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THE POET by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

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First Line: THE POET HATH THE CHILD'S SIGHT IN HIS BREAST
Last Line: AND PRAISE HIS WORLD FOR EVER, AS THOU BIDST.
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS;
THE poet hath the child's sight in his breast
And sees all new. What oftenest he has viewed
He views with the first glory. Fair and good
Pall never on him, at the fairest, best,
But stand before him holy and undressed
In week-day false conventions, such as would
Drag other men down from the altitude
Of primal types, too early dispossessed.
Why, God would tire of all his heavens, as soon
As thou, O godlike, childlike poet, didst
Of daily and nightly sights of sun and moon!
And therefore hath He set thee in the midst
Where men may hear thy wonder's ceaseless tune
And praise his world for ever, as thou bidst.



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