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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• Old Ladies’ Home by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Ode For Ted by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Notes To A Neophyte by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Nick And The Candlestick by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• New Year On Dartmoor by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Never Try To Trick Me With A Kiss by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Mussel Hunter At Rock Harbor by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Morning In The Hospital Solarium by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Moonsong At Morning by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Monologue At 3 AM by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Miss Drake Proceeds To Supper by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Metamorphoses Of The Moon by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Memoirs Of A Spinach-Picker by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Mary’s Song by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Man In Black by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Mad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Love Is A Parallax by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Letter To A Purist by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Letter In November by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• A Lesson In Vengeance by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath

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