COUNTER or camp, which of the two rules worst? Both alike waste, spread forth their pomp, and lie. The counter, blind with greed and styled finance, Exploits, insults and treads down those who toil As though the head should dare despise the hand Whose deftness taught it nicety and grasp! The camp out-tigers dumb brutes in its rage, And boastfully mistakes mere might for right; Invokes and desecrates the love of home As the other lauds and mocks that sweet name Peace. Both, rebels, scorn the man who ought to lead, The kind and docile, tentative, meek man Who prized the beauty of his innocence, And still explores the universe with awe. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHRISMUS IS A-COMIN' by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR ABYSS by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS DUNS SCOTUS'S OXFORD by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS LAMENT OF THE MASTER ERSKINE by ALEXANDER SCOTT (1520-1590) GOLDEN GLOW by ABUL HASAN OF SEVILLE PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 63. AL-HAIY by EDWIN ARNOLD A FRAGMENT OF AN EPIC POEM, OCCASIONED BY THE LOSS OF A GAME by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |