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The World’s Tragedy
The World’s Tragedy (1910), PDF p. 81
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THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY.
HERACLEITUS
Ah ! but some evil things have brooded here
Over the sleepers. May it be indeed
The truth that some strange fate threatens the world ?
That Art and Love and Beauty, to renew
Their glory, must be bathed in their own blood ?
But who shall understand the Soul of Pan ?
Involved in All and still apart from All !
For steeped therein as I am all my life,
I know but exquisite beatitude,
Knowing the whole, Then who shall know or care
What may befall the part ? One must remain ;
Many must change. Then all is well. The strife
Is but the ferment of the forward still
Immune from grief, intolerant of ill,
Fronting the double foe — of pain and joy —
With equal eye — in the meantime —
Dear boy,
Wake ! Let us revel it the while we may,
Love dawning ever with the dawning day.
Wake, brothers, sisters ! It is time to stir.
The owl, the night-hawk, sad and sinister,
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