Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO LADY NOEL BYRON, by GEORGE MACDONALD


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First Line: Men sought ambition's thirst to slake
Last Line: Grows truth and tenderness.
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Ambition; Love; Pain; Truth; Suffering; Misery


MEN sought, ambition's thirst to slake,
The lost elixir old
Whose magic touch should instant make
The meaner metals gold.

A nobler alchymy is thine
Which love from pain doth press:
Gold in thy hand becomes divine,
Grows truth and tenderness.





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