The Soul Of A Century/Man now says:
MAN NOW SAYS:
Like pacing lions we strike at the bars,
Like lions in a cage.
We would rise up to the heaven’s heights,
But are held by the Earth in helpless rage.
We seem to hear a voice from the stars;
“Come higher, away from your toil.
Come closer, conceited, arrogant men
Held by the bonds of your soil.”
We’ll come! Mother Earth, you are so small,
Forgive us if ungrateful we seem.
We chain our thoughts to the lightning above,
Our feet speed with the power of steam.
We’ll come! Our spirits higher soar,
Our blood beats with an unquenched thirst;
With a feverish longing for far off worlds,
Tis a wonder our hearts do not burst.
We will come nearer, higher still . . .
To the ends of the world we shall see.
We strike at our bars, we, the lions at heart,
We’ll shatter the bars and be free.
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) between 1929 and 1977 (inclusive) without a copyright notice. The longest-living author of this work died in 1987, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 36 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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