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Show What Happens to Prophets and Dreamers Most of them have gone down in suffering and poverty to an unknown grave in the potter's field. Only after lonji years have passed away does the world awaken to the splend or it has lost, and then, when there is neither eye to see, nor ear to hear, we come to glorify the dust of one we made a stranger on Earth, to crown the cold and silent tomb with laurels, lau-rels, to pay to death the homage that was due in life. Acutely Acute-ly sensitive to the beautiful and the tru, they were driven out into the wilderness, where the ravens fed them but where human hu-man sympathy seldom came Despised of men they clothed the world in beavty; they opened the Gate of Drmms; l hey drew aside the Curtains of Darkness and mkde the Sun of Knowledge to shine into the Gloom of Ignorance. I hough wanderers in the wilderness, they' gave mankind all it knows; all its truth and love and hope! thpy laid the i orners' ones of nations, they raised the flags of freedom and taught ii.t race the meaning of liberty and of home. |
