Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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SONNET ON GALILEO.
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SONNET ON GALILEO.
(SUGGESTED BY HIS MONUMENT IN THE CHURCH OF SANTA CROCE.)
Methinks I see thee now, Great Sage! who wroughtSublimely—thou!—made the infant Truth's grey nurse!
O'er-canopying the outstretched universe
With one magnificent and sovereign Thought!—
Methinks I see thee (who long since wert brought
To this stern spot—stretched on thy sage's hearse!)
Unshaken, while scorn, blame, and shame, and worse
Were showered upon thee, who Truth's fulness taught!—
A heavenly Soul was thine, whose flight was far
Above the tenour of terrestrial things,
Whose comrades were undying Sun and Star!—
Clustered with constellated eyes, her wings,
(Like as the wings of Cherubim even are!—)
Flashed surely!—and she reached, pierced—tasted Truth's clear springs!
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