Poems and Ballads (Third Series)Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon CharlesSwinburne—Vol. III
Sweet Echo shall yield thee not hearing:

What have we to do with thee?

Go.

THALASSIUS

Ay!

Such wrath on thy nostril quivers

As once in Sicilian heat

Bade herdsmen quail, and the rivers

Shrank, leaving a path for thy feet

Dry?

[Pg 217]

Nay,

Low down in the hot soft hollow

Too snakelike hisses thy spleen:

"O sea-stray, seed of Apollo!"

What ill hast thou heard or seen?

Say.

Man

Knows well, if he hears beside him

The snarl of thy wrath at noon,


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