PATRICIAN overthrown, What lyric powers oppose The dogmas you intone! You still would be of those Who rule by "willing"? -- No. Chaos within, I say, Compels your star to glow With fixed complacency. When a bright star shall dance, 'Twill be from lowly fires That sting your arrogance! Among the patient choirs Of Heaven, old Earth maintains Her meaning. Dare to call Her measure prose! Her strains Are immemorial. Earth gives you patronage. Yes, @3you@1, who have surpassed Her human heritage Of wisdom, the meek past Enshrouds and swaddles. Are You free? The Master? -- Yes, -- Imperial, titular; -- But Earth you can't possess! -- -- Old Earth, -- old, constant Earth, In whom is dancing thought And song and endless birth Of wonder -- Earth, so old, Yet still so new with years That none her sway shall hold Except the lyric seers. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 3. FULL MOON by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER UPON HIS SPANIEL [SPANIELL] TRACIE by ROBERT HERRICK OF TREASON by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS MUCKLE-MOU'D MEG by JAMES BALLANTYNE ANOTHER WAY OF LOVE by ROBERT BROWNING A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 12 by THOMAS CAMPION TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. NOT FOR A FEW MONTHS OR YEARS by EDWARD CARPENTER |