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The Visionary

A Fragment: With Other Poems. By Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley

Stuart-Wortley, Emmeline (1806-1855)

SONNET. I. TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

SONNET. II. TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

SONNET. III. TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. 1834.

SONNET. IV. TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

SONNET. V. TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

SONNET. VI. TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

SONNET. VII. TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

SONNET. VIII. TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

SONNET. IX. TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

SONNET. X. TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

SONNET. XI. TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

SONNET. XII. TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

SONNET. XIII. TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

SONNET. XIV. TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

SONNET. XV. TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

SONNET. XVI. TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

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SONNET. XIII. TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

1834.

Wisdom's clear eye, to observe and to apprehend,
And loftiest Courage to confront and dare—
Judgment to plan and execute with care—
And Patriotism its holiest fires to lend—
Are thine, Great Chief! and thine it is to rend
Self from thy thoughts—nor even to wish to share
The brilliant honours which the field may bear—
The field of Action!—England's truest friend
As thou hast been her best safeguard—Lo! thy name
Is as a Tower of Strength and of Defence—
Fortune smiles, linked to thine Auspicious Fame!—
Thy Presence—Power seems, and Pre-eminence—
Thy very Life—a bright additional claim
This Land hath on the Grace of Heaven's just Providence!