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PREFATORY SONNET TO THE ' NINETEENTH CENTURY.' - ZaunköniG - 28.10.2007
PREFATORY SONNET TO THE ' NINETEENTH CENTURY.'
THOSE that of late had flitted far and fast
To touch all shores, now leaving to the skill
Of others their old craft seaworthy still,
Have chartered this ; where, mindful of the past,
Our true co-mates regather round the mast ;
Of diverse tongue, but with a common will
Here in this roaring moon of daffodil
And crocus, to put forth and brave the blast ;
For some, descending from the sacred peak
Of hoar high-templed Faith, have leagued again
Their lot with ours to rove the world about ;
And some are wilder comrades, sworn to seek
If any golden harbour be for men
In seas of Death and sunless gulfs of Doubt.