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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350505" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Reading The Controversy Between Lord Byron And Mr Bowles</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHETHER a ship's poetic? -- Bowles would own,<br>If here he dwelt, where Nature is prosaic,<br>Unpicturesque, unmusical, and where<br>Nature-reflecting Art is not yet born; --<br>A land without antiquities, with one,<br>And only one, poor spot of classic ground,<br>(That on which Cook first landed) -- where, instead<br>Of heart-communings with ancestral relicks,<br>Which purge the pride while they exalt the mind,<br>We've nothing left us but anticipation,<br>Better (I grant) than utter selfishness,<br>Yet too o'erweening -- too American;<br>Where's no past tense, the ign'rant present's all;<br>Or only great by the All hail, hereafter!<br>One foot of Future's glass should rest on Past;<br>Where Hist'ry is not, Prophecy is guess --<br>If here he dwelt, Bowles (I repeat) would own<br>A ship's the only poetry we see.<br>For, first, she brings us &quot;news of human kind,&quot;<br>Of friends and kindred, whom perchance she held<br>As visitors, that she might be a link,<br>Connecting the fond fancy of far friendship,<br>A few short months before, and whom she may<br>In a few more, perhaps, receive again.<br>Next is a ship poetic, forasmuch<br>As in this spireless city and prophane,<br>She is to my home-wand'ring phantasy,<br>With her tall anch'ring masts, a three-spir'd minster,<br>Van-crown'd; her bell our only half-hour chimes.<br>Lastly, a ship is poetry to me,<br>Since piously I trust, in no long space,<br>Her wings will bear me from this prose-dull land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Barron+Field">Barron Field</a><div class=q>
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If here he dwelt, where Nature is prosaic,
Unpicturesque, unmusical, and where
Nature-reflecting Art is not yet born; --
A land without antiquities, with one,
And only one, poor spot of classic ground,..."></div>
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