The testament of beauty : a poem in four books / by Robert Bridges.

  • Robert Bridges
Date:
[1930]
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Credit: The testament of beauty : a poem in four books / by Robert Bridges. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are omnipresent, speaking aloud to every ear, into every heart and home their unhinder’d message, the body and soul of Universal Brotherhood; whereby war fain from savagery to fratricide, from a trumpeting vainglory to a crying shame, stalketh now with blasting curse branded on its brow. And if the Greek Muses wer a graceful company yet hav we two, that in maturity transcend the promise of their baby-prattle in Time’s cradle, Musick and Mathematick: coud their wet-nurses but see these foster-children upgrown in full stature, Pythagoras would marvel and Athena rejoice. And ev’n to Apollo’s choir was a rich voice lacking in the great symphonies of the poetic throng who beneath Homer’s crown enroll’d immortal names; for without later names the full compass of song had been unknown to man—nay and some English names, whose younger voices in the imagination of love swell’d to spiritual ecstasy, and emotion’d life with mystic inspiration of new lyric rapture: 7 and ’twas the first alluring gleam of thatt vision that stole by virtue of novelty the world away from the philosophic concinnity of Greek art, to abjure the severe ordering of its antique folds. 3328
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