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EN AVANT. - ZaunköniG - 17.12.2012 Oh for the statesman high whose piercing view Surmounts the partisan's weak bounds, with glance Whose comprehensive pow'r does truly show Causes which lead his spirit in advance, Adapting his thoughts, void of fickle change To what the time requires, nor bringeth old Obsolete opinions t' alloy the gold Of wise progression, with a mixture strange. Unmeaning adulation perhaps oft Has qualities ascribed when ne'er possess'd ; Yet greatness, a far-seeing, brilliant guest Was as Burke's rich genius soar'd aloft ; This day the noble principle contest, But death approach'd it, not with foot fall soft. |