Algernon Charles Swinburne (Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн)

The Salt of the Earth

IF childhood were not in the world,
But only men and women grown;
No baby-locks in tendrils curled,
No baby-blossoms blown;

Though men were stronger, women fairer,
And nearer all delights in reach,
And verse and music uttered rarer
Tones of more godlike speech;

Though the utmost life of life’s best hours
Found, as it cannot now find, words;
Though desert sands were sweet as flowers
And flowers could sing like birds,

But children never heard them, never
They felt a child’s foot leap and run:
This were a drearier star than ever
Yet looked upon the sun. 

1. Sonnet for a Picture
2. The Roundel
3. The Way of the Wind
4. Choriambics
5. Dickens

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