Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, YOUTH, by CLYDE MCGEE


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YOUTH, by                    
First Line: Not theirs to question or to hesitate
Last Line: Gird thou our sinews and our souls to go!
Subject(s): Churches; God; Religion; Youth; Cathedrals; Theology


Not theirs to question or to hesitate
When once they hear the challenge and the call!
Not theirs the doubting mood that like a pall
Lies on our hearts; they ponder not their fate,
Nor are they wise like us to speculate
Of loss or gain. Like flame upleaping they
Their answer make, and laughing are away—
To far off things their lives are dedicate.

And we, O God, may we no longer dare
To follow waving banners of a dream?
May we not still their questing spirit share
In high adventure, following the gleam?

O God of Youth, when Thy far bugles blow,
Gird Thou our sinews and our souls to go!





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