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Title: Europe--1914
Author: Max Eastman [ More Titles by Eastman]
Since Athens died, the life that is a light Has never shone in Europe. Alien moods, The oriental morbid sanctitudes, Have darkened on her like the fear of night. In happy augury we dared to guess That her pure spirit shot one sunny glance Of paganry across the fields of France, Clear startling this dim fog of soulfulness. But now, with arms and carnage and the cries Of Holy Murder, rolling to the clouds Her bloody-shadowed smoke of sacrifice, The Superstition conquers, and the shrouds Of sick black wonder lay their murky blight Where shone of old the immortal-seeming light.
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