Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ENCOURAGEMENT, by ELIZABETH PHELPS ROUNSEVELL


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ENCOURAGEMENT, by                    
First Line: I am so tired!' I cried
Last Line: But you and I will know.
Subject(s): Strength; Weariness; Fatigue


"I AM so tired!" I cried.
Vainly I strive against The Giant Wrong.
The world heeds not; still does The Wrong abide,
More cruel and more strong.

A thousand lives I'd throw
Into the fight and gladly yield them all,
Counting each pang a blessing, could I know
It helped The Wrong to fall.

But oh, to toil so much,
From weary year to weary year, and see
My brothers in The Wrong's most cruel clutch,
Far as before from free!

A Spirit to my thought
Whispers: "'T is near — The Wrong's sure overthrown.
The world will indeed know not how you wrought,
But you and I will know.





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