Page 11 - Issue 25

The Worker's Maypole

By Walter Crane

Written: April 13, 1894 for The Workers Maypole
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World Workers, whatever may bind ye,

This day let your work be undone:
Cast the clouds of the winter behind ye,
And come forth and be glad in the sun.

Now again while the green earth rejoices
In the bud and the blossom of May
Lift your hearts up again, and your voices,
And keep merry the World's Labour Day.

Let the winds lift your banners from far lands
With a message of strife and of hope:
Raise the Maypole aloft with its garlands
That gathers your cause in its scope.

It is writ on each ribbon that flies

That flutters from fair Freedom's heart:
If still far be the crown and the prize
In its winning may each take a part.