The New Day: Sonnets By Thomas Gordon Hake: With a Portrait of the Author by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Edited, with a Preface, by W. Earl Hodgson |
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XXV.
[Should she at times seem almost bent on ill]
Should she at times seem almost bent on ill,Not all her moods to poetry belong,
Her savage passions other ends fulfil;
But these are not the welcome themes of song.
Ideal sympathy in lofty minds
Becomes the essence of divinest verse;
A self-engendered music through it winds,
That sweetest voices only can rehearse.
So feeling deepens fathomless for good,
Scouting such triumphs as of battle-fields,
Reaped by the shedding of another's blood.
Dead be the pompous boasts of swords and shields!
These let dramatic genius bear away;
Well might their terrors comedy array.
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