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First Line: Majestic plant! Such fairy dreams as lie
Last Line: Free through the starry heavens of truth divine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Datura Plants


MAJESTIC plant! such fairy dreams as lie,
Nursed, where the bee sucks in the cowslip's bell,
Are not thy train. Those flowers of vase-like swell,
Clear, large, with dewy moonlight filled from high,
And in their monumental purity
Serenely drooping, round thee seem to draw
Visions linked strangely with that silent awe
Which broods o'er sculpture's works. A meet ally
For those heroic forms, the simply grand
Art thou; and worthy, carved by plastic hand,
Above some kingly poet's tomb to shine
In spotless marble; honouring one whose strain,
Soared, upon wings of thought that knew no stain,
Free through the starry heavens of truth Divine.





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