Percy B. Shelley - Sonnet - To a Balloon, Laden with Knowledge

Caros leitores, segue um soneto de Percy Bysshe Shelley: "To a Balloon, Laden with Knowledge".

To a Balloon, Laden with Knowledge

Bright ball of flame that through the gloom of even

Silently takest thine etherial way

And with surpassing glory dimm´st each ray

Twinkling amid the dark blue Depths of Heaven,

Unlike the Fire thou bearest, soon shalt thou

Fade like a meteor in surrounding gloom,

Whilst that, unquenchable, is doomed to glow

A watch-light by the patriot´s lonely tomb,

A ray of courage to the oppressed and poor,

A spark though gleaming on the hovel´s hearth

Which through the tyrant´s gilded domes shall roar,

A beacon in the darkness of the Earth,

A Sun which o´er the renovated scene

Shall dart like Truth where Falsehood yet has been.

(Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley)