Madmoments: or First Verseattempts By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison |
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WHAT SHOULD BE MOVEABLE AND WHAT IMMOVEABLE. |
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WHAT SHOULD BE MOVEABLE AND WHAT IMMOVEABLE.
Let Thought and Feeling be awake in thee,As lightlystirred as Leaves upon the Oak,
In Sunshine quivering to the slightest Stroke
Of Zephyr, or the Bird's least Breath: but be
Thy Principles as firmset as that Tree
On its deep Roots; that these, e'en when the Shock
Of earthly Sorrow or of Ill have broke
The Fruits of Promise, when they seemed to the
Fond Eye of Hope sureripening, may still
The Sap unto a nobler Growth supply,
And with maturer Juice the Fruitage fill.
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Which the Tree lives, still tend, so too let thy
Deep Thoughts towards the Centreprinciple
Of spiritual Gravitation bend,
Thence draw still their Beginning and their End!
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