Sonnet. To a Balloon Laden with Knowledge.
Bright ball of flame that through the gloom of evenSilently takest thine aethereal way,And with surpassing glory dimm'st each rayTwinkling amid the dark blue depths of Heaven,--Unlike the fire thou bearest, soon shalt thouFade like a meteor in surrounding gloom,Whilst that, unquenchable, is doomed to glowA watch-light by the patriot's lonely tomb;A ray of courage to the oppressed and poor;A spark, though gleaming on the hovel's hearth,Which through the tyrant's gilded domes shall roar;A beacon in the darkness of the Earth;A sun which, o'er the renovated scene,Shall dart like Truth where Falsehood yet has been.
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