Let you who have eyes read!

[king_vlad]

"The Outcast"
John Davidson

Soul, be your own
Pleasance and mart,
A land unknown,
A state apart.

Scowl, and be rude
Should love entice;
Call gratitude
The costliest vice.

Deride the ill
By fortune sent;
Be scornful and still
If foes repent.

When curse and stone
Are hissed and hurled,
Aloof, alone
Disdain the world.

Soul, disregard
The bad, the good;
Be haughty, hard,
Misunderstood.
Be neutral; spare
No humblest lie,
And overbear
Authority.

Laugh wisdom down;
Abandon fate;
Shame the renown
Of all the great.

Dethrone the past;
Deed, vision -- naught
Avails at last
Save your own thought.

Though on all hands
The powers unsheathe
Their lightning brands
And from beneath,

And from above
One curse be hurled
With scorn, with love
Affront the world.