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THREE SONNETS TO THE AUTHOR OF ION. 3 - ZaunköniG - 06.05.2022
THREE SONNETS TO THE AUTHOR OF ION.
III.
Fine age is ours, and marvellous-setting free
Hopes that were bending into grey despairs,
Winnowing iron like chaff , outspeeding the airs,
Conquering with smoky flag the winds at sea,
Flinging with thunderous wheels immeasurably,
Knowledge, like daily light: so that man stares
Planet-struck with his work-day world, nor dares
Repeat the old babble of what “ shall never be."
A great, good age !-Greatest and best in this,-
That it strikes dumb the old anti-creeds, which parted
Man from the child-prosperity from the bliss
Of faith in good-and toil of wealth unthwarted
From leisure crown'd with bay, such as thine is,
Talfourd ! a lawyer prosperous and young-hearted.
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