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I Say it to myself in meekest awe	A
Of Progress electricity and steam	B
Of this almighty age this liberal age	C
That has no time to breathe or think or dream	B
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I ask it of myself with bated breath	D
Casting a furtive glance about the hall	E
Our fathers were their times so very dark	F
Were they benighted heathens after all	E
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Had they not their Galileo Newton too	G
And men as great though not a Stephenson	H
Had they not passable scholars in fair Greece	I
Who traced the paths we deign to walk upon	J
Had they not poets in those dismal days	K
Homer and Shakespeare and a few between	L
Had they not rulers in their barbarous states	M
Who scattered laws for our wise hands to glean	L
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Had they not painters who knew how to paint	N
Raphael to take an instance well as we	O
With near four hundred years of light the less	P
Is Phidias matched in our great century	O
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And architects Sure Egypt and old Rome	Q
And ruined Athens tell of fair reputes	P
The Pyramids and temples of the Greeks	P
May vie with our town halls and institutes	P
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Their marble Venice with her dappled tints	P
Their grey old minsters strong as chiselled rocks	P
Their Tyrolean castles lifted high	R
May outlast all our brick and mortar blocks	P
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And were there not refinements in those days	P
And elegant luxuries of domestic life	S
I read the answer in the precious things	P
Whereof these clustering cabinets are rife	S
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What can we show so beautiful in art	T
What new of ours can match their wondrous old	U
This fragile porcelain this Venetian glass	P
This delicate necklace of Etruscan gold	U
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And was there not religion when the Church	V
Was one a common mother loved and feared	W
When haughty souls rejoiced to bear her yoke	X
When all those grand monastic piles were reared	W
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And were there not some preachers Chrysostoms	P
Whose golden words still linger like a chime	Y
Of falling echoes in lone alpine glens	P
Amongst the sonorous voices of our time	Y
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And soldiers heroes Do we shame them much	Z
Have men more courage than in days of yore	A2
Are they more jealous for their manhood now	B2
Do they respect and honour women more	A2
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Are they more noble than those good old knights	P
Who scorned to strike a foe save in the face	P
Who reckoned gold as dross to gallant deeds	P
And counted death far happier than disgrace	P
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Is life more grand with us who bask at ease	P
And count that only excellent which pays	P
Than 'twas to the stout hearts that wore the steel	C2
In those dark turbulent fearless fighting days	P
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O nineteenth century God has given you light	D2
The morning has been spreading that is all	E
O liberal age stoop your conceited head	E2
And gather up the crumbs that they let fall	E

Ada Cambridge

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