Youth Visits Our Inferno

September 1923

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                <l>Of old commandments. Their new dispensation</l>
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               <l>We are damned with the knowledge of good and evil, they</l> 
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Youth Visits Our Inferno Marjorie Allen Seiffert 2019 University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Alex Telesca's Fame
306 Andrews University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 alextelesca@outlook.com
2019

Copyright © 2019 by Alex Telesca

 The Best Poems of 1924 L.A.G. Strong Marjorie Allen Seiffert September 1923 Small, Maynard & Company Publishers Boston

Alex Telesca Transcribed and encoded a poem Youth Visits Our Inferno They call this hell. With deep disapprobation For all of us, honest sinner and lusty saint, Our visitors find us mildewed with the taint Of old commandments. Their new dispensation Has come too late for us and our salvation. 5 They find us pitiful and rather quaint In our inferno...I make no complaint, I am happier here with all my generation. We are damned with the knowledge of good and evil, they Whose new estate is freedom, suffer worse And find life empty, trivial and boring, A sort of game that everyone must play, And no one knows the rules, and no one's scoring, 5 And nothing's at stake, for youth has lost its purse. Marjorie Allen Seiffert

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Youth Visits Our Inferno Marjorie Allen Seiffert 2019 University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Alex Telesca's Fame
306 Andrews University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 alextelesca@outlook.com
2019

Copyright © 2019 by Alex Telesca

 The Best Poems of 1924 L.A.G. Strong Marjorie Allen Seiffert September 1923 Small, Maynard & Company Publishers Boston

Alex Telesca Transcribed and encoded a poem Youth Visits Our Inferno They call this hell. With deep disapprobation For all of us, honest sinner and lusty saint, Our visitors find us mildewed with the taint Of old commandments. Their new dispensation Has come too late for us and our salvation. They find us pitiful and rather quaint In our inferno...I make no complaint, I am happier here with all my generation. We are damned with the knowledge of good and evil, they Whose new estate is freedom, suffer worse And find life empty, trivial and boring, A sort of game that everyone must play, And no one knows the rules, and no one's scoring, And nothing's at stake, for youth has lost its purse. Marjorie Allen Seiffert