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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LXXXI.
[All Nature is the poet's hunting ground]
All Nature is the poet's hunting ground,The idea divine, like air, is wafted by;
No murderous weapon, no obsequious hound:
All as at first betrothed to poetry.
A dove might perch upon the poet's arm,
A fawn might gambol fearless at his feet!
Come, loved gazelle, with eyes as woman's warm,
Come lonely lamb with your heart-touching bleat!
The heaven of old is in this earth concealed;
The angel's trail is easy to retrace!
Where'er the poet turns he sees revealed
The path to some beloved resting-place!
In Nature's wilderness, a voice is crying—
Behold the poet's heaven around us lying!
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