Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FRAGMENT ON ALCHEMY, by REGINALD HEBER


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First Line: So fares the sage, whose mystic labours try
Last Line: The bright-wing'd radiance bursts of infant gold.
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists


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So fares the sage, whose mystic labours try
The thorny path of fabled alchemy.
Time, toil, and prayer, to aid the work conspire,
And the keen jaws of dross-devouring fire.
In one dim pile discordant embers blaze,
And stars of adverse influence join their rays;
Till every rite perform'd, and labour sped,
When the clear furnace dawns with sacred red,
From forth the genial warmth and teeming mould,
The bright-wing'd radiance bursts of infant gold.





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