The English Poets: Selections With Critical Introductions

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The English Poets: Selections With Critical Introductions
Thomas Humphry Ward
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenents might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right And I myself a Catholic will be.
So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee.
Hail, bard triumphant ! and some care bestow On us, the poets militant below 1 Opposed by our old enemy, adverse chance, Attacked by envy, and by ignorance, Enchain'd by beauty, tortured by desires, Expos'd by tyrant-love to savage beasts and fires.
Thou from low earth in nobler flames didst rise, And like Elijah, mount alive
... the skies.
Elisha-like (but with a wish much less.
More fit thy greatness, and my littleness) Lo here I beg (I whom thou once didst prove So humble to esteem, so good to love) Not that thy spirit might on me doubled be, I ask but half thy mighty spirit for me ; And when my muse soars with so strong a wing, Twill learn of things divine, and first of thee to sing.
' Crashaw became a Roman Catholic, and died a canon of Loretto, 1050.
Digitized by LjOOQ IC 256 THE ENGLISH POETS.
3.
[A naereontiques^ Drinking.


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