Nature
Invocation
From Nirvana Days (1909)
Nature
Sweep unrest
Out of my blood,
Winds of the sea! Sweep the fog
Out of my brain
For I am one
Who has told Life he will be free.
Who will not doubt of work that's done,
Who will not fear the work to do.
Who will hold peaks Promethean
Better than all Jove's honey-dew.
Who when the Vulture tears his breast
Will smile into the Terror's Eyes.
Who for the World has this Bequest--
Hope, that eternally is wise.
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MLA
Rice, Cale Young. “Invocation.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rice/86/.
Chicago
Rice, Cale Young. “Invocation.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rice/86/.
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