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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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