Madmoments: or First Verseattempts By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison |
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AFTER READING WORDSWORTH'S LAODOMIA. |
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AFTER READING WORDSWORTH'S LAODOMIA.
Oh godlike Bard, how hast thou roused me—meThe godlike; not this common, everyday
And hackneyed Being, but the Angel, yea,
The Angel I was once, and still should be,
And which I grow again in reading thee.
Oh that these Feelings could endure for aye,
The calm, deep Glance—the Consciousness—the Ray
Of placid Light thrown over all I see.
What now I feel and think, I cannot speak!
All Utterance, save one alone, is weak;
And that is stilly in each Act and Thought
To show how deeply upon me hath wrought
The Writer's Spirit, so sublime yet meek,
The noblest that since Christ his Word has taught;
And who, like him too, in his Work has sought
God's Glory, not his own—so do thou seek
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On all the Godlike stamp, with which thou'rt fraught!
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