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POEMS
TO THE CONTINENTAL SOCIALISTS
FEBRUARY 1906
We who have but begun,
We who as yet are few,
Send out our hearts to you
Whose cause and ours is one,
Who long have dauntless stood
And witnessed with your blood
The Holy Brotherhood
Of all beneath the sun.
Almost we were as these
With eyes but seeing not,
Well fed or ill, who rot
In poverty or ease;
Till on our ears swift-smiting
There came for our souls’ lighting
A rumour of men fighting
Across the narrow seas.
As far fleets we did mark
Your columns in the battle,
And your clamour, as the rattle
Of cannon through the dark,
From out your dim coasts welling,
Came faint but ever swelling,
And, as a breath compelling,
Revived the faded spark.
