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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LXXXII.
[A poet's claim stands first for life eternal]
A poet's claim stands first for life eternal:Though he live not for ever, he has spent
His days, though dubious, amid pastures vernal,
The like of those above the firmament.
If he be not translated, he has earned
The testimonial by just Nature given,
Which, should the Highest pass o'er unconcerned,
Would qualify him for some other heaven.
Is it not wiser so to end his days,
Though his performance be of no avail,
Than pair with fools in their uncomely ways,
Who at the hope of all salvation rail?
If here he but fulfils a term, his soul
Should do its best to glorify the whole.
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