Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IN THE SHADOWS: 16, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861)


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IN THE SHADOWS: 16, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The daisy-flower is to the summer sweet
Last Line: The scholarship severe of human life.


The daisy-flower is to the summer sweet,
Though utterly unknown it live and die;
The spheral harmony were incomplete
Did the dew'd laverock mount no more the sky,
Because her music's linked sorcery
Bewitched no mortal heart to heavenly mood.
This is the law of nature, that the deed
Should dedicate its excellence to God,
And in so doing find sufficient meed.
Then why should I make these heart-burning cries,
In sickly rhyme with monid feeling rife,
For fame and temporal felicities?
Forgetting that in holy labour lies
The scholarship severe of human life.





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