THE SUPPLIANT
THE SUPPLIANT
Long have I beat with timid hands upon life's leaden door,Praying the patient, futile prayer my fathers prayed before,Yet I remain without the close, unheeded and unheard,And never to my listening ear is borne the waited word.
Soft o'er the threshold of the years there comes this counsel cool:The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool!
55
