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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Helen Gray Cone (1859–1934)

To-day

VOICE, with what emulous fire thou singest free hearts of old fashion,

English scorners of Spain sweeping the blue sea-way:

Sing me the daring of life for life, the magnanimous passion

Of man for man in the mean populous streets of To-day!

Hand, with what color and power thou couldst show in the ring hot-sanded,

Brown Bestiarius holding the lean, tawn tiger at bay:

Paint me the wrestle of Toil with the wild-beast Want, bare-handed!

Shadow me forth a soul steadily facing To-day!

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