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Prometheus and Asia.
Heav’n-soaring birds a wider vision own.
And though our eyes can boast no eagle sweep,
To us is given the larger range of thought,
Wherewith we pierce the starry depths, o’erleap
The bounds of sense, and see in all things wrought
Signs of deep mysteries, which angel eyes
May see, or ours, perchance, in paradise.
And though our eyes can boast no eagle sweep,
To us is given the larger range of thought,
Wherewith we pierce the starry depths, o’erleap
The bounds of sense, and see in all things wrought
Signs of deep mysteries, which angel eyes
May see, or ours, perchance, in paradise.
Henry Allison.
CXXX.
Prometheus and Asia.
When a rose in beauty blows,
When a bud from earth outpeeps,
When a soul another knows
In love’s glassy, dreamy deeps,
Is not then Prometheus wed?
Is not then sweet Asia led
To the spotless bowers of love?
And love is Lord all things above.
When a bud from earth outpeeps,
When a soul another knows
In love’s glassy, dreamy deeps,
Is not then Prometheus wed?
Is not then sweet Asia led
To the spotless bowers of love?
And love is Lord all things above.
When a toiler finds some law,
Thro’ all change unchangeable,
And in joy and loving awe
Sees less dim the Eternal Will,
Is not then Prometheus led
Joyous to the nuptial bed?
Is not then his Asia’s rule
Gracious, loving, beautiful?
Thro’ all change unchangeable,
And in joy and loving awe
Sees less dim the Eternal Will,
Is not then Prometheus led
Joyous to the nuptial bed?
Is not then his Asia’s rule
Gracious, loving, beautiful?