Albert Durrani Watson
And faith beholds blue skies of freedom bending- Up, People ! Do your part.
Lift every voice for world-emancipation;
Give Wisdom, Love and Service fullest power ; Rouse, rouse, ye people to the consummation
Of this your dawning hour !
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��AFTER
FTER the storm a calm
That startles the blue to surprise,
And lustres the path
Where earth lies
All spent by the hurricane s wrath.
After the day of toil
The hush of the cool summer eve,
The purple-dyed west,
And the weave
Of beautiful things sun-caressed.
After the dark, the morn
Dims softly each radiant star,
Till the blush of its ray
Hides afar
In the heart of the conquering day.
After the fight is o er,
And the tumult of conflict is past,
From a whirlwind of dust
Shall a vast
Dawn break to an infinite trust.
And the war shall be nothing at last But a glistening tear, love-impearled, By sorrow and sacrifice left On the sunlit face of the world.
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