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entire . We must make room for the poor boyv Chantrey , from the poem of Love : 4 worm came up to drink the welcome shower ; The redbreast quaff * d the rain-drop in the bower ; The flaskering duck through freshen ed lilies swam ; The bright roach took the fly below the dam ;
Ramp'd the glad colt , and cropp d the pensile spray ; No more in dust uprose the sultry way ; The lark was in the cloud ; the woodbine hung More sweetly o ' er the chaffinch while he sung ; And the wild rose from every dripping bush , Beheld on silvery sheaf the mirrorM blush ; When calmly seated on his pannier ' d ass ,
Where travellers hear the steel hiss as they pass , A milk-boy , sheltering from the transient storm , Chalk'd , on the grinder ' s wall , an infant form : Young Chantrey smiled ; no critic praised or blamed And golden promise smiled , and thus exclaimed : " Go , child of genius ! rich be thine increase ; Go—be the Phidias of the second Greece ! "
Greece ! thou art-fallen , by luxury o ' erthrown , Not vanquished by the Man of Macedon ! For ever fallen ! and sculpture fell with thee . But from the ranks of British poverty A glory hath burst forthr and matchless powers Shall make th' eternal grace of sculpture ours .
Th' eternal grace ? alas \ the date assign'd To works , calFd deathless , of creative mind , Is but a speck upon the sea of days ; And frail man ' s immortality of praise A moment to th' eternity of Time , That is , and was , and shall be , the sublime ,
The unbeginning , the unending sea , Dimensionless as God's infinity . '—Love , pp , 18 , 19 , We must observe that , in his love strains , he is no ranting Robin ; ' but that his morality must be allowed by all to be sound on all points , except with those who will condemn his * gall of bitterness' towards the aristocracy , and not allow his plea that
it comes from one of those who are held , by that aristocracy , in ' bonds of iniquity . ' His theology , too , so far as it appears , has the simplicity and truth which naturally belong to the theology of poetry , when poetry lives in the li g ht of cultivated intelligence . While , generally speaking , his * song is but the eloquence of truth / and its materials are the merest matters of fact , he has made
occasional excursions into the regions beyond , has shown that he can call spirits from the vasty deep , ' and in ail the humblenes s of his name , station , and subjects , compete with the crowned bards who h ^ ve waved the wand of magic and commanded the ^ regions of the air } 6 Bratus \ yiH raise v . spirit as soon as Caesar / ,
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The Poor and their Poetky . 1 &&
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1832, page 199, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1808/page/55/
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