Clear the Way
(Charles MacKay.) Men of thought! be up and stirring Night and day: Sow the seed—withdraw the curtain — Clear th c way! | Men of action, aitp and cheer them As ye may! there's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a yarmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackncss changing Into gray; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way! Once the welcome light has teoken r Who shall say What the unimagined glories Of the day? What the evil that shall perish In its ray? Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men; Aid it, paper—aid it, type— Aid it, for the hour is ripe, And our earnest must not slacken Into play. Men of thought and men of action Clear the way! L.o! a cloud's about to Yanish ' Prom the day; And a brazen wrong to crumble Into clay: Lo! the right's about to conquer, Clear the way! Y-ith the Right shall many more •Knter smiling at the door; With the giant Wrong shall fall A'any others, great and small, '"/at for ages long have held us F»r their prey. Mjn of thought and men of action, .Clear the way! |
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 23 May 1918, Page 1
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211Clear the Way Levin Daily Chronicle, 23 May 1918, Page 1
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