Euphrates; And Other Poems (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... A VISION OF PROGRESS WHEN Earth was a world in the shaping, her Shaper regarded her need, So the light-bringing fiat went forth, and the spirits of darkness took heed. On the God-lighted face of the waters the beams of the morning were bright, But mark since that wondrous arising, the earth hath her day and her night. Lo, the day giveth place to the darkness, but wholly the day shall have won When uses of darkness are past, and the term of its service is done In Nature's wide, visible realm, and in regions of pain and despair Condemned to the rule and the wrath of the prince of the power of the air. To him, even him, was permitted temptation and plausible wile Since Adam the weakling must struggle, by evil ensnared for a while. In the net of the fowler he strove, and we say, "With a crumb was he caught;" In the midst of his bower was the lure, and we say, "He was tempted for naught." Though still is the snare and deceiving, take we heart, there is One shall requite; He holdeth events in His palm, and the aeons are swift in His sight. They compass the birth-time of nations, their course, and the time when they die, Yet to Him of the Infinite Vision those times are the wink of an eye. From Eden to Eden foreknowing, He aideth the journey between, From a clod in the deep of a vale to a crest where a city is seen. Her branches do murmur a welcome with naught of farewell in the sound; Had she gates, they were made for the shutting, or walls, they were built for a bound. But nowhere a limit she suffers, a bar whence an exile is driven To measure, by heart-empty weeping, a loss which he values as Heaven. There Adam has won his dominion, and Eve is possessed of her own, And the steep, stony uplands they weigh not whose feet have attained to a...