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Aurora Leigh – Love and Revolution - 2cyberwhelm.org
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Exert a double vision:<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
AURORA<br />
Have eyes to see near things comprehensively <strong>and</strong> distant things as intimately as if you<br />
touched them.<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
I distrust the poet who discerns no character or glory in her times.<br />
AURORA<br />
No, if there's room for poets in this world, their soul work is to represent their age, not<br />
Charlemagne's.<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
This live, throbbing age that brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires <strong>and</strong> spends more<br />
passion, more heroic heat than King Arthur ever felt for Guinevere.<br />
AURORA<br />
To flinch from modern decadence, to long for togas <strong>and</strong> picturesque drama is foolish.<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
Perhaps Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat as Fleet Street does to our poets.<br />
AURORA<br />
Never flinch but be unscrupulously epic.<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
Catch upon the burning lava of a song, the full-veined heaving double-breasted time.<br />
AURORA<br />
So that, when the next age shall come,<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
the poets of that time may touch our impress with reverent h<strong>and</strong>.<br />
AURORA<br />
And say, behold, behold the paps we all have sucked: the bosom seems to beat still.<br />
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