Social Commentaries
To Reformers in Despair
From General William Booth Enters into Heaven, and Other Poems (1913)
Social Commentaries
'Tis not too late to build our young land right,
Cleaner than Holland, courtlier than Japan,
Devout like early Rome, with hearths like hers,
Hearths that will recreate the breed called man.
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Lindsay, Vachel. “To Reformers in Despair.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lindsay/26/.
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Lindsay, Vachel. “To Reformers in Despair.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lindsay/26/.
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