{"id":"01KG8AJH77F331DKW1NSTKB8CX","cid":"bafkreibfacsndbpeqdcqwrhx63tqifnvvjzdt6xjw4siprf5m5ckcycvnu","type":"chapter","properties":{"description":"# THE ENTHUSIAST\n\n## Overview\n\"THE ENTHUSIAST\" is a chapter containing poetry, extracted from the file `john_marr_and_other_poems.txt`. It is part of the larger collection \"John Marr and Other Poems\" and falls within the \"Melville Complete Works\" collection. The chapter spans lines 1725 to 1760 of its source file.\n\n## Context\nThis chapter is one of many poems included in the collection \"[John Marr and Other Poems](arke:01KG8AJ5CWVMSM9AY2938E996H)\". The collection itself was extracted from the file `[john_marr_and_other_poems.txt](arke:01KG89J19Y3FNVN5KWASY78BP4)` and is part of the comprehensive \"[Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW)\" archive. \"THE ENTHUSIAST\" follows the chapter titled \"[ART](arke:01KG8AJH700C2BAJK2PTTSV5YF)\" and precedes the chapter \"[SHELLEY’S VISION](arke:01KG8AJH79GTN3SBA14MGCJGP3)\".\n\n## Contents\nThe text of \"THE ENTHUSIAST\" consists of a poem that begins with the epigraph, “Though He slay me yet will I trust in Him.” The poem explores themes of unwavering faith, courage in the face of adversity, and the importance of holding onto truth and light, even when surrounded by falsehood and doubt. It uses metaphors of burning boats and torches to emphasize the need for commitment and the severance of ties that hinder spiritual conviction.","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:09.986Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"THE ENTHUSIAST","end_line":1760,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:32.310Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"THE ENTHUSIAST","source_file":"01KG89J19Y3FNVN5KWASY78BP4","start_line":1725,"text":"THE ENTHUSIAST\r\n\r\n\r\n_“Though He slay me yet will I trust in Him.”_\r\n\r\n\r\nShall hearts that beat no base retreat\r\n    In youth’s magnanimous years—\r\nIgnoble hold it, if discreet\r\n    When interest tames to fears;\r\nShall spirits that worship light\r\n    Perfidious deem its sacred glow,\r\n    Recant, and trudge where worldlings go,\r\nConform and own them right?\r\n\r\nShall Time with creeping influence cold\r\n    Unnerve and cow? the heart\r\nPine for the heartless ones enrolled\r\n    With palterers of the mart?\r\nShall faith abjure her skies,\r\n    Or pale probation blench her down\r\n    To shrink from Truth so still, so lone\r\nMid loud gregarious lies?\r\n\r\nEach burning boat in Caesar’s rear,\r\n    Flames—No return through me!\r\nSo put the torch to ties though dear,\r\n    If ties but tempters be.\r\nNor cringe if come the night:\r\n    Walk through the cloud to meet the pall,\r\n    Though light forsake thee, never fall\r\nFrom fealty to light.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"THE ENTHUSIAST"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJ5CWVMSM9AY2938E996H","peer_type":"poetry_collection","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J19Y3FNVN5KWASY78BP4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AJH700C2BAJK2PTTSV5YF","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AJH79GTN3SBA14MGCJGP3","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:34.631Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:10.257Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}