{"id":"01KG8C35X00ZGXPD3M6DT9VN3G","cid":"bafkreidoxlhgfrpyu44emzdkaigvwz2ri2qrb657ekv2wouo3lir4vxw4q","type":"chapter","properties":{"end_line":626,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T21:13:56.055Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"THE PHŒNIX AND TURTLE","source_file":"01KG8B30ACS4SPGRMY6A04VQ85","start_line":562,"text":"Let the bird of loudest lay,\nOn the sole Arabian tree,\nHerald sad and trumpet be,\nTo whose sound chaste wings obey.\n\nBut thou shrieking harbinger,\nFoul precurrer of the fiend,\nAugur of the fever’s end,\nTo this troop come thou not near!\n\nFrom this session interdict\nEvery fowl of tyrant wing,\nSave the eagle, feather’d king:\nKeep the obsequy so strict.\n\n27\n\n<!-- [Page 32](arke:01KG8AX1J0M0VJZPHXG8KMK5GS) -->\nTHE PHŒNIX AND TURTLE\nLet the priest in surplice white,\nThat defunctive music can,\nBe the death-divining swan,\nLest the requiem lack his right.\n\nAnd thou treble-dated crow,\nThat thy sable gender makest\nWith the breath thou givest and takest,\n'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.\n\nHere the anthem doth commence:—\nLove and constancy is dead;\nPhoenix and the turtle fled\nIn a mutual flame from hence.\n\nSo they loved, as love in twain\nHad the essence but in one;\nTwo distincts, division none:\nNumber there in love was slain.\n\n28\n\n<!-- [Page 33](arke:01KG8AX1KTJFH5W830N34EB6ZK) -->\nTHE PHŒNIX AND TURTLE\nHearts remote, yet not asunder;\nDistance, and no space was seen\n'Twixt this turtle and his queen:\nBut in them it were a wonder.\n\nSo between them love did shine,\nThat the turtle saw his right\nFlaming in the phœnix’ sight;\nEither was the other’s mine.\n\nProperty was thus appalled,\nThat the self was not the same;\nSingle nature’s double name\nNeither two nor one was called.\n\nReason, in itself confounded,\nSaw division grow together,\nTo themselves yet either neither,\nSimple were so well compounded;\n29\n\n<!-- [Page 34](arke:01KG8AX1HQZW4HEM153PNQQ0DB) -->","title":"THE PHŒNIX AND TURTLE"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8C2FX0TV2WH682P578CDC4","peer_type":"poetry_collection","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG8B30ACS4SPGRMY6A04VQ85","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89JREDR8WY5QQGYR5FZRDY","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8C35WZXCDHENCQQDZKV2ZV","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8C35X0XRT0C6X9VTTMBV7Q","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T21:14:08.672Z","ts":"2026-01-30T21:15:41.127Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}