Published by Nicholas L. Brown:
Discords
Two Deaths in the Bronx
Nine Poems from a Valetudinarium
Sonnets from the Patagonian
Special Edition of the last title on Etruria (Italianhand-made) paper limited to 28 numbered copies,signed by author and publisher. Insert—one fullsonnet written in the author's hand. $15.00.
This edition is limited to 750 copies.
My dear Cornwall Hollis:
With the Allied cause crumbling away it is high timewe thought of aesthetics. As a triste jest I said that toyou the other day, and your reply was a plea to let youwrite a preface for a new edition of my forgotten Sonnetsfrom the Patagonian. I am at last persuaded, and who butyou should do the preface?
With Mitteleuropa a fact it should be apparent to anyhonest, thinking man that we are losing the War. Perhaps,in a larger sense, we have already lost the War and thedusk of the Anglo-Saxon is come. Then we are at lastjoined with the Héllenes and Latins in the descendingscale, and it is the Teuton now approaching the perihelion,with the Slav, yet to conquer, in the far distance. Butthat is an eye-survey for eternity, and we have merely todo with the finite present. So we may still think ofresistance, and not yet abandon hope of postponing defeat.
It is now the hour for the supreme test of America, andshe too must fail, as our Allies have failed, before the Hunsunless somewhere she can find the beauty and the strengthof the human soul with which to give battle. For the firsttime in history it is souls, not guns, that will win the War,and remember, my dear friend, that Beauty is more necessarythan food that the soul may live.[Pg 9]
We are all but engulfed in error. We say that we do nothate the German people; it is the Kaiser we are fighting.A pitiful self-delusion! It must be the German people wehate as an overshadowing race, if our fight is to have eventhe excuse of the inflamed passion of the survival of thefittest. We must acknowledge the Kaiser as the symbol ofthe best organized form of government, unless we arefrankly anarchists; the most efficient, the most powerful,the most nearly approaching a practical socialism. Let us,therefore, start afresh. We hate the German people, forthey have threatened our complacent supremacy as lordsof the world. Now we are at least truthful.
Thus far, the Allies have failed signally as a militaryforce. The Europeans have forgotten how to fight, and wein America have never learned. We have put too muchfaith in materialism, and betrayed the Soul and Beauty.There is more to life than living, and more to an army thanarms. The moment is here that demands we scrap themilitary leaders, as such, and seek stronger. Why not thenturn BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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