The Conqueror's Dream, And Other Poems

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The Conqueror's Dream, And Other Poems
William Sharpe
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Sepulchral monuments where are interred ^he effete and festering products of misrule, Hidden from day that they the less may grieve Or shock with ghastly front the aching sense.
Society demands such shall not be : It will not have its wonted peace disturbed By any startling impropriety : Appearance must be saved : all ugly sights And outward signs of hollowness must still Be varnished o'er, until the ruin burst I '' Such is the Bedlam thou art called to rule; No easy task nor sinecure nor &ir I
...nheritance thy due. Let imbeciles Prate of the rights divine of Kings, thou art Digitized by Google 22 THB oonqttebob's dbeam.
Nor more nor less than nature's minister, The fittest found, chosen by dreadful rite And fiery ordeal, which thou hast passed Unscathed : Courage, the test infallible Of highest virtue, in its highest degree To lower natures still by heaven denied, Or granted sparingly, proportional Unto whatever of good that in them dwells.
Therefore assume the purple and the crown.
The weight, no doubt, will gall thy laden brow ; But yet it is for common good of all, Such good, at least, as men are fitted for.


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