The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Chapter 148 : ? 1815. FOOTNOTES: [425:1] First published in _Sibylline Leaves_, 1817: included in 18

? 1815.

FOOTNOTES:

[425:1] First published in _Sibylline Leaves_, 1817: included in 1828, 1829, and 1834.

[425:2] Halitus = anima animae tabernaculum _MS. Note_ (? _S. T. C._)

LINENOTES:

[5] are] _are_ S. L., 1828, 1829. whole] _whole_ S. L., 1828, 1829.

[19] the] each 1887-80, 1893.

SONG[426:1]

FROM _ZAPOLYA_

A Sunny shaft did I behold, From sky to earth it slanted: And poised therein a bird so bold-- Sweet bird, thou wert enchanted!

He sank, he rose, he twinkled, he trolled 5 Within that shaft of sunny mist; His eyes of fire, his beak of gold, All else of amethyst!

And thus he sang: 'Adieu! adieu!

Love's dreams prove seldom true. 10 The blossoms they make no delay: The sparkling dew-drops will not stay.

Sweet month of May, We must away; Far, far away! 15 To-day! to-day!'

1815.

FOOTNOTES:

[426:1] First published in _Zapolya_, 1817 (Act II, Scene i, ll. 65-80).

First collected in 1844. Two MSS. are extant, one in the possession of Mr. John Murray (_MS. M._), and a second in the possession of the Editor (_MS. S. T. C._). For a prose version of Glycine's Song, probably a translation from the German, vide Appendices of this edition.

LINENOTES:

t.i.tle] Sung by Glycine in _Zapolya_ 1893: Glycine's Song MS. M.

[1] A pillar grey did I behold MS. S. T. C.

[4] A faery Bird that chanted MS. S. T. C.

[6] sunny] s.h.i.+ny MS. S. T. C.

[11, 12] om. MS S. T. C., MS. M.

HUNTING SONG[427:1]

FROM _ZAPOLYA_

Up, up! ye dames, and la.s.ses gay!

To the meadows trip away.

'Tis you must tend the flocks this morn, And scare the small birds from the corn.

Not a soul at home may stay: 5 For the shepherds must go With lance and bow To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day.

Leave the hearth and leave the house To the cricket and the mouse: 10 Find grannam out a sunny seat.

With babe and lambkin at her feet.

Not a soul at home may stay: For the shepherds must go With lance and bow 15 To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day.

1815.

FOOTNOTES:

[427:1] First published in _Zapolya_ (Act IV, Scene ii, ll. 56-71).

First collected, 1844.

LINENOTES:

t.i.tle] Choral Song 1893.

FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY[427:2]

FROM THE ITALIAN OF GUARINI

FAITH

Let those whose low delights to Earth are given Chaunt forth their earthly Loves! but we Must make an holier minstrelsy, And, heavenly-born, will sing the Things of Heaven.

CHARITY

But who for us the listening Heart shall gain? 5 Inaudible as of the sphere Our music dies upon the ear, Enchanted with the mortal Syren's strain.