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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BROWNING TO BEN EZRA A CENTENARY SOLILOQUY I A hundred years ? Hardly I understand: Unriddle it, Rabbi. Through the Abbey stones Hearken ? the hushed and reverent monotones, The shuffled feet, that pause ' Here lie his bones, Who passed away From earth, perhaps to heaven, Aged seventy-seven; Born on this self-same day, The seventh May, A century gone.' ? Look, Rabbi: In my hand I hold this little watch they call their world, Open it with my thumb, where lo each cog, Each golden wheel, on star-gemmed axis whirled, Pulses with delicate action. ? Pray you, jog My laggard mind once more ? They state, you say, This was my time-piece: on this crystal face I 'd pore, and through dim introspections trace The portent of the tickings underneath, The mainspring of the action. May be so, For you should know, Ben Ezra. All I know Is, that the ticks grew fainter, as it slipped Under my pillow. Then I fell asleep, And have been busy dreaming. That was death, They say, ? death. Sudden the quick hair-spring skipped A turn, trembled, and stopped short. ?Much too deep For me ?Somehow I don't conceive the soul Like to a watch unwound. Yet now, they say, I am a poet who has passed away, With many common millions, to a goal Unkenned. ? Here 's Limbo, then: and I, a shade, Soliloquize now, in this cloistral corner, Among pale forms of other ghosts forlorner, With you, Ben Ezra, whom alive I made The Rabbi of my rhyme. ? A quaint conceit Suppose we grant it. So, then Let us sit On dust of kings and make a rhyme of it Together?one dead poet and one rabbi Conceived and born of him. While you keep tab, I Will muse the elegy, and score our text: R. Browning to Ben Ezra, add...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217413688 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217413684 |
| Weight | 0.19 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.11 In |
| List Price | $9.87 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 48 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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