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Seven Great Poems on the Glory of Man
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Seven Great Poems on the Glory of Man

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Aug 21, 2019
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Make Way for the Man

by Charles Eugene Banks

Let us have peace. No craven’s peace,

Nor sluggard’s to gape and dream;

But the strenuous peace of the land’s increase,

And the powerful beat of steam.

Let the cannon of commerce roar over the fields,

And the bugles of brotherhood play—

For the arm of the man, and the brain of the man,

And the grit of the man, make wa…

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