A perpetual memory and other poems: By Henry Newbolt: With brief memoirs by Walter de la Mare and Ralph Furse and a portrait by Sir William Rothenstein |
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The Second Lesson
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The Second Lesson
O would that it might be my portion in this life
Still to keep reverence in all my words and deeds
By those high Laws that haunt the heav'n from which they came.
Still to keep reverence in all my words and deeds
By those high Laws that haunt the heav'n from which they came.
Skyborn they are, sprung of no man or mortal seed,
Nor fated to be buried by forgetful Time,
For great in these is God and his strength shall not fail.
Nor fated to be buried by forgetful Time,
For great in these is God and his strength shall not fail.
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