Were these condemned in pre-auroral gloom?
When Thought on Cosmos brooded, in the grey
Cold mists of dawn, unflushed by rising day,
Were these ordained to tread from birth to tomb
The Path of crime and sorrow, pauper doom?
It is not so! And they blaspheme who say
God raped his breath in wrath from mortal clay!
Not God, but Man, damned these within the womb!
Man made He in His image, and mankind
By greed himself has chained, and woven lies
The vision of his destiny to blind.
E’en now our Godhead is but dim divined,
But lo! Hear ye the strong exultant cries
Of men who tear the veilings from their eyes?
(Burnett A. Ward)
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