John Addington Symonds

These things shall be! A loftier race
Than e'er the world hath known shall rise,
With flame of freedom in their souls,
And light of knowledge in their eyes.

John Addington Symonds (5 October 1840 – 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of homosexuality.

Quotes

• She smiled, and the shadows departed;
    She shone, and the snows were rain;
  And he who was frozen-hearted
    Bloomed up into love again.
  • "Eyebright", st. 4. New and Old (London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1880) p. 20

• Shades are we; and of shades we weave
  A trifling pleasant make-believe;
  Then pass into the shadowy night,
  Where formless shades blindfold the light.
  • "The Camera Obscura". New and Old (1880) p. 218

• These things shall be! A loftier race
    Than e'er the world hath known, shall rise
  With flame of freedom in their souls,
    And light of science in their eyes.
  • "A Vista", st. 4. New and Old (1880) p. 226

    Variant: 'knowledge' instead of 'science', in Bartlett's, 14th ed. (1968) p. 785

• No seed shall perish which the soul hath sown.
  • "Versöhnung: A Belief". Animi Figura (London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1882) p. 72

• Gods fade; but God abides and in man’s heart
    Speaks with the clear unconquerable cry
    Of energies and hopes that can not die.
  • "On the Sacro Monte". Animi Figura (1882) p. 96