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ALL FOR THE CAUSE

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 8, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 10.

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ALL FOR THE CAUSE.

By William Morris

BY WILLIAM MORRIS.
Hear a word, a word in season, for the day is drawing nigh When the cause shall call upon us, some to live, and some to die.
He that dies shall not die lonely; many a one hath gone before; He that lives shall bear no burden heavier than the life they bore.
Nothing ancient is their story; e'en but yesterday they bled; Youngest they of earth's beloved, last of all the valiant dead.
E'en the tidings we are telling was the tale they had to tell; E'en the hope that our hearts cherish was the hope for which they fell.
In the grave where tyrants thrust them lie their labor and their pain, But undying from their sorrow springeth up the hope again.
Mourn not, therefore, nor lament it that the world outlives their life; Voice and vision yet they give us, making strong our hands for strife.
—The Age.