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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XXVIII.
[Save up the seconds of seed-bearing thought]
Save up the seconds of seed-bearing thought:The soul a hundred-fold its fruit returns.
Each moment's miracle comes ready-wrought,
Whence every man may take the one he earns.
You I have seen upon the mountain height,
When listening to the ocean's softest chime,
Dallying with dreams beyond all common sight,
Whence sprang a sonnet worthy of all time.
Many there are who on the path of fame
May take the brilliant idler by surprise;
One happy thought has made a lasting name;
A single utterance may immortalize.
All this may be again; nay, one charmed line
May live for ever on the scroll divine.
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