<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341929" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>After Looking into Carlyles Reminiscences</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THREE MEN lived yet when this dead man was young<br>Whose names and words endure for ever one:<br>Whose eyes grew dim with straining toward the sun,<br>And his wings weakened, and his angel’s tongue<br>Lost half the sweetest song was ever sung,<br>But like the strain half uttered earth hears none,<br>Nor shall man hear till all men’s songs are done:<br>One whose clear spirit like an eagle hung<br>Between the mountains hallowed by his love<br>And the sky stainless as his soul above:<br>And one the sweetest heart that ever spake<br>The brightest words wherein sweet wisdom smiled.<br>These deathless names by this dead snake denied<br>Bid memory spit upon him for their sake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweet heart, forgive me for thine own sweet sake,<br>Whose kind blithe soul such seas of sorrow swam,<br>And for my love’s sake, powerless as I am<br>For love to praise thee, or like thee to make<br>Music of mirth where hearts less pure would break,<br>Less pure than thine, our life-unspotted Lamb.<br>Things hatefullest thou hadst not heart to damn,<br>Nor wouldst have set thine heel on this dead snake.<br>Let worms consume its memory with its tongue,<br>The fang that stabbed fair Truth, the lip that stung<br>Men’s memories uncorroded with its breath.<br>Forgive me, that with bitter words like his<br>I mix the gentlest English name that is,<br>The tenderest held of all that know not death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Algernon+Charles+Swinburne">Algernon Charles Swinburne</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341929" data-title="After Looking into Carlyles Reminiscences de Algernon Charles Swinburne" data-description="I. THREE MEN lived yet when this dead man was young Whose names and words endure for ever one: Whose eyes grew dim with straining toward the sun, And his wings weakened, and his angel’s tongue Lost half the sweetest song was ever sung, But like..."></div> </div> </div>

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