Vilanelle for Our Time – Frank Scott

From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with PASSION and with PAIN, we rise to play a greater part. THIS IS THE FAITH FROM WHICH WE START: Men shall know commonwealth again FROM BITTER SEARCHING OF THE HEART. We loved the easy and the smart, but now with keener hand and brain, we rise to play a greater part: the lesser loyalties depart (and neither race nor creed remain) FROM BITTER SEARCHING OF THE HEART, not steering by the venal chart that tricked the mass for private gain: we rise to play a greater part, reshaping narrow LAW and ART whose symbols are the millions slain: FROM BITTER SEARCHING OF THE HEART, we rise to play a greater part.