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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XLV.
[Remember how your art has raised again]
Remember how your art has raised againMore than the dead: with an uplifted hand
Reviving souls that had in durance lain,
As by the stroke of a magician's wand.
This could you conjure by your potent rhymes,
Wrought to redeem the lost in misery bowed,
When, like a fog, broke all the gloom sublime,
As if were snatched away some burial shroud.
All base ideas are startled into light;
The energies return by struggles wasted;
And olden influence, ridded of its blight,
Has once again of its high purpose tasted.
A captive freed! The mendicant Despair
Decrutched and driven from its hated lair.
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