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Six songs of manhood
Song Cycle by Rutland Boughton (1878 - 1960)
1. The great grey mother
2. Sea grave
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3. Song of the labourer
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4. The Love of Comrades  [sung text not yet checked]
Come, I will make the continent indissoluble, I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon; I will make divine magnetic lands, With the love of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies, I will make inseparable cities with their arms about each other's necks, By the love of comrades, By the manly love of comrades. For you these, from me, O Democracy, to serve you, ma femme! For you! for you, I am trilling these songs, In the love of comrades, In the high-towering love of comrades.
Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "A song", appears in Leaves of Grass
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Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending the banner-poles. While, all alone, Watching the loophole's spark, Lie I, with life all dark, Feet tether'd, hands fetter'd Fast to the stone, The grim walls, square-letter'd With prison'd men's groan. Still strain the banner-poles Through the wind's song, Westward the banner rolls Over my wrong.
Authorship:
- by William Morris (1834 - 1896), "In Prison", first published 1858
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Confirmed with William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems, London: Bell and Daldy, 1858.
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6. Man and Men  [sung text not yet checked]
I Men the Angels eyed; And here they were wild waves, And there as marsh descried; Men the Angels eyed, And liked the picture best Where they were greenly dressed In brotherhood of graves. II Man the Angels marked: He led a host through murk, On fearful seas embarked; Man the Angels marked; To think without a nay, That he was good as they, And help him at his work. III Man and Angels, ye A sluggish fen shall drain, Shall quell a warring sea. Man and Angels, ye, Whom stain of strife befouls, A light to kindle souls Bear radiant in the stain.
Authorship:
- by George Meredith (1828 - 1909), "Men and Man", appears in Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life, first published 1887
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