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-The Project Gutenberg eBook, Quartz from the Uplands, by Lewis McKenzie
-Turner
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-Title: Quartz from the Uplands
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-QUARTZ
-FROM THE
-UPLANDS
-
-
-Published by the
-Anti-Pessimist
-Society 1905
-Piermont, N. Y.
-
-
-
-DEDICATED
-TO THE
-AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY
-
-
-
-Copyrighted 1905
-by Anti-Pessimist Society
-
-
-
-
- _QUARTZ from the UPLANDS_
-
-
- Who Say? “All songs have been sung;
- All tales have been told;
- Live tongues are still’d--
- Worn smooth by precedent!”
-
- In the fullness of the soul
- There lives--strong bound--
- Only to be unloos’d by greater deed and action;
- An unfathomable wealth
- From which to draw forever--
- Never to be wholly used.
-
- Is it for you
- To stand at the bier of the dead past
- Mute--to consent, that:
- “All! has been sung and writ”?
-
- No! Insistingly, Persistently beat loud upon the temple
- door--steeled well to hear the mock and din and laughter
- and deriding, doubting shouts of those within,
- That you may full awake the throng without--
- Those who sleep, work, hope and pray.
- You must proclaim again, again,
- This Truth!
- The multitude at last will stand aghast, amazed, ashamed;
- Thy liberty deny,
- Yea, crucify.
-
- To them:--What is, is; and what is, is to remain unchanged forever.
-
- To learn the lesson, to equip and grade thy purging fire;
- Go forth to some unfrequented spot
- And reason with thyself, comparing notes with Nature.
-
- See it. Feel it. Hear it.
- The all-prevailing, pervading, constant, ever changing. From
- Winter’s silence, breathing, sighing, sleeping, creeping
- on to Spring with sap, with shoot, with bud and flower,
- hour on hour playing, plying gentleness and power for Summer’s
- rest to temper strength for birth in Autumn, with crowning
- brilliancy and rich rewards untaxed to bird, to beast, to
- insect and to man, gift on gift for full contentment,
- sustenance and labor.
-
- From this you will accumulate a store so full,
- That every thought’s a prayer;
- The simplest acts of things are miracles--
- The whole a revelation,
- To guide thy way and being.
-
- Kill not, dissect not, nor rend or tear,
- But see and feel and hear.
-
- The earth, the air and sea abound
- With righteous living creatures,
- Intent upon some full purpose;--
- Aside from man’s estate,
- Aside from his designing selfishness, intensely useless
- graspings, destruction, purposeless desire,
- For his good use and keeping,
- The forest, field and sea
- And all that lies beneath.
-
- But if to be a “Bard Sublime?”--
- A prater,
- Aspiring to soar ’midst lofty peaks on painted scenes; to
- catch with musty mystery; with empty schemes of praise;
- with sheens of artificial light, spread o’er this prolonged
- night and sleep of letters; or with palsied moonbeams that
- miniature the day and blight tart speech and full-ripe reason;
- To buoy vanity;
- To bid for foolish charlatan’s esteem,
- To live apart at ease and shirk,
- Good hard holy healthy work;
- To mingle not with clean magnetic dirt,
- With healing, building sunshine, air and rain.--
- Then be a heralder of “New Thought”
- Cite from thy store:
- Great Deeds
- And haughty interminglings;
- Praise, to have a share;
- Valor, in which words win;
- Chastisement, which you do not feel;
- Abnegation, with no self-denial.
-
- Whatever thy saying,
- Mark you full well
- That all such machinations
- Must and will be counted less
- Than Brawn-Studies in great Nature’s realm.
-
- If swept away from Nature’s gentle sway
- Too weak to rise and understand
- Thy full purpose, and the coming day:--
- Then feed, feed on thy kind and kith and kin
- Plunge in, into the maelstrom;
- Amidst the deaf’ning roar,
- Swim ’midst molten masses,
- Breast cataracts of seething, living action,
- Tell of harnessing of power,
- Of screech and scream,
- Of whirr of wheels;
- Of lightning’s use and speed;
- Of clank and bang and whisp and twirl of rasp and
- plane and drill on rock and wood and metal.
- For therein lies a ripe, rich, unwrit story;
- And place the credit where the credit’s due.
- Use freely, and without fear thy caustic pen,
- Ruffle, ruthlessly pursue, dog and undo
- Proud spirited, designing men.
-
- Spur the laggard.
-
- Jeer at that part of press which teems with
- misstatements, lies, inuendos--
- Those who prod and sting;
- Excite the very life they claim to be,
- For gain,
- For great and greater power, circulation.
-
- A song or story to go on, up, through distant ages
- Must be full told and strong with facts:--
-
- Tell of myriads of human beings,
- Crushed, dwarfed, poisoned and devoured,
- By the arts and manufactures;
- Voices drown’d, subdued, smothered amid the din.
-
- Tell of the march of industry’s deafening roar
- affecting a nation’s reasoning and sealing its
- store of finest instincts.
-
- Tell of designing kings of trade
- Who, on a _free man’s_ soil!
- So multiplied their wealth
- That all their fellow-beings
- Were their _willing_ slave--
- Slaves living lives in imputrid bodies--
- Souls seasoned with sorrows and blasted hopes;
- Of endless yesterdays,
- Long looking and longing and looking
- For happiness, to come on some to-morrow.
-
- Tell of serfs, dumb,
- Blind and starved by greed;
- Ground ’twixt its own mill-stones;
- Prating prayers to God
- While God looks on amazed
- At supine strength
- Behind these wills and souls inactive.
-
- Bound to an unjust cause;
- Held firm by statute and multiplying laws.
-
- Tell how they bound themselves:
- For paltry bits of food--
- For half-made clothes--
- And shacks for shelter
- For which they gave full rights to use Man’s Acre,
- And all the treasures that lie beneath.
-
- Tell of rampant selfishness run riot;
- Of countless serfs--
- The earth’s scum;
- Floating to this _free_ land
- To climb upon it and gorge on gold _galore_;
- With inspirations only of eternal happiness in idleness;
- Playing wanton parts;
- Dragging in their brazened gods and images;
- Feeding on rotten greed;
- Loaded with besotted vices
- Practising stupid customs,
- These, all these--
- With voice and vote,--
- To sweep aside the well devised purpose,
- Built by patriarchs for _equal_ rights and honors.
-
- They came, to make a Nation of all nations--
- But after all, no nation,
- No man’s land.
-
- Tell of poisoned, delayed and decayed food in transit.
-
- Tell of the settlement of nations’ differences
- By “good offices” for peace,
- With long--drawn--out, decrepit, verbose, empty ceremony.
-
- Of International Law--
- The Will of Power.
-
- Of nations, swearing by the “Prince of Peace”
- Continuing to fortify with great and greater guns,
- Mobilizing husbands to defeat husbandry;
- Bedecking them with gilt without,
- Stuffing vanity and pompousness within.
-
- But, if you see through the roseate glass,
- Of swaggering optimism
- Proclaim, that:--
- “‘God is working out His will’--
- Too slow perhaps
- For challengers of spotted vice;
- For those who seek for the world’s and the Nation’s
- failings, inhuman sloth, stubbornness and sin.”
-
- Whatever thy chronicle,
- Let it not savor of a full stomach’s satisfaction
- That feels content with ill-got gain derived from tricks of trade.
-
- Live amidst conditions on both sides;
- Experience the chill and pinch of poverty;
- Feel the cold steel bands about an undeveloped soul;
- Want for tools and an opportunity to do some useful chosen work,
- Then will you write full well,
- Write strong thy story,
- Chronicling on golden pages;
- Infinite views,
- To march to triumph with the Truth of Truths;
- ’Twill live on and up and through
- The distant ages.
-
-
-
-
- * * * * * *
-
-
-
-
-Transcriber’s note:
-
-[Text enclosed by plus signs is in bold face.)
-
- “kind +and and+ kith and kin” changed to “kind +and+ kith and kin” on
- page 8.
-
- “+Amid’st+ the deaf’ning roar” changed to “+Amidst+ the deaf’ning
- roar” on page 8.
-
- “for +equil+ rights and honors” changed to “for +equal+ rights and
- honors” on page 12.
-
- “of +nations+ differences” changed to “of +nations’+ differences” on
- page 12.
-
-
-
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