Many
Are the Songs for Famous Heroes
Ella
Wheeler Wilcox
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An Editorial Note
According to
esoteric philosophy, no good-willing
effort is ever
lost, and all healthy seeds germinate,
sooner or later. A
master of the Eastern wisdom wrote:
“… Every thought of man upon being evolved passes
into the inner world, and becomes an active entity by
associating itself, coalescing we might term it, with an
elemental - that is to say, with one of the semi-intelligent
forces of the kingdoms. It survives as an active intelligence
- a creature of the mind’s begetting - for a longer or
shorter period proportionate with the original intensity
of the cerebral action which generated it. Thus, a good
thought is perpetuated as an active, beneficent power…” [1]
In the following
poem, Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(1850-1919)
expresses an aspect of this teaching.
(Carlos Cardoso
Aveline)
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There are songs
enough for the hero,
Who dwells
on the heights of fame;
I sing for the disappointed -
For those
who missed their aim.
I sing with a tearful cadence
For one who
stands in the dark,
And knows that his last, best arrow
Has bounded
back from the mark.
I sing for the breathless runner,
The eager,
anxious soul,
Who falls with his strength exhausted,
Almost in
sight of the goal;
For the hearts that break in silence
With a
sorrow all unknown,
For those who need companions,
Yet walk
their ways alone.
There are songs enough for the lovers
Who share
love’s tender pain,
I sing for the one whose passion
Is given all
in vain.
For those whose spirit comrades
Have missed
them on the way
I sing with a heart overflowing,
This minor
strain to-day.
And I know the solar system
Must
somewhere keep in space
A prize for that spent runner
Who barely
lost the race.
For the plan would be imperfect
Unless it
held some sphere
That paid for the toil and talent
And love
that are wasted here.
NOTE:
[1] “The Occult World”, by Alfred P.
Sinnett, 1884 edition, Kessinger Publishing Co., Montana, USA, 140 pp. plus
Appendix, see pp. 89-90.
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The above poem was
reproduced from the book “Poetical Works
of Ella Wheeler Wilcox”, W.P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, Edinburgh,
undated, probably 1917, 527 pages, see pages 429-430. It is also published at
the January 2019 edition of “The
Aquarian Theosophist”, pp. 16-17.
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