The Poetry Corner

Hearts In Exile

By William Arthur Dunkerley (John Oxenham)

O Exiled Hearts--for you, for you-- Love still can find the way! Hear the voices of the women on the road! O Shadowed Lives--for you, for you-- Hope hath not lost her ray! Hear the laughter of the children on the road! O Gloomy Night--for you, for you-- Dawn tells of coming day! Hear the clink of breaking fetters on the road! O Might sans Right--for you, for you-- The feet of crumbling clay! Hear the slow, sure tread of Freedom on the road!