Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, VICARIOUS, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL


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VICARIOUS, by                    
First Line: The price? Youth laughs and life is very good
Last Line: Demand of you, our great one, that you make good.
Subject(s): Youth


The price? Youth laughs and life is very good—
World-dreams and beckoning; what has been, may be done;
And work, and work, and work, and greatly won
And fine, man's great achievements. Ah, but could
The wings out-spread to the vision's sweep, then would
Proud Time stand reverent, and the gladdened sun,
Rich in new quests, so tell them, every one.

Dreams! And the call for whom the call has stood
Arming and armed. The breaking way and dim;
Hewing a highway, making straight for him
Who rides to dreams, the conqueror faring on—
Daybreak, high noon, and eve at Babylon.

Here in the roadside's wash, your hewers of wood
Demand of you, our great one, that you make good.





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