Excerpt from Leaves From Maple Lawn
The kind of poetry to which this unpretending volume belongs is so ancient that its beginnings date back before the beginnings of all written literature. The first poems of which we have any record were addressed by the early races of mankind to the elemental appearances of Nature - the great facts of night and day, the land and sea - which they personified as gods, and to which they offered their supplications. They were cast in the form of verse, which is a more primitive form than that of prose, and they were chanted by priests and people to the music of instruments in places that had been set apart from immemorial time for the worship of their divinities. Rude in structure as was the language in which they were clothed, they are characterized by a dark and terrible earnestness - the perpetual recognition of Power, that was dreaded because its source was unknown, and because it was felt to be irresistible. What these spiritual wrestlings of man were - how intense and how prolonged - and to what degrading superstitions he succumbed, all history teaches us.
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