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ON HIS 'SONNETS OF THE WINGLESS HOURS' by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON

First Line: I WROUGHT THEM LIKE A TARGE OF HAMMERED GOLD
Last Line: INTO THE SUN, AND GLITTER THROUGH ITS DUST.
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS; SONNET (AS LITERARY FORM); THOUGHT; THINKING;
I wrought them like a targe of hammered gold
On which all Troy is battling round and round;
Or Circe's cup, embossed with snakes that wound
Through buds and myrtles, fold on scaly fold;
Or like gold coins, which Lydian tombs may hold
Stamped with winged racers, in the old red ground;
Or twined gold armlets from the funeral mound
Of some great viking, terrible of old.
I know not in what metal I have wrought;
Nor whether what I fashioned will be thrust
Beneath the clouds theft hide forgotten thought;
But if it is of gold it will not rust;
And when the time is ripe it will be brought
Into the sun, and glitter through its dust.


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