TWO SOULS diverse out of our human sight <br />Pass, followed one with love and each with wonder: <br />The stormy sophist with his mouth of thunder, <br />Clothed with loud words and mantled in the might <br />Of darkness and magnificence of night; <br />And one whose eye could smite the night in sunder, <br />Searching if light or no light were thereunder, <br />And found in love of loving-kindness light. <br />Duty divine and Thought with eyes of fire <br />Still following Righteousness with deep desire <br />Shone sole and stern before her and above, <br />Sure stars and sole to steer by; but more sweet <br />Shone lower the loveliest lamp for earthly feet, <br />The light of little children, and their love.<br /><br />Algernon Charles Swinburne<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-the-deaths-of-thomas-carlyle-and-george-eliot-sonnets/
