As One Finding Peace (verse)
Madeleva, Sister M.
342 THE COMMONWEAL August ii, 1926 judgment of -the majority. Recently the processes of the kind...
...One or efls One Finding Peace the other must yield...
...professorial casuistry can alter this fact...
...was no good," as he put it...
...think of prosecuting a man for being enamored of SISTER M. MADELEVA...
...That ing the government...
...to stamp conduct as criminal...
...exists to urge a bloody uprising to attain this end...
...I am a door, a wall, a tower of passionate strength A short time ago certain denominations decided to Around which multitudinously throng Wild ecstacies, wild joys, unending blisses, open a Bible school at Leningrad...
...342 THE COMMONWEAL August ii, 1926 judgment of -the majority...
...Because of O God, encompass me...
...runs afoul of the criminal syndicalism acts...
...essential deficiencies he may be unable to form the Be infinitely mine to hold, to bound me ; evil intent which normally must be present in order Absorb, consume, encompass and confound me...
...Invasion so imperious, so complete, We may sympathize with the individual-more than Blindly and madly sweet...
...We are reminded In ultimate joy upon this Lover's breast of Czolgosz who assassinated McKinley because cer- I come to rest...
...but not absopeaceable means provided therein...
...Perhaps I am dew thirstily drunk up he should be treated as an unfortunate who cannot Out of dawn's lifted cup...
...Recently the processes of the kind of liberty which flourishes in the land of amending the Constitution have been completed within Lenin and of Trotsky...
...What if I be a door, and sealed to all save Him, The brand of liberty which there finds official favor, Cunningly joined, guarded by flashing cherubim...
...When I meet one whose enfourteen months of their inception...
...But no legal or moral right Beauteous as cedar and as cedar strong...
...We have, however, no Be in me and beneath me and above me ; other place for him...
...from men and women in high places in the fields of I am a child to sudden woman grown Who never yet has known art, of letters, and of education...
...So long as the thusiasm for Russia and her institutions has reached machinery of elections is clean and honest...
...The con- Presently let this rapture in profounder rapture cease dition was met...
...In the United States there is a A silver bulwark of wrought silence be, sympathetic and protective indulgence extended to My Father, since that I am come at length, educated imbecility in all its strange and startling Captive and free, manifestations...
...It is the undoubted Never has human love held me in tranquil thrall, right of every citizen to believe in the Russian system For not to human love does peace belong...
...ordinarily intelligent upon all other subjects-who I am a bud to sudden blossom blown, has not the capacity to reason clearly upon the fun- Intoxicate, replete damentals of popular government, and persistently With fragrance most divinely not its own...
...But he gets it, notwithstanding, Unutterably...
...is not that for which the soldiers of Washington bled...
...think straight upon questions of economic and gov- I am my own impotent, daring self, plunged in a sea ernmental theory...
...on a larger scale than in Russia...
...There is a dead-line beyond which no there no excuse or justification for the advocate of honest-minded, clear-thinking, patriotic American citiviolence and murder as a means of changing or abolish- zen ventures to push the claim for free speech...
...The Russian au- A God's caresses and a Father's kisses...
...The "right" of unlimited free speech and the theory of our constitutional system cannot both be maintained...
...thorities would not permit it except on the condition that one of the teachers be a Communist...
...so long the stage where he believes speech is not free enough as the voter is free to cast a secret ballot, according here, I confess a regret that the practical treatment to his judgment, and the results of his balloting are for a somewhat analogous infatuation, prescribed by fairly canvassed and returned...
...just so long is lutely free...
...and to advocate that it be substituted for the existing What if I be for the Lord God a wall, order in the United States...
...No amount of "red" cant or line divides law and order from lawlessness and chaos...
...or on the proper relationship be- Ecstatically ! tween the citizen and his government...
...At large, he may become a O Father, love me, love me ! menace, not so much to the government as to the Tremendously be, sheep 'in human form who always follows, but who Strong God, my sea...
...No normal person would seriously Into Your presence as one finding peace...
...lacks the capacity or the inclination to estimate or analyze the qualities of his leader...
...so long as the public Mr...
...Peace, like a song, tain propaganda had convinced him that the "ballot Envelopes me...
...changes in or abolition of the Constitution by the Speech is free in the United States...
...Kipling, cannot be conveniently applied : "Make forum and public press are open to all advocates of him take and keep her, that's hell for them both...
...Peace, like the night, No experiment in communism has been conducted Folds me in conscious, beautiful delight...
...The free speech extremist is entitled to no encouragement from any honest-minded, The secret of the King possesses me patriotic citizen...
Vol. 4 • August 1926 • No. 14
