Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Portrait of Algernon Charles Swinburne Algernon Charles Swinburne Songs of the Springtides (1880)

On the proposed desecration of Westminster Abbey
by the erection of a monument
to the son of Napoleon III.
'Let us go hence.' From the inmost shrine of grace
Where England hold the elect of her dead
There comes a word like one of old time said
By gods of old cast out. Here is no place
At once for these and one of poisonous race.
Let each rise up from his dishallowed bed
And pass forth silent. Each divine veiled head
Shall speak in silence with averted face.
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Portrait of Algernon Charles Swinburne Algernon Charles Swinburne Songs of the Springtides (1880)

At the end of such a list so incomparable as to seem incredible, of one great man's good works, we may be forgiven the alteration of a word even in a verse from Æschylus which we cannot choose but apply once more to this leader in the advance of men made perfect through doom of trial and long wayfaring, whose progress he furthers by example and stimulates by song:—
κύριός ἐστι θροεῖν ὅδιον κράτος αἴσιον ἀνδρῶν
ἐκτελέων· ἔτι γὰρ θεόθεν καταπνείει
πειθὼ μολπᾶν
ἀλκᾷ σύμφυτος αἰών. Æsch. Agam. 104-8.
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Portrait of Algernon Charles Swinburne Algernon Charles Swinburne Songs of the Springtides (1880)

Te is wet! when woe can tithe up the work of a really qualified investigater, whe in the intervals of his more'sérions professional iebouss sets himself te impart kuamledge in sick a stutple and elementary form as may attract and fagtruct, twith uo dauger of misleading the tyro in matured science, Such a work is this Little volume, made af of essays and addresses written and delivered by Dr.
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