Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CALL OF THE DEAD, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY First Line: Do you hear a deep voice calling? Last Line: "and, having done all, -- stand!" Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Theology | ||||||||
Do 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; -- "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...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY A NEW EARTH by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY |
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