| Publication information |
|
Source: Picture Gallery of Souls Source type: book Document type: poem Document title: “Amicicidium Principis” Author(s): Sterner, Ira I. Publisher: Richard G. Badger Place of publication: Boston, Massachusetts Year of publication: 1905 Pagination: 62 |
| Citation |
| Sterner, Ira I. “Amicicidium Principis.” Picture Gallery of Souls. Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1905: p. 62. |
| Transcription |
| full text |
| Keywords |
| McKinley assassination (poetry). |
| Named persons |
| Jesus Christ. |
| Notes |
|
From title page: Picture Gallery of Souls: Sonnets and Short Poems.
From title page: By Ira I. Sterner, Author of “A Souvenir Essay on Seeming and Being,” “Songs of the Prima Donna,” etc. |
| Document |
Amicicidium Principis
(Sept. 6, 1901.)
The hand of destiny, now fair, now foul,
Blots even our new scroll of Christian time:
Though volume twenty seeks harmonious rhyme,
Its preface gives a Tartarean howl.From cells Gehennal came the dire advice
To slay the unimpeachable, because
A prince controls himself with righteous laws
While lawless men cast their perdition-dice.So was it e’er since human time began:
The prophets slain by those they taught to climb;
Philanthropists in poverty alone,
And benefactors curst by succor’d man;
So was it in the Tragedy Sublime
When Christ was martyr’d though His deeds were known.