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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 1. TO THE HONORABLE MR. ERSKINE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: When british freedom for a happier land
Last Line: Still glows wide heaven with his distended blaze!
Subject(s): Erskine, Thomas (1750-1823)
First Line: When british freedom for a happier land
Last Line: Still glows wide heaven with his distended blaze!
Subject(s): Erskine, Thomas (1750-1823)
When British Freedom for a happier land
Spread her broad wings, that fluttered with affright,
Erskine! thy voice she heard, and paused her flight --
Sublime of hope, where fearless thou didst stand,
Thy censer glowing with the hallowed flame,
An hireless Priest before her injured shrine,
And at her altar pour'dst the stream divine
Of matchless eloquence! Therefore thy name
Her sons shall venerate, and cheer thy breast
With heaven-breathed blessings; and, when late the doom
Of Nature bids thee die, beyond the tomb
Thy light shall shine, as sunk beneath the west,
Though the great sun not meets our wistful gaze,
Still glows wide Heaven with his distended blaze!
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