THE AIR REGISTER - Druckversion +- Sonett-Forum (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum) +-- Forum: Sonett-Archiv (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=126) +--- Forum: Sonette aus germanischen Sprachen (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=394) +---- Forum: Englische Sonette (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=818) +----- Forum: Autoren T (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=846) +------ Forum: Turner, Charles Tennyson (https://sonett-archiv.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=932) +------ Thema: THE AIR REGISTER (/showthread.php?tid=19785) |
THE AIR REGISTER - ZaunköniG - 01.01.2011 THE AIR REGISTER. With reference to a speech of Henry VIII.'s, ' Let us go a-hunting,' when Queen Anna's execution was accomplished. When the Tower gun announced Queen Anna's death, And straight the king proclaim'd a hunting day, He dream'd not how that signal, and the breath Of those brief words, would never fleet away. He dream'd not how the booming of that gun Would be a deathless pulse through space and time, And his own royal voice be drifted on With all its scorn. The motion of a crime Soon meets the sorrowing angels ; but, if true That nature has this sin-recording force. Each nobler act and utterance takes its course Through the same air, and is immortal too. And every deed of love and breath of prayer Shall make its own memorial current there. |