From the book of life Author:Richard Burton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE FINAL FREEDOM the giim end, no prison for me Wherein my blanched mortality, Immured, shall lie, because it most, Till it resolve itself to dust. Nay, ... more »let a flame, of mystic might To make corruption clean and light, Prepare my body for its Fate, From loathly things inviolate. Then, standing by great waters, where The heavens stretch wide, and sun and air And ampleness inhabit, cast My ashes to the azure Vast. And I shall thank you, being blent With what I love, the element THE FINAL FREEDOM Of earth refined and caught away; Yes, I shall thank you and shall say: " The fierce purgation of the fire Has loosed my spirit, I aspire Toward God, I mount, elate and free, One with the wind and sky and sea." FOOLS OF DREAM )U will find them in lone hidings, You may know them by their face, For they seem to bring good tidings From some bright, tmrumored place; Tidings like to be unnoted Of the world, yet very sure To bring joy, the golden-throated, When the better things endure. Fools, and worse than fools, we call them, And they smile nor make reply; The eternal quests enthrall them, Though we hound them till they die; Even midst the mob they wander With a dream-light in their eyes, FOOLS OF DREAM And their look, it seems to ponder An evangel from the skies. Something childlike in their laughter Leaves a freshness like the spring; At their beck, those follow after Who delight in wayfaring Where the road leads ever higher And the wind blows back the hair, And the word of a Messiah Haunts and hovers in the air. Nay, the world can never daunt them, For their gladness is within; Though no human voice may vaunt them, Though their deeds be reckoned sin: In the fullness of the Ages Lo! they come ...« less