Verse For To-day
Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and .art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling place, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the foiled searching of mortality; And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-schooled, self-scanned, selfhonoured, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguessed at.— Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow. From “Shakespeare.” by Matthew Arnold, 1822-1888.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27240, 17 November 1949, Page 1
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111Verse For To-day Otago Daily Times, Issue 27240, 17 November 1949, Page 1
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