Who should love two things only and only praise
  More than all else for ever:  even the glory
Of goodly beauty in women, whence all days
  Take light whereby death’s self seems transitory;
And loftier love than loveliest eyes can raise,
  Love that wipes off the miry stains and gory
From Time’s worn feet, besmirched on bloodred ways,
  And lightens with his light the night of story;
      Love that lifts up from dust
      Life, and makes darkness just,
  And purges as with fire of purgatory
      The dense disastrous air,
      To burn old falsehood bare
  And give the wind its ashes heaped and hoary;
    Love, that with eyes of ageless youth
Sees on the breast of Freedom borne her nursling Truth.

8.

For at his birth the sistering stars were one
  That flamed upon it as one fiery star;
Freedom, whose light makes pale the mounting sun,
  And Song, whose fires are quenched when Freedom’s are. 
Of all that love not liberty let none
  Love her that fills our lips with fire from far
To mix with winds and seas in unison
  And sound athwart life’s tideless harbour-bar
      Out where our songs fly free
      Across time’s bounded sea,
  A boundless flight beyond the dim sun’s car,
      Till all the spheres of night
      Chime concord round their flight
  Too loud for blasts of warring change to mar,
    From stars that sang for Homer’s birth
To these that gave our Landor welcome back from earth

9.

Shine, as above his cradle, on his grave,
  Stars of our worship, lights of our desire! 
For never man that heard the world’s wind rave
  To you was truer in trust of heart and lyre: 
Nor Greece nor England on a brow more brave
  Beheld your flame against the wind burn higher: 
Nor all the gusts that blanch life’s worldly wave
  With surf and surge could quench its flawless fire: 
      No blast of all that blow
      Might bid the torch burn low
  That lightens on us yet as o’er his pyre,
      Indomitable of storm,
      That now no flaws deform
  Nor thwart winds baffle ere it all aspire,
    One light of godlike breath and flame,
To write on heaven with man’s most glorious names his name.

10.

The very dawn was dashed with stormy dew
  And freaked with fire as when God’s hand would mar
Palaces reared of tyrants, and the blue
  Deep heaven was kindled round her thunderous car,
That saw how swift a gathering glory grew
  About him risen, ere clouds could blind or bar
A splendour strong to burn and burst them through
  And mix in one sheer light things near and far. 
      First flew before his path
      Light shafts of love and wrath,
  But winged and edged as elder warriors’ are;
      Then rose a light that showed
      Across the midsea road
  From radiant Calpe to revealed Masar
    The way of war and love and fate
Between the goals of fear and fortune, hope and hate.