Future Verdict

How will our unborn children scoff at us

In the good years to come,

The happier years to come,

Because, like driven sheep, we yielded thus,

Before the shearers dumb.

What are the words their wiser lips will say?

“These men had gained the light;

“These women knew the right;

“They had their chance, and let it slip away.

“They did not, when they might.

“They were the first to hear the gospel preached,

“And to believe therein;

“Yet they remained in sin.

“They saw the promised land they might have reached,

“And dared not enter in.

“They might have won their freedom, had they tried;

“No savage laws forbade;

“For them the way was made.

“They might have had the joys for which they cried

“And yet they shrank, afraid.

“Afraid to face-the martyr’s rack and flame?

“The traitor’s dungeon? Nay-

“Of what their world would say-

“The smile, the joke, the thinnest ghost of blame!

“Lord! Lord! What fools were they!”

And we-no longer actors of the stage

We cumber now-maybe

With other eyes shall see

This wasted chance, and with celestial rage

Cry “O what fools were we!”

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• Sonnet CXLIV by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXLIII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXLII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXLI by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXL by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXIX by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXIV by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXIII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXI: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXI by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CX by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet LX by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet LVIII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet LVII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet LVI by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet LV by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet LIX by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet LIII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet LII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

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