The Fear The fear the most dreadful of all emotions, When raised its head, can cloud one That deprives one the faculty of Judgement and reasoning. The fear, the most excruciating and Venomous as fangs, When reigns over you, can enmesh one In furnance. The smouldering heat it emits reduces One to hearth. O fear! proud you be not! I have seen at the cliff. Stood at a close encounter, when death stood at threshold. Unless I give you the reign, you hold no ground! O fear! I fear not you! For I know, when fear by chance skirmishes me. You gallop at a lightening speed to the remostest recesses. Listen fear ! Burn not I, but cold you become! The fear
