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Glenaveril, or the Metamorphoses, Vol. 1 of 2: A Poem in Six Books
Excerpt from Glenaveril, or the Metamorphoses, Vol. 1 of 2: A Poem in Six Books
Canto I.
Death.
I.
Born on the day when Lord Glenaveril died
Was Lord Glenaveril; and the sire's last sigh,
Breathing a premature farewell, replied
To the son's first petitionary cry.
On that dim tract which doth two worlds divide
And yet unite, they passed each other by
As strangers, tho' each bore the selfsame name;
The one departing as the other came.
II.
Life and Death darkly jostled in the door
That opes and shuts upon the days of man;
The sire had lived scarce thirty years before
The sireless son his orphaned life began.
That fragile ark in its small bosom bore
A race which else had perished, tho' its span
Was shorter than a cubit's when one bell
Rang birth and burial, welcome and farewell.
Canto I.
Death.
I.
Born on the day when Lord Glenaveril died
Was Lord Glenaveril; and the sire's last sigh,
Breathing a premature farewell, replied
To the son's first petitionary cry.
On that dim tract which doth two worlds divide
And yet unite, they passed each other by
As strangers, tho' each bore the selfsame name;
The one departing as the other came.
II.
Life and Death darkly jostled in the door
That opes and shuts upon the days of man;
The sire had lived scarce thirty years before
The sireless son his orphaned life began.
That fragile ark in its small bosom bore
A race which else had perished, tho' its span
Was shorter than a cubit's when one bell
Rang birth and burial, welcome and farewell.
347 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1885
About the author
Owen Meredith
72 books3 followersPen name of Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, an English statesman and poet who served as Viceroy of India between 1876 and 1880.
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