Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A CHOICE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT


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First Line: The flood of utter change is loosed. A space
Last Line: Twill come -- and you shall have no chance but wreck!
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Change; Socialism


THE flood of utter change is loosed. A space
Is ours yet, for its coming to prepare.
Shall we build dams with cautious, clumsy care,
Or stand with idle hands and frightened face,
And so be whirled all broken from our place,
Or perish with the dams we builded there?
Or shall we dig a broad, deep channel, where
Most fields may feel the flood's benign embrace?
Thus turned 'twill be a calm majestic flood
Of plenty, peace, and fertilising power,
Whose banks fresh flowers of love and joy shall deck.
Oppose it: at the inevitable hour,
Tumultuous, black with ruin, red with blood,
'Twill come -- and you shall have no chance but wreck!







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