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Laus Mariae.

By Sidney Lanier

Topics: classic

Across the brook of Time man leaping goes     On stepping-stones of epochs, that uprise     Fixed, memorable, midst broad shallow flows     Of neutrals, kill-times, sleeps, indifferencies.     So twixt each morn and night rise salient heaps:     Some cross with but a zigzag, jaded pace     From meal to meal: some with convulsive leaps     Shake the green tussocks of malign disgrace:     And some advance by system and deep art     O'er vantages of wealth, place, learning, tact.     But thou within thyself, dear manifold heart,     Dost bind all epochs in one dainty Fact.     Oh, sweet, my pretty sum of history,     I leapt the breadth of Time in loving thee!     Baltimore, 1874-5.

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About Sidney Lanier

Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) was an American poet and musician whose poems—including "The Marshes of Glynn" and "Song of the Chattahoochee"—are known for their musical quality and celebration of the Southern landscape.

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