Wisconsin Sonnets

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SOCIALISM TT7HEN finally it shall be understood, And take the color of the stateman's thought; When Christly justice shall be truly sought Between man and his neighbor, as it should, Will not this lofty dream of Brotherhood? This hint of golden ages dawning, caught In the day's promise?then, yield more...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SOCIALISM TT7HEN finally it shall be understood, And take the color of the stateman's thought; When Christly justice shall be truly sought Between man and his neighbor, as it should, Will not this lofty dream of Brotherhood? This hint of golden ages dawning, caught In the day's promise?then, yield more than aught That pregnant Time has yet vouchsafed of Good ? A thousand betterments have marked man's rise Through dark days past, each but a casual boon 'Mid indescribable wrongs and follies strange; Then need we ridicule and stigmatize This heart-warm, glad Ideal, that so soon Must win acceptance in the whirl of Change ? TO A TRAIN ANNOUNCER forth melodiously, clear-throated Cryer, Each magic name; fill the tense, crowded room With golden tones Out where huge sheds engloom The day, the steeds of steel on mail and flyer Impatient wait, and with loud blasts respire. I pause enrapt, and while your voice's boom Rings out, bell-like, the distant Towns assume Forms wondrous fair, in visions you inspire: Not longer merely Capitals of Trade, Great throbbing Centers where unceasing strife Is waged for favor of the monarch Gold, But in the processes of time remade, As man himself, they stand, their sordid life Grown beautiful, beneficent, high-souled. THE RENTERS The poor of New York spend nearly one-half of their income in rent. Thirteen families own one-fifteenth of the assessed value of real estate in that city. A like concentrated ownership of land values exists in other large cities.] f I VHEIR lives made heavy by unending care, Naught but the direst poverty know these; They labor ever for the Lords of Ease And blindly take privation for their share. Of hero mold, too patiently they bear Their Atlas burden, lacking wit to seize On any mean...