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To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (1725)4/11/1999 5:45:00 AM
From: AugustWest  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 2095
 
Alone

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were--I have not seen
As others saw--I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I lov'd, I lov'd alone.
Then--in my childhood--in the dawn
Of a most stormy life--was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, of the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that 'round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold--
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass'd me flying by--
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.

-E.A.Poe



To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (1725)4/17/1999 12:23:00 PM
From: Volsi Mimir  Respond to of 2095
 
51
Stephen Crane

A man went before a strange god,--
The god of many men, sadly wise.
And the deity thundered loudly,
Fat with rage, and puffing:
"KNEEL, MORTAL, AND CRINGE
AND GROVEL AND DO HOMAGE
TO MY PARTICULARLY SUBLIME MAJESTY!"

............The man fled.

Then the man went to another god.--
The god of his inner thoughts.
And this one looked at him
With soft eyes
Lit with infinite comprehension,
And said: "My poor child."



To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (1725)4/17/1999 12:26:00 PM
From: Volsi Mimir  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 2095
 
24
from The Black Riders and Other Lines
Stephen Crane
1895

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
"It is futile," I said,
"You can never--"

"You lie, he cried,
And ran on.