Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FREEDOM, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN


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First Line: The truth shall make you free!'
Last Line: Sing to the listening ear of morn.
Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty


"THE truth shall make you free!"
Free!—that is the very thing men fear.
The houses of convention
Are so warm and snug,
There is such sweet delight and cheer
Beneath the rafters of some old belief,
Men will not venture into open air.

Yet just beyond the threshold bloom
Bright world on world of fragrant flowers
That wear the beauty of a cloudless day,
And radiant splendor of a thousand stars.
Their plumes of green the forests lift,
Where, clad in crimson and in gold,
From bough to bough the happy birds
Sing to the listening ear of morn.





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