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The World’s Tragedy
The World’s Tragedy (1910), PDF p. 92
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THE RED STAR.
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Steady I stare
Into Thine eyes luxorious glare
Swimming with lust — as if I were
Some wandering Arab chief enthralled
By a sphinx with eyes of emerald,
As a bird fixed by an hissing asp,
As a maiden in a giant’s grasp,
As a mariner caught in the viewless iron
And velvet vice of a singing siren !
I lift this blade to sheer
In one deliberate sweep
Of startling light
All that man holdeth dear.
From the sun’s high steep to the great deep
Of unimaginable night
To dive — I dive.
Lord, now !
Pan ! Pan !
Accept the supreme vow !
The man
Shall be no more a man —
Stay ! who are these ?
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