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WAITING WORDS by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS

First Line: SOMEWHERE ARE WORDS OF EAGER LOVELINESS
Last Line: "I MIGHT HAVE SAID THEM -- I!"

Somewhere are words of eager loveliness
Whose high compelling stress
Will wake the world to courage, and inspire
Honor's undying fire.

And they, when found, will be our common words
That man's life undergirds;
So common, so familiar, each will sigh,
"I might have said them -- I!"



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