Download or read book Chants Communal (Classic Reprint) written by Horace Traubel and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chants Communal Optimos In some faces I meet I see rice rampant and virtue veiled, In some faces I meet I see virtue smiling and vice curtained, In vice I know vice, in virtue I know virtue, I stretch the boundaries of neither, I stand apart not to judge but to witness: I hold no discourse with fragments, supposing them complete men and women, To each I accord my whole faith and from each I receive in full stream the returning tide. Is it my call to set men apart, good, bad, indifferent? Is it my part to sentence man for one sin or pardon him for one virtue? Is it my part to distrust the tree at its roots because its leaves in the fall are dead? Is it on my palette to color the sun? Can I pour from my garden-pot rain-falls and sea-drifts? Back of me are a thousand friendly arms holding me to modest judgment, Before me are as many thousand assurances demanding that I give men, women, myself, time for fulfilment. I have toiled on stony roads, the hot sun overhead, in my heart the northern ice. In the winter's night the snow beat across my face, the north winds accused my faith, in my heart the tropic heat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.