[BNP/E3, 78A – 20^r]

Documents of Mental Decadence.

A Crime.

Do you know the crime I committed

     Nearly twenty years ago?

At that crime my heart is torn.

     What my crime was do you know?

'Twas the crime of being born.

And every day another crime

     I commit, and ever have done

Up to now in the face of Time.

     Do you know what crime this is?

'Tis the crime of living on.

Do you know what evil's disgrace

     Has made an outcast's my lot

And sundered me from my race?

     Do you know what crime is that?

'Tis the crime of having thought.

Alexander Search

January 11^th. 1908.