FREEDOM:

A JOURNAL OF ANARCHIST COMMUNISM

London, England

July 1908

(page 50)

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This collection of poems is not of special interest from an Anarchist point of view, but they indicate a marked and promising possession of poetical feeling by the author. There is more than ordinary merit in “The Garden of Youth,” “The Swan Song,” “An Agnostic View,” and some others that might be mentioned. The best amongst all however, to our mind, is Carmen “Triumphans,” written to commemorate the Freethought Congress in Rome in 1904. We quote the concluding lines as having the true poetic ring:—

“Flash out O Sun widely upon the morn!

Let our wild shouts be echoed in the wide!

Let priests and gods be scorched in the world's scorn,

Or sink all useless, in the flowing tide!

Tomorrow! Ah, tomorrow we will ride

Adown the forward path and eager fling

Laurels to dreamers of the Dawn, who died

To give us this new Life, this nobler Spring.

Forward in joy we ride; the reign of Man we sing!”