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POEMS.
xxxix.
She, flashing forth a haughty smile, began:
"I govern'd men by change, and so I sway'd
All moods. 'Tis long since I have seen a man.
Once, like the moon, I made
She, flashing forth a haughty smile, began:
"I govern'd men by change, and so I sway'd
All moods. 'Tis long since I have seen a man.
Once, like the moon, I made
xl.
"The evershifting currents of the blood
According to my humour ebb and flow.
I have no men to govern in this wood:
That makes my only woe.
"The evershifting currents of the blood
According to my humour ebb and flow.
I have no men to govern in this wood:
That makes my only woe.
xli.
"Nay—yet it chafes me that I could not bend
One will; nor tame and tutor with mine eye
That dull coldblooded Cæsar. Prythee, friend,
Where is Mark Antony?
"Nay—yet it chafes me that I could not bend
One will; nor tame and tutor with mine eye
That dull coldblooded Cæsar. Prythee, friend,
Where is Mark Antony?
xlii.
"By him great Pompey dwarfs and suffers pain,
A mortal man before immortal Mars;
The glories of great Julius lapse and wane,
And shrink from suns to stars.
"By him great Pompey dwarfs and suffers pain,
A mortal man before immortal Mars;
The glories of great Julius lapse and wane,
And shrink from suns to stars.
