CLEAR THE WAY by Charles Mackay

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 6, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 10.

“CLEAR THE WAY.”

By Charles Mackay

Men of thought! be up and stirring, Night and day; Sow the seed—withdraw the curtain— Clear the way! Men of action, aid and cheer them, As ye may! There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow, There's a midnight blackness changing Into gray; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way!

Once the welcome light has broken, Who shall say What the unimagined glories Of the day? What the evils that shall perish In its ray? Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men; Aid it, paper—aid it, type— Aid it, for the hour is ripe, And our earnest must not slacken Into play. Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way!

Lo! a cloud's about to vanish From the day; And the brazen wrong to crumble Into clay. Lo! the right's about to conquer, Clear the way! With the Right shall many more Enter smiling at the door; With the giant Wrong shall fall Many others, great and small, That for ages long have held us For their prey. Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way! —Charles Mackay.