The poetical remains of William Sidney Walker ... Edited with a memoir of the author by the Rev. J. Moultrie |
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SONNET
TO J. M. Kemble. |
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SONNET TO J. M. Kemble.
Speed on thy journey, Kemble, unsubduedBy labour, where the voice of Truth august
Points thy steep path; speed on in fearless trust,
Though blind neglect oppose, and clamour rude.
Not to light end, true soul, hast thou eschew'd
The meanness of ambition, and wild lust
Of joys, that lay our nobler powers in dust,
To toil obscure and thoughtful solitude,
Wedding thy bloom of life. Thou sit'st, meseems,
By a lone watch-fire, with unsleeping eye
And patient love, nursing its languid gleams
In darkness and in silence; but ere long,
Waked by its blaze, shall many round thee throng,
To light from thine a flame which will not die.
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