/lit/ - Literature

This poem makes me cry
If only the speaker's parents did their duty

When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry " 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!"
So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.

There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head
That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved, so I said,
"Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare,
You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair."

And so he was quiet, & that very night,
As Tom was a-sleeping he had such a sight!
That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black;

And by came an Angel who had a bright key,
And he opened the coffins & set them all free;
Then down a green plain, leaping, laughing they run,
And wash in a river and shine in the Sun.

Then naked & white, all their bags left behind,
They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind.
And the Angel told Tom, if he'd be a good boy,
He'd have God for his father & never want joy.

And so Tom awoke; and we rose in the dark
And got with our bags & our brushes to work.
Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy & warm;
So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.

I've just finished Realm of the Elderlings

>tfw been reading a lot Shankara and other Hindu writers lately
>basically finds few faults if at all with their arguments
>still just keep getting more and more disillusioned with it because I know the traditions and culture of it is all but dead and who am I to try to larp invigorate it as a westerner
>tfw have no connection to it's culture and even if I did the biggest genius of their religion essentially took a big steamy shit on everything about it except basically just intellectual contemplating
>so what then? alright I agree there is a substrate of all existence and that is Brahman and all I see is just conditioned existence
>t-thanks Shankara... now what? none of it makes life any more bearable or put any sort of meaning into it
>but meanwhile the tradition of the west(Christianity) is so on its face a false religion so I can't just adopt it and start larping as a trad catholic pretending that Aristotelian physics in some way leads to the truth of Christianity

>age
>location
>current book you're reading, etc.,etc.

>age
>location
>current book you're reading and how do you like it

What does it take to become a writer? Incessant reading and writing, obviously. But what else?

>>4360969

>brings up politics
>tells *me* to go to /pol/ when I disagree with his jewish atheistic marxist faggotry

truly our greatest ally

>>4314137

fuck yeah, heil hitler.

>>4314138
haahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahaah

>yfw I exist