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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 12. TO LORD STANHOPE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Stanhope! I hail, with ardent hymn, thy name
Last Line: One of the people
First Line: Stanhope! I hail, with ardent hymn, thy name
Last Line: One of the people
ON READING HIS LATE PROTEST IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS
STANHOPE! I hail, with ardent Hymn, thy name!
Thou shalt be bless'd and lov'd, when in the dust
Thy corse shall moulder -- Patriot pure and just!
And o'er thy tomb the grateful hand of FAME
Shall grave: --'Here sleeps the Friend of Humankind!'
For thou, untainted by CORRUPTION's bowl,
Or foul AMBITION, with undaunted soul
Hast spoke the language of a Free-born mind
Pleading the cause of Nature! Still pursue
Thy path of Honour! -- To thy Country true,
Still watch th' expiring flame of Liberty!
O Patriot! still pursue thy virtuous way,
As holds his course the splendid Orb of Day,
Or thro' the stormy or the tranquil sky!
ONE OF THE PEOPLE
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