Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. V. Browning to Rupert Brooke
Thomas Gordon Hake (1809–1895)Extracts from The New Day (1890): Sonnet X: ‘Genius and Poetry should still advance’
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As Nature year by year extends her pale,
Till widens past all reach the wide expanse,
Disclosing heights that only She can scale.
Science fulfils the poet’s prophecy—
Brings close the landscape that he saw afar,
Even as the glass that takes and gives the sky
Brings home from realms of cloud some burning star.
So even within the farthest galaxy
The science-poet knows what worlds are growing,
Where Nature’s votaries of all wisdom free,
With far-off thought akin to his are glowing.
Seize on the deathless prize, far-reaching friend!
And yet let one same scroll our memories blend.