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Of Tragedy the essence and the goal Is Vindication. Fear and pity close The tale with mourning, but the issue shows The moral order master of man’s soul. And as its slow and solemn waters roll Thunderingly through the scenes, a sense there grows Of some high Presence working in these throes, Whose Being is the topic and the whole. Thus not these personal griefs alone comprise The theme of Tragedy, that theme more vast Than its own content, deeper than the sighs Of the doomed Titan hounded home at last-- The Universe in action, and the cries Of Cosmic Vengeance closing with the Past.

HESEPE, 25th May