Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-05 | Page 7 | The Battle Cry

oo THE BATTLE CRY. (By John G. Neihardt.) "Mother Jones," of Colorado strike fame, is entitled to the credit cred-it of having brought the following poem into public notice. It was into given to her by its author, one of the miners in strike, torn Colorado. Col-orado. It has been set to music and included in the hymnology of the Labor Unions. It is read poetry and deserves a permanent place alongside Henley's Hen-ley's "Invictus" of which it is suggestive. More than half-beaten, but fearless, Facing the storm and the night; Breathless and reeling, but tearless. tear-less. Here in the lull of the fight, I who bow not but before Thee, God of the fighting clan Lifting my fists, I implore Thee, Give me the heart of a mau. Tvliat tho' I live with the winners, Or perish with those who fall; Only the cowards are sincrs, Fighting the fight is all; Strong is the foe, he advances ; Snapped is my blade, O Lord; Sec the proud banners and lauces O, spare me' this stub of a sword. i Give me no pity nor spare me. Calm not the wrath of my foe ; See where he beckons to dare me Bleeding, half-beaten I go. Not for the glory of winning, Not for the fear of the night ; Shunning the battle is sinning, O, spare me the heart to fight. Red is the mist about me, Deep is the wound in my side; Coward, thou crist to flout me, Terrible foe, thou hast lied. Here with my battle before me, God of thefighting clan; Grant that the woman who bore mo Suffered to suckle a man.