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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116990" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Last Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom,<br>The Sun himself must die,<br>Before this mortal shall assume<br>Its Immortality!<br>I saw a vision in my sleep<br>That gave my spirit strength to sweep<br>Adown the gulf of Time!<br>I saw the last of human mould,<br>That shall Creation's death behold,<br>As Adam saw her prime!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Sun's eye had a sickly glare,<br>The Earth with age was wan,<br>The skeletons of nations were<br>Around that lonely man!<br>Some had expired in fight,--the brands<br>Still rested in their bony hands;<br>In plague and famine some!<br>Earth's cities had no sound nor tread;<br>And ships were drifting with the dead<br>To shores where all was dumb!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, prophet-like, that lone one stood<br>With dauntless words and high,<br>That shook the sere leaves from the wood<br>As if a storm passed by,<br>Saying, "We are twins in death, proud Sun,<br>Thy face is cold, thy race is run,<br>'Tis Mercy bids thee go.<br>For thou ten thousand thousand years<br>Hast seen the tide of human tears,<br>That shall no longer flow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"What though beneath thee man put forth<br>His pomp, his pride, his skill;<br>And arts that made fire, floods, and earth,<br>The vassals of his will;--<br>Yet mourn not I thy parted sway,<br>Thou dim discrowned king of day:<br>For all those trophied arts<br>And triumphs that beneath thee sprang,<br>Healed not a passion or a pang<br>Entailed on human hearts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Go, let oblivion's curtain fall<br>Upon the stage of men,<br>Nor with thy rising beams recall<br>Life's tragedy again.<br>Its piteous pageants bring not back,<br>Nor waken flesh, upon the rack<br>Of pain anew to writhe;<br>Stretched in disease's shapes abhorred,<br>Or mown in battle by the sword,<br>Like grass beneath the scythe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Ee'n I am weary in yon skies<br>To watch thy fading fire;<br>Test of all sumless agonies<br>Behold not me expire.<br>My lips that speak thy dirge of death--<br>Their rounded gasp and gurgling breath<br>To see thou shalt not boast.<br>The eclipse of Nature spreads my pall,--<br>The majesty of Darkness shall<br>Receive my parting ghost!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"This spirit shall return to Him<br>That gave its heavenly spark;<br>Yet think not, Sun, it shall be dim<br>When thou thyself art dark!<br>No! it shall live again, and shine<br>In bliss unknown to beams of thine,<br>By Him recalled to breath,<br>Who captive led captivity.<br>Who robbed the grave of Victory,--<br>And took the sting from Death!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Go, Sun, while Mercy holds me up<br>On Nature's awful waste<br>To drink this last and bitter cup<br>Of grief that man shall taste--<br>Go, tell the night that hides thy face,<br>Thou saw'st the last of Adam's race,<br>On Earth's sepulchral clod,<br>The darkening universe defy<br>To quench his Immortality,<br>Or shake his trust in God!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Campbell">Thomas Campbell</a><div class=q>
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