W.K.C.–3rd MARCH, 1879.
“A free man thinks of nothing so little as of death; and his wisdom is a meditation, not of death, but of life.” –Spinoza.
“DRAW back the curtain, wife,” he said;
And, dying, raised his feeble head,
As all his gathered soul leaped sheer
Into his waning eyes, and yearned
After the journeying sun which turned
Towards that other hemisphere.
Then, as its incandescent bulk
Sank slowly, like the foundering hulk
Of some lone burning ship at sea,
His life set with it–bright as brief–
In that invincible belief
Of Man’s august supremacy.
Truth’s vanward hero! Calmly brave
Fronting the dumb unfathomed grave
With unintimidated eyes;
Though not for him, beyond its night,
Resuscitated Hope alight
Prescient, on peaks of Paradise.
And like some solemn parting word
From one belov
(Mathilde Blind)
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