The Wind's Royalty
William Wilfred Campbell 1860 (Newmarket) – 1918 (Ottawa)
This summer day is all one palace rare,
Builded by architects of life unseen,
In elfin hours the sun and moon between,
Up out of quarries of the sea and air,
And earth's fine essences. Aladdin's were
But tinsel sheen beside this gloried dream,
High, sunny-windowed, walled by wood and stream,
And high, dome-roofed, blue-burnished, beyond compare.
Here reigns a king, the happiest known on earth,
That blithesome monarch mortals call the wind,
Who roves his galleries wide in vagrant mirth,
His courtier clouds obedient to his mind;
Or when he sleeps his sentinal stars are still,
With ethiop guards o'ertopping some grave hill.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Scheme | ABBACDDAEFEFGG |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 623 |
Words | 106 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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