9781787803718 by Anonymous

Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

'Not so the Samian sage; to him belongs

The brightest witness of recording fame.

For these free states his native isle forsook

And a vain tyrant's transitory smile,

He sought Crotona's pure salubrious air,

And through Great Greece his gentle wisdom taught—

Wisdom that calmed for listening years the mind,

Nor ever heard amid the storm of zeal.

His mental eye first launched into the deeps

Of boundless ether, where unnumbered orbs,

Myriads on myriads, through the pathless sky

Unerring roll, and wind their steady way.

There he the full consenting choir beheld;

There first discerned the secret band of love,

The kind attraction that to central suns

Binds circling earths, and world with world unites.

Instructed thence, he great ideas formed

Of the whole—moving, all-informing God,

The Sun of beings! beaming unconfined

Light, life, and love, and ever active power—

Whom nought can image, and who best approves

The silent worship of the moral heart,

That joys in bounteous Heaven and spreads the joy.

Nor scorned the soaring sage to stoop to life,

And bound his reason to the sphere of man.

He gave the four yet reigning virtues name,

Inspired the study of the finer arts,

That civilize mankind, and laws devised

Where with enlightened justice mercy mixed.

He even into his tender system took

Whatever shares the brotherhood of life:

He taught that life's indissoluble flame,

From brute to man, and man to brute again,

For ever shifting, runs the eternal round;

Thence tried against the blood-polluted meal,

And limbs yet quivering with some kindred soul,

To turn the human heart. Delightful truth!

Had he beheld the living chain ascend,

And not a circling form, but rising whole.

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