Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . through telescopes,Microscopists through the distant and the latter finding much thats queer. Soldiers through red the carnage leaders cool through Prussian-blue;Yet these same leaders, when off duty,Warmly review the passing beauty. See how with purple glows the glassAs the long line of prelates pass,Each hopes for a more crimson glow,The line is long and Death seems slow. [102] Digitized by Microsoft® All know how rosy is the mornSeen through the hunters early horn,Of course I mean his early glass,—That
Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . through telescopes,Microscopists through the distant and the latter finding much thats queer. Soldiers through red the carnage leaders cool through Prussian-blue;Yet these same leaders, when off duty,Warmly review the passing beauty. See how with purple glows the glassAs the long line of prelates pass,Each hopes for a more crimson glow,The line is long and Death seems slow. [102] Digitized by Microsoft® All know how rosy is the mornSeen through the hunters early horn,Of course I mean his early glass,—Thats a poor joke, but let it pass. It is the lover and his lassWho first see life through the same glassBut grey-beard Time to their surpriseSoon changes both the glass and eyes. But chiefly the Kaleidoscope,Fit emblem of fallacious Hope,Remains the best of all mans first he joys in,—last enjoys. But why should we the list extend?These aids to sight will never endTill Death, the Glazier, comes alongGlazing our eyes and ends our [103] Digitized by Microsoft® Adam Some temptations are immense; We cannot all say Get thee hence. But more especially just when Resistance seems to common men Almost like flying in the face Of a kindly providence. What! left alone with but one woman. She so charming—^he so human, Both without experience Wandering in fond dalliance Where the sunlight softly dapples The couch-like grass mid gleaming apples; Add to which no fear of Hell— Of course poor Adam promptly fell.
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