This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...You read and you saw without seeing, My work seemed a trifle apart, While the truth of things thrilled through my being, And the wrong of things murdered my heart! 111 Cast out, and despised and neglected, And weak, and in fear, and in debt, My songs, mutilated! rejected! Shall ring through the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...You read and you saw without seeing, My work seemed a trifle apart, While the truth of things thrilled through my being, And the wrong of things murdered my heart! 111 Cast out, and despised and neglected, And weak, and in fear, and in debt, My songs, mutilated! rejected! Shall ring through the Commonwealth yet! And you to the pure and the guileless, And the peace of your comfort and pride-You have mocked at my bodily vileness, You have tempted and cast me aside. But wronged, and cast out, drink-sodden, But shunned, and "insane ' and unclean, I have dared where few others have trodden, I have seen what few others have seen. I have seen your souls bare for a season! I have heard as a deaf man can hear! I have seen you deprived of your reason And stricken with deadliest fear. And when beautiful night hid the shocking Black shame of the day that was past, I felt the Great Universe rocking With the truth that was coming at last. DIVORCED Two couples are drifting the self-same way (Men of the world know well) From the ballroom glare as the night grows grey (Men of the world can tell). Many are round them who know, and knew, But men of the world are blind; That couple in front has nought to do With the couple that comes behind. The woman starts on her partner's arm, For a reason he could not tell-She trips and she laughs the Society laugh, That men of the world know well. If she laughs too suddenly, talks too fast, We are deaf as well as blind-m. 'Twas only the ghosts of the girlish days When she married the man behind. He feels a pang where his heart had been (For a reason he cannot tell). A spasm that mars the cynical smile That men of the world know well. A spasm that's known in Society, And by many men ..".
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