Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.
William Bell Scott 181190Hero-Worship
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Look on their sires with angry wonder,
Could some strong necromantic power
Revive them for one spectral hour!
Bondsmen of the past are we,—
Predestin’d bondsmen: could we see
The dead now deified, again
Peering among environing men,
We might be free.