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The Newdigate Prize Poem\n\nI950  \nBy JOHN BAYLEY  \n 5  \nBASIL BLACKWELL.OXFORD  \nM CM LI  \n# ELDORADO\n\nThe ships lie anchored,and my mariners  \nAre spent with labour and with salt fatigues.The voyage is done:forgotten are their fears  \nAnd all the unnumbered leagues.  \nSweet river water dandles now and laves  \nOur keels entrenched by many a bitter storm.My bitter purpose drove us o³er the waves  \nAnd brought us to this bourne.  \nTo-day at dawn I heard the sea-birds cry,  \nAnd boughs,green-leaved,broketender through the foamThat dazzled round our prow;then were we nigh,  \nI knew,to my heart's home.  \nThe long low shore rose even from the sea;  \nEarth's swarming fragrance smote the empty air;The tawny broad unruffled estuary  \nOpened before us there.  \nThen silently we drew in to the land  \nSeeking safe anchorage,for white as smokeUpon the outer reef that fringed the strand  \nThe unfettered ocean broke,  \nELDOR ADO  \nAt evening all was still,save where from sleepSome sea-fowl wakened by the soundless lungeOf our keels sliding o'er the tranquil deepDived with low call and plunge.  \nThe sails were furled;watch set;the black night fell;And darkness courses by this solitude:Only at each hour's end the warning bellBreaks in upon my mood.  \nSo am I landed where my heart was set:  \nThrough blind tumultuous years of win and loseAnd tumbling fortunes I did not forget  \nThe way that I must choose  \nTo come at last to power,where I would be;  \nTo rule,be merciless,forgive,and makeMy foemen as my friends who toil for me  \nAnd perish for my sake,一  \n—I,Raleigh,of this squadron Admiral,  \nIn whom an ocean could not quench the fire:Like the lode-stone I stood,and dragged them all  \nIn the track of my desire!  \n*      *  \nA river may be wider than the sea,  \nOur island may be distant as the moon,Leviathan himself oar easily  \nAthwart one locked lagoon  \nELDORA DO  \nBy tempest left upon this golden sand  \nWhen night breaks in a waterfall,and thenThe sun climbs out of my enormous landTo suck all dry again.  \nMy land..unsullied is her antique grace,Her sweetness naked to our swords;Her grandeur calls me from a narrow placeGrand but in dreams and words.  \nGlory has left that isle and flown  \nOn wings across the wild Atlantic streamsTo build with us a city and a throne  \nBeyond the size of dreams.  \nForest or swamp,engirdled by this river,  \nNurtures some figure of the golden timesWho,since that age Saturnian,might be never  \nConceived in other climes.  \nFor in no other quarter of the world  \nLives yet the man unmarred by mortal woundWhom Eve beguiled not,whom no Angel hurledFrom that fair garden ground.  \nGod may be bounded:boundless here is earthAnd teems in continents like stars in air;They wheel and sing with uncorrupted mirthUndarkened by despair.  \n# EL DORADO\n\nAlong a rank hot fever-haunted road,  \nWretches condemned,strapadoed,wrung on rack,Bent beneath guns and oars in groaning loadTill string and sinew crack;  \nBlackened by suns that strike and stab the brains,  \nFrom sky and river flashing blade on blade;And shook with chills that horrify the veins  \nAnd all the heart invade,一  \n—Thus shall we journey.What go we to find?Like Magi toward a new NativityWe travail in the bonds of human-kind—Therefore how will it be  \nWhen that our mortal eyes behold at lastThe immortal palaces?Serene and highAs Heaven,they rise established from the past.  \nThe evil sweats shall dry  \nLike dew upon our faces and our limbs.  \nNo stench nor sore nor sickness shall be there,Nor any evil.Angels singing hymns  \nAnd pacing through the air  \nAre not more airy-light than we shall be  \nWhen our bruised feet first feel the cool of flowers.I see the land,I see the gold,I see  \nAnother life than ours!","cbCaiuwi2RBYF8h4","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuwi2RBYF8h4","pdf",817670,"English","# ELDORAD / ELDORADO\n## The Newdigate Prize Poem\n## Voyage, arrival, and the resolve to rule\n## 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