The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-12

Ivy srown college walls.
What dark worldwide knows,-
One touch, and what strange
Glory might burst on US.
DO we sport carelessly.
Blndly upon the verge
Ian Apocalypset
SPRING THOUGHT.
Sweet Spring, thou contest gir with life and
Death shfinEs before the sunngh, Of thy slances.
4ae es %Ise e s' n
And In our hearts thy melodies and odors
Can wake 70 passion ufe our oden giories.
Thou canst relume me slaz eyes OF Mature
PERSPECTIVE
Ny feet on the ball OF st. Peters.
Ny head In the radiant skies.
see the Eternal City
| Shrunk 70 an ant heaps sire.
Re.sucked 70 eternal forest.
bother ssd sna and %s ants
Contending upon your mound
The domes are dwindled 70 m ushrooms.
The towers are sunk 70 stones.
Live Rome and Its ruins are equal.
The dog and the lions bones
Is this the worlds treat wonder'
To this do all roads iead'
Here cast the churcb's creed'
o piun breed Of mortais.
g, spawn Of teeming womb
What LAnputian doom
Ru, sudden thought brings comfort
because am high on 81. Peters.
upborne by the greatness Of man.
THE sIGNPosT
TO Heaven, ITO Hell, said the euiding nngers
I looked 70 light 70 left around. above:
The self -ssme path II was 70 which both pointed;
AsrI spUMANrE
Its pop eScites my fellow diners glances
Within broad .briInme ed glass il fro,hs and dances
SNOWY as Mo and a. cheap a tes
! pass the bottle 70 my silent neighbor.
He sTns ms ps snd spSI 81 rops ss
Her tameless travail Of eternal birth,
pass the bottle to the man loauacious.
The tragic bard OF ASH he recalls;
Wsh ,ss, onsin' tr r ON ma the ancient wSs
Green kirsied siesnsrs Zee, 70 vsts deep sunk:
'er.brimming baskets borne by modens slender,
And In a corner Noah lying drunk.
All. yes. tho Asu brings them pleasan, faneies.
Ny childhood with It's glamourous romsnces
Lies In drop OF that cheap Nuscatel.
One sp-and rcd the public foreign table.
Trust. Innocence; and wonder, AZ are minei
To HE relationship to raisn- wine.
The rasin wine OF cer emonies holy.
Wherein 10 fete old Pharaoh : oyerthrow-
We dipped unleavsnc ed bread The Eas, moves SLOWLY.
o w;tch!ny night when Earth was near 70 Heaven.
o biesscdnesS to be little jew
Wy wa se ynss spe e n g" fm
know not. but by Ash rccreated.
An dewy fresh the young enchantments rise.
And forget that am old and stated,
Lonely and stained Of soul and worldly wise.
Pirate on. o friends of Nature, Art, and Dante.
Nor mote az ,s ss. a ss y.ssfd.S spumsn.
Ny Ghetto sparslcs youthfuliy divine.
IN MENToSE.
An Afrc lion In cage.
Worn dumb with and futile rage,
HIS forest eye sight dimmed with age.
Grim couchant on his balcony,
He turns his back to sun and sea.
And scowls upon humanity
swit thunder past his prison doors
TS. M MOTOR. oi bis ssa S%Gess
The Haunting females throned elate
Make blttereI his kindreds fate;
He blnks and mourns his buried mate,
Your faith in In God s and INA man was such
You dared 10 put I, TO the touch
And so you nnisn far from horne
Your Empr, .p i5e% nSoy %ss
Blu, ye, you chew no novel crust
Who has not stsked hts dreams. What trust
Has Fate not smltten 10 the dust:
One trusts in Love. Friend. keep sioof
o. moonbeams weave both warp and voof
Put nothing 20 the solid proof
ops sEss!s IN ~, Tsm. NS. n%,T.,
Your Juniors chant your funeral dirge.
SSs msrc S not 40 10 Der Msfscaiser NV p'''
crown OF thorns her only bays,
One trusts In Justice, Cursed Jew
To put our France In such q stew
Your champion chokes-and so may YOU
Take. Paul. eteIow eIiles hand.
!. too. have los, my fsiryland.
IN THE MoRGuE
The sunbeams STRAINED without,
me wind Tossed bosrhs made not;
Reposed In waaen quiet.
A poet paused 10 view
THs SGrr more d snS s sssn y RSor poet
Because, alas. know ~"
AT THr ZOO.
Tho sky is gray with rain that win not fall.
The ciayey paths are oo,ins snossly mist.
Reeklns with sadness mmemonal,
The gray earth sAps the courage 70 exist.
Poor ,reple creatures. pe.ncd in norhen land.
The lien turning In his living grave
ISRAEL
ueny a Israel. Jehovah. the Lord our God IL One
But We Jenovah His people, are dual and 20 undone
slaves. In eternal Esyp's. baking their s,awiess
A, ease 10 successive lions prstnr their politics;
Ro,,,ne in sunl, Rouman.s p,grine In Russian pale.
Driving ia Park, Bois and Prater, chngne TO Fash
IONS tail:
Keeling before every rowdy. sore With hundred
Clothed 10 nne linen and purple loved al the courts
Of kings;
Faithful friends to our foemen. slaves to . scorn
The only ee"sSft,i.ns in Europe turning tn. other
cheek:
Priests Of the household altar. pleasing the bread
Lords Of the hcs of Gomorrsh. licensed keepers Of
swine
DER Gathering ,readles, sanity and
cus,,ns The rough from whitechspei- by learning
the hooigsn's trade;
r,ou. tansi,cai ieaiots. throt,ied By Taimud coll
implous, lccnerous skepiics. cynical stalkers OF
spoil;
welded meath Hebrew awning. buried meath He.
Between no, dream of duty. never glimpse Of