Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE GOD OF IGNORANCE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE


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THE GOD OF IGNORANCE, by                    
First Line: Mexitli more regarded human life!
Last Line: And banish from our land this woful dread?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Death; Sacrifices; Tuberculosis; Dead, The; Consumption (pathology)


MEXITLI more regarded human life!
Our streets are altars, where we immolate
Thousands of victims yearly by a fate
More slow and painful than the Aztec knife.
This pestilential scourge! this termless strife
'Twixt light and darkness, fair and foul estate!
Oh, why the phthisic death accelerate?
Why?—with the arrowy doom so swift, so rife!

Must then our God of Ignorance be fed?—
Our best-belov'd led out before our eyes
To grace this most inhuman sacrifice,
And swell the toll of the unnumber'd dead!
When will the Law in ample might arise,
And banish from our Land this woful dread?





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