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Echoes
from Vagabondia
by
Bliss Carman
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TRIUMPHALIS
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SOUL,
art thou sad again
With the old sadness?
Thou shalt be glad again
With a new gladness,
When April sun and rain
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Mount
to the teeming brain
With the earth madness.
When from the mould again,
Spurning disaster,
Spring shoots unfold again,
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Follow
thou faster
Out of the drear domain
Of dark, defeat, and pain,
Praising the Master.
Light for thy guide again,
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Ample
and splendid;
Love at thy side again,
All doubting ended;
(Ah, by the dragon slain,
For nothing small or vain
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| Michael
contended!)
Thou shalt take heart again,
No more despairing;
Play thy great part again,
Loving and caring.
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Hark
how the gold refrain
Runs through the iron strain,
Splendidly daring!
Thou shalt grow strong again,
Confident, tender,—
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Battle
with wrong again,
Be truth’s defender,—
Of the immortal train,
Born to attempt, attain,
Never surrender!
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