The 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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• In Every Language by Rifat Ilgaz by Poetry In English
• I’m Sexy and I Know It by Aiyah De Torres by Poetry In English
• I Write a Poem by Aiyah De Torres by Poetry In English
• Girl Child – An Alternate Reality by Rekha Seshadri by Poetry In English
• Elusive Lover by Renu Ayyar by Poetry In English
• Crows and Hawks by Richard Schiffman by Poetry In English
• Clever Stalk by Richard Schiffman by Poetry In English
• Buddies by Richard Schiffman by Poetry In English
• Buddha at Kamakura by Rudyard Kipling by Poetry In English
• Beyond Darkness And Despair by Renu Ayyar by Poetry In English
• Before you go a little way prospecting by T. Wignesan by Poetry In English
• Are You a Thinking Man? by Rifat Ilgaz by Poetry In English
• A Lost Friend, I Never Had by Renu Ayyar by Poetry In English
• A Goddess by Tanisha Avarsekar by Poetry In English
• Vacation by Rita Dove by Poetry In English
• Tonight she remembers by Rita Odessa Villaruel by Poetry In English
• There Came a Soul by Rita Dove by Poetry In English
• The Emotion Line by Rita Odessa Villaruel by Poetry In English
• The Bistro Styx by Rita Dove by Poetry In English
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