Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.
Charles Mackay 181489What Might Be Done
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What glorious deeds, my suffering brother,
Would they unite
In love and right,
And cease their scorn of one another?
With kindling drops of loving-kindness,
And knowledge pour,
From shore to shore,
Light on the eyes of mental blindness.
All vice and crime, might die together;
And wine and corn,
To each man born,
Be free as warmth in summer weather.
The deepest sunk in guilt and sorrow,
Might stand erect
In self-respect,
And share the teeming world to-morrow.
And more than this, my suffering brother—
More than the tongue
E’er said or sung,
If men were wise and lov’d each other.