The Initiate
The woes of flesh are naught To one who knows The agony of soul!
'Twere but the thud of wind and rain Upon the roof.
The woes of flesh are naught To one who knows!
Georgia Douglas Johnson
The woes of flesh are naught To one who knows The agony of soul!
'Twere but the thud of wind and rain Upon the roof.
The woes of flesh are naught To one who knows!
The title “The Initiate” points to someone who has been let into a terrible kind of knowledge. Johnson’s speaker insists that bodily pain is nothing to a person who has known the agony of the soul.
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