Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, RUSSIA: 1918, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR


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RUSSIA: 1918, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, hear them! Hear their voices rise at last!
Last Line: A world is born, the kingly creeds are dead!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Revolutions; Russia; Russian Revolution; Work; Workers; Soviet Union; Russians


Oh, hear them! Hear their voices rise at last!
Hear them, serene and sure! Again! Again!
Oh, hear the voices of the workingmen!
The long, long day of servitude is past!
They do not crave the right to speak: they speak!
The voices of the workingmen are firm,
For they have found deliverance and the term;
They find the weak grown strong, the strong grown weak.

No spoil of conquest by a kingly creed!
No shining victors, ravening to feed
Upon the shattered vanquished! They are wise
Who hear the terms and heed; the fools revise—
And are revised; the workingmen have said!
A world is born, the kingly creeds are dead!





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