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Additional Poems By Joseph Freeman Essay, Research Paper

TO THE OLD WORLD

If your forefathers have been wise and brave,

And lit a thousand lights, it little matters:

You are an aged king before his grave

Whom his own folly has reduced to tatters.

While the world tumbles down about your head,

Your royal cloak, inherited of old,

Slips from your shoulders by a broken thread,

And gathers dust into its woven gold.

There let it lie, entangled in itself.

Write the last footnote to your history,

And, laying the volume on Time’s iron shelf,

Sit back to muse on days that are to be,

When laughing boys, turning to sober men,

Shall build your ruins into a world again.

(1921)

PRINCE JERNIKIDZE

Prince Jernikidze wears his boots

Above his knees; his black mustache

Curls like the Kaiser’s; when he shoots

Friend and foe turn white as ash.

The movements of his hands are svelt,

Ivory bullets grace his chest,

The studded poignard at his belt

Dangles down his thigh. The best

Dancers in Tiflis envy his

Light Lesginka’s steady whirl,

He bends his close-cropped head to kiss

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