INHERITANCE

INHERITANCEOn all the sovereignty thine eyes obtain,Thy grant of vision from the royal sun,And all thine appanage of lordly dream,The Dust, wherewith the worm is parcener,Waits with perennial claim, nor will resignIts right in thee: All glories and all gleams,The seven splendours that inform the light,And beauties immemorial as the moon,Robing the barren world—all which thine eyesHold for inheritance, at length shall fillThe blindness and oblivion of the grave,And leave it dark.****With dustiness and nightUpon thy mouth of starry proud desire,With slumber for thy dreams, thou wilt repose,Nor startle when the lazy, loitering WormIs slow to leave the tavern of thy brain.

On all the sovereignty thine eyes obtain,Thy grant of vision from the royal sun,And all thine appanage of lordly dream,The Dust, wherewith the worm is parcener,Waits with perennial claim, nor will resignIts right in thee: All glories and all gleams,The seven splendours that inform the light,And beauties immemorial as the moon,Robing the barren world—all which thine eyesHold for inheritance, at length shall fillThe blindness and oblivion of the grave,And leave it dark.****With dustiness and nightUpon thy mouth of starry proud desire,With slumber for thy dreams, thou wilt repose,Nor startle when the lazy, loitering WormIs slow to leave the tavern of thy brain.

On all the sovereignty thine eyes obtain,Thy grant of vision from the royal sun,And all thine appanage of lordly dream,The Dust, wherewith the worm is parcener,Waits with perennial claim, nor will resignIts right in thee: All glories and all gleams,The seven splendours that inform the light,And beauties immemorial as the moon,Robing the barren world—all which thine eyesHold for inheritance, at length shall fillThe blindness and oblivion of the grave,And leave it dark.****With dustiness and nightUpon thy mouth of starry proud desire,With slumber for thy dreams, thou wilt repose,Nor startle when the lazy, loitering WormIs slow to leave the tavern of thy brain.

On all the sovereignty thine eyes obtain,Thy grant of vision from the royal sun,And all thine appanage of lordly dream,The Dust, wherewith the worm is parcener,Waits with perennial claim, nor will resignIts right in thee: All glories and all gleams,The seven splendours that inform the light,And beauties immemorial as the moon,Robing the barren world—all which thine eyesHold for inheritance, at length shall fillThe blindness and oblivion of the grave,And leave it dark.****

On all the sovereignty thine eyes obtain,

Thy grant of vision from the royal sun,

And all thine appanage of lordly dream,

The Dust, wherewith the worm is parcener,

Waits with perennial claim, nor will resign

Its right in thee: All glories and all gleams,

The seven splendours that inform the light,

And beauties immemorial as the moon,

Robing the barren world—all which thine eyes

Hold for inheritance, at length shall fill

The blindness and oblivion of the grave,

And leave it dark.****

With dustiness and nightUpon thy mouth of starry proud desire,With slumber for thy dreams, thou wilt repose,Nor startle when the lazy, loitering WormIs slow to leave the tavern of thy brain.

With dustiness and night

Upon thy mouth of starry proud desire,

With slumber for thy dreams, thou wilt repose,

Nor startle when the lazy, loitering Worm

Is slow to leave the tavern of thy brain.


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