Poems

<h4><SPAN name="ON_RIGHTEOUS_INDIGNATION" id="ON_RIGHTEOUS_INDIGNATION"></SPAN>ON RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION</h4> <p>When Adam went from Paradise<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">He saw the Sword and ran;</span><br/> The dreadful shape, the new device,<br/> The pointed end of Paradise,<br/> And saw what Peril is and Price,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And knew he was a man.</span><br/> <br/> When Adam went from Paradise,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">He turned him back and cried</span><br/> For a little flower from Paradise;<br/> There came no flower from Paradise;<br/> The woods were dark in Paradise,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And not a bird replied.</span><br/> <br/> For only comfort or contempt,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">For jest or great reward,</span><br/> Over the walls of Paradise,<br/> The flameless gates of Paradise,<br/> The dumb shut doors of Paradise,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">God flung the flaming sword.</span><br/> <br/> It burns the hand that holds it<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">More than the skull it scores;</span><br/> It doubles like a snake and stings,<br/> Yet he in whose hand it swings<br/> He is the most masterful of things,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">A scorner of the stars.</span><br/> <br/><br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />