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Five Criticisms - III.

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(On Certain of the Bolsheviki "Idealists.")     With half the force and thought you waste in rage         Over your neighbor's house, or heart of stone,     You might have built your own new heritage,         O fools, have you no hands, then, of your own?     Where is your pride? Is this your answer still,         This the red flag that burns above our strife,     This the new cry that rings from Pisgah hill,         "Our neighbor's money, or our neighbor's life"?     Be prouder. Let us build that nobler state         With our own hands, with our own muscle and brain!     Your very victories die in hymns of hate;         And your own envies are your heaviest chain.     Is there no rebel proud enough to say         "We'll stand on our own feet, and win the day"?

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