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First Line: Some men, we say, are sent before their time
Last Line: The rose shall dominate the wilderness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Angell, Norman (1872-1962); Peace


SOME men, we say, are sent before their time;
Far back in general shadow their one lamp
Is seen from their high tower; alone they climb
To watch while the world dreams. Beyond the camp
Of nations arming twenty years ago,
One mind with gathering power and light remained;
The million thought the dream above, below
The action. This mistake we ascertained
Down ravenous precipices; at last slow-mending
From the hacked wounds of our proud error's field,
We find the new age daily apprehending
What Angell, had we listened then, revealed;
A tragic gratitude, whence none the less
The rose shall dominate the wilderness.





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