Turn Back, O Man
VERSE 1
Turn
back, O man, forswear thy foolish ways.
Old now
is earth, and none may count her days.
Yet
thou, her child, whose head is crowned with flame,
Still
wilt not hear thine inner God proclaim,
“Turn
back, O man, forswear thy foolish ways.”
VERSE 2
Earth
might be fair, and all men glad and wise.
Age
after age their tragic empires rise,
Built
while they dream, and in that dreaming weep:
Would
man but wake from out his haunted sleep,
Earth
might be fair and all men glad and wise.
VERSE 3
Earth
shall be fair, and all her people one:
Nor till
that hour shall God’s whole will be done.
Now,
even now, once more from earth to sky,
Peals
forth in joy man’s old undaunted cry—
“Earth
shall be fair, and all her folk be one!”
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