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FOR THE NEW YEAR by EDWIN MARKHAM

Poet Analysis

First Line: ARE YOU SHELTERED, CURLED UP AND CONTENT BY YOUR WORLD'S WARM FIRE?
Last Line: OUT TO SOME BATTLE.
Subject(s): HOLIDAYS; NEW YEAR;
Are you sheltered, curled up and content by your world's warm fire?
Then I say that your soul is in danger,
The sons of the Light, they are down with God in the mire,
God in the manger.

So rouse from your perilous ease; to your sword and your shield!
Your ease is the ease of the cattle!
Hark, hark, where the bugles are calling: out to some field—
Out to some battle.



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