. Lyrics on freedom, love and death . love and it to scorn. It soon will die, and yet I would it were not sheWho gave it birth !—but I forget, She is nothing now to me. She won my heart, and wore— To please her woman wit—It for a day, or something more, And then discarded it. And can I pardon this. Nor from my manhood fall,—The broken vow, the love, the kiss ?— I will forget them all. 113 CURSED BE THE BIGOTRY. Cursed be the bigotry which thus can tear Asunder those who love ! And doubly cursedBe they who Natures order have reversed And made lifes burden hard indeed to bear ! Why must I wear t
. Lyrics on freedom, love and death . love and it to scorn. It soon will die, and yet I would it were not sheWho gave it birth !—but I forget, She is nothing now to me. She won my heart, and wore— To please her woman wit—It for a day, or something more, And then discarded it. And can I pardon this. Nor from my manhood fall,—The broken vow, the love, the kiss ?— I will forget them all. 113 CURSED BE THE BIGOTRY. Cursed be the bigotry which thus can tear Asunder those who love ! And doubly cursedBe they who Natures order have reversed And made lifes burden hard indeed to bear ! Why must I wear the gyves these choose to wear ?Why must I kiss the rod these choose to kiss ?Why must I call that bliss which is no bliss ? Why in an unrewarded labor share ?I loathe the Egyptian flesh-pots ; I defy The purpled Pharaohs, and their vaunted power—Their chariots and their horsemen ; yea, and I Will still defy them to my latest hour!Believing in the end twill all be well,—For Nature knows and guides her chosen Israel. 114. WOULD I DRINK IT P Would I drink it—the cup of the beautiful Eld ? Tho it saddened my heart, tho it maddened mybrain,I would hold it on high as I formerly held, And drink it, and drink it again and again. I would live yet awhile in the days which are dreams,—I would look on the star that illumined my path,— I would quaff from the bowl which was bright as itsbeams,—Though to-morrow I knew it the Marah of wrath. 115
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