Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-06-28
SWiNBURNE'S NEW POEM.

le Address of the Doomed Doge to the
Council Of Ten.
Algernon %Swinburne's drama, "Marino
Faliero," is one OF the most important ad-
6itiops to the literature of the day. tits at
present running the gauntlet of the book
critics on both sides of the Atlantic. A
glimpse of the poem is contained in the fol-
lowing extract, being the speech Of the I'M
fortunate Doge after he has been condemned
to death by the Council of Ten;
sirs, take note,
That with mems wrongs aud s~ufferings age on age
This blind worm custom have ye fed and made
4 serpent Hanged and flying, with eyes and wings,
To ravin on mems hearts. Pride, shame, sloth, lust,
Are dragons teeth; right royalty We err
10 deem that these win sting not, or that men,
No bondslaveS born but citizens as We,
Eeing stung, viii smile and thank you. Now per-
chance
Would one make answer, saying I too was horn
Not least Of all no less than any Of you
Noble, but heir oisplace as proud as yours,
Oh name as high in history, by my sires
None otherwise than yours from yours bequeathed
With attributes and accidents to boot
OF chance hereditary which truth being truth,
Fierce madness II is In me for sheer despite
To league myself against my kind, and give
"a AINAhAC , kAabaNo III W NhC lnA hAlN
And rage Of hands plebian all for this,
This recompenSe Of all, 10 stand myself
Amid the clanorous rout Of thrals released.
Dumb, diSarrayed, diSseated, dispoSSeSsed,
Degraded and disigured OF the grace
Ny birth had cast about me- but, my lords
Not all men Away, though We know not this,
Yean toward their own ends only, live and die,
Desiring only for themselves and theirs
Honor with Surveyed justice; Righteousness
That holds the rights up Of q mobiles house,
Walks firm and straight on service in his hall,
But halts beyond his threshold; equity
Which is not equal, justice less than just,
And freedom based on bondage else indeed,
Were all souls nobly born 50 base by birth.
No tongue most violent or most furious hand
UPlift or loGd against nobility
Spake never yet nor struck unluSty. MEN
May bear the blaEon wrought Of centuries, hold
Their armories higher than arms imperial. Yet
Know that the least their countrymen,v where hand
And peer Of all their fathers. We, that know
Nor this nor aught that men call manful-ye
That feed upon your fathers lame Is worms
Fed on their flesh, and leave il rotten-ye
Because your grandireS. men that were, begat
Sons yet not all unnamed, and these again
BeSat on vombs les loyal than Of yore
lou-how should ye know thisf But l, lair lords,
Born even rs you, was nurtured even a. they
Whom your fair loSdships hold, being humber
born,
/ bore your banner: nor vasimine in strife
Reared higher THAI hands which there kept rank
with mine
And were not noble; whence from touch ofsthese
And fellowship in fighting, L, whom ye
Called peers OF yours, found poor men peers OF mine
And you by proof act and testo truth
Vasals. But SOME perchAnce of yours, yeH ny,
Fought far and fain OF fight rs We, and bore.
As high the lion; sirs, We know Il; bet this
We know not that ye bore IL higher or Stood
More steadfast In the shock OF charging DEATH
Than poor men born your followers; and on these,
On sons Of these, ye have laid such laws and mnds
Life 50 by manlike men unbcarable,
Thatby what end scorer he that ends
Tbs reign Of chance, this heritage OF rsign.
Must 1.-Two or die approved Of all ave ron.
OF Justice iustiheo, Of earth and Heaven
In life or death applauded. naught would
Nor Aught would any say 70 shans yoe mores
And now. ~ ys must live, IL seems, lei M
Die; God be with you. sad coatcat With mA