To A Chinese Refugee Child

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That new world

 will wake and rise but now

will speak no more the baby talk

 of utopian equality liberty and fraternity

 but will forge a brotherhood

of urgent wholist reality

a creative urge

preading in young resurgent blood

inspiring it with strength of sympathy

to share with equal care

 the fruits of earthly life

the blessings of the earth

and her toil too

 

That new world

where man will be

neitgher master nor the slave

of any other man

where none will thrive

opn other’s labour

but all will live the corporate life

of working all together

where aggression

shall never receive

the applause of heroism

but will be hounded out

and there will lie no need

of building up a China wall

Where those very brains

that pile up weapons of death today

will build and organise

for all of us

a world of peace and plenty

 

That brave world

astir with your poignant cry

comes along

oh surely comes to lift you up

to tend you with gentle care

It’s then that you will see a dawn

 An age of joy and hope for you

only wait ..

twill surely lift you with gentle care

 

For you are its source of strength

 its only love

 For you alone

these noble plans of world order

for you, little babes, its true citizens

its glory ever fresh

There it comes

surely comes

that brave new world

spreading the smiles of new hopes

 It shall not stand

not for a minute those eyes of yours

so wild with fright

 

Now brush those tears ,will you,

 and smile a lot

but wait a minute

 little one

 let that dying world have a last glimpse

a haunting look at its ghastly deed

those eyes of yours

 wild with fright.....

 

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