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Show GENIUS WEDDED TO MINISTRY. B (E. Morrison Grout.) jtfH Into the world a child was born, I H And -in its blue eyes wide f S' Shone Thought, tho' without form. H The years flowed on, just as a tide, f jH And Mind, illumined, sat enthroned ij B ' A Genius j tho world declared, i m As it seemed to Harmony attuned. mm But Fate swept o'er the strings, H ' A hand discordant, and Anger aflaro ijflB Vowed retribution, for her strings, jSH Youth to manhood, grown apace, H Tethered Genius by the string of Greed And dragged her do,wn the market place !iB Assailing all her purity, until, indeed, B Sho cried out: "Take your pen, fflm Blot out those words you've made me utter, $ I am of the very gods own kin 'wM And cannot be used for barter!" iB The pathos of the cry attacked lijH His wayward will, and ever afper Mm Genius plumed her wings, so racked ljK At first, with vileness, to highest rapture flB In her muse, until mortals tracked iJB Her in her upward flight B By her purity of sentiment. IB The wealth of adjectives adight IB Lent force and feeling, not transient, jfH To those who read, fcsm And so, Genius wan wed 'jjB To highest ministry, to human need. 3tH |
