Poems and Essays By the late William Caldwell Roscoe. (Edited with a Prefatory Memoir, by his Brother-in-law, Richard Holt Hutton) |
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GIBSON'S STATUE OF AURORA.
Fair unto all men, shining Morning, seemsThy face serene when a new day unrolls,
And all old sights and long-endured doles
Seem fresh and bearable in thy bright beams.
But only to the dreamers of sweet dreams,
The visionary apprehensive souls
Whose finer insight no dim sense controls,
Com'st thou in this fair shape o'er Ocean's streams,—
Thy white foot hanging on an eastern wave,
And thy swept garments blown by early air;
In thy two hands rich urns, powerful to save
From darkness and the terror of the grave;
And in thy face calm victory dost thou wear
Over the night and terror and despair.
1848.
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