:1] First published in _Zapolya_, 1817 (Act II, Scene i, ll. 65-80).


First collected in 1844. Two MSS. are extant, one in the possession of Mr. John Murray (_MS. M._), and a second in the possession of the Editor (_MS. S. T. C._). For a prose version of Glycines Song, probably a translation from the German, vide Appendices of this edition.


LINENOTES:


t.i.tle] Sung by Glycine in _Zapolya_ 1893: Glycines Song MS. M.


[1] A pillar grey did I behold MS. S. T. C.


[4] A faery Bird that chanted MS. S. T. C.


[6] sunny] shiny MS. S. T. C.


[11, 12] om. MS S. T. C., MS. M.


HUNTING SONG[427:1]


FROM _ZAPOLYA_


Up, up! ye dames, and la.s.ses gay!


To the meadows trip away.


Tis you must tend the flocks this morn, And scare the small birds from the corn.


Not a soul at home may stay: 5 For the shepherds must go With lance and bow To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day.


Leave the hearth and leave the house To the cricket and the mouse: 10 Find grannam out a sunny seat.


With babe and lambkin at her feet.


Not a soul at home may stay: For the shepherds must go With lance and bow 15 To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day.


1815.


FOOTNOTES:


[427:1] First published in _Zapolya_ (Act IV, Scene ii, ll. 56-71).


First collected, 1844.


LINENOTES:


t.i.tle] Choral Song 1893.


FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY[427:2]


FROM THE ITALIAN OF GUARINI


FAITH


Let those whose low delights to Earth are given Chaunt forth their earthly Loves! but we Must make an holier minstrelsy, And, heavenly-born, will sing the Things of Heaven.


CHARITY


But who for us the listening Heart shall gain? 5 Inaudible as of the sphere Our music dies upon the ear, Enchanted with the mortal Syrens strain.