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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Poems in English 

• Ten Years After by Graham Rowlands by Poetry In English
• Telescopes In The Square by Graham Rowlands by Poetry In English
• South Africa by Ronald G. Auguste by Poetry In English
• Shattered Dreams. Broken Promises. by Russell James by Poetry In English
• Savour Your Life by Ronald G. Auguste by Poetry In English
• Rosslyn To The Prime Minister by Graham Rowlands by Poetry In English
• Writing to Onegin by Ruth Padel by Poetry In English
• Icicles round a Tree in Dumfriesshire by Ruth Padel by Poetry In English
• Conqueror by Russell Hughes Ragsdale by Poetry In English
• Conversation 4: On Place by Rosmarie Waldrop by Poetry In English
• To A Young Lady. On Her Recovery From A Fever by Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Written In Early Youth. The Time,–An Autumnal Evening by Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Fire, Famine, And Slaughter : A War Eclogue by Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Fancy In Nubibus, Or The Poet In The Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Epitaph On An Infant. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• What would I do without this world by Samuel Beckett by Samuel Barclay Beckett
• Cascando by Samuel Beckett by Samuel Barclay Beckett
• To a Commencement of Scoundrels by Samuel Hazo by Poetry In English
• The Nearness That Is All by Samuel Hazo by Poetry In English
• The Middle of the World by Samuel Hazo by Poetry In English

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