I Am A Liberal, Yet I Am

Ah, Love, Let Us Be True To One Another! For The World, Which Seems To Lie Before Us Like A Land Of Dreams, So Various, So Beautiful, So New, Hath Really Neither Joy, Nor Love, Nor Light, Nor Certitude, Nor Peace, Nor Help For Pain; And We Are Here As On A Darkling Plain Swept With Confused Alarms Of Struggle And Flight, Where Ignorant Armies Clash By Night.

Eutrapelia . "a Happy And Gracious Flexibility," Pericles Calls This Quality Of The Athenians...lucidity Of Thought, Clearness And Propriety Of Language, Freedom From Prejudice And Freedom From Stiffness, Openness Of Mind, Amiability Of Manners.

To Thee Only God Granted A Heart Ever New: To All Always Open; To All Always True.

Most Men Eddy About Here And There-eat And Drink, Chatter And Love And Hate, Gather And Squander, Are Raised Aloft, Are Hurled In The Dust, Striving Blindly, Achieving Nothing; And Then They Die- Perish;-and No One Asks Who Or What They Have Been.

For Eager Teachers Seized My Youth, Pruned My Faith And Trimmed My Fire. Showed Me The High, White Star Of Truth, There Bade Me Gaze And There Aspire.