The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-22

we're here again,
Hethat in his Catholic holiness u,ed to call
the very flowers
Sisters, brothers, and the beasts whose pains
Are hardly less than ours.
Chaos, cosmosi Cosmos. chaosl Who can
tell how all will end?
Read ,hs wide world s annals, you, and take
their wisdom for your friend.
Hope the best, but hold the present fatal
daughter of the past;'
Shape yoIr heart 10 front tha hour, but
dream not that the hour will last.
Aye, if dynamite and revolver leave you
courage to be wise,
When was ase so crammcd with menace,
mae ness written, spoken lie,2
Envy wears the mask OF love; and, laughing
sober fact TO sc0rn,
Cries TO weakest ss 10 strongest: "Yo arc
equals, equal born"
Equal born? Oh, yes, If yondsr hill be level
with the fiat,
Charm us, or at or till the lion look no larger
than the cat,
Till tho cat, through that mirage of over
heated language, loom;
Larger than the lion, Demos end in work
ing its own doom.
Russia bursts our Indian barrier. Shall we
fight her? Shsll we yield2
Pause before you sound the trumpo., Hear
the voices from the field
Those three hundred millions under one i'm :
=, perial scepter now,
Shall we no d LhemY shall we lose them 7
Take the suffrage OF the plow.
Nay, but these would feel and follow truth. +.
1t only you and you
Which of frealm--ruining t2) party when you
speak-were wholly true.
PloWmen, shepherds have found. and more
than once and still could find,
Sons OF God and kings of men, utter nobless
OF mind.
Truthful, trustful.. look upward to the prac
tised husting's liar;
30 the higher weilds the lower, while the
lower is the higher.
Here aud there .cotter's babe is royal born
:, BY right divine;
Here and there my lord Is lower than his
oxen or his swine.
Chaos, cosmos Cosmos, chaosl Once again
the sickeniDg game,
Freedom FREQ to slay herself, and dying
while they shout her name.
Step BY step we gained freedom known to
Europe, known to all
htep by step We rose TO greatness; through
the tonguosters we may fall.
You that woo the voices tell thsm old Expo
rience is afoOt.
Teach your fattered Kings that only those
who cannot read can rule,
Pluck the, mighty from their scat. hut Sc. no
meek ones in their place;
filtory WISDOM IN your markets, pelt your
ofal at her fees
Tumble nature heels DER head and yelling
=, with the yelling street,
Bet the feet above the brain, and swear the
brain is in tho feet.
Bring the old, dark ages back without the
faith, without the hope;
Bret the state, tee church, the throne, and
roll their ruins down the slope.
Author, atheist, essayist, novelist, realist,
rhymster play your part.
Paint the mortal shame Of nature with the
living hues OF arts;
Kip your brothers vices open, strip your
own foul passions bare;
DoWD with retic!nncei down with reverence,
Forward ~ naked let them stare.
Feed the. budd ng rose of boyhood with the
drainage of your Pewer;
Send the dsain into the fountain lest the
stream should issue pure;
Set the maiden fancies waIIowlng in the
troughs Of Zolaism;
Forward, f0rwaid-aye, and backward,
downward, too, into the abysm;
Do your best to charm the worst, to lower
the rising race Of men;
Have we ri en- from out the beast? Then back
into the beast again.
Only dust to dust for me that sicken at your
lawless din;
Dust in wholesome Old-world dust before
the Newer World begin.
Heated am you wonder. Well, it scarce
becomes mine age
Paiencel Let the dying actor mouth his
last upon the stage.
Cries Of unprogressive dotage ere the gray
beard fall asleep,
Noises OF current narrowing, not the
music OF doep.
Ayi for doubtless | am old, and think gray
thoughts, for | am gray;
Attor an the stormy changes shall we find q
changeless MaJ2
After madness, after massacre, Jacobinism
and Jacquerie,
some diviner force to guide US through the
days shall not see?
When, the schemes and all the system-King-
dons and Republics fall,
something kindlier, higher, holier, all for |
each aud each for all?
III Tho full brain, half.brain racss led by |
,armistioe. love and trut1,
vi the millions (D at length, with all the |
visions OF my YOUTH
III diseases quenched by scieno,-uo man,
halt, or deaf or blind,
tronger ever born of weaker, lustier body, |
larger mind2
larth at last warless world, n single race,
single tongue?
have seen her far, away, for is not Earth as
yet so young?
very tiger-madness muzLied, every serpsnt
passion killed,
very, grim rayipe a garden, every blazing
desert tilled2
obed in universal harvest, up TO either pole
she smiles,
Universal ocean softly Washing all her war
less isles.
'arless when her tens Of thousands, and
:, her thousands millions then,
ii her hsrvests ali too narr0W-WhO can
fancy warless men2
'arless war will die out late, then will II
ever, late or soonY
IN 1t, til this outworn earth be dead as you
dead world, the moon.
sad, the new astronomy calls her. On this
day and at this hour,
! this gap between the sandhills, whence
you see the Locksley tower,
ere wO met our latest meeting, Amy. sixty
years ago,
10 and 1. The moon was falling greenish
through a rosy glow
st above the gateway tower, and even |
whero you see her now.
,re we stood and clasped each other, swore
the seeming doathless vow.
iadi But how her living glory lights tho
hall, the dune, the grass;
u the moonlight 10 tho moonlight, and the |
sun himself will pass IL
nus, near her, smiling downward at this
earthlier earth of ours,
oser on the sun, perh APPS, world of never I
fading flowers.
sper, whom the poet called brinRer home .
of all good things
good things may move in Hesper, per-
feet peoples, perfect kings.
sper, Venus, were we native to that splen- +,
dor, or in Mars
} should see the globe we groan in fairest Q
Of their evening stars. e
aid we dream Of wars and carnage, craft
and madness, lust aud spite,
aring London, Iayipg Paris, in that point I
Of peaceful light?
sht we not in glanoing heavenward on A K
star SO silver fair,
Arn and clasp the hands and murmur, l.
Would to God that We were theref
ward, backward; backward. forward, in A
tho i'm measurable sea,
aged by vaster GIBBS and flows than can
bo known to you or me. 4
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