<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415852" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Kepler's Apostrophe</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes! on the annals of my race, <br>In characters of flame, <br>Which time shall dim not nor deface, <br>I'll stamp, my deathless name. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fire which on my vitals preys, <br>And inly smouldering lies, <br>Shall flash out to a meteor's blaze <br>And stream along the skies. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Clafed as the angry ocean's swell <br>My soul within me boils, <br>Like a chained monarch in his cell, <br>Or lion in the toils. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To wealth, to pride, to lofty state, <br>No more I'll bend the knee, <br>But Fortune's minions, meanly great, <br>Shall stoop their necks to me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The God which formed me for command, <br>And gave me strength to rise, <br>Shall plant His sceptre in my hand, <br>His lightning in my eyes; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall with the thorny crown of fame <br>My aching temples bind, <br>And hail me by a mighty name <br>A monarch of the mind. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Me, heaven's bright galaxy shall greet <br>Theirs by primordial choice, <br>And earth the eternal tones repeat <br>Of my prophetic voice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stung in her turn, the heartless fair <br>Who proudly eyes me now, <br>Shall weep to see some other share <br>The godhead of my brow; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall weep to see some lovelier star <br>Snatched to my soul's embrace, <br>Ascend with me Fame's fiery car <br>And claim celestial place. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tune oh! my soul thy loftiest strain, <br>Exult in song and glee, <br>For worn has snapped each earthlier chain <br>And set the immortal free. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Minds destined to a glorious shape <br>Must first affliction feel; <br>Wine oozes from the trodden grape, <br>Iron's blistered into steel; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So gushes from affection bruised <br>Ambition's purple tide, <br>And steadfast faith unkindly used <br>Hardens to stubborn pride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Joseph+Sylvester">James Joseph Sylvester</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=415852" data-title="Kepler's Apostrophe de James Joseph Sylvester" data-description="Yes! on the annals of my race, In characters of flame, Which time shall dim not nor deface, I'll stamp, my deathless name. The fire which on my vitals preys, And inly smouldering lies, Shall flash out to a meteor's blaze And stream along t..."></div> </div> </div>

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