The Strangers

As unto the blind the colors Of earth and sky and seas, As unto the deaf the music Of melodious harmonies, As unto the dumb the sweetness Of the songs they have never sung, As unto the alien the welcome In the words of another tongue, So unto those who are strangers To the covenants […]

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What Then?

When the great busy plants of our cities Have turned out their last finished work; When our merchants have sold their last order, And dismissed the last tired clerk; When our banks have raked in their last dollar, And paid out their last dividend; When the Judge of earth shall say, “Closed for the night,” […]

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The Tree

What does it mean this wood So stained with blood; This tree without a root That bears such fruit; This tree without a leaf So leaved with grief? What does its height proclaim Whose height is shame; Its piteous arms outspread Where death lies dead; And in the midst a heart Cleft wide apart? Though […]

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