SONNET. [The Reward of Ambition .]
Trace the World's calendar from primev&l state, Ambition's brand la set upon the whole, Hath palsied, and shall palsy every soul Of all that were, and are, ignobly Great! Behold the Book within the hand of Fate, Whose mystic lolds hermetloal, enclasp What but the loftiest mind could ever gr»ip, A NAME—shorn of it's spirit—and a date !—! — Are these, sole requiems of the glorious past, Thy paltry meed, profound Athene s Sonf Of thy proud demigods, O llome! the xast ? Of am. that Alexander or that Caesar won?— The sole dark relict of the ambitious Dead, For which, tht World honoured—deified—and bled! R. Cjioudack Jori-tK. June 27th, 1817
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New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 117, 14 July 1847, Page 3
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113SONNET. [The Reward of Ambition.] New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 117, 14 July 1847, Page 3
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