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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LVII.
[These thoughts perturbed the tenour of your youth]
These thoughts perturbed the tenour of your youth,Yet left their charm; impinging on your gaze,
The shadow that encrusts forgotten truth;
For blank the mind is, too, when in amaze
It leaves the coloured world in full career—
Nature, eclipsed by thought oft by the hour,
In fullest majesty to re-appear;
Plenipotentiary of Heaven's Great Power.
Thence what strange myths in man take phantom shape,
That sturdy reason cannot put to rout:
Few from their tangled mesh effect escape,
While sophistry o'er-masters doubt on doubt.
But you are safe who on all truth are bent,
And seek it ever as a sacrament.
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