History & Politics
Hero-Worship
From A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1895)
History & Politics
How would the centuries long asunder
Look on their sires with angry wonder,
Could some strong necromantic power
Revive them for one spectral hour!
Bondsmen of the past are we, —
Predestin'd bondsmen: could we see
The dead now deified, again
Peering among environing men,
We might be free.
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Scott, William Bell. “Hero-Worship.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott_wb/12/.
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Scott, William Bell. “Hero-Worship.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott_wb/12/.
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