StoryTitle("caps", "The Choir Invisible") ?> Choir Invisible" (by George Eliot, 1819-80) is a fitting exposition in poetry of this "Shakespeare of prose."
PoemStart() ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "O, may I join the choir invisible", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Of those immortal dead who live again", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "In minds made better by their presence; live", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "In pulses stirred to generosity,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Of miserable aims that end with self,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "And with their mild persistence urge men's minds", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "To vaster issues.", "") ?> PoemLine("L4", "", "May I reach", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "That purest heaven,—be to other souls", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "The cup of strength in some great agony,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Enkindle generous ardour, feed pure love,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Beget the smiles that have no cruelty,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Be the sweet presence of good diffused,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "And in diffusion ever more intense!", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "So shall I join the choir invisible,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose music is the gladness of the world.", "") ?>