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THE POET'S MISSION |
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THE POET'S MISSION
‘Is but prophetic vision:
‘To him the daring heart is granted—
‘Not the hand.’
Herwegh.
‘To him the daring heart is granted—
‘Not the hand.’
Herwegh.
Learn higher apprehending
Of the Poet's task!
To him are God and Nature lending
Ore of mighty thought,
That for such use as the world's need may ask
Fit iron may be wrought.
Of the Poet's task!
To him are God and Nature lending
Ore of mighty thought,
That for such use as the world's need may ask
Fit iron may be wrought.
The passionate impulse furnaced
In the Poet's heart
Must weld stern word and action earnest:
Poet word and deed
In harmony: that he may take God's part,
And earn a true life's meed.
In the Poet's heart
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Poet word and deed
In harmony: that he may take God's part,
And earn a true life's meed.
Clear vision ever lendeth
Faith to his life:
Then only he his mission comprehendeth
When he can wield his soul
Or to creative thought or daily strife,
With artist-like controul.
Faith to his life:
Then only he his mission comprehendeth
When he can wield his soul
Or to creative thought or daily strife,
With artist-like controul.
Not in the purer heaven
Of his own thought
To dwell, enparadised, to him was given
The poet-fire:
But that a grander, truer life be wrought,—
The world exampled higher.
Of his own thought
To dwell, enparadised, to him was given
The poet-fire:
But that a grander, truer life be wrought,—
The world exampled higher.
Not only do God's Angels
Behold him with clear eyes:
But day and night they speed his dread evangels
Over the world,—
Their seraph-wings of act and sacrifice
Eternally unfurl'd.
Behold him with clear eyes:
But day and night they speed his dread evangels
Over the world,—
Their seraph-wings of act and sacrifice
Eternally unfurl'd.
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