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Song Of The Undismayed

  • Author: Barley, Berton
  • Editor: B-7413
  • Newspaper: The Umpire volume 5
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  • Date: 4 26 1916
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  • poetry

SONG OF THE UNDISMAYED By Berton Barley Life, you have harried and hurt and scourged me Mocked me cruelly through the years. Under a burden of woe submerged me Sought to fright me with pain and tears. Fortune and glory me—and took away Yet, for all of the years you've tried me, Dauntless I sing to the world today. For out of the wreck of a vanished passion Out of the failure, the doubt, the pain, Out of the sorrow and death I'll fashion Many a song in a fearless strain, And the songs I make shall have no savor Of useless longing or vain regret, Aud I shall carol to make men braver For every trial that must be me? Failure, defeat, despair—I know them But still I challenge then, unafraid, And men shall overthrow them Perchance before of a song I've made; Life, through my peace and my joy be taken Through all my visions and dreams go by, I'll lift my voice in a tone unshaken And keep on singing until I die!