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Camacho and PG Distributed -Proofreaders - - - - - - -[Transcriber's note: The spelling irregularities of the original have -been retained in this etext.] - -SELECTED POEMS - - - - -THE TONGUES OF TOIL - -AND OTHER POEMS - -BY - -WILLIAM FRANCIS BARNARD - -JUSTICE PUBLISHING COMPANY -PITTSBURGH, PA. - - - - - -=The Tongues of Toil= - - -Do you hear the call from a hundred lands. - Lords of a dying name? -We are the men of sinewed hands - Whom the earth and the seas acclaim. -We are the hoards that made you lords. - And gathered your gear and spoil. -And we speak with a word that should be heard-- - Hark to the tongues of toil! - -The power of your hands it falls at last, - The strength of your rule is o'er, -Where the might of a million slaves is massed - To the shouts of a million more. -We rise, we rise, 'neath the western skies, - And the dawns of the east afar; -And our myriads swarm in the southlands warm, - And under the northern star! - -We take no thought of the fears you feel, - And the rage you hold at heart, -Nor of all your strength of the gold and steel - Enthroned at the gates of mart. -We have no care for the deeds you dare, - For the force of your armies hurled; -You stand but few, and we challenge you-- - Strong men of all the world! - -We served as your fools when time was young, - And long, long we forbore. -Glad of the niggard boons you flung, - The least of your ample store; -But the gnawing pain of a starving brain - Is great as the belly need-- -We have learned at last from a hungry past - The joys of a rebel deed! - -We come, we come, with the force of fate; - We are not weak, but strong. -We parley not, and we cannot wait; - We march with a freeman's song. -We claim for meed what a life we can need - That lives as a life should live-- -Not less, not more, From the plenteous store - Which freeborn labors give! - -We shall shape a world as a world should be, - With room enough for all. -We will rear a race of the wise and free, - And not of the great and small. -And the heart and the mind of humankind - Shall drink to the dregs of good, -Forgetting the tears of the darker years, - And the curse of bondman's blood. - -In vain you soften the voice of greed, - In vain you speak us fair; -The time is late, and we hark nor heed; - In gladness still we dare. -Yield, then, yield to the force we wield, - To the masses of our might; -We are countless strong at the throat of wrong - The warriors of the right! - -Yes, we are the captains of the earth - And the warders of the sea-- -Of a race new born in nobler birth, - The mighty and the free! -We clasp all hands, to the farthest lands; - We swear by our mother soil, -To take the meed who have done the deed! - Hark to the tongues of toil! - - - - -=The Hangman= - - -The hangman's hands are dyed with blood, - And all they touch or hold -Is stained and streaked with clotted blood - E'en to his bloody gold-- -The coins that are paid for human breath - And the lives which he has sold. - -In scarlet hue stand old and new-- - His clothes, his board, his bed. -There is blood in the cup he lifts up, - And crimson in his bread; -And e'en his floors and walls and doors - Are marked with gory red. - -The hangman's face is dull and grey, - And soulless are his eyes; -That he may live from day to day, - Some fellow-being dies. -The tears of the young are naught to him, - Nor ages stifled cries. - -He does not know the sob of woe; - Black fear he does not know; -Hardly a word from his lips are heard, - And his ears heed no appeal. -His cruel chin reveals within - A nature hard as steel, -The hangman's thoughts are not of love, - Nor are they yet of hate; -They do not lift themselves above - The dungeon's iron gate; -Their interests are the knotted rope - And the heavy gallows weight. - -His mind is filled with the counted killed - And the hope of more to come. -And the price they fling when men must swing, - Which makes a goodly sum; -For his reason waits on the law's black hates, - And, save for this, stands dumb. - -The hangman's soul lies stiff and stark. - The hangman's heart is dead; -And the need of friends is a burnt out spark -For he is marked with the murder's mark. - And with blood upon his head. - -In times of rest he knows no guest-- - No hand will touch him, none! -Nor woman mild nor happy child - Greets him when day is done; -And he walks the night, a poison blight, - An outcast of the sun - - - - -=The Children of the Looms= - - -Oh, what are these that plod the road - At dawn's first hour and evening's chime, -Each back bent as beneath a load; - Each sallow face afoul with grime? -Nay, what are these whose little feet - Scarce bear theme on to toil or bed! -Do hearts within their bosoms beat? - Surely, 'twere better that they were dead. - -Babes are they, domed to cruel dooms. - Who labor all the livelong day; -Who stand beside the roaring looms - Nor ever turn their eyes away; -Like parts of those machines of steel: - Like wheels that whirl, like shuttles thrown; -Without the power to dream or feel; - With all of childishness. - -Brothers and sisters of the flowers, - Fit playmates of the bird and bee. -For you grow soft the springtime hours; - For you the shade lies neath the tree. -For you life smiles the whole day long; - For you she breathes each breath in bliss, -And turns all sound into song; - And you, and you have come to this! - -Is't not enough that man should toil - To fill the hands that clutch for gold? -Is't not enough that women toil. - And in life's summertime grow old? -Is't not enough that death should pale - To see men welcome him as rest; -But must the children drudge and fall, - And perish on the mothers breast? - -See, lovers, wed at tender eve; - See, mothers, with your new-born young; -See, fathers--if you can, believe; - From infant blood, lo, wealth is wrung! -See homes; see towns; see cities; states; - Earth, show it to the skies above! -Lovers who pass through rapture's gates, - Are these, are these your fruits of love? - -O man who boast your lands subdued, - Your conquered air, your oceans tamed, -Who mold all nature to your mood, - Look on these babes and be ashamed! -Dull looks from out each weary face, - Cold words upon each little tongue-- -Dead lives that know not childhoods grace, - Grown old before they can be young. - -Hear, world of Mammon, brutal, bold, - Goring with life the maw of greed, -Measuring everything by gold; - The good deed with the evil deed-- -The pangs of suffering childhoods care, - Now coined in coins to fill a purse, -These things shall haunt you everywhere, - And rest upon you for a curse! - - - - -=The Hymn of Labor= - - -The world was made with labor: - Strong fusing air and fire -Strove before the years of birth, - With awful deed and dire, -And wrought from primal chaos - Amidst the ancient night. -The seas and shores which are the earth, - And shapes of morning light. - -Yea, bound in frenzied orbits, - The solar substance sped -With travail of the moon and stars, - And planets live and dead; -And wombed and birthed in anguish, - As heirs of all its toil, -Earth's vale and hill and ribs of rock, - And the rivers in her soil. - -Life was formed by labor: - From out of the bubbling ooze. -By cosmic ferment molded well, - And tropic suns and dews, -With stress of chemic struggle - Were built with warding care -The potent powers of earth and sea, - And the wings of all the air. -Yea, through the mystic process - Of crystallizing form, -To green growths sprung across the land, - And bloods of cold and warm, -The vital stream of being - In flooding efforts swirled, -And beast and bird and swimming fish - Made animate the world. - -Man was wrought by labor: - Fierce things of growth and might, -Where waring species hold their sway, - Keen eared and clear of sight. -Toiled in craft and cunning - And strength of ripening brain, -Till rose the form that grasped the world - And made it his domain. - -Yea, with red feud and ravage - Of saber tooth and claw. -With banding of the pack for might - And filled or starving maw; -From floundering saurians welter, - Through grin and screech of ape, -Struggled the deathless seed of life - Up to human shape. - -And man hath made with labor: - From his wild primal hour, -Potent with transforming deeds. - He hath wed will to power; -Through war and peace untiring, - To industry and art, -Spending the might of all his thought - And the hope of all his heart. - -Yea, tried in stress of effort - And passions wise and vain, -His zeal hath gathered wisdoms seed - From fruits of joy and pain. -His millioned cities echo; - His ships have pathed the sea; -And with bent brow he toils to make - The world that yet will be. - - - - -=To the Masters= - - -You drive your beasts of burden forth to - drink? -You herd your oxen, each one in his stall? -You whip and goad until they heed your call? -You own, and use? Are these your cattle? - Think! -Although the while they cringe to you and - shrink. -And watch their fate in your least finger fall, -Mistake not, lest they rise and ravage all, -And your vast piled-up power to chaos sink! - -The earthquake gives slight time to ward its - shock; -But racks the earth, nor warns of where or - when; -The hurricane that makes the city rock, -Speaks not with previous voice unto your ken; -Vesuvius and Aetna horror mock, -And tidal waves. Think: These you crush are - Men! - - - - -=To the Enemies of Free Speech= - - -As well to lay your hands upon the sun -And try with bonds to bind the morning light, -As well on the four winds to spend your might, -As well to strive against the streams that run; -As well to bar the seasons, bid be done -The rain which falls; as well to blindly fight -Against the air, and at your folly's height -Aspire to make all power that is none. - -As well to do this as to impeach -Man's tongue, and bid it answer to the schools; -As well to do all this, as give us rules. -And bid us hold our words within your reach; -As well as this, as try to chain man's speech. -So others learned before ye lived, O fools! - - - - -=Magdalene Passes= - - -What one is this, that bears the band of - shame within her breast, -And wanders through the mocking land, denied - a place of rest? -What one is this, your hue and cry pursue - with withering hate, -Until her best hope is to die, nor meet a - harder fate? - -This, this is she who hides her head in shame - to gloom the sun; -Who waits, as in their graves the dead, until - the day is done; -Whose tasks make pitiful the dark, and dreadful - all the night, -And leave her spirit striken stark and crushed - at morning light. - -Beneath the shadows of silk and lace her form - is spare and shrunk, -And through the rogue upon her face see how - her cheeks have sunk, -Her lightsome laugh hides not her thought; - her brow is scarred with care. -And her flashing rings with jewels wrought, - but gild and grace despair. - -Has she no tears to weep for grief, no voice to - cry with woe, -No memories panged beyond belief for joys - of long ago, -Has she no tortured dreams to smart, no anguish - for her brow, -Has she no broken bleeding heart, that you - must curse her now? - -Is here no innocence o'erthrown, no wrecked - sweet maidenhood, -No sense of loss, like heavy stone, to make her - doubt all good? -Are here no women's ruined charms, no dead - and withering breasts? -Are here no hapless, vacant arms, which - should lull babes to rest? - -And what are you, who at her gird, and deem - yourselves unstained; -Do you forget your black false word, the righteous - act disdain, -Your lust of power, the debtors tears, cold - hunger's starving cries, -And all the evil of your years, that clamors - to the skies! - -Your horror is a vail to wear and cover o'er - your deeds; -Your wrongs are pointed at you there, though - none your presence heeds. -Your vileness would itself deny in falsest hate - of hers; -Gaze at yourself with inward eye, you whited - sepulchers! - -Repent! Your vanity betrays, and wrenches - reason strong, -Until it wraps the truth to ways which shape - a right of wrong; -But every sin is still a sin; and if your hands - be shriven, -Her heart is no more black within, and she - shall be forgiven. - -You ask not where those siren lips learned - their unworthy skill, -Nor reck of how shame's black eclipse obscured - her purer will. -You think not whence fair thoughts like - flowers gave room to passions low; -You know not of her girlhood's hours; you - do not care to know. - -Nay! But the truth cries for the light, and - struggles to be heard; -The story of her bruise and blight shall out - in burning word-- -Yours was the power which crushed that - grace and gave it to despair, -And the mask of beauty on that face, your - hands have painted there! - -She was the temple of your lust, the altar of - your greed; -The sacrifice of faith and trust you made with - careful heed. -She was the price of pleasure's worth, the - weight against your gold, -Where love and truth repine in dearth, and all - is bought and sold. - -And will you loathe your work at last, and - spurn her with disgust? -And shall your pride blot out the past and - hide her murdered trust? -And will you brand upon her brow the deeds - which she doth do? -Speak; Will you dare to hate her now, who - weeps, and pardons you? - -Nay, more scoff to see her sink, nor laugh - upon her tears; -You shall not hand hate's baneful drink, and - mock her with your jeers. -Bow down and hide your head for shame, and - for your acts atone, -Accept your guilt; abide your blame; nor cast - a single stone. - -And crimson sin shall balance sin, and none - shall be denied, -Till every heart is soft within and humbled - in its pride. -And each with each shall equal stand, and all - be one in worth, -Till every hand shall clasp a hand and love - shall fill the earth. - - - - -=The Red Flag= - - -Banner of crimson waving there, - Thou shalt have full homage from me; -First among flags thou gleamest fair, - Symbol of love and of life made free. -The nations have chosen standards of state - To flaunt to the winds since time began; -Emblems of rivalry, pride and hate; - But thou are the flag of the world, of Man. - -Red as the blood of freedom's dead, - Thy hues might well have flowed from their veins. -Red as the one blood of man is red, - Holy thou art in thy sanguine stains. -Holy as truth and holy as right; - Sacred as wisdom and sacred as love; -Worthy the rapture that lifted to light - Thy glorious shape where it ripples above. - -Unto the spirit of friendliness - Thou was fashioned, to comfort man's hungry thought; -To shine for the deeds that alone can bless, - And the life of brotherhood nobly wrought -Unto the spirit that rends the gyves - And shatters the bonds that make men slaves; -The spirit that suffers and sinks and strives. - Till it strengthens hope, till it lifts and saves. - -Thou art no new thing; thou hast waved from of old. - Thou hast seen the day be born from the night; -And hast streamed for truth where the truth was bold - As time fled on to the future's light. -Beyond all the seas, on many a shore, - Thou hast buttressed the heart and stiffened the hand -To struggle for fellowship o're and o're, - From the youth to the age of the eldest land. - -Thou hast called to battle! Yea, thou hast led - Where men have followed, forgetting fears -And hast solaced the dying and graced the dead, - Stained with blood and with dust and tears ---Blood, a full tribute paid for peace; - Tears shed free o're humanity's wrongs, -With faith in thy cause, that could never cease, - Met tyranny's swords, and fell, singing thy songs. - -As thou art loved, thou art loathed, full well; - Loathed and cursed by the lords of power. -Ever they name thee the flag of hell, - And rage in the fear of thy triumph hour. -But their grasp grows week on the wills of men; - Their armies falter; their guns are rust; -As from prison, and labor of poverty's den - Thy hosts speak NO to their crumbling lust. - -See! Now there greet the ten million eyes, - And lips uncounted smile to thy red. -Yes, those who bow to thy crimson dyes, - Are myriads more than all of thy dead. -Lo! The young clap hands at thy bright unrest; - And the child in arms it leaps in its glee. -Nay, babes unborn, 'neath the mother's breast - And given and pledged to thy cause and to thee! - -Banner of freedom and freedom's peace. - Float in thy beauty, in sign of the day -When ravage of power and conquest shall cease, - And mouldering tyranny pass away. -Who would not all for thy promise give? - As I gaze on the fools, one wish have I-- -To love thee and honor thee while I live, - And fold thee around me when I must die! - - - - -=The Agitator= - - -Where hurrying thousands meet, - And poor in living streams on either hand. -Amidst the richest street, - With set and stubborn face he takes his stand. -The lesson to repeat - Of evil days and acts which curse the land. - -Indifference cools him not; - And jeers and blows he takes, perchance, beside. -Brave, he accepts his lot; - At worst he meets it with a martyr's pride. -To bear, he knows not what, - He seeks the crowd and will not be denied. - -His voice is loud and strong, - And vigorous gestures add their potent force, -As to the restless throng - He pictures clear corruption's crafty course, -Or challenges the wrong - Which in some unjust privilege finds its source. - -A true son of the soil, - And feeling, as the hard-pressed masses feel, -The things which mar and spoil, - And bind life down with bonds as strong as steel, -He knows the men who toil, - And truth to these he can most clear reveal. - -No knotty theories - He offers to the listeners who attend, -Or generalities, - Which glitter with the gilt that fine words lend; -He sets forth what he sees - So simply that who hears can comprehend. - -The deep philosopher, - The pedant wise, whose wisdom makes him cold. -Instructs, but cannot stir - The heart of work, whose hope is tried and old; -But this one strives to spur - The rebel in the blood and make it bold. - -He lifts the common thought, - And e'en the common heart up to the light; -Till, by his teaching wrought - To understand their wrongs and know their might -Plain men at last are brought - To rouse in truceless struggle for the right. - - - - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Selected Poems, by William Francis Barnard - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SELECTED POEMS *** - -***** This file should be named 13322.txt or 13322.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - https://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/3/2/13322/ - -Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Tamiko I. 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