charmed

No, my friend, if you wish to be told, it was this above all things,

This that charmed me, ah, yes, even this, that she held me to nothing.

No, I could talk as I pleased; come close; fasten ties, as I fancied;

With Brain-worm and his transformations, I must

own, I am not highly charmed ; he is busy in the plot,

but not ornamental to it, nor always within the verge

And now, reader, when thou art fired into rage or melted into pity by

their tragic scenes, charmed with the genteel elegance or bursting into

laughter at their comic humour, canst thou not drop the intervening ages,

And rubber heeled.

Here priests and wavering want are charmed.

And shadows fall here like the shark's

That ever strives to clear, but never clears

The dimness of a charmed antiquity.

So to the sheltered end of many a year

He charmed the seasons out with pageantry,

Wearing upon his forehead, with no fear,

Where the raven croaked loud like the ploughman ill-bred,

But the lark high above charmed me all the day long,

So I sat down and joined in the chorus of song.

Neo-British bobby giants:

A man by pea-green powder charmed,

For down he dropped unharmed.