A bar of song . e, Alas! the Master felt a keener arief! 103 Through long ages the woi-hl had sinned. Backward lay the savage cruelties Of unrecorded savage wars. The cry of innocent and nni)rotected children, Of lone murders in the silent night. Of sin-stained women in despair. Of a worlds savagery and open guilt, All came to the Master in a single wail— Pleading for mercv and absolution. It was the total of a worlds grief and its total of its crimes and acme of its secret murdersAnd its flagrant, open abortions,Stretching backward through the suffering of for
A bar of song . e, Alas! the Master felt a keener arief! 103 Through long ages the woi-hl had sinned. Backward lay the savage cruelties Of unrecorded savage wars. The cry of innocent and nni)rotected children, Of lone murders in the silent night. Of sin-stained women in despair. Of a worlds savagery and open guilt, All came to the Master in a single wail— Pleading for mercv and absolution. It was the total of a worlds grief and its total of its crimes and acme of its secret murdersAnd its flagrant, open abortions,Stretching backward through the suffering of forty centuries was laid uponone soul. That Avas the secret of the ^Masters plea: If this cup may pass, O, Father. No wonder the stars were dim with tears, No wonder the tropic night wept heavily, No wonder the darkness groaned out its grief, As the Masters prayer was heard around a world. Earths saddest night will always liveIn romance, story and songAs the tenderest, sweetest memoryThe world has ever known. 104. SEA MYSTERIES Vast, unknown, un-understood, Eloquent, soul stirring sea! An epic, greater than all subjects combined, For tlie brain of man to reckon with. You know and reach every part of Gods wide gorgeous flowers bloom in the tropicsAnd plenteous fruit ripen, to make men the sun and stars shine with unfailing brilliance,You are there, with your mysterious stillness,At times, and your turbulent storms at others. 105 Where the shores offer you their Spring and Slimmer flowersAnd the even recurrence of seasons;Lifting man to his greatest achievements,You are there—There to bring his ships to portTo bear his treasures and his pleasure craft upon your l)osom,To aid in his enterprise and his achievements—To help make him great—Because you know his greatness can never surpass your the cold of the North and the far SouthHolds the world in its arms, beyond the approach of man—Behold 3^ou are there;Not because you envy one foot of th
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