Stones from The Quarry or, Moods of Mind. By Henry Browne [i.e. Henry Ellison] |
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. |
Stones from The Quarry | ||
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
This Age of ours, with Mars i' the ascendant, born,Ensanguined planet! and its infancy
Made tuneable with War's soft lullaby,
Had a grand dream of Peace and Love, a morn
Of promise. Knowledge blew her magic-horn
To wake the Seven Sleepers; to her high
And holy quests to rouse from apathy
A world distraught, and make Earth less forlorn.
'Twas a grand vision, with horizons wide
And forms divine; but as the Age gained years,
Like Youth's illusions, Time thrust these aside,
Reduced to man's proportions—dashed with tears
And blood the page of knowledge, and her pride
Rebuked, and put to shame her purblind seers!
Stones from The Quarry | ||