Honest Abe. Honest.
- Jim
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Who wrote this excerpt?
> and how does the poem begin?
>
> Poor Matthew! Once of genius bright,
> 46 A fortune-favored child --
> 47Now locked for aye, in mental night,
> 48 A haggard mad-man wild.
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> 49Poor Matthew! I have ne'er forgot
> 50 When first, with maddened will,
> 51Yourself you maimed, your father fought,
> 52 And mother strove to kill;
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> 53When terror spread, and neighbours ran,
> 54 Your dang'rous strength to bind;
> 55And soon, a howling crazy man
> 56 Your limbs were fast confined.
>
> 57How then you strove and shrieked aloud,
> 58 Your bones and sinnews bared;
> 59And fiendish on the gazing crowd,
> 60 With burning eye-balls glared --
>
> 61And begged, and swore, and wept and prayed
> 62 With maniac laughter joined --
> 63How fearful were those signs displayed
> 64 By pangs that killed thy mind!
>
> 65And when at length, tho' drear and long,
> 66 Time soothed thy fiercer woes,
> 67How plaintively thy mournful song,
> 68 Upon the still night rose.
>
>
> from max, surprised...
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