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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ROADS OF MEN, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER
First Line: The roads that men have made wind everywhere
Last Line: A shining lane to join all souls to god!
Subject(s): Men; Roads; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Paths; Trails
First Line: The roads that men have made wind everywhere
Last Line: A shining lane to join all souls to god!
Subject(s): Men; Roads; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Paths; Trails
The roads that men have made wind everywhere
Through plain and desert, linking hill to hill;
Torture aisles where cities tread the mill,
Under the birdmen's lanes in upper air;
Paths through the sea; the ruddy uncompare
Statesmen have carved for armies driven to kill;
Bridle paths, and motor; rails for shrill
Horses of iron; roads to Vanity Fair.
What of the ineradicable road
Men have broken across the heart of man?
Bread-lines, and the string of slave and clod?
A Via Dolorosa under load
Of unearned crosses? Build but one more span,
A shining lane to join all souls to God!
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