[BNP/E3, 79 – 40]

So warned to think of mankind and to dream

Of human god I pondered deep and long

|*Smiling full by| a theory that did seem

To vision imagining real and strong

With which to conquer {…} and wrong.

But that {…} sea of {…}

Reason awaking with a firm throng

Beat back and I {…}

I observed the given rule of anarchy

All free, all equal, all in brotherhood,

Then feeling in my reason’s misery

That such a state when not all flesh

Creeps and throbs I thought, till the {…} did flood

My mind, of socialistic doctrines {…}

But Science smiled at me and made the hood

The soul that recognizing

[40^v]

Science and {…} come to my soul

And then {…} I saw

Evil was all the world, that {…} has law

{…}

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[41^r]

I learned to hate the tyranny and force

And that imperious, bind,

The {…} and the coarse;

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I lay, – how I lay still! – for better things

But I have lost the faith that made me dream

The more thou {…} imaginings

I’ve fallen from the pedestal of dream

To find that hope’s rose a thorn contains

That of perceiving that it doth but seem

And is not, bitterest of {…} pains