@3Do you hear a deep voice calling? -- Calling persistently? -- Like the sound of God's great waters, -- Calling insistently? 'Tis the voice of our dead, our myriad dead, Calling to you and me;@1 -- "By the red deaths we have suffered, By the fiery paths we trod, By the lives we gave All Life to save, -- We call you back to God. "We call you from your trifling With the petty things of life; We cry aloud for a new world vowed To a world-redeeming strife. "We call you to cut the cankers That have grown around your growth; We call you from by-ways to High Ways, And the pledge of a new God-troth. "We call you to His high service; You have followed other gods; Their baneful ways brought the evil days, And loosed the grim red floods. "On your knees, on your knees, seek pardon For the wrongs that have been done! -- For the perverse wills, and the active ills, And the high things left undone! "One way there is, -- one only, Whereby ye may stand sure; One way by which ye may withstand All foes, and Life's High Ways command, And make your building sure. -- Take God once more as Cousellor Work with Him, hand in hand, Build surely, in His Grace and Power, The nobler things that shall endure, And, having done all, -- STAND!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WORN WEDDING-RING by WILLIAM COX BENNETT EUROPE A PROPHECY by WILLIAM BLAKE THE MODERN MAJOR-GENERAL, FR. THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT THE UNIVERSAL MOTHER by SABINE BARING-GOULD |