Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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SONNET ON THE SAME SUBJECT.
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SONNET ON THE SAME SUBJECT.
[We pine for purer, fairer Worlds, nor know]
We pine for purer, fairer Worlds, nor knowHow pure, how fair our own bright World may be!
We live too much, poor sons of vanity,
In care and tumult, and vain strife below,
Nor bask us often in fair Nature's glow;
With careless eyes, we half-unconscious see
Her glorious, gracious aspect, deep and free,
And slight, e'en though we dare not scorn her show!
Then we affect a towering discontent,
And find fault with the World we fail to mark,
And truly in a narrow sphere we're pent,
Of selfishness and blindness—deep and dark:
But Heaven in elder days its Angels sent,
To walk this World—Heaven's King dwelt in it as His Ark.
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