Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-08-27
A VIEW
On "rhe Man with the Hoe"

Though by the weight of ages bowed,
Not on his skill alone, he leans,
But on a conscience and peace
Which in his incapacitfss,
Excells our own in heights as far
As heaven is apart from EARTH
The lack of knowledge In that face
Speaks of a peace We cannot feel
A gift to us who seek TO reach
A power to excel our God s.
Yet lighter bears the burden, he.
Than We skilled in deceit and craft
Would shift II on some brothers back,
Zen losers we of Righteousness
That will his rightful portion be-
His being dead to raptures thrills
Is thus unborn to feel dispair-
His ignorance of the throes Of hope,
firmer rampant builds, twixt he
And the immedicable-what might have
been.
We with our greed for Mammon's own
Our passion to excel in wealth
OF puny gold. and for fame
That might enrich q name. but WELD
blow to soul and deaden US
To feel for others woes; twas this,
A crime that is your own and mine
That chained the hands from liberty
Filched from his humble store, equality
Our breath blew out the light within his
brain"
This shrunken form is but the wreck
Of that formation so Divine,
That God enthroned on this great globe
To hold dominion over i;
To ponder over deeper thoughts.
TO feel the need OF eternity.
Nay this is not the dream He dreamed,
Lest if 'twere thus. curse AT birth
Upon his masterpiece He casts
Scared and defaced, In form and soul
What signifies the gulf 'twixt He
And the celestial SeraDhn
Since no emotion nor desire
Its raptures to possess feels heE
Had ne a choice twixt these apart,
90 lords and rulers In all lands.
Who would decide, and 5udgment place
On which 'tw~re better 10 erdow-
The tfrang with power 20 feel despair,
Or keep It dumb in Ignorance OF
His portion of he'll.
Dead to that higher passions sway,
Save in er1der. grosser vein
A passion fraught with poisoned sweets
Whose thirst TO crafty Is but
To thirst anew: and deeper burn
Knows nothing Of higher love,
That may perforce to anguish turn
Blind to the sweep OF Plato's quill.
To the reaches Of the Pielades.
Def to the thrills of muEic's charm.
''Enfseling to the riffs OF dawn
Untouched by evening TRANQUIL glow.
And being thus unborn 10 these.
What knows he of that yearniug win
To form in words. 20 put III song
Emotions that o'er-crowd the soul2
q. rather ask. If this be all
Tire human wreekage man hath saved
From all the depths Of centuries passed.
From out The SECS Of agss gomez
BE this the souI-bgrn man tina; Cod
Placed By our side. with the command
That we our brothers keep should be-
Where. o. where. have We been. All wheref
When this. our keep. was drifting where
o. Nations. If this he our crime,
II must q crime forever i've
Since nothing but hand Divine
Can mould It 70 It's former SET
None otfler hut hand DIVINE
Can shape that stopped and bTf ken form.
Refnos7;d the brow 10 ioftier heaithA
RekiDEie In the brain thai light
OF tan9ing- give again
The soul the peace of Immortal hope.
More but hand Divine s11 totem
Ard make respond in notes sublime.
Tine life!ess heart. thai ffg1tsn fips wears
Hath calioused grown. and pgsSeiess IS a
sphinx.
80 lords and rulers rs all Lands
The future viii not reckon him
PVT we his kseD: and Gods grin wrath
viii on that Dsv 81 Days be ours.
We who hath shared II 70 this thing,
"a thing distorted and s0nl-duerehed"
wfIt answer for the shxute while he
stands rnufely BIZ heir 70 compassion
We the denserS. row the denied
This BE- his Heayen this be Cur he'll
CHARLES EMERSON AcPEAKss