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On the Death of Sir Henry Taylor

By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Topics: classic

Fourscore and five times has the gradual year     Risen and fulfilled its days of youth and eld     Since first the child's eyes opening first beheld     Light, who now leaves behind to help us here     Light shed from song as starlight from a sphere     Serene as summer; song whose charm compelled     The sovereign soul made flesh in Artevelde     To stand august before us and austere,     Half sad with mortal knowledge, all sublime     With trust that takes no taint from change or time,     Trust in man's might of manhood. Strong and sage,     Clothed round with reverence of remembering hearts,     He, twin-born with our nigh departing age,     Into the light of peace and fame departs.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

About Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) was an English poet known for metrical innovation and bold themes. His "Atalanta in Calydon" and "Poems and Ballads" challenged Victorian conventions with their musical intensity and controversial subject matter.

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