Sonnets written chiefly during a tour through Holland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and Hungary. By Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley |
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[Thoughts!—Thoughts!—I charge ye, mount the empyreal height—]
Thoughts!—Thoughts!—I charge ye, mount the empyreal height—Mount heavenwards!—should your journeyings, proud, be chained?
Should your dread flights be checked—your powers constrained?—
Heavenwards!—Mount heavenwards!—launched in streams of light—
Scorn labyrinthine lengthenings through the Earth's night—
Be lingering languishments by ye disdained!—
Enough hath this world wronged ye—charmed yet pained!—
Now spurn such thraldom with victorious might—
Thoughts—pierce the orbed suns of splendour, through and through;
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From the unveiled source of all the great and true.
Thoughts!—thoughts,—spring, shoot on high, where fresh worlds spread;—
Where light of light, o'erpowering, blinds the view—
Hence!—haste!—mount—mount—bring strength, speed!—Heaven's crown'd realms to tread!
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