My Pardons, My Praises

      Betraying heroes makes me increase  myself
      My pardons, my praises,
      My mud-racked, modern dazes
      And all whiter, sublimer rhyme
5     And higher, more crescent time
      Forgot-- damn them, and toss the lot!
      Now I speak of mystery
      Who sees none anywhere, but me;
      Myself the selfsame jackanapes
10    Risen from prison of late
      Of morning-soul's dark-even'd
      Sleep-tortured and riven
      Slave-state.

 

From the collection "Ascent"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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