Arthur Davison Ficke

“A brilliant mind, gone wrong!” ...

O tell me, ye who throng

The beehives of the world, grow ye not ever weary of this song?

“The way our fathers went.” ...

Yes, if our days were spent

Sod-deep, beside our fathers’ bones, wise, needless were your argument.

“The wisdom of the mass.” ...

Thank God, it too shall pass

Like the breathed film hiding the face grayly within the silvered glass.