From “Anima Mundi”
GOD is good,
And flight is destined for the callow wing,
And the high appetite implies the food,
And souls most reach the level whence they spring;
O Life of very life! set free our powers,
Hasten the travail of the yearning hours.
Thou, to whom old Philosophy bent low,
To the wise...
Blind Thamyris, and Blind Mæonides, Milton.
Pursue the triumph and partake the gale! Pope.
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees, Shakespeare.
To point a moral or adorn a tale. Johnson.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, Gray.
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears, Tennyson.
Like angels’ visits, few and far between, ...
