Out of the soil and the slime,
Reeking, they climb,
Out of the muck and the mire,
Rank, they aspire;
Filthy with murder and mud,
Black with shed blood,
Lust and passion and clay-
Dying, they slay;
Stirred by vague hints of a goal,
Seeking a soul!
Groping through terror and night
Up to the light:
Life in the dust and the clod
Sensing a God;
Flushed of the glamor and gleam
Caught from a dream;
Stained of the struggle and toil,
Stained of the soil,
Ally of God in the end-
Helper and friend-
Hero and prophet and priest
Out of the beast!
A Song Of Men
Don Marquis
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Poem topics: dream, friend, hero, life, light, lust, murder, night, passion, beast, soul, goal, prophet, struggle, black, dust, god, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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