THE MORNING STAR.
Wc have the morning star, 0 foolish people, 0 kings ! With us the daysprings are, Even all the fresh claysprings ; For us, and with us, all the multitudes of things. 0 sorrowing hearts of slaves, We heard you heat from far ! We bring the light that saves, We bring the morning star ; Freedom's good things we bring you, whence all good things are, The strife of things and beauty, The fire and light adored, Truth and life-lightening duty, Love without crown or sword, That by his might and godhead makes man god and lord. These have we, these are ours, That no priests give, nor kings ; The honey of all these flowers, The heart of all these springs ; Ours, for where freedom lives not, there live no good things. Hi so, ere the dawn be risen ; Come, and be all souls fed ; From field, and street, and prison, Come for the feast is spread ; Live, for the truth is living ; wake, for the night is dead. A. C. Swinburne.
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Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 3, 1 December 1883, Page 14
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172THE MORNING STAR. Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 3, 1 December 1883, Page 14
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