Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FEELING EXCITED BY SOME MILITARY MANEUVERS AT VERONA, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES


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First Line: What is the lesson I have brought away
Last Line: Our common human feelings not forget!
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Soldiers; Verona, Italy


WHAT is the lesson I have brought away,
After the moment's palpitating glee?
What has this pomp of men, this strong array
Of thousands and ten thousands been to me?
Did I find nothing but the vision gay,
The mere phenomenon that all could see?
Did I feel nothing but the brute display
Of Power, -- the show of centred energy?
Trembling and humbled, I was taught how hard
It is for our strait minds at once to scan
The might of banded numbers, and regard
The individual soul, the living Man;
To use mechanic multitudes, and yet
Our common human feelings not forget!





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