The Visionary A Fragment: With Other Poems. By Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley |
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SONNET.
XV.
TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
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SONNET. XV. TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
1834.
Now, Curtius-like, thou hast leapt—calm, fearless, loneInto the Gulph, and that dread Gulph shall close,
But not on thee—the troubles and the woes
Surely shall find their end!—Thou that hast won
The orbed Crowns of burning Victory—whose star shone
High in the Ascendant—above his who chose
This Realm or that, and straightway did depose
Their rightful Lords and seized them for his own.
Oh! thou the Greatest of Earth's Warrior Lords,
Thou, thou hast leapt into that Gulph of Gloom!—
And hark! the wind seems charged with prophet-words—
“Ye shall be saved from the dark threatened doom!”
Let the Envious, the Ingrate sheathe their tongue's sharp swords—
May Concord now her sweet Sway re-assume!
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