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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 2. VICTIM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS
First Line: Out of a blowsy, bare, back room
Last Line: Through leicester town, along the london road.
Subject(s): Boys; Etching
First Line: Out of a blowsy, bare, back room
Last Line: Through leicester town, along the london road.
Subject(s): Boys; Etching
OUT of a blowsy, bare, back room,
Into the close and cobbled street,
Down to his drab and daily doom
Passes a boy, whose powers be meet,
'Neath friendlier star,
To bear him far,
But who, though born a child of Light,
Is bid to stand in spiritual Night.
His hand holds fast a bag. His heart
Harbours resentment, grips at shame,
His soul endures the secret smart
Of one whom generous goals enflame
To earn renown,
Yet is flung down
Unjustly, bestially, and brought,
By others' idiocy, to naught.
Broken in will with foolish speech,
Depressed by family dispraise,
Too disciplined to dare impeach
His parents' unregarding ways,
Helpless, alone,
He hastens on—
Caught, cramped, conventioned—as one urged with goad,
Through Leicester town, along the London Road.
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