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Sample Sonnet

BeautyBy John Barlas

Beauty is liberal as the heavenly air,

Beauty is boundless as the universe:The waves of evil ponderously immerse

The pearl of good; beauty is everywhere.

Beauty is a devout a deep despair;Hopes that with heaven's highest stars converse:

The poisonous blossom of a devil's curse;The first and last word of an angel's prayer.

reation and destruction at thy bec!all love and lust: throiugh battle's bloody swarm

That youth with smiling face sees but thy form:

"nd, 'mid the shrie!s of the fast sin!ing wrec!," poet, standing on the wave#washed dec!,

$tares awe#struc! at the beauty of the storm.

"ug. %th, &.

Sample Sonnet

BeautyBy John Barlas

Beauty is liberal as the heavenly air,

Beauty is boundless as the universe:

The waves of evil ponderously immerse

The pearl of good; beauty is everywhere.

Beauty is a devout a deep despair;Hopes that with heaven's highest stars converse:

The poisonous blossom of a devil's curse;The first and last word of an angel's prayer.

reation and destruction at thy bec!

all love and lust: throiugh battle's bloody swarmThat youth with smiling face sees but thy form:

"nd, 'mid the shrie!s of the fast sin!ing wrec!,

" poet, standing on the wave#washed dec!,

$tares awe#struc! at the beauty of the storm.

"ug. %th, &.