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O Singer of today, this glorious hour Is all for you and me—what shall it give To us, and ask of fate—what splendid power In brain and hand, what glorious right to live Among our fellows and to war with sin? What quickening of the pulse as we aspire To claim our right, and risk earth's joys to win, To conquer self, and force it through the fire! Give us this force, dear God, and evermore Give us a deepening love of all our fellowmen; Give us new insight—courage to explore With all the tenderness of human ken The lowliest heart that beats in human kind, Its glory and its soul to seek and find!
O Singer of today, this glorious hour Is all for you and me—what shall it give To us, and ask of fate—what splendid power In brain and hand, what glorious right to live Among our fellows and to war with sin? What quickening of the pulse as we aspire To claim our right, and risk earth's joys to win, To conquer self, and force it through the fire! Give us this force, dear God, and evermore Give us a deepening love of all our fellowmen; Give us new insight—courage to explore With all the tenderness of human ken The lowliest heart that beats in human kind, Its glory and its soul to seek and find!
In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- William Ordway Partridge
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- In print by 1911 AD · modern
In print by 1911: recorded in The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 16; printed byline: William Ordway Partridge; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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