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TO LADY NOEL BYRON by GEORGE MACDONALD

Poet Analysis

First Line: MEN SOUGHT AMBITION'S THIRST TO SLAKE
Last Line: GROWS TRUTH AND TENDERNESS.
Subject(s): ALCHEMY & ALCHEMISTS; AMBITION; LOVE; PAIN; TRUTH; SUFFERING; MISERY;
MEN sought, ambition's thirst to slake,
The lost elixir old
Whose magic touch should instant make
The meaner metals gold.

A nobler alchymy is thine
Which love from pain doth press:
Gold in thy hand becomes divine,
Grows truth and tenderness.



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