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Samuel Johnson - The Vanity of Human Wishes - Penguin Audiobooks

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   On what foundation stands the warrior's pride,
   How just his hopes, let
Swedish Charles decide;
   A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,
   No dangers fright him, and no labours
tire;
   O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain,
   Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain;
  
No joys to him pacific sceptres yield,
   War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field;
   Behold surrounding
kings their powers combine,
   And one capitulate, and one resign; 
   Peace courts his hand, but spreads her
charms in vain:
   'Think nothing gain'd,' he cries, 'till nought remain,
   On Moscow's walls till Gothic
standards fly,
   And all be mine beneath the polar sky.'
   The march begins in military state,
   And
nations on his eye suspended wait;
   Stern Famine guards the solitary coast,
   And Winter barricades the
realms of Frost;
   He comes, nor want nor cold his course delay;
   Hide, blushing Glory! hide Pultowa's day:

   The vanquish'd hero leaves his broken bands,
   And shows his miseries in distant lands;
   Condemn'd
a needy supplicant to wait,
   While ladies interpose, and slaves debate.
   But did not Chance at length her
error mend?
   Did no subverted empire mark his end?
   Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound,
   Or
hostile millions press him to the ground?
   His fall was destined to a barren strand,
   A petty fortress,
and a dubious hand; 
   He left the name at which the world grew pale,
   To point a moral, or adorn a
tale.
  
  
  
  Johnson's verse was totally ignored in the nineteenth century and he himself
seems to have been insensible to poetry's spell-binding and incantatory power. Yet an astringent critic such as Leavis
accounted The Vanity of Human Wishes a great poem, while Eliot declared both it and London to be amongst the greatest
verse satires in English or any other language. He also wrote "If lines 189-220 of The Vanity of Human Wishes are not
poetry, I do not know what is."  
  
  This is from the Penguin Audiobook of Eighteenth Century Verse. I
have added an interesting reading by John Richetti from the UPenn Poetry site – not a professional voice but
nonetheless a civilised one.
   						

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