The Opening Vista, and Other Poems (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Opening Vista, and Other Poems The Spirit of Tragedy Although the morning sky is azure clear, Unruffled by a wind or wandering cloud, There hovers in the calm a sense of fear, As if to sudden death the morn were vowed. The surface of the sapphire arching dome, Seems puckered as if it longed to cry its pain, In accents fainter than the breath of foam, Yet strong enough to shake man´s tallest fane. What dread thing lurks behind the pearly gates, Whose loftiness our peering gaze defies? Does Beauty beckon while Hatred waits And tottering heart of feeble man descries? Onward it comes with soft, yet giant feet, The Spirit of the mighty sons of woe, And who of you will dare to fly, retreat, When Tragedy swoops with pinions crouching low? It is War that rages rampant o´er the world, Unfurling battle flags in crimson dyed, While shrinking men in cannon´s mouths are hurled, And cowards low their quivering figures hide. And in its gorgeous train of filmy black, The Spirit brings dark Ignorance abashed, All ready to withstand the foe´s attack, Yet helpless, blind on broken mirrors dashed. Now Love and Hate In deadly duel set, With horrid malice tear each other´s eyes, Until they seem in ugliness so met, No difference in their face the heart espies. A whisper on the silent, boding air, Leers forth a cruel thought like poisoned breath, And says these two but one sad image bear, That Love and Hate confused, are one in death. The Spirit walks abroad in potent thrill, With garlands of jetty crepe to bind the land, While Joyous voices turn to accents shrill, And here and there a corpse waves bony hand. 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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