Lyrics of Earth

<h2><SPAN name="THE_SUN_CUP" id="THE_SUN_CUP"></SPAN>THE SUN CUP</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The earth is the cup of the sun,<br/></span> <span class="i0">That he filleth at morning with wine,<br/></span> <span class="i0">With the warm, strong wine of his might<br/></span> <span class="i0">From the vintage of gold and of light,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Fills it, and makes it divine.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">And at night when his journey is done,<br/></span> <span class="i0">At the gate of his radiant hall,<br/></span> <span class="i0">He setteth his lips to the brim,<br/></span> <span class="i0">With a long last look of his eye,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And lifts it and draineth it dry,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Drains till he leaveth it all<br/></span> <span class="i0">Empty and hollow and dim.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">And then, as he passes to sleep,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Still full of the feats that he did,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Long ago in Olympian wars,<br/></span> <span class="i0">He closes it down with the sweep<br/></span> <span class="i0">Of its slow-turning luminous lid,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Its cover of darkness and stars,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Wrought once by Heph&aelig;stus of old<br/></span> <span class="i0">With violet and vastness and gold.<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p style="width: 50%; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 40px;">The first edition of this book consists of five hundred copies, printed by the Boston Engraving and McIndoe Printing Company, Boston, during March, 1896, with fifty additional copies on Arnold paper.</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />