Cloud upon cloud. Clouds after rain Value standeth in success, But the same value Hideth in failure, In poverty, mourning, In solitude, crime; The value adhesive Sticks to them all Refuses to sunder From man, from man. Differ servitude & rank As chains that clank not, chains that clank The last shall be first The first be postponed The latest promoted At the end of the day It first will appear Who never surrendered Who combated stoutly, Where God was the while We strutted we coxcombs So condescendingly Bowing & giving Affecting to give Virtue is a cockney grown | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARAB LOVE SONG by FRANCIS THOMPSON THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET by SAMUEL WOODWORTH A NEW BIRTH by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG THE GRAVE OF COLUMBUS by JOANNA BAILLIE A FARM NEAR ZILLEBEKE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 10 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT IN VINCULIS; SONNETS WRITTEN IN AN IRISH PRISON: THE TWO VOICES by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |