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THE GREAT AIM - ZaunköniG - 27.05.2007 THE GREAT AIM Earth beareth many pangs of guilt and wrong Hunger, and chains, and nakedness, all cry From out the ground to Him, whose searching eye Sees blood like slinking serpents steal along The dusty way, rank grass, and flowers among. His the dread voice —" Where is thy brother?" Why Sit we here weaving our common griefs to song, While that eternal call, forth bids us fly From self, and wake to human good? The near, The humble, it may be, yet —God-appointed! If greatly girded, cast aside thy fear In solemn trust, thou mission’d and anointed! Oh! glorious task! made free from petty strife, Thy Truth becomes an Act, — thy Aspiration —Life.! |