Meanwhile out of that inner heat That thrills anon the human kind And rends the cold, incrusting sheet Of stale traditions, lies enshrined, Accords of jealous interest, Hatreds of race, and bastard rights, And every influence unblest The bloom of human love that blights— Out of the soul’s hot inner cell Breaks forth implacable a curse, The curse of him who loveth well— Of all the curses none is worse. |