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Show Ever Upward IT is not enough to win rights from a king, and write them down in a book, New men, new lights, and the code of the fathers the sons may never brook, What is liberty now were license then; their freedom our yoke would be, And each new decade must have new men to determine its liberty. Mankind is a marching army with broadening front the while, Shall it crowd its bulk on the worn paths or clear to the outward file? Its pioneers are those dreamers who heed neither tongue nor pen, Of the human spiders whose silk is wove from the lives of toiling ! men. John Boyle O'Reilly on Wendell Phillips. |