Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DEMOCRACY, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT


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DEMOCRACY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Democracy, those men have done thee wrong
Last Line: See freedom widen in the people's care.
Subject(s): Democracy


Democracy, those men have done thee wrong,
That paint thee flaunting, with a brutal face.
Not to Rome's proletarian populace,
Nor Paris mobs that round a red flag throng,
Nor London slums of saturate sin belong
Such names -- deluded, pitiable race --
Though in their husky mutterings we can trace
God urging brotherhood upon the strong.
Democracy on law and virtue stands:
The home it loves and children at the knee;
Its bread it earns, its lips can speak in prayer.
Though greed and pride would bind its giant hands,
I trust the conscience of humanity,
See freedom widen in the people's care.





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