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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523213" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Young Man's Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At last the curse has run its date!<br>The heavens grow clear above,<br>And on the purple plains of Hate,<br>We'll build the throne of Love!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One great heroic reign divine<br>Shall mock the Elysian isles,<br>And love in arms shall only shine<br>Less fair than Love in smiles!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old Clio, burn thine ancient scroll,<br>The scroll of Rome and Greece!<br>Our war shall be a parable<br>On all the texts of peace,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And saints look down, with eyes of praise,<br>Where on our modern field<br>The new Samaritan forelays<br>The wrongs that other healed!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What virtue is beyond our prize?<br>What deed beneath you sun<br>More Godlike than the prodigies<br>We mortal men have done</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We wearied of the lagging steed,<br>The dove had not a quill<br>To fledge the imaginable speed<br>Of our wild shaft of will;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Ah, could each word be winged with wind,<br>And speech be swift as sight!'<br>We cursed the long arms of that blind<br>Dumb herald on the height,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dark struggling with a mystery<br>He daily hid in shades,<br>As a ghost steams up on the eye,<br>Begins a Fate and fades.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'If, like a man, dull space could hear!<br>If, like a man, obey!'<br>We seized this earthly hemisphere,<br>This senseless skull of clay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We drew from Heaven a breath of flame,<br>And thro' the lifeless whole<br>Did breathe it till the orb became<br>One brain of burning soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As he o'er whom a tyrant reigns,<br>It waits our sovran word,<br>And thinks along the living veins<br>The lightnings of its lord!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What Force can meet our matchless might?<br>What Power is not our slave?<br>We bound the angel of the light,<br>We scourged him in a cave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when we saw the prisoner pine<br>For his immortal land,<br>We wrung a ransom, half divine,<br>From that celestial hand</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whose skill the heavy chain subdued,<br>And all a captive's woe<br>Did tame to such a tempered good<br>As mortal eyes can know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who comes, who comes, o'er mountains laid,<br>Vales lifted, straightened ways?<br>'Tis he! the mightier horse we made<br>To serve our nobler days!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now, unheard, I saw afar<br>His cloud of windy mane,<br>Now, level as a blazing star,<br>He thunders thro' the plain!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The life he needs, the food he loves,<br>This cold earth bears no more;<br>He fodders on the eternal groves<br>That heard the dragons roar,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strong with the feast he roars and runs,<br>And, in his maw unfurled,<br>Evolves the folded fires of suns<br>That lit a grander world!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yon bird, the swiftest in the sky,<br>Before him sprang, but he<br>Has passed her as a wind goes by<br>A struggler in the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With forward beak and forward blows,<br>She slides back from his side;<br>While ever as the monster goes,<br>With needless power and pride,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Disdainful from his fiery jaws<br>He snorts his vital heat,<br>And, easy as his shadow, draws,<br>Long-drawn, the living street.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He's gone! Methinks that over him,<br>Like Curtius in the abyss,<br>I see great gulphs close rim to rim,<br>And Past and Future kiss!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, Man! as from the flood sublime<br>Some alp rose calm and slow,<br>So from the exhaling floods of time<br>I see thy stature grow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Long since thy royal brow, uncrowned,<br>Allegiant nature saw,<br>Long since thine eye of empire frowned<br>The heavenly thrones to awe;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now the monarch's breast apart<br>Divides the sinking spray,<br>Fit dome for such gigantic heart<br>As warms so vast a sway.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Far o'er the watery wilds I see<br>Thy great right-arm upsurge,<br>Thy right-hand, armed with victory,<br>Is sunburst on the verge!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Arise, arise! oh, sword! and sweep<br>One universal morn!<br>Another throe, thou labouring Deep,<br>And all the god is born!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So sang a youth of glorious blood.<br>Below, the wind-hawk shook her wings,<br>And lower, in its kingdom, stood<br>A tower of ancient kings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Above, the autumn sky was blue,<br>Far round the golden world was fair,<br>And, gun by gun, the ramparts blew<br>A battle on the air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sydney+Thompson+Dobell">Sydney Thompson Dobell</a><div class=q>
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The heavens grow clear above,
And on the purple plains of Hate,
We'll build the throne of Love!

One great heroic reign divine
Shall mock the Elysian isles,
And love in arms shall only shine
Less fair than Love ..."></div>
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