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The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood; For it will bring again to Earth Her long-lost Poesy and Mirth; Will send new light on every face, A kingly power upon the race, And till it comes, we men are slaves, And travel downward to the dust of graves. Come clear the way, then, clear the way; Blind creeds and kings have had their day, Our hope is in the aftermath— Our hope is in heroic men, Star-led to build the world again. To this event the ages ran; Make way for Brotherhood—make way for Man.
The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood; For it will bring again to Earth Her long-lost Poesy and Mirth; Will send new light on every face, A kingly power upon the race, And till it comes, we men are slaves, And travel downward to the dust of graves. Come clear the way, then, clear the way; Blind creeds and kings have had their day, Our hope is in the aftermath— Our hope is in heroic men, Star-led to build the world again. To this event the ages ran; Make way for Brotherhood—make way for Man.
In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- Edwin Markham
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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 12; printed byline: Edwin Markham; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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