<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536331" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet XXVI</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Youth is all valiant. He and I together,<br>Conscious of strength, and unreproved of wrong,<br>Strained at the world's conventions as a tether<br>Too weak to bind us, and burst forth in song.<br>The backs of fools we scourged as with a thong,<br>And falsehood stripped to its last borrowed feather,<br>And vowed to fact what things to fact belong,<br>And of the rest asked neither why nor whether.<br>Gravely we triumphed in that Gorgon time,<br>Unsexed for us at length thro' lack of faith,<br>Our barren mistress, from whose womb sublime<br>No beauty more should spring, but only death.<br>Like birds we sang by some volcanic brink,<br>Leaning on ugliness, and did not shrink.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wilfrid+Scawen+Blunt">Wilfrid Scawen Blunt</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=536331" data-title="A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet XXVI de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="Youth is all valiant. He and I together, Conscious of strength, and unreproved of wrong, Strained at the world's conventions as a tether Too weak to bind us, and burst forth in song. The backs of fools we scourged as with a thong, And falsehood st..."></div> </div> </div>

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