In the Valley of Vision Poems Written in Time of War
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33 Have Faith ; it burns Through present grief, Thitherward undoubting turns All our belief. We will win back More than of old : All that we lost and lack A thousandfold. SERVICE. I. HO would be free, but he were free to serve ? Who free to serve, who serveth not by right ? Let those shamed voices in our midst be quite Henceforward dumb, which did so long un* nerve ^ Our counsel. Aye, what punishment deserve They who brought England near too low to fight ? Let them behold her, in their own desp...ite Arming for battle, and conscience^stricken swerve Into obscurity. There should they lie, Cowering from the light, who bade us buy disgrace. But are they dumb, and do they shun man's eye ? Nay, still they do pretend things noble base ; Still would they drag thee back, their own country. Hear them not, England ! Be hard and stern of face, 34 II. Stand we not, who were blind, now open-eyed ? Bear we not burdens now, that then we scorned ? Take we not in our hands, as something mourned No more in giving, Youth's inexchangeable pride ?
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