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On the Deaths of Thomas Carlyle - Sonnets

By Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Two souls diverse out of our human sight     Pass, followed one with love and each with wonder:     The stormy sophist with his mouth of thunder,     Clothed with loud words and mantled in the might     Of darkness and magnificence of night;     And one whose eye could smite the night in sunder,     Searching if light or no light were thereunder,     And found in love of loving-kindness light.     Duty divine and Thought with eyes of fire     Still following Righteousness with deep desire     Shone sole and stern before her and above,     Sure stars and sole to steer by; but more sweet     Shone lower the loveliest lamp for earthly feet,     The light of little children, and their love.

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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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