Madmoments: or First Verseattempts By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison |
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ON FANCYDREAMERS WHO THINK REAL LIFE TOO COMMONPLACE
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ON FANCYDREAMERS WHO THINK REAL LIFE TOO COMMONPLACE FOR THEM.
«What would'st thou breathe, if not this Common Air!»Is it not Ether? are thy Fellowmen
Not with thee here as Angels? what more then
Canst thou require? view Man as if He were
All that is Godlike! and let all who bear
That Name be holy to thee; yea! éen when
'Tis'but a Beggar, give him back again
His Greeting in all Love and Awe, nor dare
To think the least ill thought of him when gone!
And then, the more, more sobermindedly
Thou breathest this air, which makes us Men alone,
As simply what it is, The deeper thy
Belief that all are Godlike, from thine own
Heart feeling it; the more Reality
Thou givest this Truth in Act, unshaken by
Vain Doubts and Fancies, then wilt thou have grown
By so much more an Angel, that thine Eye
In all who meet thee'neath the holy Sun
Will see nought but the Angel—yea! thou' It own
That Fancy's Dreams were but a gilded Lie,
And that this Common Air which we live on,
Is the pure Ether of God's blessed Sky!
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