In Cornwall and Across the Sea With Poems Written in Devonshire. By Douglas B. W. Sladen |
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SIR HUMPHREY DAVY'S SEAT, GULVAL CARN. |
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SIR HUMPHREY DAVY'S SEAT, GULVAL CARN.
Mousehole, Penzance, St Michael's at my feet,
Severed by stretch of hill and rock and sand,
But linked together with a gleaming band
Of glassy waves. This was Sir Humphrey's seat,
Which in bright youth he sought, for converse sweet,
As youthful genius will in every land,
With the shy Muse of Poesy, and scanned
The bay below and moors above replete
With Beauty's grace and Freedom's.
Severed by stretch of hill and rock and sand,
But linked together with a gleaming band
Of glassy waves. This was Sir Humphrey's seat,
Which in bright youth he sought, for converse sweet,
As youthful genius will in every land,
With the shy Muse of Poesy, and scanned
The bay below and moors above replete
With Beauty's grace and Freedom's.
Few had thought,
Unless they read the story of his youth,
That first his lamp the sage to Fancy brought
And Wisdom afterward. But love of truth,
Like love of fame, imagination needs
To nerve it and inspire it to great deeds.
Unless they read the story of his youth,
That first his lamp the sage to Fancy brought
And Wisdom afterward. But love of truth,
Like love of fame, imagination needs
To nerve it and inspire it to great deeds.
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