. "Blasts" from The Ram's Horn. GATHERING THISTLES. 48 Blasts From The Rams Horn. n. SOMETIMES watch from a busy storeThe people as they passDiminish and expand beforeA wry-faced window glass. They hasten on their sober ways,And none among them knowsWhat acrobatic pranks and playsHis image undergoes. And I am always saddenedWhen this travesty 1 see,It brings a grievous fault of menSo forcibly to me. When men discard the lens of loverAnd look through prejudice;They see the man theyre thinking ofDistorted much like this And thus am I misunderstood;What wonder 1 am sad!The very acts I mean for go

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. "Blasts" from The Ram's Horn. GATHERING THISTLES. 48 Blasts From The Rams Horn. n. SOMETIMES watch from a busy storeThe people as they passDiminish and expand beforeA wry-faced window glass. They hasten on their sober ways,And none among them knowsWhat acrobatic pranks and playsHis image undergoes. And I am always saddenedWhen this travesty 1 see,It brings a grievous fault of menSo forcibly to me. When men discard the lens of loverAnd look through prejudice;They see the man theyre thinking ofDistorted much like this And thus am I misunderstood;What wonder 1 am sad!The very acts I mean for goodThey misconstrue as bad But some there be who understandRare prophets, vision-eyed;With these I labor hand in hand,Or suffer side by THE TRAIL OF SATAN.

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