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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 8. CRUSADERS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Furl we the sails, and pass with tardy oars
Last Line: For their high guerdon not in vain have panted!
First Line: Furl we the sails, and pass with tardy oars
Last Line: For their high guerdon not in vain have panted!
FURL we the sails, and pass with tardy oars
Through these bright regions, casting many a glance
Upon the dream-like issues -- the romance
Of many-coloured life that Fortune pours
Round the Crusaders, till on distant shores
Their labours end; or they return to lie,
The vow performed, in cross-legged effigy,
Devoutly stretched upon their chancel floors.
Am I deceived? Or is their requiem chanted
By voices never mute when Heaven unties
Her inmost, softest, tenderest harmonies;
Requiem which Earth takes up with voice undaunted,
When she would tell how Brave, and Good, and Wise,
For their high guerdon not in vain have panted!
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