The Pilgrim (verse)
Jennings, Leslie Nelson
The Pilgrim In the Cabal called Permanence may sit A few who, when the conclave has adjourned, Escape their own proscriptions, who outwit The laws they wrote, the boundaries they learned. If there...
...If there be shadows which imply no sun, Stars that can circle in a needle's eye, He had believed such marvels, being one Whose faith explored a more colossal sky...
...The absolute confederacy of fact Which binds a life together and makes whole A man's perception of the world, he lacked, Cast for another, less Socratic role...
...He spiked no rainbow to its cloud, nor manned Ships of mirage on desperate seas of sand...
...Leslie Nelson Jennings...
Vol. 11 • February 1930 • No. 16
