Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . Tolstoy Saints have known from the beginning All about Man and Sin and Sinning, And have concluded for his good Theres nothing left but the monks rough hood. In Man, from family ties set free,The perfect type of Man we see,The only being in their eyesWorthy the joy of Paradise. So, better that all men should dieThan give up Tolstoys truly when I look aroundMost of the good are under ground. Which makes me think I may agree—In time—^with Tolstoys that this quest—Mans greatest good— Should end beneath the monks rough hoo
Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . Tolstoy Saints have known from the beginning All about Man and Sin and Sinning, And have concluded for his good Theres nothing left but the monks rough hood. In Man, from family ties set free,The perfect type of Man we see,The only being in their eyesWorthy the joy of Paradise. So, better that all men should dieThan give up Tolstoys truly when I look aroundMost of the good are under ground. Which makes me think I may agree—In time—^with Tolstoys that this quest—Mans greatest good— Should end beneath the monks rough hood. [278] Digitized by Microsoft®. r^^ Reader, hast thou yet decidedWhich was the truthful Spaniards plan?To depict a half-crazed DreamerOr a simple Gentleman?Wandering, poor, (except for visions)Oer La Manchas dusty Gentleman by boors derided,The Dreamer counted as insane. Or was it the genial authors schemeTo destroy, or to little Romance yet remainingWhich in his heart he did adore?Was he himself a Hero dreamingA former Heros dream once more?
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