Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ACTION AND THOUGHT; SONNET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES


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First Line: There is a world where struggle and stern toil
Last Line: "them that will hear, -- ""despair not! It is I."
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Faith; Metamorphosis; Thought; Belief; Creed; Thinking


THERE is a world where struggle and stern toil
Are all the nurture of the soul of man --
Ordain'd to raise from life's ungrateful soil,
Pain as he must, and Pleasure as he can.
Then to that other world of thought from this
Turns the sad soul, all hopeful of repose,
But round in weirdest metamorphosis,
False shapes and true, divine and devilish, close.
Above these two, and resting upon each
A meditative and compassionate eye,
Broodeth the Spirit of God: thence evermore,
On those poor wanderers cast from shore to shore,
Falleth a voice, omnipotent to teach
Them that will hear, -- "Despair not! it is I."





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