The Isle of the Deathless With Minor Poems Also Spare Moments Or Thoughts
The Isle of the Deathless With Minor Poems Also Spare Moments Or Thoughts
Louisa Shaw
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And the dim Future yet to come, Stamp'd with the dross of fleeting fame Yet bright with the Creator's name; And honoured be the hoary head, When the Light on our pathway shed Hath pierced the fleshly veil of sin, And fed the immortal spark withiu. THE ISLE OF THE DEATHLESS. 59 When like a ship at anchor lying, The howling blast and storm defying, The time-worn Pilgrim hails the foe, Whose dart shall lay his victim low. But likeness to the meaner race In man, Creation's lord, we trace. When dead...ened is each finer sense. By the cold World's Omnipotence : When furrowed brow, and fading eye. And mind of wasted energy Still lick the dust, and bend the knee To darkness, and idolatry. Here, as I scanned Creation's plan, I saw how vile a thing is man ; — Akin to Angels — spirit free. His heritage — Eternity ; Gifted with powers to span the sky, Yet lifting not a glance on high ; Content to grovel on the earth. With soulless things of meanest birth. And quench of endless bliss the germ. To boast his kindred with the worm !
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