Poems of the Unknown Way
Poems of the Unknown Way
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Shall sow the unborn worlds with human dreams.
We wake and read the earth, and learn the law That shaped its growth : we trace the leaf and bloom H Digitized by Google 98 A RITUAL Up from the bursting bud : and lo ! blind forms Of being feeling toward the light, vile shapes Born of abysmal throes, confusions vast Of elemental strife in which the strong Devoured the weak and grew, till some new age Of spheric doom swung round with ice or fire And slaughtered and selected, and the few That bore t...he stress of change remained to rule And multiplied, until once more appeared Weaker and stronger, and the stronger rose And crushed the weaker and again were crushed ; And in the end the outcome of the strife Was Man, who had dominion over all And preyed on all things, and the stronger man Trampled his weaker brother under foot.
And, dominant on earth yet fearing death.
Made creeds to shelter him and deities Digitized by Google A RITUAL 99 Who bore his strife to heaven, where the gods Of stronger races conquered and in turn Were driven forth and others ruled supreme And burdened man with tasks, until at length In pride or scorn he rose against his gods, Which were his own desires and tyrannies Unfettered, or his own ideals enthroned ; And wrestling with God, the soul of man Beheld itself, and saw that with itself It wrestled, and that impulses divine Unwakened while his coarser fibres grew, Hidden within the seed from which he sprung, And now in Time's inevitable hour Uplifted, were astir within himself And sought new light And fighting to fulfil An age-begotten fate, our human life Bore, — as a woman bears her child in pain, — Pity, and Love, and Justice ; and the pride Digitized by Google lOO A RITUAL Of leadership no longer lay in men Who trod upon the helpless, but in men Who fought their fight ; and those knit thews of strength Won by the earth in civil strife remained To shield the awakened Love.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Shall sow the unborn worlds with human dreams.
We wake and read the earth, and learn the law That shaped its growth : we trace the leaf and bloom H Digitized by Google 98 A RITUAL Up from the bursting bud : and lo ! blind forms Of being feeling toward the light, vile shapes Born of abysmal throes, confusions vast Of elemental strife in which the strong Devoured the weak and grew, till some new age Of spheric doom swung round with ice or fire And slaughtered and selected, and the few That bore t...he stress of change remained to rule And multiplied, until once more appeared Weaker and stronger, and the stronger rose And crushed the weaker and again were crushed ; And in the end the outcome of the strife Was Man, who had dominion over all And preyed on all things, and the stronger man Trampled his weaker brother under foot.
And, dominant on earth yet fearing death.
Made creeds to shelter him and deities Digitized by Google A RITUAL 99 Who bore his strife to heaven, where the gods Of stronger races conquered and in turn Were driven forth and others ruled supreme And burdened man with tasks, until at length In pride or scorn he rose against his gods, Which were his own desires and tyrannies Unfettered, or his own ideals enthroned ; And wrestling with God, the soul of man Beheld itself, and saw that with itself It wrestled, and that impulses divine Unwakened while his coarser fibres grew, Hidden within the seed from which he sprung, And now in Time's inevitable hour Uplifted, were astir within himself And sought new light And fighting to fulfil An age-begotten fate, our human life Bore, — as a woman bears her child in pain, — Pity, and Love, and Justice ; and the pride Digitized by Google lOO A RITUAL Of leadership no longer lay in men Who trod upon the helpless, but in men Who fought their fight ; and those knit thews of strength Won by the earth in civil strife remained To shield the awakened Love.
What to read after Poems of the Unknown Way?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Lysaght, Sidney Royse, D. 1941 to read onlineMoreLess
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