The Poets of the Spen Valley: Being Biographies and Poems, by Various Authors, of the Parliamentary Division of the Spen Valley (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Poets of the Spen Valley: Being Biographies and Poems, by Various Authors, of the Parliamentary Division of the Spen Valley

It is the poet's high privilege to sit above the world. Within his heart burns a fire which is quenchless, and his utterances never die. Through all time his song has floated over the world like the voice of an angelic choir chanting their hosannahs in the far-off empyrean. The poet is the herald of the coming time. He stands in the van of pro gress pointing the onward march of the ages. Though he be clad in hodden gray like Scotia's gifted bard his sway is more than regal.

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