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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• Robert Burns: The Braes O’ Killiecrankie: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Battle Of Sherramuir: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Highland Harry Back Again: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: I Gaed A Waefu’ Gate Yestreen: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Ca’ The Yowes To The Knowes: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Willie Brew’d A Peck O’ Maut: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Extemporaneous Effusion: On being appointed to an Excise division. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Extemporaneous Effusion: On being appointed to an Excise division. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Sonnet On Receiving A Favour: Addressed to Robert Graham, Esq. of Fintry. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Presentation Stanzas To Correspondents: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Kirk Of Scotland’s Alarm: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: On The Late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations Thro’ Scotland: Collecting The Antiquities Of That Kingdom by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: My Eppie Adair: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Whistle O’er The Lave O’t: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Laddie’s Dear Sel’: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Carle, An The King Come: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Tam Glen: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: My Love, She’s But A Lassie Yet: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: John Anderson, My Jo: by Robert Burns

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