The Future Verdict

How will our unborn children scoff at us

In the good years to come,

The happier years to come,

Because, like driven sheep, we yielded thus,

Before the shearers dumb.

What are the words their wiser lips will say?

“These men had gained the light;

“These women knew the right;

“They had their chance, and let it slip away.

“They did not, when they might.

“They were the first to hear the gospel preached,

“And to believe therein;

“Yet they remained in sin.

“They saw the promised land they might have reached,

“And dared not enter in.

“They might have won their freedom, had they tried;

“No savage laws forbade;

“For them the way was made.

“They might have had the joys for which they cried

“And yet they shrank, afraid.

“Afraid to face-the martyr’s rack and flame?

“The traitor’s dungeon? Nay-

“Of what their world would say-

“The smile, the joke, the thinnest ghost of blame!

“Lord! Lord! What fools were they!”

And we-no longer actors of the stage

We cumber now-maybe

With other eyes shall see

This wasted chance, and with celestial rage

Cry “O what fools were we!”

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• Константин Батюшков – Мадригал Мелине, которая называла себя нимфою by Константин Батюшков
• Константин Батюшков – Любовь в челноке by Константин Батюшков
• Константин Бальмонт – Народные поверья by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Нам нравятся поэты by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Надгробные цветы by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Над морем by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – На вершине by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – На мотив псалма XVIII-гo by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – На мотив экклезиаста by Константин Бальмонт
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• Константин Бальмонт – Мы шли в золотистом тумане by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Мы прячем, душим тонкой сетью лжи by Константин Бальмонт
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• Константин Бальмонт – Можно жить с закрытыми глазами by Константин Бальмонт
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• Константин Бальмонт – Морская песня by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Морская пани by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Морозные узоры by Константин Бальмонт

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