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Only a windlike chant would do something with an undertone of human despair, outsoared by brave, savage flights of invincible soul-hope great virile singing man-cries, winged as the starlight, weird as space Whitman sublimated, David's soul poured out in symphony. I started another going.
There is both pathos and unconscious irony in his making these two poets the chief mourners, when we remember what Byron wrote about Keats in "Don Juan", and what Moore afterwards recorded of Shelley; and when we think, moreover, how far both Keats and Shelley have outsoared Moore, and disputed with Byron his supreme place in the heaven of poetry.
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny, and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain; Nor, when the spirit's self has ceased to burn, With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn.
The pain which had filled these weeks with bitter human anguish had been the process of some mysterious ennoblement. She had been found "worthy to die." In the peerage of God's creatures, she had now outsoared those whom she loved. The nature of it was a mystery, but no one could look on her face and doubt that a great honour had come to little Jenny.
Thus are all anxieties soothed, and the honours offered to her virtuous spirit shall be a glorious repayment of the ideal that will ever illuminate my soul." The Empress was speechless. She had borne the Emperor in her womb, but the philosopher outsoared her comprehension.
Only those who live in the atmosphere of mystery can think rightly about what lies in the mind and heart of the true magician. "As I before hinted, 'Ilfra the Understanding One' had found out the secret; her soul had outsoared that of her father and of all the sages for many miles around, and she would have revealed her knowledge both to her father and to me, but for one thing.
He has outsoared the shadow of our night. As human life was in the last stanza represented as a dream, so the state of existence in which it is enacted is here figured as night. From the contagion of the world's slow stain.
On another occasion Betteridge walked quietly up to him, handed him a Shelley, and without any warning suddenly shrieked out: "He hath outsoared the shadow of our night." Finnemore looked at him sadly: "My dear Betteridge, so early in the morning!" By many little things his life was made wretched for him. But yet he would not have chosen any other profession.
The Telegraph was full of the better, crammed and packed with tight columns of it. The better burst aspiringly from the tops of columns on the first page and outsoared the very title of the paper.
At your age I only liked Shelley. I can remember sobbing over him in the garden. He has outsoared the shadow of our night, Envy and calumny and hate and pain you remember? Can touch him not and torture not again From the contagion of the world's slow stain. How divine! and yet what nonsense!" She looked lightly round the room. "I always think it's living, not dying, that counts.
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