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Those who despise thee and thy dreamy glories , Because they know thee not , are dreamers vainer , Who sleep through their dark life , and think it light ; Reality their spell-word ; but thy sight Out-glanceth dull day-life ; thy lofty stories Are clear aa their fond creeds , and thy religion plainer . * * » *
c the eye , eastward fixed afar , Plucks from the dawn a paling star , Seen but by a striving vision ; Thou , with a sublime decision , Forcest from the universe Many a dream and secret golden , In its depths of glory folden , And weav ' st it into soul-essential verse !
Like the storm-presaging bird In the van of thunder heard , Thou prophesiest of eternity ; And from the great To-Come clouds roll before thine eye ! *****
* I dedicate my transient being To thy great altars , thou All-seeing ! Lead me in tumult to thy sovereign peace ; And print thy kiss of love on my soul ' s brow Suffer my footsteps in thy places holy ; And sanctify me with the melancholy Born of that exaltation !—Lo ! I droop ;
And from thine ether to dim silence stoop-Yet musing of thee : as the lark , descending , Stills in the lower airs his gushing song ; And on the quiet mead his voyage ending , Sits hush'd , as his deep thought did the same strain prolong . ' p . 5—12 .
Mr . Wade is the author of two dramas , entitled " Woman ' s Love , or the Triumph of Patience , a Comedy / and ' The Jew of Arragon , or the Hebrew Queen , a Tragedy . ' Both partake of that rich mingling of poetry and passion which characterizes the old English drama ; and the latter especially , although a division of interest impairs its dramatic effect , is fraught with a power to which we yield but poor praise in saying , that it may be long sought for in vain amongst the most successful of modern plays . 8 ^ w . j . V
Mundi et Cordis Carmtna . 459