...wake on science grown to more, On secrets of the brain, the stars, As wild as aught of fairy lore ; And all that else the years will show, The Poet-forms...Ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times. ii. So sleeping, so aroused from sleep Thro' sunny decads new and strange, Or gay quinquenniads would...

...wake on science grown to more, On secrets of the brain, the stars, As wild as aught of fairy lore; And all that else the years will show, The Poet-forms...vast Republics that may grow, The Federations and the Power.-. ; Titanic forces taking birth In divers seasons, divers climes ; For we are Ancients of the...

...mighty states " will appear, made real at length ; a time in which the years will bring to being " The vast Republics that may grow, The Federations and the Powers ; Titanic forces taking birth." These days and works of the crowning race are, however, far beyond our grasp ; and the knowledge of...

...has ever seen a bettor. There must be better ones to come. The story of the world is not told yet. " We are ancients of the earth and in the morning of the times." But I have only tried to see as clearly as I could what all these symptoms, of which our most serious...

...wake on science grown* to more, On seerets of the brain, Ute stars, As wild as aught of fairy lore ; And all that else the years will show,' The Poet-forms of stronger hours, The vast Republies that may grow, The Federations and the Powers ; Titanic forces taking birth ln divers seasons,...

...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights and live laborious days. (5) For we are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times. 9. What were the causes which led to the literary and artistic eminence of Athens in the age of Pericles...

...its full scope; Antiquitas steculi,juventw mundi ; rendered by our Laureate in ' The Day-dream,' " For we are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times." The Adam and Eve of Paradise exhibit to us the first inception of our race ; and neither then, nor...

...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights and live laborious days. (5) For we are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times. 9. What were the causes which led to the literary and artistic eminence of Athens in the age of Pericles...

...(Iliad, xxiv. 163), where he speaks of Priam : imiras iv The couplet in the L'Envoi of the Day Dream — For we are Ancients of the Earth, And in the morning of the times, is obviously merely a version of Bacon's famous paradox — " Antiquitas sseculi, juventus mundi."...

...too small a part of the curve of human progress to determine its true character; even yet, in fact, " we are ancients of the earth, and in the morning of the times." The difficulty of bearing this clearly in mind, great in every age. becomes greater as each age advances...