SPIRITS! Intelligences! Passions! Dreams! Ghosts! Genii! Sprites! Muses, that haunt the Heliconian streams, Inspiring Lights! Whose intellectual fires, in Scott combined, Supplied the sun of his omniscient mind! Ye who have o'er-informed and overwrought His teeming soul, Bidding it scatter galaxies of thought From pole to pole; Enlightening others till itself grew dark -- A midnight heaven, without one starry spark; -- Spirits of Earth and Air -- of Light and Gloom! Awake! arise! Restore the victim you have made -- relume His darkling eyes. Wizards! be all your magic skill unfurl'd, To charm to health the Charmer of the World! The scabbard, by its sword outworn, repair; Give to his lips Their lore, than Chrysostom's more rich and rare: Dispel the eclipse That intercepts his intellectual light, And saddens all mankind with tears and night. Not only for the Bard of highest worth, But best of men, Do I invoke ye, Powers of Heaven and Earth! Oh! where and when Shall we again behold his counterpart -- Such kindred excellence of head and heart? So good and great -- benevolent as wise -- On his high throne How meekly hath he borne his faculties! How finely shown A model to the irritable race, Of generous kindness, courtesy, and grace! If he @3must@1 die, how great to perish thus In glory's blaze; A world, in requiem unanimous, Weeping his praise! While Angels wait to catch his parting breath -- @3Who@1 would not give his life for such a death? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LAMENT by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON LOVE'S JUSTIFICATION by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI THE HONEYSUCKLE by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI A SPECK ON THE DOT by BERTON BRALEY MATRIMONIAL MELODIES: 3. SYSTEM by BERTON BRALEY PAL OF MY HEART by JULIA A. BRAND VICTORIA'S TEARS by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE MIGHT OF TRUTH by ALICE CARY QUATRAIN: ON READING THE LIFE OF HAROUN ER RESHID by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN |