To Him That Was Crucified
To Him That Was Crucified - meaning Summary
Universal Brotherhood Across Time
The speaker addresses a fellow soul as comrade, affirming a shared spiritual kinship that transcends names, places, and eras. Emphasizing equality and universal sympathy, the poem claims a vocation to include all peoples, castes, and theologies while moving through conflict without excluding anyone. The speaker envisions a lasting, collective influence that will bind future generations into brotherhood and love, making an "ineffaceable mark" on time.
Read Complete AnalysesMY spirit to yours, dear brother; Do not mind because many, sounding your name, do not understand you; I do not sound your name, but I understand you, (there are others also;) I specify you with joy, O my comrade, to salute you, and to salute those who are with you, before and since—and those to come also, That we all labor together, transmitting the same charge and succession; We few, equals, indifferent of lands, indifferent of times; We, enclosers of all continents, all castes—allowers of all theologies, Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men, We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers, nor any thing that is asserted; We hear the bawling and din—we are reach’d at by divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side, They close peremptorily upon us, to surround us, my comrade, Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down, till we make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras, Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers, as we are.
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