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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOLLINGDON DOWNS: SONNET, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, we are neither heaven nor earth, but men
Last Line: For unborn men to look at and say 'hush.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
First Line: Ah, we are neither heaven nor earth, but men
Last Line: For unborn men to look at and say 'hush.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Ah, we are neither heaven nor earth, but men;
Something that uses and despises both,
That takes its earth's contentment in the pen,
Then sees the world's injustice and is wroth,
And flinging off youth's happy promise, flies
Up to some breach, despising earthly things,
And, in contempt of hell and heaven, dies
Rather than bear some yoke of priests or kings.
Our joys are not of heaven nor earth, but man's,
A woman's beauty, or a child's delight,
The trembling blood when the discoverer scans
The sought-for world, the guessed-at satellite;
The ringing scene, the stone at point to blush
For unborn men to look at and say 'Hush.'
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