Excerpt from The Allegory of Plato: And Other Essays in Prose and Verse
The Allegory of Plato.
In his thesis of Life the great thinker of old,
Adopted a metaphor striking and bold;
And in view of that two-fold phenomenon man
It is thus that his mental philosophy ran.
The moral probationer ruling on earth,
In two opposite courses is drawn from his birth,
On the one hand he strives like a steed all on fire,
To spurn his gross nature and upward aspire;
The other a dull and inanimate clod,
Contented with labor and bound to the sod.
For the term of probation, the brief span of life,
These horses are yoked in perpetual strife;
And the steed we select as our emblem below,
Shall rule us forever for weal or for woe.
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