Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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[Beautiful World! alas! how many look]
Beautiful World! alas! how many lookOn thee, and fail to mark the glorious light
Of splendour which invests thee, more than bright;
Alas! for them!—their eyes to Nature's book
Of Beauty are close seeled. Lo! not a nook—
The while that might not surely yield to sight
Something to strike, as 'twere, with magic might,
Or leaf—or flower—or pebble of clear brook!
Bright,—World of Nature!—shines thy rich array!—
Oh! but if those who mid life's tumults dwell,
Of whom men, in accusing accents, say,
“They're wedded to the World!” owned thy bright spell,
To thee were wedded—and confessed thy sway,
Beautiful World of Nature!—it were well.
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