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b'EA Robinson read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\nEros Turannos\\nby Edwin Arlington Robinson(1869 \\u2013 1935)\\n\\nShe fears him, and will always ask\\n What fated her to choose him;\\nShe meets in his engaging mask\\n All reasons to refuse him;\\nBut what she meets and what she fears\\nAre less than are the downward years,\\nDrawn slowly to the foamless weirs\\n Of age, were she to lose him.\\n\\nBetween a blurred sagacity\\n That once had power to sound him,\\nAnd Love, that will not let him be\\n The Judas that she found him,\\nHer pride assuages her almost,\\nAs if it were alone the cost.\\u2014\\nHe sees that he will not be lost,\\n And waits and looks around him.\\n\\nA sense of ocean and old trees\\n Envelops and allures him;\\nTradition, touching all he sees,\\n Beguiles and reassures him;\\nAnd all her doubts of what he says\\nAre dimmed with what she knows of days\\u2014\\nTill even prejudice delays\\n And fades, and she secures him.\\n\\nThe falling leaf inaugurates\\n The reign of her confusion;\\nThe pounding wave reverberates\\n The dirge of her illusion;\\nAnd home, where passion lived and died,\\nBecomes a place where she can hide,\\nWhile all the town and harbor side\\n Vibrate with her seclusion.\\n\\nWe tell you, tapping on our brows,\\n The story as it should be,\\u2014\\nAs if the story of a house\\n Were told, or ever could be;\\nWe\\u2019ll have no kindly veil between\\nHer visions and those we have seen,\\u2014\\nAs if we guessed what hers have been,\\n Or what they are or would be.\\n\\nMeanwhile we do no harm; for they\\n That with a god have striven,\\nNot hearing much of what we say,\\n Take what the god has given;\\nThough like waves breaking it may be,\\nOr like a changed familiar tree,\\nOr like a stairway to the sea\\n Where down the blind are driven.\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.'