Because my hope is dead, my heart a stone, I read the words that Hegel once did write— An idiot gibbering in the dark alone— Till on my heart and vision fell the night.
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First published in The Book of Jade (1901). First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established. [1]
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Cite this poem
David Park Barnitz (1878–1901).
“Hegel.” First published in The Book of Jade (1901).
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