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Songs from Vagabondia
by
Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey
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HARMONICS
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"TRUTH
is not a creed,
For it does not need
Ever an apology.
Truth is not an ology;
'T is not part, but all. |
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Priests
and savans shall
Never solve the mystic
Problem. The artistic
Mind alone of all can tell
What is Truth. |
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"Poet, thou art wisest;
Dogmas thou despisest—
Science little prizest.
Tell us, for thou knowest well,
What is Truth." |
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Spake the seekers to an holy
Bard, who answered, mild and lowly—
This, all this, was in the olden
Days when Saturn’s reign was golden —
"Shall I read the riddle— |
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Tell
you what is Truth?
Truth is not the first
Not the last or middle;
'T is the beautiful
And symmetric whole, |
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Embracing
best and worst,
Embracing age and youth.
"All the universe
Is one mighty song,
Wherein every star
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Chants
out loud and strong
Each set note and word
It must aye rehearse.
Though the parts may jar,
The whole is as one chord." |
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