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Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867.

Objects Which Influence the Ambitious Nature. IV. Glory and Enduring Fame

William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870)

THUS Glory hath her being! thus she stands

Star-crowned,—a high divinity of woe;

Her temples fill, her columns crown all lands

Where lofty attribute is known below.

For her the smokes ascend, the waters flow,

The grave foregoes his prey, the soul goes free;

The gray rock gives out music; hearthstones grow

To temples at her word; her footprints see

On ruins, that are thus made holiest shrines,

Where Love may win devotion, and the heart

That with the fire of genius inly pines

May find the guidance of a kindred art,

And from the branch of that eternal tree

Pluck fruits at once of death and immortality!