Historical & Legendary Ballads & Songs By Walter Thornbury. Illustrated by J. Whistler, F. Walker, John Tenniel, J. D. Watson, W. Small, F. Sandys, G. J. Pinwell, T. Morten, M. J. Lawless, and many others |
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Tædium Vitæ.
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Tædium Vitæ.
“Creation's over—man, you know,
Was God's last work—each wind that blows
Howls the old tunes.—Ah! see, I pluck
The million millionth rose.”
Was God's last work—each wind that blows
Howls the old tunes.—Ah! see, I pluck
The million millionth rose.”
Bah! you but skim the sea of truth—
Nothing is old to the fresh brain.
In every blushing dawn I see
Creation's morning o'er again.
Nothing is old to the fresh brain.
In every blushing dawn I see
Creation's morning o'er again.
Hope blooms anew in every leaf
That ruffles out upon yon beech;
The birds sing of Eternal Love,
And struggle for the gift of speech.
That ruffles out upon yon beech;
The birds sing of Eternal Love,
And struggle for the gift of speech.
See this broad sycamore: each leaf
Framed on the pattern of last Spring,
The old jags cut in the same way
As when Ahab was King.
Framed on the pattern of last Spring,
The old jags cut in the same way
As when Ahab was King.
And mark these white stars in the grass,
Rose-tipped as in the Tartar fields,
The day that, crowning Tamerlane,
His horsemen clashed their shields.
Rose-tipped as in the Tartar fields,
The day that, crowning Tamerlane,
His horsemen clashed their shields.
Our Arts may change—but Nature works.
On old and very settled rules,
And needs no Fashion's pattern-book,
No second course of model schools.
On old and very settled rules,
And needs no Fashion's pattern-book,
No second course of model schools.
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