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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have +to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. + + + + +Title: Chants for Socialists + + +Author: William Morris + + + +Release Date: October 26, 2014 [eBook #3170] +[This file was first posted on January 30, 2001] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHANTS FOR SOCIALISTS*** + + +Transcribed from the 1885 Socialist League Office edition by David Price, +email ccx074@pglaf.org + + [Picture: Decorative header] + + + + + + CHANTS FOR SOCIALISTS + + + BY + WILLIAM MORRIS. + + * * * * * + + CONTENTS: + +The Day is Coming. No Master. + +The Voice of Toil. All for the Cause. + +The Message of the March Wind. The March of the Workers. + Down Among the Dead Men. + + * * * * * + + LONDON: + Socialist League Office, + 13 FARRINGDON ROAD, HOLBORN VIADUCT, E.C. + 1885. + + _PRICE ONE PENNY_. + + * * * * * + +I have looked at this claim by the light of history and my own +conscience, and it seems to me so looked at to be a most just claim, and +that resistance to it means nothing short of a denial of the hope of +civilisation. + +This then is the claim:— + +_It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which +shall be worth doing_, _and be of itself pleasant to do_; _and which +should be done under such conditions as would make it neither +over-wearisome nor over-anxious_. + +Turn that claim about as I may, think of it as long as I can, I cannot +find that it is an exorbitant claim; yet again I say if Society would or +could admit it, the face of the world would be changed; discontent and +strife and dishonesty would be ended. To feel that we were doing work +useful to others and pleasant to ourselves, and that such work and its +due reward _could_ not fail us! What serious harm could happen to us +then? And the price to be paid for so making the world happy is +Revolution. + + + + +THE DAY IS COMING. + + + COME hither lads, and hearken, for a tale there is to tell, + Of the wonderful days a-coming when all shall be better than well. + + And the tale shall be told of a country, a land in the midst of the + sea, + And folk shall call it England in the days that are going to be. + + There more than one in a thousand in the days that are yet to come, + Shall have some hope of the morrow, some joy of the ancient home. + + For then—laugh not, but listen, to this strange tale of mine— + All folk that are in England shall be better lodged than swine. + + Then a man shall work and bethink him, and rejoice in the deeds of his + hand, + Nor yet come home in the even too faint and weary to stand. + + Men in that time a-coming shall work and have no fear + For to-morrow’s lack of earning and the hunger-wolf anear. + + I tell you this for a wonder, that no man then shall be glad + Of his fellow’s fall and mishap to snatch at the work he had. + + For that which the worker winneth shall then be his indeed, + Nor shall half be reaped for nothing by him that sowed no seed. + + O strange new wonderful justice! But for whom shall we gather the + gain? + For ourselves and for each of our fellows, and no hand shall labour in + vain. + + Then all _mine_ and all _thine_ shall be _ours_, and no more shall any + man crave + For riches that serve for nothing but to fetter a friend for a slave. + + And what wealth then shall be left us when none shall gather gold + To buy his friend in the market, and pinch and pine the sold? + + Nay, what save the lovely city, and the little house on the hill, + And the wastes and the woodland beauty, and the happy fields we till. + + And the homes of ancient stories, the tombs of the mighty dead; + And the wise men seeking out marvels, and the poet’s teeming head; + + And the painter’s hand of wonder; and the marvellous fiddle-bow, + And the banded choirs of music:—all those that do and know. + + For all these shall be ours and all men’s, nor shall any lack a share + Of the toil and the gain of living in the days when the world grows + fair. + + Ah! such are the days that shall be! But what are the deeds of + to-day, + In the days of the years we dwell in, that wear our lives away? + + Why, then, and for what are we waiting? There are three words to + speak. + WE WILL IT, and what is the foeman but the dream-strong wakened and + weak? + + O why and for what are we waiting? while our brothers droop and die, + And on every wind of the heavens a wasted life goes by. + + How long shall they reproach us where crowd on crowd they dwell, + Poor ghosts of the wicked city, the gold-crushed hungry hell? + + Through squalid life they laboured, in sordid grief they died, + Those sons of a mighty mother, those props of England’s pride. + + They are gone; there is none can undo it, nor save our souls from the + curse; + But many a million cometh, and shall they be better or worse? + + It is we must answer and hasten, and open wide the door + For the rich man’s hurrying terror, and the slow-foot hope of the + poor. + + Yea, the voiceless wrath of the wretched, and their unlearned + discontent, + We must give it voice and wisdom till the waiting-tide be spent. + + Come, then, since all things call us, the living and the dead + And o’er the weltering tangle a glimmering light is shed. + + Come, then, let us cast off fooling, and put by ease and rest + For the CAUSE alone is worthy till the good days bring the best + + Come, join in the only battle wherein no man can fail, + Where whoso fadeth and dieth, yet his deed shall still prevail. + + Ah! come, cast off all fooling, for this, at least we know: + That the Dawn and the Day is coming, and forth the Banners go. + + + + +THE VOICE OF TOIL. + + + I heard men saying, Leave hope and praying, + All days shall be as all have been; + To-day and to-morrow bring fear and sorrow + The never-ending toil between. + + When Earth was younger mid toil and hunger, + In hope we strove, and our hands were strong + Then great men led us, with words they fed us, + And bade us right the earthly wrong. + + Go read in story their deeds and glory, + Their names amidst the nameless dead; + Turn then from lying to us slow-dying + In that good world to which they led; + + Where fast and faster our iron master, + The thing we made, for ever drives, + Bids us grind treasure and fashion pleasure + For other hopes and other lives. + + Where home is a hovel and dull we grovel, + Forgetting that the world is fair; + Where no babe we cherish, lest its very soul perish + Where our mirth is crime, our love a snare + + Who now shall lead us, what god shall heed us + As we lie in the hell our hands have won + For us are no rulers but fools and befoolers, + The great are fallen, the wise men gone + + I heard men saying, Leave tears and praying, + The sharp knife heedeth not the sheep; + Are we not stronger than the rich and the wronger, + When day breaks over dreams and sleep? + + Come, shoulder to shoulder ere the world grows older! + Help lies in nought but thee and me; + Hope is before us, the long years that bore us, + Bore leaders more than men may be. + + Let dead hearts tarry and trade and marry, + And trembling nurse their dreams of mirth, + While we the living our lives are giving + To bring the bright new world to birth. + + Come, shoulder to shoulder ere earth grows older! + The Cause spreads over land and sea; + Now the world shaketh, and fear awaketh, + And joy at last for thee and me. + + + + +ALL FOR THE CAUSE. + + + HEAR a word, a word in season, for the day is drawing nigh, + When the Cause shall call upon us, some to live, and some to die! + + He that dies shall not die lonely, many an one hath gone before, + He that lives shall bear no burden heavier than the life they bore. + + Nothing ancient is their story, e’en but yesterday they bled, + Youngest they of earth’s belovëd, last of all the valiant dead. + + E’en the tidings we are telling was the tale they had to tell, + E’en the hope that our hearts cherish, was the hope for which they + fell. + + In the grave where tyrants thrust them, lies their labour and their + pain, + But undying from their sorrow springeth up the hope again. + + Mourn not therefore, nor lament it that the world outlives their life; + Voice and vision yet they give us, making strong our hands for strife. + + Some had name, and fame, and honour, learn’d they were, and wise and + strong; + Some were nameless, poor, unlettered, weak in all but grief and wrong. + + Named and nameless all live in us; one and all they lead us yet + Every pain to count for nothing, every sorrow to forget. + + Hearken how they cry, “O happy, happy ye that ye were born + In the sad slow night’s departing, in the rising of the morn. + + “Fair the crown the Cause hath for you, well to die or well to live + Through the battle, through the tangle, peace to gain or peace to + give.” + + Ah, it may be! Oft meseemeth, in the days that yet shall be, + When no slave of gold abideth ’twixt the breadth of sea to sea, + + Oft, when men and maids are merry, ere the sunlight leaves the earth, + And they bless the day belovëd, all too short for all their mirth, + + Some shall pause awhile and ponder on the bitter days of old, + Ere the toil of strife and battle overthrew the curse of gold; + + Then ’twixt lips of loved and lover solemn thoughts of us shall rise; + We who once were fools and dreamers, then shall be the brave and wise. + + There amidst the world new-builded shall our earthly deeds abide, + Though our names be all forgotten, and the tale of how we died. + + Life or death then, who shall heed it, what we gain or what we lose? + Fair flies life amid the struggle, and the Cause for each shall + choose. + + Hear a word, a word in season, for the day is drawing nigh, + When the Cause shall call upon us, some to live and some to die! + + + + +NO MASTER. + + + (AIR: “The Hardy Norseman.”) + + —o— + + SAITH man to man, We’ve heard and known + That we no master need + To live upon this earth, our own, + In fair and manly deed. + The grief of slaves long passed away + For us hath forged the chain, + Till now each worker’s patient day + Builds up the House of Pain. + + And we, shall we too, crouch and quail, + Ashamed, afraid of strife, + And lest our lives untimely fail + Embrace the Death in Life? + Nay, cry aloud, and have no fear, + We few against the world; + Awake, arise! the hope we bear + Against the curse is hurled. + + It grows and grows—are we the same, + The feeble band, the few? + Or what are these with eyes aflame, + And hands to deal and do? + This is the host that bears the word, + “NO MASTER HIGH OR LOW”— + A lightning flame, a shearing sword, + A storm to overthrow. + + + + +THE MARCH OF THE WORKERS. + + + (AIR: “John Brown.”) + + WHAT is this, the sound and rumour? What is this that all men hear, + Like the wind in hollow valleys when the storm is drawing near, + Like the rolling on of ocean in the eventide of fear? + ’Tis the people marching on. + + Whither go they, and whence come they? What are these of whom ye + tell? + In what country are they dwelling ’twixt the gates of heaven and hell? + Are they mine or thine for money? Will they serve a master well? + Still the rumour’s marching on. + + Hark the rolling of the thunder! + Lo the sun! and lo thereunder + Riseth wrath, and hope, and wonder, + And the host comes marching on. + + Forth they come from grief and torment; on they wend toward health and + mirth, + All the wide world is their dwelling, every corner of the earth. + Buy them, sell them for thy service! Try the bargain what ’tis worth, + For the days are marching on. + + These are they who build thy houses, weave thy raiment, win thy wheat, + Smooth the rugged, fill the barren, turn the bitter into sweet, + All for thee this day—and ever. What reward for them is meet? + Till the host comes marching on. + + Hark the rolling, etc. + + Many a hundred years passed over have they laboured deaf and blind; + Never tidings reached their sorrow, never hope their toil might find. + Now at last they’ve heard and hear it, and the cry comes down the + wind, + And their feet are marching on. + + O ye rich men hear and tremble! for with words the sound is rife: + “Once for you and death we laboured; changed henceforward is the + strife. + We are men, and we shall battle for the world of men and life; + And our host is marching on.” + + Hark the rolling, etc. + + “Is it war, then? Will ye perish as the dry wood in the fire? + Is it peace? Then be ye of us, let your hope be our desire. + Come and live! for life awaketh, and the world shall never tire; + And hope is marching on.” + + “On we march then, we the workers, and the rumour that ye hear + Is the blended sound of battle and deliv’rance drawing near; + For the hope of every creature is the banner that we bear, + And the world is marching on.” + + Hark the rolling of the thunder! + Lo the sun! and lo thereunder + Riseth wrath, and hope, and wonder, + And the host comes marching on. + + + + +THE MESSAGE OF THE MARCH WIND. + + + FAIR now is the springtide, now earth lies beholding + With the eyes of a lover, the face of the sun; + Long lasteth the daylight, and hope is enfolding + The green-growing acres with increase begun. + + Now sweet, sweet it is through the land to be straying + ’Mid the birds and the blossoms and the beasts of the field; + Love mingles with love, and no evil is weighing + On thy heart or mine, where all sorrow is healed. + + From township to township, o’er down and by tillage + Far, far have we wandered and long was the day, + But now cometh eve at the end of the village, + Where over the grey wall the church riseth grey. + + There is wind in the twilight; in the white road before us + The straw from the ox-yard is blowing about; + The moon’s rim is rising, a star glitters o’er us, + And the vane on the spire-top is swinging in doubt. + + Down there dips the highway, toward the bridge crossing over + The brook that runs on to the Thames and the sea. + Draw closer, my sweet, we are lover and lover; + This eve art thou given to gladness and me. + + Shall we be glad always? Come closer and hearken: + Three fields further on, as they told me down there, + When the young moon has set, if the March sky should darken, + We might see from the hill-top the great city’s glare. + + Hark, the wind in the elm-boughs! From London it bloweth, + And telleth of gold, and of hope and unrest; + Of power that helps not; of wisdom that knoweth, + But teacheth not aught of the worst and the best. + + Of the rich men it telleth, and strange is the story + How they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; + And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory + Has been but a burden they scarce might abide. + + Hark! the March wind again of a people is telling; + Of the life that they live there, so haggard and grim, + That if we and our love amidst them had been dwelling + My fondness had faltered, thy beauty grown dim. + + This land we have loved in our love and our leisure + For them hangs in heaven, high out of their reach; + The wide hills o’er the sea-plain for them have no pleasure, + The grey homes of their fathers no story to teach. + + The singers have sung and the builders have builded, + The painters have fashioned their tales of delight; + For what and for whom hath the world’s book been gilded, + When all is for these but the blackness of night? + + How long, and for what is their patience abiding? + How oft and how oft shall their story be told, + While the hope that none seeketh in darkness is hiding, + And in grief and in sorrow the world groweth old? + + * * * * * + + Come back to the inn, love, and the lights and the fire, + And the fiddler’s old tune and the shuffling of feet; + For there in a while shall be rest and desire, + And there shall the morrow’s uprising be sweet. + + Yet, love, as we wend, the wind bloweth behind us, + And beareth the last tale it telleth to-night, + How here in the spring-tide the message shall find us; + For the hope that none seeketh is coming to light. + + Like the seed of midwinter, unheeded, unperished, + Like the autumn-sown wheat ’neath the snow lying green, + Like the love that o’ertook us, unawares and uncherished, + Like the babe ’neath thy girdle that groweth unseen. + + So the hope of the people now buddeth and groweth— + Rest fadeth before it, and blindness and fear; + It biddeth us learn all the wisdom it knoweth; + It hath found us and held us, and biddeth us hear: + + For it beareth the message: “Rise up on the morrow + And go on your ways toward the doubt and the strife; + Join hope to our hope and blend sorrow with sorrow, + And seek for men’s love in the short days of life.” + + But lo, the old inn, and the lights, and the fire, + And the fiddler’s old tune and the shuffling of feet; + Soon for us shall be quiet and rest and desire, + And to-morrow’s uprising to deeds shall be sweet. + + + + +DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN. + + + COME, comrades, come, your glasses clink; + Up with your hands a health to drink, + The health of all that workers be, + In every land, on every sea. + And he that will this health deny, + Down among the dead men, down among the dead men, + Down, down, down, down, + Down among the dead men let him lie! + + Well done! now drink another toast, + And pledge the gath’ring of the host, + The people armed in brain and hand, + To claim their rights in every land. + And he that will, etc. + + There’s liquor left; come, let’s be kind, + And drink the rich a better mind, + That when we knock upon the door, + They may be off and say no more. + And he that will, etc. + + Now, comrades, let the glass blush red, + Drink we the unforgotten dead + That did their deeds and went away, + Before the bright sun brought the day. + And he that will, etc. + + The Day? Ah, friends, late grows the night; + Drink to the glimmering spark of light, + The herald of the joy to be, + The battle-torch of thee and me! + And he that will, etc. + + Take yet another cup in hand + And drink in hope our little band; + Drink strife in hope while lasteth breath, + And brotherhood in life and death; + And he that will, etc. + + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHANTS FOR SOCIALISTS*** + + +******* This file should be named 3170-0.txt or 3170-0.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/1/7/3170 + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will +be renamed. + +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United +States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have +to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. + + + + +Title: Chants for Socialists + + +Author: William Morris + + + +Release Date: October 26, 2014 [eBook #3170] +[This file was first posted on January 30, 2001] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHANTS FOR SOCIALISTS*** +</pre> +<p>Transcribed from the 1885 Socialist League Office edition by +David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/tpb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Decorative header" +title= +"Decorative header" + src="images/tps.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<h1>CHANTS <span class="smcap">for</span> SOCIALISTS</h1> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">BY</span><br +/> +WILLIAM MORRIS.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>CONTENTS</b>:</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>The Day is Coming.</p> +<p>The Voice of Toil.</p> +<p>The Message of the March Wind.</p> +</td> +<td><p>No Master.</p> +<p>All for the Cause.</p> +<p>The March of the Workers.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">Down Among the Dead +Men.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">LONDON:<br /> +<b>Socialist League Office</b>,<br /> +13 FARRINGDON ROAD, HOLBORN VIADUCT, E.C.<br /> +1885.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>PRICE ONE PENNY</i>.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p><a name="page2"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 2</span>I have +looked at this claim by the light of history and my own +conscience, and it seems to me so looked at to be a most just +claim, and that resistance to it means nothing short of a denial +of the hope of civilisation.</p> +<p>This then is the claim:—</p> +<p><i>It is right and necessary that all men should have work to +do which shall be worth doing</i>, <i>and be of itself pleasant +to do</i>; <i>and which should be done under such conditions as +would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious</i>.</p> +<p>Turn that claim about as I may, think of it as long as I can, +I cannot find that it is an exorbitant claim; yet again I say if +Society would or could admit it, the face of the world would be +changed; discontent and strife and dishonesty would be +ended. To feel that we were doing work useful to others and +pleasant to ourselves, and that such work and its due reward +<i>could</i> not fail us! What serious harm could happen to +us then? And the price to be paid for so making the world +happy is Revolution.</p> +<h2><a name="page3"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 3</span>THE DAY +IS COMING.</h2> +<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Come</span> hither lads, +and hearken, for a tale there is to tell,<br /> +Of the wonderful days a-coming when all shall be better than +well.</p> +<p class="poetry">And the tale shall be told of a country, a land +in the midst of the sea,<br /> +And folk shall call it England in the days that are going to +be.</p> +<p class="poetry">There more than one in a thousand in the days +that are yet to come,<br /> +Shall have some hope of the morrow, some joy of the ancient +home.</p> +<p class="poetry">For then—laugh not, but listen, to this +strange tale of mine—<br /> +All folk that are in England shall be better lodged than +swine.</p> +<p class="poetry">Then a man shall work and bethink him, and +rejoice in the deeds of his hand,<br /> +Nor yet come home in the even too faint and weary to stand.</p> +<p class="poetry">Men in that time a-coming shall work and have +no fear<br /> +For to-morrow’s lack of earning and the hunger-wolf +anear.</p> +<p class="poetry">I tell you this for a wonder, that no man then +shall be glad<br /> +Of his fellow’s fall and mishap to snatch at the work he +had.</p> +<p class="poetry"><a name="page4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +4</span>For that which the worker winneth shall then be his +indeed,<br /> +Nor shall half be reaped for nothing by him that sowed no +seed.</p> +<p class="poetry">O strange new wonderful justice! But for +whom shall we gather the gain?<br /> +For ourselves and for each of our fellows, and no hand shall +labour in vain.</p> +<p class="poetry">Then all <i>mine</i> and all <i>thine</i> shall +be <i>ours</i>, and no more shall any man crave<br /> +For riches that serve for nothing but to fetter a friend for a +slave.</p> +<p class="poetry">And what wealth then shall be left us when none +shall gather gold<br /> +To buy his friend in the market, and pinch and pine the sold?</p> +<p class="poetry">Nay, what save the lovely city, and the little +house on the hill,<br /> +And the wastes and the woodland beauty, and the happy fields we +till.</p> +<p class="poetry">And the homes of ancient stories, the tombs of +the mighty dead;<br /> +And the wise men seeking out marvels, and the poet’s +teeming head;</p> +<p class="poetry">And the painter’s hand of wonder; and the +marvellous fiddle-bow,<br /> +And the banded choirs of music:—all those that do and +know.</p> +<p class="poetry">For all these shall be ours and all +men’s, nor shall any lack a share<br /> +Of the toil and the gain of living in the days when the world +grows fair.</p> +<p class="poetry">Ah! such are the days that shall be! But +what are the deeds of to-day,<br /> +In the days of the years we dwell in, that wear our lives +away?</p> +<p class="poetry">Why, then, and for what are we waiting? +There are three words to speak.<br /> +<span class="smcap">We will it</span>, and what is the foeman but +the dream-strong wakened and weak?</p> +<p class="poetry"><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +5</span>O why and for what are we waiting? while our brothers +droop and die,<br /> +And on every wind of the heavens a wasted life goes by.</p> +<p class="poetry">How long shall they reproach us where crowd on +crowd they dwell,<br /> +Poor ghosts of the wicked city, the gold-crushed hungry hell?</p> +<p class="poetry">Through squalid life they laboured, in sordid +grief they died,<br /> +Those sons of a mighty mother, those props of England’s +pride.</p> +<p class="poetry">They are gone; there is none can undo it, nor +save our souls from the curse;<br /> +But many a million cometh, and shall they be better or worse?</p> +<p class="poetry">It is we must answer and hasten, and open wide +the door<br /> +For the rich man’s hurrying terror, and the slow-foot hope +of the poor.</p> +<p class="poetry">Yea, the voiceless wrath of the wretched, and +their unlearned discontent,<br /> +We must give it voice and wisdom till the waiting-tide be +spent.</p> +<p class="poetry">Come, then, since all things call us, the +living and the dead<br /> +And o’er the weltering tangle a glimmering light is +shed.</p> +<p class="poetry">Come, then, let us cast off fooling, and put by +ease and rest<br /> +For the <span class="smcap">cause</span> alone is worthy till the +good days bring the best</p> +<p class="poetry">Come, join in the only battle wherein no man +can fail,<br /> +Where whoso fadeth and dieth, yet his deed shall still +prevail.</p> +<p class="poetry">Ah! come, cast off all fooling, for this, at +least we know:<br /> +That the Dawn and the Day is coming, and forth the Banners +go.</p> +<h2><a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 6</span>THE +VOICE OF TOIL.</h2> +<p class="poetry">I heard men saying, Leave hope and praying,<br +/> + All days shall be as all have been;<br /> +To-day and to-morrow bring fear and sorrow<br /> + The never-ending toil between.</p> +<p class="poetry">When Earth was younger mid toil and hunger,<br +/> + In hope we strove, and our hands were strong<br /> +Then great men led us, with words they fed us,<br /> + And bade us right the earthly wrong.</p> +<p class="poetry">Go read in story their deeds and glory,<br /> + Their names amidst the nameless dead;<br /> +Turn then from lying to us slow-dying<br /> + In that good world to which they led;</p> +<p class="poetry">Where fast and faster our iron master,<br /> + The thing we made, for ever drives,<br /> +Bids us grind treasure and fashion pleasure<br /> + For other hopes and other lives.</p> +<p class="poetry">Where home is a hovel and dull we grovel,<br /> + Forgetting that the world is fair;<br /> +Where no babe we cherish, lest its very soul perish<br /> + Where our mirth is crime, our love a snare</p> +<p class="poetry">Who now shall lead us, what god shall heed +us<br /> + As we lie in the hell our hands have won<br /> +For us are no rulers but fools and befoolers,<br /> + The great are fallen, the wise men gone</p> +<p class="poetry"><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>I heard men saying, Leave tears and praying,<br /> + The sharp knife heedeth not the sheep;<br /> +Are we not stronger than the rich and the wronger,<br /> + When day breaks over dreams and sleep?</p> +<p class="poetry">Come, shoulder to shoulder ere the world grows +older!<br /> + Help lies in nought but thee and me;<br /> +Hope is before us, the long years that bore us,<br /> + Bore leaders more than men may be.</p> +<p class="poetry">Let dead hearts tarry and trade and marry,<br +/> + And trembling nurse their dreams of mirth,<br /> +While we the living our lives are giving<br /> + To bring the bright new world to birth.</p> +<p class="poetry">Come, shoulder to shoulder ere earth grows +older!<br /> + The Cause spreads over land and sea;<br /> +Now the world shaketh, and fear awaketh,<br /> + And joy at last for thee and me.</p> +<h2><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 8</span>ALL FOR +THE CAUSE.</h2> +<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Hear</span> a word, a word +in season, for the day is drawing nigh,<br /> +When the Cause shall call upon us, some to live, and some to +die!</p> +<p class="poetry">He that dies shall not die lonely, many an one +hath gone before,<br /> +He that lives shall bear no burden heavier than the life they +bore.</p> +<p class="poetry">Nothing ancient is their story, e’en but +yesterday they bled,<br /> +Youngest they of earth’s belovëd, last of all the +valiant dead.</p> +<p class="poetry">E’en the tidings we are telling was the +tale they had to tell,<br /> +E’en the hope that our hearts cherish, was the hope for +which they fell.</p> +<p class="poetry">In the grave where tyrants thrust them, lies +their labour and their pain,<br /> +But undying from their sorrow springeth up the hope again.</p> +<p class="poetry">Mourn not therefore, nor lament it that the +world outlives their life;<br /> +Voice and vision yet they give us, making strong our hands for +strife.</p> +<p class="poetry">Some had name, and fame, and honour, +learn’d they were, and wise and strong;<br /> +Some were nameless, poor, unlettered, weak in all but grief and +wrong.</p> +<p class="poetry">Named and nameless all live in us; one and all +they lead us yet<br /> +Every pain to count for nothing, every sorrow to forget.</p> +<p class="poetry"><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +9</span>Hearken how they cry, “O happy, happy ye that ye +were born<br /> +In the sad slow night’s departing, in the rising of the +morn.</p> +<p class="poetry">“Fair the crown the Cause hath for you, +well to die or well to live<br /> +Through the battle, through the tangle, peace to gain or peace to +give.”</p> +<p class="poetry">Ah, it may be! Oft meseemeth, in the days +that yet shall be,<br /> +When no slave of gold abideth ’twixt the breadth of sea to +sea,</p> +<p class="poetry">Oft, when men and maids are merry, ere the +sunlight leaves the earth,<br /> +And they bless the day belovëd, all too short for all their +mirth,</p> +<p class="poetry">Some shall pause awhile and ponder on the +bitter days of old,<br /> +Ere the toil of strife and battle overthrew the curse of +gold;</p> +<p class="poetry">Then ’twixt lips of loved and lover +solemn thoughts of us shall rise;<br /> +We who once were fools and dreamers, then shall be the brave and +wise.</p> +<p class="poetry">There amidst the world new-builded shall our +earthly deeds abide,<br /> +Though our names be all forgotten, and the tale of how we +died.</p> +<p class="poetry">Life or death then, who shall heed it, what we +gain or what we lose?<br /> +Fair flies life amid the struggle, and the Cause for each shall +choose.</p> +<p class="poetry">Hear a word, a word in season, for the day is +drawing nigh,<br /> +When the Cause shall call upon us, some to live and some to +die!</p> +<h2><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 10</span>NO +MASTER.</h2> +<p style="text-align: center">(<span class="smcap">Air</span>: +“The Hardy Norseman.”)</p> +<p style="text-align: center">—o—</p> +<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Saith</span> man to man, +We’ve heard and known<br /> + That we no master need<br /> +To live upon this earth, our own,<br /> + In fair and manly deed.<br /> +The grief of slaves long passed away<br /> + For us hath forged the chain,<br /> +Till now each worker’s patient day<br /> + Builds up the House of Pain.</p> +<p class="poetry">And we, shall we too, crouch and quail,<br /> + Ashamed, afraid of strife,<br /> +And lest our lives untimely fail<br /> + Embrace the Death in Life?<br /> +Nay, cry aloud, and have no fear,<br /> + We few against the world;<br /> +Awake, arise! the hope we bear<br /> + Against the curse is hurled.</p> +<p class="poetry">It grows and grows—are we the same,<br /> + The feeble band, the few?<br /> +Or what are these with eyes aflame,<br /> + And hands to deal and do?<br /> +This is the host that bears the word,<br /> + “<span class="smcap">No Master high or +low</span>”—<br /> +A lightning flame, a shearing sword,<br /> + A storm to overthrow.</p> +<h2><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 11</span>THE +MARCH OF THE WORKERS.</h2> +<p style="text-align: center">(<span class="smcap">Air</span>: +“John Brown.”)</p> +<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">What</span> is this, the +sound and rumour? What is this that all men hear,<br /> +Like the wind in hollow valleys when the storm is drawing +near,<br /> +Like the rolling on of ocean in the eventide of fear?<br /> + + +’Tis the people marching on.</p> +<p class="poetry">Whither go they, and whence come they? +What are these of whom ye tell?<br /> +In what country are they dwelling ’twixt the gates of +heaven and hell?<br /> +Are they mine or thine for money? Will they serve a master +well?<br /> + + +Still the rumour’s marching on.</p> +<p class="poetry"> Hark the +rolling of the thunder!<br /> + Lo the sun! and lo thereunder<br +/> + Riseth wrath, and hope, and +wonder,<br /> + + +And the host comes marching on.</p> +<p class="poetry">Forth they come from grief and torment; on they +wend toward health and mirth,<br /> +All the wide world is their dwelling, every corner of the +earth.<br /> +Buy them, sell them for thy service! Try the bargain what +’tis worth,<br /> + + +For the days are marching on.</p> +<p class="poetry">These are they who build thy houses, weave thy +raiment, win thy wheat,<br /> +Smooth the rugged, fill the barren, turn the bitter into +sweet,<br /> +All for thee this day—and ever. What reward for them +is meet?<br /> + + +Till the host comes marching on.</p> +<p class="poetry"> Hark the +rolling, etc.</p> +<p class="poetry"><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +12</span>Many a hundred years passed over have they laboured deaf +and blind;<br /> +Never tidings reached their sorrow, never hope their toil might +find.<br /> +Now at last they’ve heard and hear it, and the cry comes +down the wind,<br /> + + +And their feet are marching on.</p> +<p class="poetry">O ye rich men hear and tremble! for with words +the sound is rife:<br /> +“Once for you and death we laboured; changed henceforward +is the strife.<br /> +We are men, and we shall battle for the world of men and life;<br +/> + + +And our host is marching on.”</p> +<p class="poetry"> Hark the +rolling, etc.</p> +<p class="poetry">“Is it war, then? Will ye perish as +the dry wood in the fire?<br /> +Is it peace? Then be ye of us, let your hope be our +desire.<br /> +Come and live! for life awaketh, and the world shall never +tire;<br /> + + +And hope is marching on.”</p> +<p class="poetry">“On we march then, we the workers, and +the rumour that ye hear<br /> +Is the blended sound of battle and deliv’rance drawing +near;<br /> +For the hope of every creature is the banner that we bear,<br /> + + +And the world is marching on.”</p> +<p class="poetry"> Hark the +rolling of the thunder!<br /> + Lo the sun! and lo thereunder<br +/> + Riseth wrath, and hope, and +wonder,<br /> + + +And the host comes marching on.</p> +<h2><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 13</span>THE +MESSAGE OF THE MARCH WIND.</h2> +<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Fair</span> now is the +springtide, now earth lies beholding<br /> + With the eyes of a lover, the face of the sun;<br /> +Long lasteth the daylight, and hope is enfolding<br /> + The green-growing acres with increase begun.</p> +<p class="poetry">Now sweet, sweet it is through the land to be +straying<br /> + ’Mid the birds and the blossoms and the beasts +of the field;<br /> +Love mingles with love, and no evil is weighing<br /> + On thy heart or mine, where all sorrow is +healed.</p> +<p class="poetry">From township to township, o’er down and +by tillage<br /> + Far, far have we wandered and long was the day,<br +/> +But now cometh eve at the end of the village,<br /> + Where over the grey wall the church riseth grey.</p> +<p class="poetry">There is wind in the twilight; in the white +road before us<br /> + The straw from the ox-yard is blowing about;<br /> +The moon’s rim is rising, a star glitters o’er us,<br +/> + And the vane on the spire-top is swinging in +doubt.</p> +<p class="poetry">Down there dips the highway, toward the bridge +crossing over<br /> + The brook that runs on to the Thames and the sea.<br +/> +Draw closer, my sweet, we are lover and lover;<br /> + This eve art thou given to gladness and me.</p> +<p class="poetry">Shall we be glad always? Come closer and +hearken:<br /> + Three fields further on, as they told me down +there,<br /> +When the young moon has set, if the March sky should darken,<br +/> + We might see from the hill-top the great +city’s glare.</p> +<p class="poetry"><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +14</span>Hark, the wind in the elm-boughs! From London it +bloweth,<br /> + And telleth of gold, and of hope and unrest;<br /> +Of power that helps not; of wisdom that knoweth,<br /> + But teacheth not aught of the worst and the +best.</p> +<p class="poetry">Of the rich men it telleth, and strange is the +story<br /> + How they have, and they hanker, and grip far and +wide;<br /> +And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory<br /> + Has been but a burden they scarce might abide.</p> +<p class="poetry">Hark! the March wind again of a people is +telling;<br /> + Of the life that they live there, so haggard and +grim,<br /> +That if we and our love amidst them had been dwelling<br /> + My fondness had faltered, thy beauty grown dim.</p> +<p class="poetry">This land we have loved in our love and our +leisure<br /> + For them hangs in heaven, high out of their +reach;<br /> +The wide hills o’er the sea-plain for them have no +pleasure,<br /> + The grey homes of their fathers no story to +teach.</p> +<p class="poetry">The singers have sung and the builders have +builded,<br /> + The painters have fashioned their tales of +delight;<br /> +For what and for whom hath the world’s book been gilded,<br +/> + When all is for these but the blackness of +night?</p> +<p class="poetry">How long, and for what is their patience +abiding?<br /> + How oft and how oft shall their story be told,<br /> +While the hope that none seeketh in darkness is hiding,<br /> + And in grief and in sorrow the world groweth +old?</p> +<p style="text-align: center">* * * * *</p> +<p class="poetry">Come back to the inn, love, and the lights and +the fire,<br /> + And the fiddler’s old tune and the shuffling +of feet;<br /> +For there in a while shall be rest and desire,<br /> + And there shall the morrow’s uprising be +sweet.</p> +<p class="poetry"><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +15</span>Yet, love, as we wend, the wind bloweth behind us,<br /> + And beareth the last tale it telleth to-night,<br /> +How here in the spring-tide the message shall find us;<br /> + For the hope that none seeketh is coming to +light.</p> +<p class="poetry">Like the seed of midwinter, unheeded, +unperished,<br /> + Like the autumn-sown wheat ’neath the snow +lying green,<br /> +Like the love that o’ertook us, unawares and +uncherished,<br /> + Like the babe ’neath thy girdle that groweth +unseen.</p> +<p class="poetry">So the hope of the people now buddeth and +groweth—<br /> + Rest fadeth before it, and blindness and fear;<br /> +It biddeth us learn all the wisdom it knoweth;<br /> + It hath found us and held us, and biddeth us +hear:</p> +<p class="poetry">For it beareth the message: “Rise up on +the morrow<br /> + And go on your ways toward the doubt and the +strife;<br /> +Join hope to our hope and blend sorrow with sorrow,<br /> + And seek for men’s love in the short days of +life.”</p> +<p class="poetry">But lo, the old inn, and the lights, and the +fire,<br /> + And the fiddler’s old tune and the shuffling +of feet;<br /> +Soon for us shall be quiet and rest and desire,<br /> + And to-morrow’s uprising to deeds shall be +sweet.</p> +<h2><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 16</span>DOWN +AMONG THE DEAD MEN.</h2> +<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Come</span>, comrades, +come, your glasses clink;<br /> +Up with your hands a health to drink,<br /> +The health of all that workers be,<br /> +In every land, on every sea.<br /> + And he that will +this health deny,<br /> + Down among the +dead men, down among the dead men,<br /> + Down, down, +down, down,<br /> + Down among the +dead men let him lie!</p> +<p class="poetry">Well done! now drink another toast,<br /> +And pledge the gath’ring of the host,<br /> +The people armed in brain and hand,<br /> +To claim their rights in every land.<br /> + And he that +will, etc.</p> +<p class="poetry">There’s liquor left; come, let’s be +kind,<br /> +And drink the rich a better mind,<br /> +That when we knock upon the door,<br /> +They may be off and say no more.<br /> + And he that +will, etc.</p> +<p class="poetry">Now, comrades, let the glass blush red,<br /> +Drink we the unforgotten dead<br /> +That did their deeds and went away,<br /> +Before the bright sun brought the day.<br /> + And he that +will, etc.</p> +<p class="poetry">The Day? Ah, friends, late grows the +night;<br /> +Drink to the glimmering spark of light,<br /> +The herald of the joy to be,<br /> +The battle-torch of thee and me!<br /> + And he that +will, etc.</p> +<p class="poetry">Take yet another cup in hand<br /> +And drink in hope our little band;<br /> +Drink strife in hope while lasteth breath,<br /> +And brotherhood in life and death;<br /> + And he that +will, etc.</p> +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHANTS FOR SOCIALISTS***</p> +<pre> + + +***** This file should be named 3170-h.htm or 3170-h.zip****** + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/1/7/3170 + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will +be renamed. + +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United +States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN ETEXTS*Ver.12.12.00*END* + + + + + +This etext was produced from the 1915 Longmans, Green and Company edition +by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk + + + + + +CHANTS FOR SOCIALISTS + +by William Morris + + + + +Contents: + +Chants for Socialists + The Day is Coming + The Voice of Toil + No Master + All for the Cause + The March of the Workers + Down Among the Dead Men +A Death Song +May Day [1892] +May Day, 1894 +The Message of the March Wind + + + +THE DAY IS COMING + + + +Come hither, lads, and hearken, for a tale there is to tell, +Of the wonderful days a-coming, when all shall be better than well. + +And the tale shall be told of a country, a land in the midst of the sea, +And folk shall call it England in the days that are going to be. + +There more than one in a thousand in the days that are yet to come +Shall have some hope of the morrow, some joy of the ancient home. + +For then--laugh not, but listen to this strange tale of mine - +All folk that are in England shall be better lodged than swine. + +Then a man shall work and bethink him, and rejoice in the deeds of his +hand, +Nor yet come home in the even too faint and weary to stand. + +Men in that time a-coming shall work and have no fear +For to-morrow's lack of earning and the hunger-wolf anear. + +I tell you this for a wonder, that no man then shall be glad +Of his fellow's fall and mishap to snatch at the work he had. + +For that which the worker winneth shall then be his indeed, +Nor shall half be reaped for nothing by him that sowed no seed. + +O strange new wonderful justice! But for whom shall we gather the gain? +For ourselves and for each of our fellows, and no hand shall labour in +vain. + +Then all Mine and all Thine shall be Ours, and no more shall any man +crave +For riches that serve for nothing but to fetter a friend for a slave. + +And what wealth then shall be left us when none shall gather gold +To buy his friend in the market, and pinch and pine the sold? + +Nay, what save the lovely city, and the little house on the hill, +And the wastes and the woodland beauty, and the happy fields we till; + +And the homes of ancient stories, the tombs of the mighty dead; +And the wise men seeking out marvels, and the poet's teeming head; + +And the painter's hand of wonder; and the marvellous fiddle-bow, +And the banded choirs of music: all those that do and know. + +For all these shall be ours and all men's, nor shall any lack a share +Of the toil and the gain of living in the days when the world grows fair. + + +Ah! such are the days that shall be! But what are the deeds of to-day, +In the days of the years we dwell in, that wear our lives away? + +Why, then, and for what are we waiting? There are three words to speak: +WE WILL IT, and what is the foeman but the dream-strong wakened and weak? + +O why and for what are we waiting? While our brothers droop and die, +And on every wind of the heavens a wasted life goes by. + +How long shall they reproach us where crowd on crowd they dwell, +Poor ghosts of the wicked city, the gold-crushed hungry hell? + +Through squalid life they laboured, in sordid grief they died, +Those sons of a mighty mother, those props of England's pride. + +They are gone; there is none can undo it, nor save our souls from the +curse; +But many a million cometh, and shall they be better or worse? + +It is we must answer and hasten, and open wide the door +For the rich man's hurrying terror, and the slow-foot hope of the poor. + +Yea, the voiceless wrath of the wretched, and their unlearned discontent, +We must give it voice and wisdom till the waiting-tide be spent. + +Come, then, since all things call us, the living and the dead, +And o'er the weltering tangle a glimmering light is shed. + + +Come, then, let us cast off fooling, and put by ease and rest, +For the CAUSE alone is worthy till the good days bring the best. + +Come, join in the only battle wherein no man can fail, +Where whoso fadeth and dieth, yet his deed shall still prevail. + +Ah! come, cast off all fooling, for this, at least, we know: +That the Dawn and the Day is coming, and forth the Banners go. + + + +THE VOICE OF TOIL + + + +I heard men saying, Leave hope and praying, + All days shall be as all have been; +To-day and to-morrow bring fear and sorrow, + The never-ending toil between. + +When Earth was younger mid toil and hunger, + In hope we strove, and our hands were strong; +Then great men led us, with words they fed us, + And bade us right the earthly wrong. + +Go read in story their deeds and glory, + Their names amidst the nameless dead; +Turn then from lying to us slow-dying + In that good world to which they led; + +Where fast and faster our iron master, + The thing we made, for ever drives, +Bids us grind treasure and fashion pleasure + For other hopes and other lives. + +Where home is a hovel and dull we grovel, + Forgetting that the world is fair; +Where no babe we cherish, lest its very soul perish; + Where our mirth is crime, our love a snare. + +Who now shall lead us, what god shall heed us + As we lie in the hell our hands have won? +For us are no rulers but fools and befoolers, + The great are fallen, the wise men gone. + + +I heard men saying, Leave tears and praying, + The sharp knife heedeth not the sheep; +Are we not stronger than the rich and the wronger, + When day breaks over dreams and sleep? + +Come, shoulder to shoulder ere the world grows older! + Help lies in nought but thee and me; +Hope is before us, the long years that bore us + Bore leaders more than men may be. + +Let dead hearts tarry and trade and marry, + And trembling nurse their dreams of mirth, +While we the living our lives are giving + To bring the bright new world to birth. + +Come, shoulder to shoulder ere earth grows older + The Cause spreads over land and sea; +Now the world shaketh, and fear awaketh + And joy at last for thee and me. + + + +NO MASTER + + + +Saith man to man, We've heard and known + That we no master need +To live upon this earth, our own, + In fair and manly deed. +The grief of slaves long passed away + For us hath forged the chain, +Till now each worker's patient day + Builds up the House of Pain. + +And we, shall we too, crouch and quail, + Ashamed, afraid of strife, +And lest our lives untimely fail + Embrace the Death in Life? +Nay, cry aloud, and have no fear, + We few against the world; +Awake, arise! the hope we bear + Against the curse is hurled. + +It grows and grows--are we the same, + The feeble band, the few? +Or what are these with eyes aflame, + And hands to deal and do? +This is the host that bears the word, + No MASTER HIGH OR LOW - +A lightning flame, a shearing sword, + A storm to overthrow. + + + +ALL FOR THE CAUSE + + + +Hear a word, a word in season, for the day is drawing nigh, +When the Cause shall call upon us, some to live, and some to die! + +He that dies shall not die lonely, many an one hath gone before; +He that lives shall bear no burden heavier than the life they bore. + +Nothing ancient is their story, e'en but yesterday they bled, +Youngest they of earth's beloved, last of all the valiant dead. + +E'en the tidings we are telling was the tale they had to tell, +E'en the hope that our hearts cherish, was the hope for which they fell. + +In the grave where tyrants thrust them, lies their labour and their pain, +But undying from their sorrow springeth up the hope again. + +Mourn not therefore, nor lament it, that the world outlives their life; +Voice and vision yet they give us, making strong our hands for strife. + +Some had name, and fame, and honour, learn'd they were, and wise and +strong; +Some were nameless, poor, unlettered, weak in all but grief and wrong. + +Named and nameless all live in us; one and all they lead us yet +Every pain to count for nothing, every sorrow to forget. + +Hearken how they cry, "O happy, happy ye that ye were born +In the sad slow night's departing, in the rising of the morn. + +"Fair the crown the Cause hath for you, well to die or well to live +Through the battle, through the tangle, peace to gain or peace to give." + +Ah, it may be! Oft meseemeth, in the days that yet shall be, +When no slave of gold abideth 'twixt the breadth of sea to sea, + +Oft, when men and maids are merry, ere the sunlight leaves the earth, +And they bless the day beloved, all too short for all their mirth, + +Some shall pause awhile and ponder on the bitter days of old, +Ere the toil of strife and battle overthrew the curse of gold; + +Then 'twixt lips of loved and lover solemn thoughts of us shall rise; +We who once were fools and dreamers, then shall be the brave and wise. + +There amidst the world new-builded shall our earthly deeds abide, +Though our names be all forgotten, and the tale of how we died. + +Life or death then, who shall heed it, what we gain or what we lose? +Fair flies life amid the struggle, and the Cause for each shall choose. + +Hear a word, a word in season, for the day is drawing nigh, +When the Cause shall call upon us, some to live, and some to die! + + + +THE MARCH OF THE WORKERS + + + +What is this, the sound and rumour? What is this that all men hear, +Like the wind in hollow valleys when the storm is drawing near, +Like the rolling on of ocean in the eventide of fear? + 'Tis the people marching on. + +Whither go they, and whence come they? What are these of whom ye tell? +In what country are they dwelling 'twixt the gates of heaven and hell? +Are they mine or thine for money? Will they serve a master well? + Still the rumour's marching on. + + Hark the rolling of the thunder! + Lo the sun! and lo thereunder + Riseth wrath, and hope, and wonder, + And the host comes marching on. + +Forth they come from grief and torment; on they wend toward health and +mirth, +All the wide world is their dwelling, every corner of the earth. +Buy them, sell them for thy service! Try the bargain what 'tis worth, + For the days are marching on. + +These are they who build thy houses, weave thy raiment, win thy wheat, +Smooth the rugged, fill the barren, turn the bitter into sweet, +All for thee this day--and ever. What reward for them is meet + Till the host comes marching on? + + Hark the rolling of the thunder! + Lo the sun! and lo thereunder + Riseth wrath, and hope, and wonder, + And the host comes marching on. + +Many a hundred years passed over have they laboured deaf and blind; +Never tidings reached their sorrow, never hope their toil might find. +Now at last they've heard and hear it, and the cry comes down the wind, + And their feet are marching on. + +O ye rich men hear and tremble! for with words the sound is rife: +"Once for you and death we laboured; changed henceforward is the strife. +We are men, and we shall battle for the world of men and life; + And our host is marching on." + + Hark the rolling of the thunder! + Lo the sun! and lo thereunder + Riseth wrath, and hope, and wonder, + And the host comes marching on. + +"Is it war, then? Will ye perish as the dry wood in the fire? +Is it peace? Then be ye of us, let your hope be our desire. +Come and live! for life awaketh, and the world shall never tire; + And hope is marching on. + +"On we march then, we the workers, and the rumour that ye hear +Is the blended sound of battle and deliv'rance drawing near; +For the hope of every creature is the banner that we bear, + And the world is marching on." + + Hark the rolling of the thunder! + Lo the sun! and lo thereunder + Riseth wrath, and hope, and wonder, + And the host comes marching on. + + + +DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN + + + +Come, comrades, come, your glasses clink; +Up with your hands a health to drink, +The health of all that workers be, +In every land, on every sea. + And he that will this health deny, + Down among the dead men, down among the dead men, + Down, down, down, down, + Down among the dead men let him lie! + +Well done! now drink another toast, +And pledge the gath'ring of the host, +The people armed in brain and hand, +To claim their rights in every land. + And he that will this health deny, + Down among the dead men, down among the dead men, + Down, down, down, down, + Down among the dead men let him lie! + +There's liquor left; come, let's be kind, +And drink the rich a better mind, +That when we knock upon the door, +They may be off and say no more. + And he that will this health deny, + Down among the dead men, down among the dead men, + Down, down, down, down, + Down among the dead men let him lie! + +Now, comrades, let the glass blush red, +Drink we the unforgotten dead +That did their deeds and went away, +Before the bright sun brought the day. + And he that will this health deny, + Down among the dead men, down among the dead men, + Down, down, down, down, + Down among the dead men let him lie! + +The Day? Ah, friends, late grows the night; +Drink to the glimmering spark of light, +The herald of the joy to be, +The battle-torch of thee and me! + And he that will this health deny, + Down among the dead men, down among the dead men, + Down, down, down, down, + Down among the dead men let him lie! + +Take yet another cup in hand +And drink in hope our little band; +Drink strife in hope while lasteth breath, +And brotherhood in life and death; + And he that will this health deny, + Down among the dead men, down among the dead men, + Down, down, down, down, + Down among the dead men let him lie! + + + +A DEATH SONG + + + +What cometh here from west to east awending? +And who are these, the marchers stern and slow? +We bear the message that the rich are sending +Aback to those who bade them wake and know. +Not one, not one, nor thousands must they slay, +But one and all if they would dusk the day. + +We asked them for a life of toilsome earning, +They bade us bide their leisure for our bread; +We craved to speak to tell our woeful learning: +We come back speechless, bearing back our dead. +Not one, not one, nor thousands must they slay, +But one and all if they would dusk the day. + +They will not learn; they have no ears to hearken. +They turn their faces from the eyes of fate; +Their gay-lit halls shut out the skies that darken. +But, lo! this dead man knocking at the gate. +Not one, not one, nor thousands must they slay, +But one and all if they would dusk the day. + +Here lies the sign that we shall break our prison; +Amidst the storm he won a prisoner's rest; +But in the cloudy dawn the sun arisen +Brings us our day of work to win the best. +Not one, not one, nor thousands must they slay, +But one and all if they would dusk the day. + + + +MAY DAY [1892] + + + +THE WORKERS. + +O Earth, once again cometh Spring to deliver + Thy winter-worn heart, O thou friend of the Sun; +Fair blossom the meadows from river to river + And the birds sing their triumph o'er winter undone. + +O Earth, how a-toiling thou singest thy labour + And upholdest the flower-crowned cup of thy bliss, +As when in the feast-tide drinks neighbour to neighbour + And all words are gleeful, and nought is amiss. + +But we, we, O Mother, through long generations, + We have toiled and been fruitful, but never with thee +Might we raise up our bowed heads and cry to the nations + To look on our beauty, and hearken our glee. + +Unlovely of aspect, heart-sick and a-weary + On the season's fair pageant all dim-eyed we gaze; +Of thy fairness we fashion a prison-house dreary + And in sorrow wear over each day of our days. + +THE EARTH. + +O children! O toilers, what foemen beleaguer + The House I have built you, the Home I have won? +Full great are my gifts, and my hands are all eager + To fill every heart with the deeds I have done. + +THE WORKERS. + +The foemen are born of thy body, O Mother, + In our shape are they shapen, their voice is the same; +And the thought of their hearts is as ours and no other; + It is they of our own house that bring us to shame. + +THE EARTH. + +Are ye few? Are they many? What words have ye spoken + To bid your own brethren remember the Earth? +What deeds have ye done that the bonds should be broken, + And men dwell together in good-will and mirth? + +THE WORKERS. + +They are few, we are many: and yet, O our Mother, + Many years were we wordless and nought was our deed, +But now the word flitteth from brother to brother: + We have furrowed the acres and scattered the seed. + +THE EARTH. + +Win on then unyielding, through fair and foul weather, + And pass not a day that your deed shall avail. +And in hope every spring-tide come gather together + That unto the Earth ye may tell all your tale. + +Then this shall I promise, that I am abiding + The day of your triumph, the ending of gloom, +And no wealth that ye will then my hand shall be hiding + And the tears of the spring into roses shall bloom. + + + +MAY DAY, 1894 + + + +Clad is the year in all her best, + The land is sweet and sheen; +Now Spring with Summer at her breast, + Goes down the meadows green. + +Here are we met to welcome in + The young abounding year, +To praise what she would have us win + Ere winter draweth near. + +For surely all is not in vain, + This gallant show she brings; +But seal of hope and sign of gain, + Beareth this Spring of springs. + +No longer now the seasons wear + Dull, without any tale +Of how the chain the toilers bear + Is growing thin and frail. + +But hope of plenty and goodwill + Flies forth from land to land, +Nor any now the voice can still + That crieth on the hand. + +A little while shall Spring come back + And find the Ancient Home +Yet marred by foolish waste and lack, + And most enthralled by some. + +A little while, and then at last + Shall the greetings of the year +Be blent with wonder of the past + And all the griefs that were. + +A little while, and they that meet + The living year to praise, +Shall be to them as music sweet + That grief of bye-gone days. + +So be we merry to our best, + Now the land is sweet and sheen, +And Spring with Summer at her breast + Goes down the meadows green. + + + + +THE MESSAGE OF THE MARCH WIND {1} + + + +Fair now is the springtide, now earth lies beholding + With the eyes of a lover the face of the sun; +Long lasteth the daylight, and hope is enfolding + The green-growing acres with increase begun. + +Now sweet, sweet it is through the land to be straying + Mid the birds and the blossoms and the beasts of the field; +Love mingles with love, and no evil is weighing + On thy heart or mine, where all sorrow is healed. + +From township to township, o'er down and by tillage + Far, far have we wandered and long was the day, +But now cometh eve at the end of the village, + Where over the grey wall the church riseth grey. + +There is wind in the twilight; in the white road before us + The straw from the ox-yard is blowing about; +The moon's rim is rising, a star glitters o'er us, + And the vane on the spire-top is swinging in doubt. + +Down there dips the highway, toward the bridge crossing over + The brook that runs on to the Thames and the sea. +Draw closer, my sweet, we are lover and lover; + This eve art thou given to gladness and me. + +Shall we be glad always? Come closer and hearken: + Three fields further on, as they told me down there, +When the young moon has set, if the March sky should darken, + We might see from the hill-top the great city's glare. + +Hark, the wind in the elm-boughs! From London it bloweth, + And telling of gold, and of hope and unrest; +Of power that helps not; of wisdom that knoweth, + But teacheth not aught of the worst and the best. + +Of the rich men it telleth, and strange is the story + How they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; +And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory + Has been but a burden they scarce might abide. + +Hark! the March wind again of a people is telling; + Of the life that they live there, so haggard and grim, +That if we and our love amidst them had been dwelling + My fondness had faltered, thy beauty grown dim. + +This land we have loved in our love and our leisure + For them hangs in heaven, high out of their reach; +The wide hills o'er the sea-plain for them have no pleasure, + The grey homes of their fathers no story to teach. + +The singers have sung and the builders have builded, + The painters have fashioned their tales of delight; +For what and for whom hath the world's book been gilded, + When all is for these but the blackness of night? + +How long and for what is their patience abiding? + How oft and how oft shall their story be told, +While the hope that none seeketh in darkness is hiding + And in grief and in sorrow the world groweth old? + + +Come back to the inn, love, and the lights and the fire, + And the fiddler's old tune and the shuffling of feet; +For there in a while shall be rest and desire, + And there shall the morrow's uprising be sweet. + +Yet, love, as we wend the wind bloweth behind us + And beareth the last tale it telleth to-night, +How here in the spring-tide the message shall find us; + For the hope that none seeketh is coming to light. + +Like the seed of midwinter, unheeded, unperished, + Like the autumn-sown wheat 'neath the snow lying green, +Like the love that o'ertook us, unawares and uncherished, + Like the babe 'neath thy girdle that groweth unseen, + +So the hope of the people now buddeth and groweth - + Rest fadeth before it, and blindness and fear; +It biddeth us learn all the wisdom it knoweth; + It hath found us and held us, and biddeth us hear: + +For it beareth the message: "Rise up on the morrow + And go on your ways toward the doubt and the strife; +Join hope to our hope and blend sorrow with sorrow, + And seek for men's love in the short days of life." + +But lo, the old inn, and the lights and the fire, + And the fiddler's old tune and the shuffling of feet; +Soon for us shall be quiet and rest and desire, + And to-morrow's uprising to deeds shall be sweet. + + + +Footnotes + +{1} After consulting various sources it is not clear as to whether "The +Message of the March Wind" was originally published with "Chants for +Socialists". Chants for Socialists consists of poems that Morris wrote +for various occasions and which were collected together and published by +the Socialist League in 1885. If any reader has access to the original +Chants I (David Price) would be very glad if you could clear up the +uncertainty on the exact contents.--David Price + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg Etext Chants for Socialists, by William Morris + diff --git a/old/chnts10.zip b/old/chnts10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..2af7eb3 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/chnts10.zip |
