The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-15

Il f1t<ou atscI IeaQIUS the account OF ~kU0G100
Prisons" in the F0rtnightly Reriew for Jaly.
1901
Out Of he'll word comes kissing, dark a. doom,
Fierce - IRE, and foul a. plague poiluted
Out Of heil wherein the sfnless damned endure
More than ever sin conceived of pains impure;
More than ever ground meme living souls to
Worse than madness ever dreamed Of murder
since s6s worlds wan drss went up from lands
Ears have heard not, tongues have tsld not
things like these
Dante. led By loves and hates accordant speil
where beyond the brook Of blood the rain was
Where the scalps ws masked with dang more
saw nos where the hlth Vas foulest. and the
Darkest depths whose nends could match the
Set beside this truth. his deadaiest vision seems
Pale and pure and painless Is q virgins dreams.
Aaidens dead beneath the ciaaping issh, and
Rent with deadlier pansu than death shame
Naked mad. starved. scoursed. spurned. frozen.
fallen. delivered,
Hoa,s and bodies ~ By fangs Of beasts devoured,
Scum is that hell would hear not sights no
Limbs thai feei as dame the ravenous grasp OF
Filth Of raging crime and shame that crime en-
Ago made one with youth in torture. girls with
These. and worse. ii aught be woss than these
Prove thee regent. Russis-praiss thy mercy.
CHar.
Sons Of man, men born of women, may we dare
Gay they sin who dare be slain and dare not
They Who take their lives in hand and smile
on death,
Holding life q less than sleeps most 1tfsl
So their life perchancs or death may serve and
Faith, and hops. that die II dream becomes NOT
Nsughi IS death and nasght is life and naught
Save Tor souls that love has clothed with nre of
These behold them. weigh them. prove them.
Save y light OF hope and IRE OF burning
what though sun be less than storm where these
Dawn 6 N iishsnins. song than thunder. light
Help is none in heaven: hops sees no gentler
star:
Earth Is hell. and hell bows down before the
All it, monstrous. murderous. lecherous births
acclaim
Him whose empire lives to match its fiery
Nay. perchance 1t sight or sense of deeds here
done.
Here where men may lift mp eyes to greet tn q
He'll recoils heart-stricken: horror worse than
he'll
Darkens earth and siskens heaven; life know,
shudders, quails and sinks-or. filed with
| Rises red in arms devised of darkling death
Pity mad with passion, anguish mad with
| Call aloud on justice by her darker name:
Love grows hate for loves sake; Life takes death
Night hath none but one red star-Tyrannicide
sGod or man, be swift; hope sickens with de
smite aud send him bowling down his father.
Fan. 9 Are of heaven. and smiss q hre from
Halls wherein men: sorturers crowned and
| These that crouch and shrink and shudder, CIR
These that reign and dare not trust one trem
These omnipotent whom terror curbs and
These whose life reflects in fear their victims
These whose breath sheds poison worse thar
| These who's reign is ruin, these whose word /,
dea h,
| These whose viii turns heaven TO hell and dsy
to night.
These. If Gods hand smite NOT. how shall man.
not smifer
/ So from hearts by horror withered IS by fire
1 surge the strains of unappeasable desire;
| Sounds that bid the darkness tighten, lit for
death;
| Bid the lips whose breath was doom yield ~
/ their breath;
| Down the way Of Cars. while in vain deferred
i Bid the Second Alexander light the Third.
| How for shame shall men rebuke themf how
Blame. whose fathers died, and slew, to leave u
free2
We, though all the world cry out upon then
know.
/ Were our strife e. theirs. we could not strik
but 50:
Could not cover. and could not kiss the hand
that snfte:
Could not meet them armed In sunlit battle
light
/ Dark as fear and red Is hate though morning
rise.
Life il 10 that eouquers; death II is that d q