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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GERMINAL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Call not thy wanderer home as yet Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. | |||
Call not thy wanderer home as yet Though it be late. Now is his first assailing of The invisible gate. Be still through that light knocking. The hour Is thronged with fate. To that first tapping at the invisible door Fate answereth. What shining image or voice, what sigh Or honied breath, Comes forth, shall be the master of life Even to death. Satyrs may follow after. Seraphs On crystal wing May blaze. But the delicate first comer It shall be King. They shall obey, even the mightiest, That gentle thing. All the strong powers of Dante were bowed To a child's mild eyes, That wrought within him that travail From depths up to skies, Inferno, Purgatorio And Paradise. Amid the soul's grave councillors A petulant boy Laughs under the laurels and purples, the elf Who snatched at his joy, Ordering Caesar's legions to bring him The world for his toy. In ancient shadows and twilights Where childhood had strayed, The world's great sorrows were born And its heroes were made. In the lost boyhood of Judas Christ was betrayed. Let thy young wanderer dream on: Call him not home. A door opens, a breath, a voice From the ancient room, Speaks to him now. Be it dark or bright He is knit with his doom. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest... |
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