The Fate of the Prophets
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The Fate of the Prophets
From “The Divine Tragedy”
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Alas! How full of fear
Is the fate of the Prophet and Seer!
For evermore, for evermore,
It shall be as it hath been heretofore;
The age in which they live will not forgive
The splendor of the everlasting light,
That makes their foreheads bright,
Nor the sublime
Fore-running of their time!