A Tale of Eternity, and Other Poems (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Tale of Eternity, and Other Poems

Mr. Massey's Poem is full of scientific allusions, and we do not detect any mistakes. Wheatstone's electric experiments and Humboldt's earthquake experience. Darwin's theories and Huxley's protoplasm, the structure of Saturn's rings and the formation of the Atlantic ooze - all furnish the material for beautiful similes as do also the phenomena of the spectrum.

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Excerpt from A Tale of Eternity, and Other Poems

A Rhyme for the Reader.

A singer sang in sleep, and, sleeping, dreamed
He sang divinely, while his spirit seemed
So far in Musics heaven to soar and sing,
They could not follow who stood listening!
For him, the soul of sweetness found a voice.
For them, the Singer only "made a noise."

Such is the difference in the uttered strain,
From that fine music passing through the brain.
Such sumless treasures we possess in dreams,
To find at waking only mirrored gleams.
No revelation of the written word
Will render all the spirit saw and heard.

So fresh they breathed; so faded now they look;
My few poor withered flowers shut in a book.
Gone is the glory that once gleamed from them;
The Spirit of Light imprisoned in the gem!
Now the winged life hath settled down in words,
These are but stuffed instead of Singing Birds.

Feelings brimful of warmth as is a rose
of its June-red, have lost their perfumed glows;

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.