English poem
_Religion. I-34_
by Helen Leah Reed (1861–1926)
God's mean and careless servant--while I wander Deep in the madness of Philosophy,-- Now backward I must set my sail, and ponder Where my forsaken course retraced shall be. For Jupiter, who with his glittering fire So often cleaves apart the threatening clouds, His wingèd car and thundering horses higher Toward air has driven where no shadow shrouds.
Whereat the sluggish earth, each vagrant river,-- The Styx, and hated Tænarus' dread abode, And the Atlantic borders shake and shiver. Ah--to reverse high things and low, our God Is able, and the mighty he can lower, The obscure can raise. From this man Fortune steals The crown to give to that one;--in her power, Showing with hissing wings the joy she feels.
Passages in italics are indicated by italics.
Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original.
Inconsistencies between the poem titles in the Table of Contents and the titles of the poems in the text have been retained from the original except as follows:
"The Raven" in the Table of Contents changed to "The Rover"
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected as follows:
Page 32: "Rememeber" changed to "Remember" Page 37: "everyhing" changed to "everything"