Vachel Lindsay - Men Quotes

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Except the Christ be born again tonight
In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,
The world will never see his kingdom bright.
Stars of all hearts, lead onward thro' the night
Past death-black deserts, doubts without a name,
Past hills of pain and mountains of new sin
To that far sky where mystic births begin,
Where dreaming ears the angel-song shall win.

Vachel Lindsay

A bronzed, lank man! His suit of ancient black, A famous high top-hat and plain worn shawl Make him the quaint great figure that men love, The prairie-lawyer, master of us all.

Vachel Lindsay

Within the town of Buffalo
Are prosy men with leaden eyes,
Like ants they worry to and fro
(Important men in Buffalo.)
But only twenty miles away
A deathless glory is at play;
Niagara, Niagara …

Vachel Lindsay

This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: - To speak of bloody power as right divine, And call on God to guard each vile chief's house, And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine.

Vachel Lindsay