sinks

From this deep fund our author largely draws,

Nor sinks his credit lower than it was.

Though plays for honour in old time he made,

And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental tea.

The graver prude sinks downward to a Gnome,

In search of mischief still on earth to roam.

When Athens sinks by fates unjust,

When wild barbarians spurn her dust;

Twice, and sobbed into song,

And sank as a flame sinks under;

Then spake, and the speech was thunder,

Here terrace sinks to terrace, arbors close

The ends of dreaming paths; a wanton wind

Wrapping the mists round her withering form,

Day sinks down; and in darkness to-morrow

Travails to birth in the womb of the storm.

Ah, could we once, ere we go, could we stand, while, to ocean descending,

Sinks o'er the yellow dark plain slowly the yellow broad sun,

Stand, from the forest emerging at sunset, at once in the champaign,

Every dell and hollow:

Where the kind rain sinks and sinks,

Green of Spring will follow.