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Poetry Pantisocrats by Dharmavidya David Brazier |
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Readily in youth we think The heart of man foundationally pure, A creed we long to find secure Like a raft for one who fears to sink. Those years of splendour and lust A perilous crossing are indeed Wherein we find excess of speed To trust in what we should not trust Those days, self-evident it seems that all Will harmony find if only freed From coercive power, from need, As in Eden 'fore the Fall. Like Coleridge and his bosom friends Pantisocrats to the last we'll be Like innocents all lost at sea Before our springtime ends. Yet we're due at least one honey'd moon: Oh innocence, don't pass too soon. Dh.D.J. Brazier NOTE: Pantisocracy was a utopian philosophy invented by the poet Coleridge in his youth when he planned to found a colony of like–minded idealists. |