Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET: 15, by GEORGE SANTAYANA


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First Line: A wall, a wall to hem the azure sphere
Last Line: And ancient quiet broods from pole to pole.


A wall, a wall to hem the azure sphere
And hedge me in from the disconsolate hills!
Give me but one of all the mountain rills,
Enough of ocean in its voice I hear.
Come no profane insatiate mortal near
With the contagion of his passionate ills;
The smoke of battle all the valleys fills,
Let the eternal sunlight greet me here.
This spot is sacred to the deeper soul
And to the piety that mocks no more.
In nature's inmost heart is no uproar,
None in this shrine; in peace the heavens roll,
In peace the slow tides pulse from shore to shore,
And ancient quiet broods from pole to pole.





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