[BNP/E3, 78A – 18]

Delirium.

The World Offended.

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I said unto the world one day:

     “I suspect thee of existence!”

And the world showed a smiled resistance

      To what I did say.

“Let us go to court,” he replied; “go we

Before a Court both wise and rare.

Let Reason one judge of our cause be;

Imagination be also there

And Feeling the judges our cause to hear.”

We went before the Court, and Reason

Said to me: “Thy crime is half‑treason!

The World's acquitted of what thou say'st:

     Of existence ’tis guilty not.

This by the written code of Thought

     In the pages of Unrest.”

Alexander Search.

January. 10^th. 1908.