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Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By Coventry Patmore (18231896)
Magna est Veritas
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HERE 1 in this little bay, | |
Full of tumultuous life and great repose, | |
Where twice a day, | |
The purposeless glad ocean comes and goes, | |
Under high cliffs, and far from the huge town, | 5 |
I sit me down. | |
For want of me the world’s course will not fail; | |
When all its work is done, the lie shall rot; | |
The truth is great and shall prevail, | |
When none cares whether it prevail or not. | 10 |
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Note 1. Mr Coventry Patmore courteously allowed me to choose these five poems from “The Unknown Eros” (1877). [back] |
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