<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=339798" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Future Verdict</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How will our unborn children scoff at us<br>In the good years to come,<br>The happier ears to come,<br>Because, like driven sheep, we yielded thus,<br>Before the shearers dumb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What are the words their wiser lips will say?<br>'These men had gained the light;<br>'These women knew the right;<br>'They had their chance, and let it slip away.<br>'They did not, when they might.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'They were the first to hear the gospel preached,<br>'And to believe therein;<br>'Yet they remained in sin.<br>'They saw the promised land they might have reached,<br>'And dared not enter in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'They might have won their freedom, had they tried;<br>'No savage laws forbade;<br>'For them the way was made.<br>'They might have had the joys for which they cried<br>'And yet they shrank, afraid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Afraid to face - the martyr's rack and flame?<br>'The traitor's dungeon? Nay -<br>'Of what their world would say -<br>'The smile, the joke, the thinnest ghost of blame!<br>'Lord! Lord! What fools were they!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we - no longer actors of the stage<br>We cumber now - maybe<br>With other eyes shall see<br>This wasted chance, and with celestial rage<br>Cry 'O what fools were we!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ada+Cambridge">Ada Cambridge</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=339798" data-title="The Future Verdict de Ada Cambridge" data-description="How will our unborn children scoff at us In the good years to come, The happier ears 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; 'T..."></div> </div> </div>

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