MAN, A TORCH
by: George Moses Horton
(c.1797-c.1883)
- LOWN up
with painful care and hard to light,
- A glimmering torch blown in a moment out,
- Suspended by a web, an angler's bait,
- Floating at stake along the stream of chance,
- Snatch'd from its hook by the fish of poverty,
- A silent cavern is his last abode;
- The king's repository veil'd with gloom,
- The umbrage of a thousand oziers bowed,
- The couch of hallowed bones, the grave's asylum,
- The brave's retreat and end of ev'ry care.
"Man, A Torch" is reprinted
from Poetical Works. George Moses Horton. Hillsborough,
N.C.: D. Heartt, 1845. |
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