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170 POEMS AND SONGS
Daily life is with death but rife,
If there’s not growth every hour.
Rally to war for the cause of right, _
Sing ’neath the standard of honor bright,
Sail with faith in our God secure,
And strong endure!
OH, WHEN WILL YOU STAND FORTH?
(1872)
Ox, when will you stand forth, who with strength can
bring aid,
To strike down the injustice and lies
That my house have beset, and with malice blockade
Every pathway I out for my powers have laid,
And would hidden means find
With deceit and with hate
To set watch on my mind
And defile every plate
In my beautiful home where defenseless we wait?
Oh, when will you stand forth? This detraction through
years
For my people has made me an oaf,
Hides my poetry’s fount in the fog of its fleers,
So it merely a pool of self-worship appears ;
Like a clumsy troll I
Am contemned with affront,
Whom all “cultured” folk fly,
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