Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DREAMS OF LIFE: 8, by TIMOTHY THOMAS FORTUNE


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First Line: There were no kings of men till men
Last Line: As bracing as the ocean gale!


There were no kings of men till men
Made kings of men, and of the earth;
There were no privileged classes when
First Nature, man and beasts, had birth.

Man was sole monarch of his sphere,
And each with equal power was made;
Each from the earth partook his share;
Each shared with each earth's sun and shade.

No fetters on the limbs were bound;
The intellect was free as light;
Man's every wish abundance found;
He gloried in his earth-wide right.

God made the earth and sky -- the breath
Of mountain and of smiling vale --
And filled them all with life, not death,
As bracing as the ocean gale!





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