'BE with us by day, by night, <br />O lover, O friend; <br />Hold before us thy light <br />Unto the end! <br />'See, all these children of ours <br />Starved and ill-clad. <br />Speak to thy heart's lily-flowers, <br />And make them glad! <br />'Our wives and daughters are here, <br />Knowing wrong and shame's touch; <br />Bid them be of good cheer <br />Who have lovèd much. <br />'And we, we are robbed and oppressed, <br />Even as thine were. <br />Tell us of comfort and rest, <br />Banish despair!' <br />'Be with us by day, by night, <br />O lover, O friend; <br />Hold before us thy light <br />Unto the end!'<br /><br />Francis William Lauderdale Adams<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/song-of-the-dispossessed/
