Nature
XXXIX
From Poems & Ballads (Second Series)
Nature
O first-born sons of hope and fairest, ye
Whose prows first clove the thought-unsounded sea
Whence all the dark dead centuries rose to bar
The spirit of man lest truth should make him free,
The sunrise and the sunset, seeing one star,
Take heart as we to know you that ye are.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XXXIX.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/415/.
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “XXXIX.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/415/.
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