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Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.' Courage,
comrades, this is certain, All is for the best? There are lights
behind the curtain? Gentles, let us rest. As the smoke-rack veers
to seaward. From ' the ancient clay, ' With its moral drifting
leeward, Ends the wanderer's lay. HIPPODROMANIA; OR, WHIFFS FROM
THE PIPE IN FIVE PARTS PART 1 VISIONS IN THE SMOKE1 Rest, and be
thankful On the vergo Of the tall cliff, rugged and grey, By whose
granite base the breakers surge, And shiver their frothy spray,
Outstretched, I gaze on the eddying wreath That gathers and flits
away, With the surf beneath, and between my teeth The stem of the '
ancient clay.' With the anodyne cloud on my listless eyes, With its
spell on my dreamy brain, Written in 1865. As I watch the circling
vapours rise From the brown bowl up to the sullen skies, My vision
becomes more plain, Till a dim kaleidoscope succeeds Through the
smoke-rack drifting and veering, Lake ghostly riders on phantom
steeds To a shadowy goal careering. In their own generation the
wise may sneer, They hold our sports in derision; Perchance to
sophist, or sage, or seer Were allotted a graver vision. Yet if
man, of all the Creator planned, His noblest work is reckoned, Of
the works of His hand, by sea or by land, The horse may at least
rank second. Did they quail, those steeds of the squadrons light,
Did they flinch from the battle's roar, When they burst on the guns
of the Muscovite, By the echoing Black Sea shore ? On on to the
cannon's mouth they stride, With never a swerve nor a shy, Oh the
minutes of yonder maddening ride, Long years of pleasure outvie ...
General
| Imprint: |
Kessinger Publishing Co
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
November 2009 |
| First published: |
November 2009 |
| Authors: |
Adam Lindsay Gordon
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
356 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-120-67694-8 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
1-120-67694-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781120676948 |
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