The Poet At the Breakfast-Table: His Talks With His Fellow-Boarders And the ...

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The Poet At the Breakfast-Table: His Talks With His Fellow-Boarders And the ...
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
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Ye are as gods I Nay, makers of your gods, — Each day ye break an image in your shrine And plant a fairer image where it stood : Where is the Moloch of your fathers' creed, Whose fires of torment burned for span-long babes?
Fit object for a tender mother's love I Why not? It was a bargain duly made For these same infants through the surety's act Intrusted with their all for earth and heaven, 12* K Digitized by Google 274 THE POET AT THE BBEAKFAST-TABLE.
By Him who chose their guardian, knowing
...well His fitness for the task, — this, even this, "Was the true doctrine only yesterday As thoughts are reckoned, — and to-day you hear In words that sound as if from human tongues Those monstrous, uncouth horrors of the past That blot the blue of heaven and shame the earth As would the saurian s of the age of slime, Awaking from their stony sepulchres And wallowing hateful in the eye of day !
Four of us listened to these lines as the young man read them, — the Master and myself and our two ladies.


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