| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| One in the Infinite |
| | | George Francis Savage-Armstrong (b. 1845) |
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| ROLL on, and with thy rolling crust | |
| That round thy poles thou twirlest, | |
| Roll with thee, Earth, this grain of dust, | |
| As through the Vast thou whirlest; | |
| On, on through zones of dark and light | 5 |
| Still waft me, blind and reeling, | |
| Around the sun, and with his flight | |
| In wilder orbits wheeling. | |
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| Speed on through deeps without a shore, | |
| This Atom with thee bearing, | 10 |
| Thyself a grain of dust—no more— | |
| ’Mid fume of systems flaring. | |
| Ah, what am I to thirst for power, | |
| Or pore on Nature’s pages,— | |
| Whirl’d onward, living for an hour, | 15 |
| And dead through endless ages? | |
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