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Bax, Clifford - Turn Back, O Man
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Clifford Bax – Turn Back, O Man
Turn back, O man, forswear thy foolish ways;
Old now is earth, and none may count her ways
Yet thou, her child, whose head is crowned with flame
Still wilt not hear thine inner God proclaim
Turn back, O man, forswear thy foolish ways
Earth might be fair and all men glad and wise
Age after age their tragic empires rise,
Built while they dream, and in that dreaming weep;
Would man but wake from out his haunted sleep,
Earth might be fair and all men glad and wise
Earth shall be fair, and all her people one
Not till that hour shall God's whole will be done;
Now, even now, once more from earth to sky
Peals forth in joy man's old undaunted cry,
Earth shall be fair, and all her folk be one