1 Titan! to whose immortal eyes
\n2 The sufferings of mortality,
\n3 Seen in their sad reality,
\n4 Were not as things that gods despise;
\n5 What was thy pity’s recompense?
\n6 A silent suffering, and intense;
\n7 The rock, the vulture, and the chain,
\n8 All that the proud can feel of pain,
\n9 The agony they do not show,
\n10 The suffocating sense of woe,
\n11 Which speaks but in its loneliness,
\n12 And then is jealous lest the sky
\n13 Should have a listener, nor will sigh
\n14 Until its voice is echoless.<\/p>\n
15 Titan! to thee the strife was given
\n16 Between the suffering and the will,
\n17 Which torture where they cannot kill;
\n18 And the inexorable Heaven,
\n19 And the deaf tyranny of Fate,
\n20 The ruling principle of Hate,
\n21 Which for its pleasure doth create
\n22 The things it may annihilate,
\n23 Refus’d thee even the boon to die:
\n24 The wretched gift Eternity
\n25 Was thine–and thou hast borne it well.
\n26 All that the Thunderer wrung from thee
\n27 Was but the menace which flung back
\n28 On him the torments of thy rack;
\n29 The fate thou didst so well foresee,
\n30 But would not to appease him tell;
\n31 And in thy Silence was his Sentence,
\n32 And in his Soul a vain repentance,
\n33 And evil dread so ill dissembled,
\n34 That in his hand the lightnings trembled.<\/p>\n
35 Thy Godlike crime was to be kind,
\n36 To render with thy precepts less
\n37 The sum of human wretchedness,
\n38 And strengthen Man with his own mind;
\n39 But baffled as thou wert from high,
\n40 Still in thy patient energy,
\n41 In the endurance, and repulse
\n42 Of thine impenetrable Spirit,
\n43 Which Earth and Heaven could not convulse,
\n44 A mighty lesson we inherit:
\n45 Thou art a symbol and a sign
\n46 To Mortals of their fate and force;
\n47 Like thee, Man is in part divine,
\n48 A troubled stream from a pure source;
\n49 And Man in portions can foresee
\n50 His own funereal destiny;
\n51 His wretchedness, and his resistance,
\n52 And his sad unallied existence:
\n53 To which his Spirit may oppose
\n54 Itself–and equal to all woes,
\n55 And a firm will, and a deep sense,
\n56 Which even in torture can descry
\n57 Its own concenter’d recompense,
\n58 Triumphant where it dares defy,
\n59 And making Death a Victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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