Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: VI. Labor and Rest | | Corn-Law Hymn | | Ebenezer Elliott (1781–1849) |
| | | LORD! call thy pallid angel, | |
| The tamer of the strong! | |
| And bid him whip with want and woe | |
| The champions of the wrong! | |
| O, say not thou to ruin’s flood, | 5 |
| “Up, sluggard! why so slow?” | |
| But alone, let them groan, | |
| The lowest of the low; | |
| And basely beg the bread they curse, | |
| Where millions curse them now! | 10 |
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| No; wake not thou the giant | |
| Who drinks hot blood for wine; | |
| And shouts unto the east and west, | |
| In thunder-tones like thine; | |
| Till the slow to move rush all at once, | 15 |
| An avalanche of men, | |
| While he raves over waves | |
| That need no whirlwind then; | |
| Though slow to move, moved all at once, | |
| A sea, a sea of men! | 20 | | | |
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