Pain
— «, I am a mystery that walks the earth Since man began to be, Borrow and sin utocd sponsors at my birth Asd terror christened me, More pitiless than death, who gatbereth His victim day by day; I doom man daily to desire death, And still forbear to slay. More merciless than tima, I leave man youth And euck life's sweetness ont, Mbre cruel than despair, > show man truth, And leave him strength to doubt. I bind the feeblest in my subtle hand, I blabch the bolde*' cheek ; I hold the hearts of poets in my hand, .And wring the en ere they speak. I walk in darkreps over souls that bleed, I shape each as I go To something different I drop the seed Whence grapes or thistles grow So two that dream me dream that selfsame face; Ho two name me alike, A horror without form I nil all space, Across all time I strike. Man cries, and cringes to mine unseen ; Kings own my sovereignty; Scan may but prove me a s they prove a God, Ytt none denieth me. I
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Southland Times, Issue 11670, 26 February 1891, Page 4
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184Pain Southland Times, Issue 11670, 26 February 1891, Page 4
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