The Sword of America

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Excerpt from The Sword of America: A Masque of the War The figure of Vision appears before the audience as the music plays the opening passages of Edward Grieg's Ase's Death. Vision: Ye who walk confused through stormy days, Who question dazed where holds the pole-star fixed Its place mid all the surging sky, - to you I come, - I, Vision, gleaming flash of light From out the heavens revealing clear the truth Of these confounded and confounding times. Your streets, your houses, gardens seem the same, The sun still shines, the rain falls as before, The hours and days and weeks pass sweetly on, The seasons come and go. - What is this cry That rends the air, these shrieks that ring Forever in your ears, like tortured children? What this stillness as of unthought death That follows, - follows everything? In this The same world? Or in nightmare do we stand Upon the brink of hell with Dante and With Milton, far below us livid see The horrors of the damned and hear the wails That rise from out the murky heat and stench Where utter cruelty insensate gloats Upon the promise in new fiendishness. Are you asleep, you ask? What should you do? For war, s red moudly claws clutch at your hearts And stretch their bony fingers toward your homes And gardens, quick to raze them as they did The homes and gar over there. What means it all? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.