IN boyhood’s days we read with keen delight
How young Aladdin rubbed his lamp and raised
The towering Djin whose form his soul amazed,
Yet who was pledged to serve him day and night.
But Gutenberg evoked a giant sprite
Of vaster power, when Europe stood and gazed
To see him rub his types with ink. Then blazed
Across the lands a glorious shape of light,
Who stripped the cowl from priests, the crown from kings,
And hand in hand with Faith and Science wrought
To free the struggling spirit’s lim?d wings,
And guard the ancestral throne of sovereign Thought.
The world was dumb. Then first it found its tongue
And spake – and heaven and earth in answer rung.
(Christopher Pearse Cranch)
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