. Fire and air . like Oceans billows rose,With all the power and grandeur of the Sea,Bursting in jeweled foam majestically; Philosopher whose pure philosophyMade Nature heaven and Man a Deity, —Taught the great human soul its god-like worth,Revealing Man his kingdom upon Earth; Shakespeare and Goethe were thy fellowmen,And Plato did not scorn they comrade pen;Montaigue and Swendenbourg dwelt in thy mindAnd made thee universal and benign. Sweet son of contemplation, Emerson,Mingle with minds immortal! Thou art one. U AM A KING! I am a King forever!(21 Can a King cease to be? Crowned, sceptered,
. Fire and air . like Oceans billows rose,With all the power and grandeur of the Sea,Bursting in jeweled foam majestically; Philosopher whose pure philosophyMade Nature heaven and Man a Deity, —Taught the great human soul its god-like worth,Revealing Man his kingdom upon Earth; Shakespeare and Goethe were thy fellowmen,And Plato did not scorn they comrade pen;Montaigue and Swendenbourg dwelt in thy mindAnd made thee universal and benign. Sweet son of contemplation, Emerson,Mingle with minds immortal! Thou art one. U AM A KING! I am a King forever!(21 Can a King cease to be? Crowned, sceptered, robed in mortality!Never! O, never! Birth crowned me King. The King iscrowned forever!Great God Who gave me breath,He can uncrown by Death, —None other! Never. I reign today! I am the King forever!Who shall dispute my sway?False throned usurpers may, —My people! Never! O, Portugal, my home, my throne forever!Yet while I dwell apartThou art throned in my heartEver! Forever! 5^3 1 — ilrvAi—b goasdseegEgg. >i i gggna s GffaUU&tJleAJ £ ^^ a* REAT Charles, thou patron saint of human prose,Who wrote the history of common men As they were Kings; and freely choseThe beggar and the outcast for a pen That could have writ in purple and in gold;Who loved the orphan, and with love made bright The dull grey skies of England and that oldBegrimed and foggy City of the Night; Who would not write of battles or of kings,But wrote of Copperfield and Nickleby; — He noblest sings, who truly human sings:Mellow my heart, and let that happy star That shone thrice bright at thy nativity,Shine out, while Pegasus draws Phoebus car, With all thy fire and love to lighten me.
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