lirik lagu james thomson - hannah gordon - from 'the city of dreadful night'
lo, thus, as prostrate, “in the dust i write
my heart’s deep languor and my soul’s sad tears.”
yet why evoke the spectres of black night
to blot the sunshine of exultant years?
why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden?
why break the seals of mute despair unbidden
and wail life’s discords into careless ears?
because a cold rage seizes one at whiles
to show the bitter old and wrinkled truth
stripped naked of all vesturе that beguiles
false drеams, false hopes, false masks and modes of youth;
because it gives some sense of power and passion
in helpless innocence to try to fashion
our woe in living words howe’er uncouth
surely i write not for the hopeful young
or those who deem their happiness of worth
or such as pasture and grow fat among
the shows of life and feel nor doubt nor dearth
or pious spirits with a god above them
to sanctify and glorify and love them
or sages who foresee a heaven on earth
for none of these i write, and none of these
could read the writing if they deigned to try;
so may they flourish in their due degrees
on our sweet earth and in their unplaced sky
if any cares for the weak words here written
it must be some one desolate, fate~smitten
whose faith and hopes are dead, and who would die
yes, here and there some weary wanderer
in that same city of tremendous night
will understand the speech and feel a stir
of fellowship in all~disastrous fight;
“i suffer mute and lonely, yet another
uplifts his voice to let me know a brother
travels the same wild paths though out of sight.”
o sad fraternity, do i unfold
your dolorous mysteries shrouded from of yore?
nay, be assured; no secret can be told
to any who divined it not before:
none uninitiate by many a presage
will comprehend the language of the message
although proclaimed aloud for evermore
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