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THE CRUCIFIXION OF MANHOOD. |
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II. THE CRUCIFIXION OF MANHOOD.
(For Good Friday, 1880.)
To-day, as ever, pale mankind is nailed
Upon the bitter cross; the people go
To weep false tears o'er overrated woe,—
Weeping because one far-off fair life failed.
And what of heights of manhood left unscaled
To-day, because this piteous farce runs so?
What of the sufferers dying beneath snow
Of want of love to-day, by no hymns hailed?
Upon the bitter cross; the people go
To weep false tears o'er overrated woe,—
Weeping because one far-off fair life failed.
And what of heights of manhood left unscaled
To-day, because this piteous farce runs so?
What of the sufferers dying beneath snow
Of want of love to-day, by no hymns hailed?
Ah! shall there be an Easter morn for these,
As through the blood-stained centuries not one day
Hath not loomed like Good Friday gaunt and grey
Upon them; from grim immemorial seas
Of timeless suffering, grievous, marred and wan,
What Easter torch shall light the spirit of man?
As through the blood-stained centuries not one day
Hath not loomed like Good Friday gaunt and grey
Upon them; from grim immemorial seas
Of timeless suffering, grievous, marred and wan,
What Easter torch shall light the spirit of man?
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