Quite firmly did you stand, and unafraid Before that haughty bar that sought to hold You fettered, lest you strengthen and grow bold To break a clearing through that fetid glade Which their benighted prejudice had made; They taunted you with darkling hints of gold, Preferring you were bought as you had sold, They weaved their webs like spiders in the shade. But as a giant in the falling night Of storm, you forged afore with ruthless tread, To offer up your heart's blood in the fight, Forgetting self, unmindful, unafraid, Nor pausing until thrice acclaimed the right To rally in the tents of those you led. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THOSE VARIOUS SCALPELS by MARIANNE MOORE MYRMIDONES: THE WOUNDED EAGLE by AESCHYLUS RECOMPENSE by DOROTHY MOORE ALFORD HARVARD DECLARES WAR by BRENT DOW ALLINSON SONNET: 19 by RICHARD BARNFIELD |