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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SHINING COURAGE, by LUCIA TRENT
First Line: Your spirit is a banner that unrolls
Last Line: They cannot drive your shining courage under.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest
Subject(s): Mooney, Thomas Joseph (1882-1942)
First Line: Your spirit is a banner that unrolls
Last Line: They cannot drive your shining courage under.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest
Subject(s): Mooney, Thomas Joseph (1882-1942)
Your spirit is a banner that unrolls
Before the eyes of hungry, beaten ones,
Your faith a tonic that reflames the souls
Of those who slave like dull automatons.
You press an ominous treadmill through a maze.
For you the loneliness, the bitter sighs,
For us your shining words of truth that blaze
Like stars from luminous rafters through the skies.
We who would make our lives like gallant sparks
Must dwindle into futile pricks of light,
But you transcend the barren void of darks --
Your life a brave epitome of right.
And though they thwart and crush, the lords of plunder,
They cannot drive your shining courage under.
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