Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1919 — INSPIRATION. [ARTICLE]

INSPIRATION.

If with light head erect I sing, Though all the Muses lend their force, From my poor love of anything. The verse is weak ahd shallow as its source. But if with bended neck 1 grope Listening behind me for my wit. With faith superior to hope. More anxious to keep back than forward itMaking my soul-accomplice there Unto the flame my heart hath lit. Then will the verse forever wear—lime "cannot bend the line which God has writ. ~ I hearing get, who hjßEj&uZZwx- ■— ? Aflg"sight,- who had bttt eyes' be?ntet 1 moments live who lived but years. And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. - Now chiefly is my natal hour. And only now my prime of life; Of manhood's strength it is the flower. • ’Tis peace’s end, and war's beginning strife. It comes in summer’s broadest noon. By ..a,gray wall, or some .chance place. Unseasoning time, insulting June. And vexing day with its presuming face. •" ■> - I will not doubt the love qntold Which not my worth or want hath ■ brought. Which wooed me young, and wodS me old. And to this evening hath me brought. ''UavW Thor eaul “'