In Cornwall and Across the Sea With Poems Written in Devonshire. By Douglas B. W. Sladen |
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PERICLES.
He gave its title to the golden primeOf Athens, called the Age of Pericles;
He left a name for arts of war and peace
Scarce-rivalled in two thousand years of time;
But not for this doth he illumine rhyme
Above all heroes of historic Greece;
But that when power might pall or cares might cease,
He lived in love as sunny as his clime.
Surely he was of all men happiest,
The greatest of his country and his age,
And privileged to pillow on the breast
Of that most famous of Eve's family,
Whose name is writ upon Romance's page,
Aspasia of ambrosial memory.
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