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CARDINAL MANNING, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I learn'd his greatness first at lavington
Last Line: "and cried, ""at last my question meets reply."
Subject(s): Manning, Henry Edward (1808-1892)


I LEARN'D his greatness first at Lavington:
The moon had early sought her bed of brine,
But we discours'd till now each starry sign
Had sunk: our theme was one and one alone:
"Two minds supreme," he said, "our earth has known;
One sang in science; one serv'd God in song;
Aquinas -- Dante." Slowly in me grew strong
A thought, "These two great minds in him are one;
'Lord, what shall this man do?'" Later at Rome
Beside the dust of Peter and of Paul
Eight hundred mitred sires of Christendom
In Council sat. I mark'd him 'mid them all;
I thought of that long night in years gone by
And cried, "At last my question meets reply."





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