Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE MARTYRS' HYMN, by MARTIN LUTHER


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First Line: Flung to the heedless winds
Last Line: The one availing name.
Subject(s): Martyrs; Religion; Theology


FLUNG to the heedless winds,
Or on the waters cast,
The martyrs' ashes, watched,
Shall gathered be at last;
And from that scattered dust,
Around us and abroad,
Shall spring a plenteous seed
Of witnesses for God.

The Father hath received
Their latest living breath;
And vain is Satan's boast
Of victors in their death;
Still, still, though dead, they speak,
And, trumpet-tongued, proclaim
To many a wakening land
The one availing name.




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