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Lollingdon Downs, and Other Poems, with Sonnets

By John Masefield

2020-02-24 22:22:32

Out of the special cell's most special sense Came the suggestion when the light was sweet; All skill, all beauty, all magnificence, Are hints so caught, man's glimpse of the complete. And, though the body rots, that sense survives; Being of life ... Read more
Out of the special cell's most special sense Came the suggestion when the light was sweet; All skill, all beauty, all magnificence, Are hints so caught, man's glimpse of the complete. And, though the body rots, that sense survives; Being of life's own essence, it endures (Fruit of the spirit's tillage in men's lives) Round all this ghost that wandering flesh immures. That is our friend, who, when the iron brain Assails, or the earth clogs, or the sun hides, Is the good God to whom none calls in vain, Man's Achieved Good, which, being Life, abides: The man-made God, that man in happy breath Makes in despite of Time and dusty Death. Less

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File size91.079 KB
Print pages52
PublisherPublic Domain Book
Publication date2015-09-02
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1445532370
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John Masefield
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John Edward Masefield OM (1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967. Among his best-known works are the children's no...

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