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A CURIOUS vision on mine eyes unfurled	A
In the deep night I saw or seemed to see	B
Two Centuries meet and sit down vis a vis	C
Across the great round table of the world	A
One with suggested sorrows in his mien	D
And on his brow the furrowed lines of thought	E
And one whose glad expectant presence brought	E
A glow and radiance from the realms unseen	D
Hand clasped with hand in silence for a space	F
The Centuries sat the sad old eyes of one	G
As grave paternal eyes regard a son	G
Gazing upon that other eager face	F
And then a voice as cadenceless and gray	H
As the sea's monody in winter time	I
Mingled with tones melodious as the chime	I
Of bird choirs singing in the dawns of May	H
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THE OLD CENTURY SPEAKS	J
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By you Hope stands With me Experience walks	K
Like a fair jewel in a faded box	L
In my tear rusted heart sweet pity lies	M
For all the dreams that look forth from your eyes	M
And those bright hued ambitions which I know	N
Must fall like leaves and perish in Time's snow	N
Even as my soul's garden stands bereft	O
I give you pity 'tis the one gift left	O
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THE NEW CENTURY	B
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Nay nay good friend not pity but Godspeed	P
Here in the morning of my life I need	P
Counsel and not condolence smiles not tears	Q
To guide me through the channels of the years	R
Oh I am blinded by the blaze of light	S
That shines upon me from the Infinite	T
Blurred is my vision by the close approach	U
To unseen shores whereon the times encroach	U
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THE OLD CENTURY	B
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Illusion all illusion List and hear	V
The Godless cannons booming far and near	W
Flaunting the flag of Unbelief with Greed	P
For pilot lo the pirate age in speed	P
Bears on to ruin War's most hideous crimes	X
Besmirch the record of these modern times	X
Degenerate is the world I leave to you	Y
My happiest speech to earth will be adieu	Y
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THE NEW CENTURY	B
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You speak as one too weary to be just	Z
I hear the guns I see the greed and lust	Z
The death throes of a giant evil fill	A2
The air with riot and confusion Ill	A2
Ofttimes makes fallow ground for Good and Wrong	B2
Builds Right's foundation when it grows too strong	B2
Pregnant with promise is the hour and grand	C2
The trust you leave in my all willing hand	C2
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THE OLD CENTURY	B
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As one who throws a flickering taper's ray	H
To light departing feet my shadowed way	H
You brighten with your faith Faith makes the man	D2
Alas that my poor foolish age outran	D2
Its early trust in God The death of art	E2
And progress follows when the world's hard heart	E2
Casts out religion 'Tis the human brain	F2
Men worship now and heaven to them means gain	F2
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THE NEW CENTURY	B
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Faith is not dead tho' priest and creed may pass	G2
For thought has leavened the whole unthinking mass	G2
And man looks now to find the God within	H2
We shall talk more of love and less of sin	H2
In this new era We are drawing near	W
Unatlassed boundaries of a larger sphere	W
With awe I wait till Science leads us on	I2
Into the full effulgence of its dawn	J2

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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