1941 · CLOSE READING
Thumbs Up! Five Poems by the Author of The V Sign
Thumbs Up! Five Poems by the Author of The V Sign (1941), PDF p. 8
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ANTHEM
Gone are the ghosts and gods,
Fears strangled emerods,
Thoughts spider snares;
Dead are the craven creeds;
Truth demands noble deeds,
All free man dares.
Men, be your own recourse!
Waste not your fire and force
In fatuous prayers!
Better, come cannily
Down on the enemy,
Set them to theirs
Free from the bogle faith,
False fear and wastrel wraith,
From shame and guilt,
Rise, in thine own self-awe,
Live to the living law:
Do what thou wilt!
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