Excerpt from Morrow-Songs: 1880-1898

No thin Memnonian murmur, faintly heard At dawn or dusk with glad or plaintive strain, Here swells a chorus never still, a vast Millennial antiphon absolved from sound, Which thrills and thunders on the eye alone, The music of the world-wide life of man, Its hopes and fears and sins and sacrifices, Rapt adoration, faith by deeds confirmed, Jaw-dropt credulity, keen questioning, Death-scorning courage daunted by the dark, Love barred with hate, with grossness purity, Red-slipping war, the hammering hum of peace, Hand-clasping brotherhood and manliness, The joy of handiwork, whose rest is toil, The joy of breathing, moving, loving life.

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