Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HITTING THE SAWDUST TRAIL', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: With hope in our hearts and with light in our eyes
Last Line: We are hitting the sawdust trail
Subject(s): Sunday, William A. (billy) (1862-1935); Conversion


[Hitting the sawdust trail" is Billy Sun-day's expression for coming forward as converts in his grea

With hope in our hearts and with light in our eyes.
We are hitting the sawdust trail.
With our souls tlrnily set on the everlasting prize.
We are hitting the sawdust trail.
We have said good-by to the sorrow and the sin.
To the hard, broad way that so long we've travelled in;
And the true, dear Joy we are setting out to win.
As we're hitting the sawdust trail.

'Mid the sneers of our foes and the prayers of our friends
We are hitting the sawdust trail.
Where the hiss of the world with the song of heaven blends
We are hitting the sawdust trail.
Let them laugh, let them mock, in their silly,headless glee.
Our eternity 's at stake, and for trifles what care we?
From the doom of death to be ransome, to be free.
We are hitting the sawdust trail.





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