The Cross and Crown
By T. D. Curtis
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"Not idle was the Nazarene the while;
He marshaled on the other side of life
The hosts of gentle truth and reason mild,
Swaying with love the heart of man and child
To long for freedom and the rights that guile
Had trampled down amid intolerant strife.
The work was one of love, the progress slow,
For hell contended every inch of ground,
And, through the church, assaulted every thing
That wrought for good, and cat-like watched to spring
Upon whoever rose to strike a blow
To break the chains with which men's souls were bound."
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The Cross and Crown - T. D. Curtis
T. D. Curtis
The Cross and Crown
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Table of Contents
PROLOGUE.
THE CROSS.
THE CROWN.
Idolatry.
PROLOGUE.
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I.
He who offends the public will
And thus excites the populace
With a vindictive wish to kill
And sink his name in deep disgrace,
Is hung or burned in effigy;
But none would think of worshiping
The instrument of cruelty
That should a friend's sad exit bring;
Yet when the Christ was crucified,
By order of the crazy throng,
The bloody cross on which he died—
The tool of deep and ghastly wrong—
Derisively was raised on high,
By the decree of hell's dark prince,
And human souls, not thinking why,
Hell's sign have worshiped ever since!
Could more complete subversion be
Of reason, taste and decency?
II.
Through all the past historic days,
Tyrants have gloried in the crown;
And base and bloody are the ways
By which men have been trampled down.
That royalty may thrive and tax
The toilers for its vain support;
Cities and towns it often sacks,
And of men's birthrights makes a sport;
Yet men submit to the command
Of him who wears a crown, and join
Oppression's hosts, on sea and land,
As loyal subjects, or for coin;
And so delusive is the glare
Of crowns to the deluded slave
That he lifts up an earnest prayer
To wear a crown beyond the grave,
And in imagination reigns
O'er souls submissive to his chains!
The Cross and Crown.
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THE CROSS.
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Emblem of Ignorance and Cruelty,
Ensign of Superstition's brutal reign,
Banner of Despotism's foul career,
Signal of Reason laid upon its bier,
Image of dark and gross Idolatry,
Object of worship since the Christ was slain!
The sign of the impostor and the fool,