Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A SUPPLICATION, by CLINTON SCOLLARD


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First Line: Lord, we whose sturdy sires
Last Line: Turn thou our souls from the dread glamour -- gold!
Subject(s): Gold; Greed; Humanity; Religion; Avarice; Cupidity; Theology


LORD, we whose sturdy sires
Lit sacrificial fires
Upon thine altars in the days of old,
Deeming to found a state
That should be nobly great,
To liberty and honor consecrate,
Turn Thou our eyes from the red glamour -- Gold!

Lord, we whose forbears bled
Where youth and valor led,
In the dark face of danger ever bold,
Daring to dream the dream
Of freedom till its beam
Flashed on their vision like a dawning gleam,
Turn Thou our hearts from the false glamour -- Gold!

Lord, ere some whelming hour
Grip with its fatal power,
And all our land's fair fabric we behold
Shattered as shards, sore spent,
Dismembered, impotent,
As ruinous as is a garment rent,
Turn Thou our souls from the dread glamour -- Gold!





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