Touches on The Harp of Nature in the Same Key as Burns' Grand Anthem. By Henry Ellison |
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WRITTEN BEFORE THE DUKE OF YORK'S COLUMN,
1832. |
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WRITTEN BEFORE THE DUKE OF YORK'S COLUMN, 1832.
Methinks, I like thy bare sublimityFar better than vain ornament—I love
To see thee proudly towering thus above
The fret and stir which far beneath thee lie,
The paltry fears and passions, heard not by
Thy contemplative summit—here I stand,
And gaze on thee, thou emblem wisely planned,
Pointing with moveless finger to the sky,
To mark the path of Immortality!
Like thee, must his works be, who would survive
His age: upward and upward must he strive,
'Till with the stars he hold communion!
No crown, no glory, must he wear upon
His brows, save that which Heaven alone can give,
Its own pure light, which none have ever won,
Save those who by and in it only live!
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