Excerpt from Ventures Into Verse: Being Various Ballads, Ballades, Rondeaux, Triolets, Songs, Quatrains, Odes and RoundelsProphet of brawn and bravery! Bard of the fighting man! You have made us kneel to a God of Steel, And to fear his church's ban; You have taught the song that the bullet sings The knell and the crowning ode of kings; The ne'er denied appeal!Prophet of brain and handicraft! Bard of our grim machines! You have made us dream of a God of Steam, And have shown what his worship means In the clanking rod and the whirring wheel A life and a soul your songs reveal, And power and might supreme.Bard of the East and mystery Singer of those who bow To the earthen clods that they call their gods And with god like fees endow; You have shown that these heed not the suppliant's plea, Nor the prayers of the priest and devotee, Nor the vestal's futile vow.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.