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Saturn! sleep on: me thoughtless,^[1] why should I
Thus violate thy slumbrous solitude?
Why should I ope thy melancholy eyes?
Saturn! sleep on, while at thy feet I weep."

As when upon a tranced summer night^[2]
Forests, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,
Dream, and so dream all night without a noise,^[3]
Save from one gradual solitary gust
Swelling upon the silence, dying off,^[4]
As if the ebbing air had but one wave,
So came these words and went; the while in tears
She prest her fair large forehead to the earth,
Just where her fallen hair might spread in curls^[5]
A soft and silken net for Saturn's feet.]
Long, long these two were postured motionless,
Like sculpture builded-up upon the grave
Of their own power. A long awful time
I look'd upon them; still they were the same
The frozen God still bending to the earth,
And the sad Goddess weeping at his feet:
Moneta silent. Without stay or prop
But my own weak mortality, I bore
The load of this eternal quietude,
The unchanging gloom and the three fixed shapes
Ponderous upon my senses, a whole moon;
For by my burning brain I measured sure
Her silver seasons shedded on the night,

1. O, thoughtless, why did I.

2. Add,—Those green-robed senators of mighty woods.
   Tall oaks foe forests

3. Stir.
4. Which comes upon the silence and dies off.

5. She touch'd her fair large forehead to the ground,
   Just where her falling hair might be outspread.