Arkiahh’s
New Rags
Arkiahh’s
new rags---
She
sends them out---confident of being heard
But
as the old wine is found---best
The
flash and sparkle of the new goes untaken---
And
they preferring the fragrance of the old
Recoil
unceasingly from the new---
It
takes! ---It takes from them all they knew!
They
cannot see the glory in being left with---
Nothing---and a new way of knowing
The
dazzle of new wine has a strong hint
Of
foolishness when first proposed
Every
breakthrough of the light---
Is
first a break with tradition---
The
casting aside of old ways of thinking
The
shedding of the shadow
For
the substance---
Old
ways of knowing---for new
*
‘Perhaps the sentiments
contained in the following pages are not yet sufficiently fashionable to
procure them general favour; long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it
a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable
outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more
converts than reason.’
- Thomas Paine;
Introduction to 'Common Sense;' 14,
February, 1776
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