Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WORDS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: Drudging democracy of words, alert
Last Line: All lips that move not to their maker's praise!
Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary


Drudging democracy of words, alert
At beck of plow-boy, leaping to the need
Where tongueless woe would cry on manly deed,
Willing to delve in diamonds or dirt,
Skilful to heal the blubbering urchin's hurt
Or arch the truest thinker's truest creed,
Bond-slave of servants, nobly hast thou freed
All but thyself! For thou, dull-eyed, inert,
Dost tamely wear the chains of human greed,
Raze thine own building, tear what thou didst heal,
And mock thy prophet song of better days.
O strong words, be less willing! Pay no heed
To men ignoble! Let fit dumbness seal
All lips that move not to their Maker's praise!





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