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diff --git a/old/51998-0.txt b/old/51998-0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index aa39bd5..0000000 --- a/old/51998-0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,717 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Armenia immolata, by Edward S. Steele - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Armenia immolata - -Author: Edward S. Steele - -Release Date: May 4, 2016 [EBook #51998] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ARMENIA IMMOLATA *** - - - - -Produced by Charlene Taylor, Chuck Greif and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - - - - - [Illustration: - - Armenia Immolata - - Edward S. Steele] - - COPYRIGHT. 1896, BY EDWARD S. STEELE. - - Published by the author, - 1522 Q Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. - - - - - ARMENIA IMMOLATA. - - [Illustration] - - - Ho ye! Ho ye! all Europe, ho! - Ye Nations hear and patronize! - Unequalled realistic show - On the World stage we advertise! - Our repertoire will render flat - Your little operas and plays, - Your wagers of the ball and bat, - Your hunting rides, and all the craze - Of wheel and sail on land and main-- - Yea, even tame the bulls of Spain! - Revival ours of classic sports, - Now with a brilliance to be seen - Which, should it reach the heavenly courts, - Would turn the eyes of Nero green! - To-day comes forth the Turkish beast, - Three days kept hungry in his den, - On the Armenian slave to feast, - Who meets him arm-ed with a pen! - Sure we shall win your approbation,-- - There, France and Russia on the right-- - The cost not a consideration;-- - The Triple Friends shall have the sight - Here from the left, and in the center - Let Britain spread her cloth of gold! - All in between ye small folk enter-- - America shall stand and scold! - Now all right merrily shall chime. - Ye knightly gentlemen, compose - Your little quarrels for the time; - Somewhat to reason each man owes, - And to the general happiness; - Your feuds shall suffer no abate - For an altruistical recess. - Now come ye all and come in state! - - - II. - - Forthwith the powers and dignities - Proclaim a truce of God, and seek - Through all their ancient treasuries - A garb of pattern true antique. - Not easy sits the classic mode - Upon the tender modern frame, - And some do chafe beneath their load, - Some bear it with a look of shame. - Soon over all the games prevail, - Right well the beast doth play his part; - So doth the martyr, too--each wail - Sounds as it issued from the heart! - - - III. - - Meanwhile out of that inner heat - That thrills anon the human kind - And rends the cold, incrusting sheet - Of stale traditions, lies enshrined, - Accords of jealous interest, - Hatreds of race, and bastard rights, - And every influence unblest - The bloom of human love that blights-- - Out of the soul’s hot inner cell - Breaks forth implacable a curse, - The curse of him who loveth well-- - Of all the curses none is worse. - - - IV. - - Accurs-ed be all they that hate - Their brother, so to serve their God! - Soon had I cursed thy name, O Fate, - Had I not seen thee ready shod, - The besom in thy seasoned hand, - To sweep six centuries of the Turk - Out of a desecrated land! - Woe be to him who stays thy work! - Yea, woe unto the recreant tribe - That hath no legion for the Lord; - That for a warrior sends a scribe - To palter with a prodigal ward! - Where is your manhood, O ye States? - Ye Governments that govern down - All in the soul that elevates! - Ye hypocrites who, prudent, frown - On sympathy that warms the breast, - And boast you of the devilish grace, - Save in the name of interest - Ye meddle with your neighbors not! - Ten fleets to guard a gilded pot, - Not one to lift a bruised race! - - - V. - - Time was when power of sentiment - Fired Europe with a frenzied zeal; - The stars out of their courses went - For what the Christian heart did feel. - Then babes with mail-ed knights did vie - To rescue from the Infidel - The place where once their Lord did lie, - A rended shroud, an empty shell. - Fanatics were they, minds distraught; - And yet meseems did body there - Some energy of noble thought, - Some prescience of a holy care - Of man for man, to be fulfilled - As man grows more and symbol less, - And sympathy no more is killed - By creed’s intolerable duress-- - By the duress of creed and greed - And race and rank and worn-out codes. - Awake, O Man, and find thee freed! - Stand up from under thy brute loads! - Be thou thyself and claim descent - From the eternal Great and True! - Were but some dawning glimmer lent - Thy mind of what thou art and who, - Thy spirit with amaze should sink - And sit astonied one whole day, - Then from the vision new life drink, - And, casting its dead past away, - Rise in a glowing golden youth - To share the omnipotence of love, - The immortality of truth! - The quick ideal thy choice should move, - And not the fossiled precedent; - Reason set free should free the heart, - And with thy being’s full consent, - Thy powers no longer vainly spent, - Shouldst thou fulfill thy natal part! - - - VI. - - In vain! in vain! I learned erewhile - Man rises not on high with wings, - But creeps the circuit of a mile - To rise a foot in spiritual things. - Even so, O Christian man! are still - Too few of tutoring leagues behind - To set thee on the little hill - Where common justice rules the mind, - Where plain humanity has sway-- - Yea, even on some level higher, - Where pity doth her weeping stay, - And love offended lights a fire - That heateth judgment seven times hot - Against the bigot’s cruel ire, - Which love or reason toucheth not? - By Heaven! hast thou no heart as yet, - I’d think thy nerves would set thee wild - At sight of rapine without let, - Of slaughtered man and maid defiled, - Of homeless mother, starving child, - And of a patriotic race - Crushed in its ancient dwelling place! - - - VII. - - In one regard I plainly see - Thou hast betimes great progress made; - Religious prejudice for thee - Hath in its sepulcher been laid. - It grieves thee not that they who praise - A prophet whom thou countest none, - Afflict a land, from ancient days - Holding the faith which is thine own. - But pride thee not in progress such; - It is the progress of disease, - That holds thee in its numbing clutch - And soon thy vital parts shall freeze. - If thou wert truly tolerant - Thy blood within thy veins would boil - That creed, the worst or best, should plant - Its foot on an unwilling soil. - It is not breadth but policy - That holdeth back the avenging hand; - Of all the Turks the worst is he - Of Christian name in Christian land. - - - VIII. - - O Europe! O America! - If ye but knew this fatal day! - If ye could read the eternal law - Now at the parting of the way! - If ye, beholding thus distressed - This pilgrim, leave him here to die, - Ye are his murderers confessed, - The guilt upon your souls will lie. - T’will follow you through many a year, - Corrupting the sweet tides of life, - Now in insidious blight appear, - And now break forth in horrid strife. - T’will nullify religion’s claims, - T’will mar your literature and art; - T’will choke society’s best aims, - To greed new energy impart. - Nor even so shall ye evade - The dreaded specter of the East; - Until by right or ruin laid - It shall intrude into your feast. - But if ye do the deed of men - And save your brother here half-killed, - Then shall ye be as born again, - Your life with upward impulse filled. - Your better selves once shaken free - Will loath submit to other chains; - And from your deed of charity, - Your own shall be the larger gains. - - - IX. - - O friends of peace, dear brethren mine, - Me of your inner circle name, - Unless the peace which you design - With anarchy is one and same. - It is not war but government - When justice wields the avenging sword; - And force in name of justice spent - Is oil on troubled waters poured. - Where reason is let reason rule, - And law where men submit to laws; - But with the cutthroat ’tis a fool - Attempts to arbitrate his cause. - Nor ends responsibility - Within the nation’s narrow close; - The world is one community, - Each state to all allegiance owes. - And who hath power and doth neglect - To rescue from the oppressor’s hand - The wronged of any race or sect - In Christian or in pagan land-- - Who hath the power and lends not aid - Doth sin against the primal right, - Which man not Turk nor Frank hath made - But citizen cosmopolite! - - - X. - - What doeth the Turk in power still - As ends the nineteenth century? - Lacks aught of shame his cup to fill - Of unassuaged iniquity? - Lacks aught of cruelty and blood? - Lacks aught of treachery and lies? - Lacks aught of crime ’gainst womanhood? - Lacks mad fanaticism that plies - All villainies in Allah’s name? - And what redeeming deed or trait - Stands out to mitigate this blame? - On what kind thought does Justice wait? - What seeds of omen good may hide - Deep in the Turkish breast, God knows; - Scarce will they spring while rampant pride - Yields ever fresh return of woes. - Meanwhile thy lightsome hopes to plead, - The cause of justice to defer, - Makes thee a partner well agreed - In the ensuing massacre. - Nor will thy pennyworth of food, - Dispensed with ne’er so pitying dole, - The ruin of a race make good, - Or take the curse from off thy soul. - Master, I pray thee look upon - This vexed youth, my only son; - Behold, a spirit taketh him - And suddenly he crieth out; - It bruiseth every manly limb - And ceaseless harrieth him about-- - Now flingeth him into the fire, - Now dasheth him upon the earth; - And plagued with these afflictions dire, - ’Twere better he had wanted birth. - And thy disciples did I ask - To cast this grievous demon out; - They could not do so hard a task, - And left our minds of thee in doubt. - But now, canst thou do anything, - Let thy compassion lead thee on; - Have pity and deliverance bring - To this my torn and pining son! - - - - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Armenia immolata, by Edward S. 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