A Prayer

Spirit and Breath of Life, whate’er Thy name!

Bear with Thy creature, Man,

That makes his dwelling-place a blot of shame

Upon the Ordered Plan.

Not Thy hand, O Divine Designer, hurled

Athwart the starlit skies

One blood-stained, greed-diseased, hate-eaten world,

To shock celestial eyes.

Not Thy default, O Beautiful, this crust

Of fratricidal crime,

These maggot-breeds of hunger and of lust

That Thy fair work begrime.

But ours, who mock Thee from the highest place,

And in the light of day;

Who claim to lead an upward-struggling race,

And will not seek the way.

Guards of the human birthright, at Thy call-

A city sacked and burned;

Guards of the house that is the home of all,

But whence the weak are spurned.

Brothers, to whom the outcast brothers cry

As with a voice unknown;

Stewards of Nature’s bounty, that deny

The lawful heirs their own.

Thou that hast made us men, and earth so fair,

To be so vilely used,

Give space for late repentance and repair

Of sacred trust abused.

Give time, Eternal, that we stanch these tears,

Give time to heal this sore,

That our brief speck amid the shining spheres

Disgrace its birth no more.

But sail ethereal seas, an orb of light,

To bear Thy purpose on

Until it fades into the cosmic night

Where the dead worlds have gone.

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Poems in English 

• How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• How a Little Girl Sang by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• How a Little Girl Danced by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Honor Among Scamps by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Here’s to the Mice! by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Heart of God by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Genesis by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• General William Booth Enters into Heaven by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Galahad, Knight Who Perished by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Foreign Missions in Battle Array by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Factory Windows are Always Broken by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Euclid by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Epitaphs For Two Players by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Epilogue by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Eden in Winter by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Drying Their Wings by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Darling Daughter of Babylon by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Concerning Emperors by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Caught in a Net by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

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Doska or the Board – write anything

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Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees

Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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