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SYMONDS, PATER, HAMERTON, STEVENSON |
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XXXV
SYMONDS, PATER, HAMERTON, STEVENSON
Child of the great Rebirth, who most of men
Didst steep in Italy the English soul:
Thou, Phidias of discourse, who couldst control
Speech to Form's purity by shaping pen:
Thou who all Art didst learn to teach again:
And thou whose Art was Nature:—from the scroll
Of Life how swiftly blotted:—golden toll
Cast to the oarsman of the Stygian fen!
Of you who had not said, “Behold in these
The strenuous growth Time mellows to endure,
More rich, more fair, for annual season found?”
O dupes and scoffs of hollow auguries!
Still flourishes the weed, the tree mature
With stem and bough and fruitage loads the ground.
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