The Path of Destiny, and Other Poems (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Path of Destiny, and Other Poems The Path of Destiny and Other Poems. Upon the right the ocean softly heaved, And murmured still its tune perpetual - Which came to me as if it sadly grieved, That it could only ever rise and fall, And mirror the vain blue, which formed a wall To separate it from Eternity, That its voice only to the Earth could call, And it a part of Earth must ever be - The Ocean fettered! the fond symbol of the Free! Nothing is free! What art thou, Freedom? What Art thy wild claims? Pretentions, silly child Of Man´s excited brain! Product of Hate And Bigotry and clutching Meanness! Wild - Wild Fantasy of little oppression piled Upon a little hater, watched with dark But blazing eyes, and every movement smiled At, from where the bright-wreathed ape, small and stark, Is lolling - luxury, law, on every chance remark! Why this? ´Tis but a drugged craving of A sort - Mankind! He turns, and is ashamed Of his weakness; and Shame knows not of Love! In fury he arises - sees he´s lamed - And is content with naught till all is maimed, Till all is torn to him, and drowned in blood - Blood that is spilt to make the bleeder famed! Another God - or many - then intrude, - Are blessed and praised and worshipped by the Multitude! And then that is relief! Relief from what? Relief from what they had before: relief From the desire to have what they had sought! But what instead? A meek, transient belief - Demoniac happiness to turn to grief - A craving to be drugged again, and grow Till Man to Love and Life and God be deaf, - Degenerated to a thing to bow To Hate and Crime and Lust and bloody death in Woe! I turned and gazed upon my left: A pain Stretched forth anon, and mingled with the sky, Where both were lost in mutual love and pain, As is a lover´s face in lover´s eye: About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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