{"product_id":"2940157676353","title":"The Dark Ages and Other Poems","description":"Men call you \"dark.\"  What factory then blurred the light\u003cbr\u003e  Of golden suns, when nothing blacker than the shades\u003cbr\u003e  Of coming rain climbed up the heather-mantled height?\u003cbr\u003e                 While the air\u003cbr\u003e     Breathed all the scents of all untrodden flowers,\u003cbr\u003e     And brooks poured silver through the glimmering glades,\u003cbr\u003e        Then sweetly wound through virgin ground.\u003cbr\u003e           Must all that beauty pass?\u003cbr\u003e           And must our pleasure trains\u003cbr\u003e  Like foul eruptions belch upon the mountain head?\u003cbr\u003e     Must we perforce build vulgar villa lanes,\u003cbr\u003e           And on sweet fields of grass\u003cbr\u003e  The canting scutcheons of a cheating commerce spread?\u003cbr\u003e  Men call you \"dark.\"  Did that faith see with cobwebbed eyes,\u003cbr\u003e  That built the airy octagon on Ely's hill,\u003cbr\u003e  And Gloucester's Eastern wall that woos the topaz skies,\u003cbr\u003e                 Where the hymn\u003cbr\u003e        Angelic \"Glory be to God on high,\u003cbr\u003e        And peace on earth to men who feel good will,\"\u003cbr\u003e           Might softly sound God's throne around?\u003cbr\u003e              Is that a perfect faith\u003cbr\u003e              Which pew-filled chapels rears,\u003cbr\u003e     Where Gothic fronts of stone mask backs of ill-baked bricks,\u003cbr\u003e        And where the frothy fighting preacher fears,\u003cbr\u003e              As peasants fear a wraith,\u003cbr\u003e  His deacon's frown or some just change in politics?","brand":"Sai ePublications \u0026 Sai Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47071289409776,"sku":"2940157676353","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940157676353_p0.jpg?v=1764100406","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940157676353","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}