CLEAR THE WAY.

Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 1, 1 October 1883, Page 3

CLEAR THE WAY.

Men of thought! be up and stirring Night and day : Sow the seed, withdraw the curtain. Clear the way ! Men of action, aid and cheer them As ye may ! There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow ; There's a midnight blackness changing Into grey ! Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way! Once the welcome light has broken, 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. Lo ! a cloud's about to vanish. From the day; And a brazen wrong to crumble Into clay. Lo ! the Right's about to conquer, Clear the way ! With the Right shall many more Enter smiling at the door ; With the giant Wrong shall fall Many others great and small, That for ages long have held us For their prey. Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way ! Charles Machay,