Christopher Brennan - "Droop`st thou and fail`st? but these have never tired; . ."Christopher Brennan - "Droop`st thou and fail`st? but these have never tired; . ."
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Droop`st thou and fail`st? but these have never tired;
winds of the region, free, they shine and sing,
unurged, unguerdon`d: hast thou then desired
to be with them and trail`st a useless wing?
Self-pity hath thee in her clinging damp,
and makes a siren-music of thy woes
to lure thy feet into that reptile-swamp
where rancour`s muddy stream, festering, throes.
Cunning is her condolence with the snarl
of canker`d memory or the soft tear
for vanisht sweetness: come, an honest parle,
air for thy ailment! make these wrongs appear.
Ay, this hath spat at thee, and that hath flung
his native mud, and that with bilious guile
most plausible — what! hast thou loved and sung
as was in thee, and need`st do else than smile?
(Heed not that subtle demon that would prompt
to measure thee by them; so humbled yet
thou art not, nor so beggar`d thine accompt:
what thou art, that thou hast, and know`st thy debt.)
And in thy house of love the venom`d dart
was thrust within thy side — Even so! must then
the gather`d ripeness of thy mind and heart
be turn`d to flies? that is no way for men.
Who said, and rid himself of usual awe,
I prize not man, save as his metal rings
of god or hero? Hast thou made a law,
live by thy law: `tis carrion hath no wings.
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