Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WANTED - A MAN!, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY


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WANTED - A MAN!, by                    
First Line: What we lack and sorely need
Last Line: Men whose souls have wings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Men; Religion; Theology


What we lack and sorely need,
For want of which we bleed, and bleed,
Is men of a more Godly breed. --
Honest men in highest places;
Men with single aims and faces;
Men whose nobler thought outpaces
Thought of self, or power, or pelf; --
Men whose axes need no grinding;
Men who are not always minding
First their own concerns, and blinding
Their souls' eyes to larger things. --
Men of wide and Godly vision;
Men of quick and wise decision;
Men who shrink not at derision; --
Men whose souls have wings.





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