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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COUNTERSIGNS, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poet's Biography
First Line: Who has left the world alone
Last Line: To good transmuting evil done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
First Line: Who has left the world alone
Last Line: To good transmuting evil done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
WHO has left the world alone
As though his heart were but a stone?
Left innocence and the good will
To torture and contempt, until
The best souls born have bowed to ill?
Who keeps silence when we ask?
Like ogre in archangel's mask
Peers down blandly through the sun
And smooths all after the typhoon,
Forgetting quickly the worst done?
We men leave each other lone;
Our hearts lie inert like stone.
For our good we have used wrong,
Tuned other's woe to a sweet song,
And remembered no shame long.
Yet through gloom have shone a few
Spirits wholly kindled, who
Set at naught the odds and won,
Dared be kinder than the sun
To good transmuting evil done.
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