Out on the quest, O you who went, Out on the quest magnificent. Out to the call and faring on Up far wide fields in the great white dawn Of a world's new day; with the student look Lifted but late from the half-thumbed book— The clean young page and the thought unsaid, The leaf uncut and the page gone red. Out to the call, O you who went, And the call's dear cost, we who are sent— The call's dear cost should ignorance guide, Courting a fall should incompetence ride. We, too, have dreams and we give them all As we give them once does the splendid call. And splendid the wash of ripe young blood; And splendid the petty borne bravely, the mud; And splendid the failing high faith. Hark, the drum! Marching a million strong, we come Out on the quest, we who are sent, With our faith and our dreams to you who went. And thine the call, O Humanity, As thine the sweat and the agony. And we shall win, so right is right And God is God. And each hurt flight, Each hell-swept field, each gulping sea Is spelling out @3"Victory!" "Victory!"@1 By each white dawn's ooze, each death-sweat thin Is building the blood-song, @3"We win!" "We win!"@1 So good our cause, O you who went! So fine the quest, we who are sent! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LAUGHING WOMAN by WILLIAM ROSE BENET THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE ALOE by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON MY LITTLE HOUSE by MAY (MARY) CLARISSA GILLINGTON BYRON AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: SHADOWS by THOMAS CAMPION ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN BY LORD KNOWLES: SONG OF THREE VOICES by THOMAS CAMPION A PRAYER by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. DA VOICE DA GERMANS MEESSED by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY A MILTONIC EXERCISE (TERCENTENARY, 1608-1908) by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON |