Towards democracy

388 Towards Democracy

The simple dresses of the public thoroughfare, used o1 i not used with quiet sense of fitness;

The simple diet so easily won, so gladly shared ; i

The stores of human science, human knowledge, accessible to all—for all to use.

And Death no longer terrible, but full

Of poignant strange Expansion; Labor too

(Which is our daily death

And resurrection in the thing created)

An ever-abiding joy.—

A life so near to Nature, all at one with bird and plant and beast and swimming thing,

So near to all its fellows in sweet loyve—

In joy unbounded and undying love.

The dream goes by, touches and stirs men’s hearts, And floats, and waits, again.

SURELY THE TIME WILL COME

URELY the time will come when humanity will refuse to be diseased any longer.

This list of filthy and hideous complaints,—too filthy to be calmly spoken of : these small-poxes, typhoids, choleras, cancers, tumors, tubercles,—dropsy, diabetes, urzemia—all preventible, and easy enough to prevent ;

And yet—incredible though it seems—men and women still tolerating and condoning them ;

Men and women who pnide themselves on their culture,