How Shall He Sing Who Hath No Song + 

How shall he sing who hath no song? + 

He laugh who hath no mirth? + 

Will cannot wake the sleeping song! + 

Yea, Love itself in vain may long + 

To sing with them that have a song, + 

Or, mirthless, laugh with Mirth! + 

He who would sing but hath no song + 

Must speak the right, denounce the wrong, + 

Must humbly front the indignant throng, + 

Must yield his back to Satire’s thong, + 

Nor shield his face from liar’s prong, + 

Must say and do and be the truth, + 

And fearless wait for what ensueth, + 

Wait, wait, with patience sweet and strong, + 

Until God’s glory fill the earth; + 

Then shall he sing who had no song, + 

He laugh who had no mirth! + 

Yea, if in land of stony dearth + 

Like barren rock thou sit, + 

Round which the phantom-waters flit + 

Of heart- and brain-mirage + 

That can no thirst assuage, + 

Yet be thou still, and wait, wait long; + 

A right sea comes to drown the wrong; + 

God’s glory comes to fill the earth, + 

And thou, no more a scathed rock, + 

Shalt start alive with gladsome shock, + 

Shalt a hand-clapping billow be, + 

And shout with the eternal sea! + 

To righteousness and love belong + 

The dance, the jubilance, the song, + 

When the great Right hath quelled the wrong, + 

And Truth hath stilled the lying tongue! + 

Then men must sing because of song, + 

And laugh because of mirth! + 

And this shall be their anthem strong⁠— + 

Hallow! the glad God fills the earth, + 

And Love sits down by every hearth! + 