Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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[A few sparse fleeting clouds are seen above]
A few sparse fleeting clouds are seen above,And do but make the bright scene lovelier still
With their fair shapes, that seem produced by skill,
And labour, as some Handicraftsman strove,
To make them perfect more and more!—e'en prove
Their Beauty by a long, long gaze at will!—
So shall you see them change—but as a rill
That winds, but grows not shallower—as a dove
Whose feathers shift their hues, but finely so,
Become more beautiful and strangely bright—
Their forms do through a thousand changes go,
To wear fresh charms, seeming to us aright,
As though the invisible Handicraftsman slow,
With changeful mind wrought still,—studying perfection's Height!
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