Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 13. CASUAL INCITEMENT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH



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ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 13. CASUAL INCITEMENT, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bright-haired company of youthful slaves
Last Line: Glad halle-lujahs to the eternal king!


A BRIGHT-HAIRED company of youthful slaves,
Beautiful strangers, stand within the pale
Of a sad market, ranged for public sale,
Where Tiber's stream the immortal City laves:
ANGLI by name; and not an ANGEL waves
His wing who could seem lovelier to man's eye
Than they appear to holy Gregory;
Who, having learnt that name, salvation craves
For Them, and for their Land. The earnest Sire,
His questions urging, feels, in slender ties
Of chiming sound, commanding sympathies;
DE-IRIANS -- he would save them from God's IRE;
Subjects of Saxon AELLA -- they shall sing
Glad HALLE-lujahs to the eternal King!






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