Page:The Man with the Hoe, Markham, 1900.djvu/44

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The Poet

He presses on before the race,
And sings out of a silent place.
Like faint notes of a forest bird
On heights afar that voice is heard;
And the dim path he breaks to-day
Will some time be a trodden way.


But when the race comes toiling on
That voice of wonder will be gone—
Be heard on higher peaks afar,
Moved upward with the morning star.


O men of earth, that wandering voice
Still goes the upward way: rejoice!

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