Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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TO THE SAME.
[Leap thou i'the Gulph!—Oh! let it be thy pride]
Leap thou i'the Gulph!—Oh! let it be thy prideTo make thyself the Victim!—let the rage
Of criticism's ravenous wolves assuage
Itself on thee, and although unallied,
Unaided, stand thou firm—mailed in the tried
Celestial-tempered panoply o'the sage
Philosopher and zealot—Truth!—they wage
Their wordy war.—So let them, far and wide!
Still meet them with the high repulse and calm
Of wisdom, Faith, and Virtue.—Days may come
When thy much honoured name may bear the palm
'Midst Benefactors of Mankind—the gloom
Of Ignorance may melt—the querulous qualm
Of Prejudice pass o'er—with all, as now with some!
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