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Honors - Part Ii

...o mine eyes
A worthy path! I'd count not wearisome
      Long toil, nor enterprise,
But strain to reach it; ay, with wrestlings stout
  And hopes that even in the dark will grow
(Like plants in dungeons, reaching feelers out),
      And ploddings wary and slow.
Is there such path already made to fit
  The measure of my foot? It shall atone
For much, if I at length may light on it
      And know it for mine own.
But is there none? why, then, 'tis more than well:
  ...Read more of this...
by Ingelow, Jean


Milton's Appeal To Cromwell

...
 What fool has said: "There is no king but thou?" 
 For thee the multitude waged war and won— 
 The end thou art of wrestlings and of prayer, 
 Of sleepless watch, long marches, hunger, tears 
 And blood prolifically spilled, homes lordless, 
 And homeless lords! The mass must always suffer 
 That one should reign! the collar's but newly clamp'd, 
 And nothing but the name thereon is changed— 
 Master? still masters! mark you not the red 
 Of shame unutterable in m...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

The Daguerreotype

...se, rude to look upon, 
But flasking up the liquor dearest won, 
Through sacred hours and hard, 
With watching and with wrestlings and with grief, 
Even of these, of these in chief, 
The stale breath sickens reeking from the shard. 
Nothing is left. Aye, how much less than naught! 
What shall be said or thought 
Of the slack hours and waste imaginings, 
The cynic rending of the wings, 
Known to that froward, that unreckoning heart 
Whereof this brewage was the precious part, ...Read more of this...
by Moody, William Vaughn

The Everlasting Mercy

...ek." 
Across the way by almshouse pump 
I see old puffing parson stump. 
Old parson, red-eyed as a ferret 
From nightly wrestlings with the spirit; 
I ran acrosss, and barred his path. 
His turkey gills went red as wrath 
And then he froze as parsons can. 
"The police will deal with you, my man." 
"Not yet, "said I, "not yet they won't; 
And now you'll hear me, like or don't. 
The English Church both is and was 
A subsidy of Caiaphas. 
I don't believe in Prayer or Bible, 
The...Read more of this...
by Masefield, John

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