THOSE WHO walk on the path of pride crushing the lowly life under their tread, covering the tender green of the earth with their footprints in blood; Let them rejoice, and thank thee, Lord, for the day is theirs. But I am thankful that my lot lies with the humble who suffer and bear the burden of power, and hide their faces and stifle their sobs in the dark. For every throb of their pain has pulsed in the secret depth of the night, and every insult has been gathered into thy great silence. And the morrow is theirs. O Sun, rise upon the bleeding hearts blossoming in flowers of the morning, and the torchlight revelry of pride shrunken to ashes.
A BEAST'S BONY frame lies bleaching on the grass. Its dry white bonesTime's hard laughtercry to me: Thy end, proud man, is one with the end of the cattle that graze no more, for when thy life's wine is spilt to its last drop the cup is flung away in final unconcern. I cry in answer: Mine is not merely the life that pays its bed and board with its bankrupt bones, and is made destitute. Never can my mortal days contain to the full all that I have thought and felt, gained and given, listened to and uttered. Often has my mind crossed Time's border, Is it to stop at last for ever at the boundary of crumbling bones? Flesh and blood can never be the measure of the truth that is myself; the days and moments cannot wear it out with their passing kicks; the wayside bandit, Dust, dares not rob it of all its possessions. Death, I refuse to accept from thee that I am nothing but a gigantic jest of God, a blank annihilation built with all the wealth of the Infinite.