@3Do you hear a deep voice calling? -- Calling persistently? -- Like the sound of God's great waters, -- Calling insistently? 'Tis the voice of our dead, our myriad dead, Calling to you and me;@1 -- "By the red deaths we have suffered, By the fiery paths we trod, By the lives we gave All Life to save, -- We call you back to God. "We call you from your trifling With the petty things of life; We cry aloud for a new world vowed To a world-redeeming strife. "We call you to cut the cankers That have grown around your growth; We call you from by-ways to High Ways, And the pledge of a new God-troth. "We call you to His high service; You have followed other gods; Their baneful ways brought the evil days, And loosed the grim red floods. "On your knees, on your knees, seek pardon For the wrongs that have been done! -- For the perverse wills, and the active ills, And the high things left undone! "One way there is, -- one only, Whereby ye may stand sure; One way by which ye may withstand All foes, and Life's High Ways command, And make your building sure. -- Take God once more as Cousellor Work with Him, hand in hand, Build surely, in His Grace and Power, The nobler things that shall endure, And, having done all, -- STAND!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOLCINO TO MARGARET by CHARLES KINGSLEY OF MAN'S MORTALITY by SIMON WASTELL ROUNDEL by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS PHILLIS INAMOROTA by LANCELOT ANDREWES THE DEAD BRONCHO-BUSTER by BERTON BRALEY THE WEAVER by WILLIAM HENRY BURLEIGH |