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I Vowed To Love Mankind
I vowed to love mankind one night— Beneath a wan and weeping light, Where shadows clung to reason’s edge And hope lay broken on a ledge. The air was hushed with ghostly breath, A perfume faintly sweet as death, And through the dark, with hollow eyes, I heard humanity’s soft cries. “I vowed,” I said, “to thee, O race— Though sorrow stains thy pallid face; Though cruelty, with cunning hand, Hath sown despair across thy land.” Yet in that vow there stirred a dread— A whisper from the nameless dead, Who murmured low, “Beware the plea To love what scorns its own decree.” For man, I saw, in fevered dream, Was less the light than fractured gleam; A shattered glass of truth and grace, Each shard reflecting a different face. Still bowed I low—aye, lower still— Against the rising tide of ill, Till from the depths there came a sigh That seemed to ask the question: Why? Why love a form so frail, so torn, By endless night and ceaseless scorn? Why kneel before a fleeting breath That dances ever close with death? And yet—I could not turn away, Though reason begged my soul to stray; For in that ruin, dimly shone A fragile light not wholly gone. Thus vowed I long, and vow I yet— In mournful love, in dark regret; To mankind’s heart—so cursed, so grand— I gave my soul… and trembling hand.
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