Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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EARTH'S LOFTY SPIRITS.
Spirits, thrice crowned!—and lofty and sublime,Surely your lever-thoughts did in their time
Lift this world higher in the scale of those
Whose circle so mysteriously doth close
Around the unseen and the unknown centre still;
Centre none hath known—none ever will.
These surely did exalt it, in its place!—
Ennoble and aggrandize it in space!—
And on its forehead seal it with a seal,
Which Time may not in all his years reveal,
But which, when his swift streams forgets to flow—
Lo!—the after-born Eternities may show.
Perchance, where in their boundless glory move
The orders of bright intelligence above,
This world is known by your immortal names,
Oh! ye who have built up your stainless fames—
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Hate of the few—derision of the throng!
Ye, whose illustrious tribulations wrought
New epochs in the mighty reign of thought!
Your world, crowned spirits—may this earth be styled,
Where ye now walk; no more by dust defiled!—
Known by your names, and by your glory raised,
For those high names' sake it may there be praised!
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