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    The Cross and Crown
    The Cross and Crown
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    The Cross and Crown

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Cross and Crown - T. D. Curtis

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      Title: The Cross and Crown

      Author: T. D. Curtis

      Release Date: May 7, 2013 [EBook #42656]

      Language: English

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      THE

      CROSS

      AND

      CROWN

      BY T. D. CURTIS.

      Evil is wrought

      From want of thought

      As well as want of heart.—[

      Hood.

      SYRACUSE, N. Y.

      Farmer and Dairyman Print.

      1886.

      Copyrighted

      BY

      THE AUTHOR.

      1886.

      PROLOGUE.

      I.

      He who offends the public will

      And thus excites the populace

      With a vindictive wish to kill

      And sink his name in deep disgrace,

      Is hung or burned in effigy;

      But none would think of worshiping

      The instrument of cruelty

      That should a friend's sad exit bring;

      Yet when the Christ was crucified,

      By order of the crazy throng,

      The bloody cross on which he died—

      The tool of deep and ghastly wrong—

      Derisively was raised on high,

      By the decree of hell's dark prince,

      And human souls, not thinking why,

      Hell's sign have worshiped ever since!

      Could more complete subversion be

      Of reason, taste and decency?

      II.

      Through all the past historic days,

      Tyrants have gloried in the crown;

      And base and bloody are the ways

      By which men have been trampled down.

      That royalty may thrive and tax

      The toilers for its vain support;

      Cities and towns it often sacks,

      And of men's birthrights makes a sport;

      Yet men submit to the command

      Of him who wears a crown, and join

      Oppression's hosts, on sea and land,

      As loyal subjects, or for coin;

      And so delusive is the glare

      Of crowns to the deluded slave

      That he lifts up an earnest prayer

      To wear a crown beyond the grave,

      And in imagination reigns

      O'er souls submissive to his chains!

      The Cross and Crown.

      THE CROSS.

      Emblem of Ignorance and Cruelty,

      Ensign of Superstition's brutal reign,

      Banner of Despotism's foul career,

      Signal of Reason laid upon its bier,

      Image of dark and gross Idolatry,

      Object of worship since the Christ was slain!

      The sign of the impostor and the fool,

      By which they conquer and command the throng,

      The cross is lifted upward everywhere

      Man will submissive bow and mutter prayer,

      The minion meek, or church's thoughtless tool,

      Or worse, the cunning priest who knows the wrong.

      When Satan tempted Christ upon the Mount,

      He said: But worship me, the world is thine!

      But Christ refused

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