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 denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs, full of genius and full of fate as they are, are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures. If the individual who exhibits them dare to think them practicable, he disgusts scholars and churchmen; and men of talent, and women of superior sentiments, cannot hide their contempt. Not the less does nature continue to fill the heart of youth with suggestions of this enthusiasm.

The New State

(From the "Panama-Pacific Ode")

(See pages 504, 552, 597)

O dark and cruel State, Whose towers are altars unto self alone,— Whose streets with tears are wet, And half thy councils given unto hate! Shall Time not hurl thy temples stone from stone, And o'er the ruin set A fairer city than the years have known? Out of thy darkness do we find us dreams, And on the future gleams The vision of thy ramparts built anew. Mammon and War sit now a double throne, Yet what we dream, a wiser Age shall do.

Be ye lift up, O everlasting gates Of that far City men shall build for man! O fairer Day that waits,