<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384607" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Coming Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, not for the great departed,<br>Who formed our country's laws,<br>And not for the bravest-hearted<br>Who died in freedom's cause,<br>And not for some living hero<br>To whom all bend the knee,<br>My muse would raise her song of praise-<br>But for the man to be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For out of the strife which woman<br>Is passing through to-day,<br>A man that is more than human<br>Shall yet be born, I say.<br>A man in whose pure spirit<br>No dross of self will lurk;<br>A man who is strong to cope with wrong,<br>A man who is proud to work.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A man with hope undaunted,<br>A man with godlike power,<br>Shall come when he most is wanted,<br>Shall come at the needed hour.<br>He shall silence the din and clamor<br>Of clan disputing with clan,<br>And toil's long fight with purse-proud might<br>Shall triumph through this man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know he is coming, coming,<br>To help, to guide, to save.<br>Though I hear no martial drumming,<br>And see no flags that wave.<br>But the great soul travail of woman,<br>And the bold free thought unfurled,<br>Are heralds that say he is on the way-<br>The coming man of the world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mourn not for vanished ages<br>With their great heroic men,<br>Who dwell in history's pages<br>And live in the poet's pen.<br>For the grandest times are before us,<br>And the world is yet to see<br>The noblest worth of this old earth<br>In the men that are to be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</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=384607" data-title="The Coming Man de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="Oh, not for the great departed, Who formed our country's laws, And not for the bravest-hearted Who died in freedom's cause, And not for some living hero To whom all bend the knee, My muse would raise her song of praise- But for the man to be. For..."></div> </div> </div>

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