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To the Duke of Wellington - ZaunköniG - 30.04.2007 BECAUSE thou hast believ’d, the wheels of life Stand never idle, but go always round: Not by their hands, who vex the patient ground, Mov’d only; but by genius, in the strife Of all its chafing torrents after thaw, Urg’d; and to feed whose movement, spinning sand, The feeble sons of pleasure set their hand: And, in this vision of the general law, Hast labour’d with the foremost, hast become Laborious, persevering, serious, firm; For this, thy track, across the fretful foam Of vehement actions without scope or term, Call’d History, keeps a splendour: due to wit, Which saw one clue to life, and follow’d it |