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To Conscripts

“Compel them to come in.”—St. Luke’s Gospel

You “made a virtue of necessity”    By divine sanction; you, the loth, the grey, The random, gentle, unconvinced; O be    The crowned!—you may, you may.

You, the compelled, be reasted! You, the caught,    Be freemen of the gates that word unlocks! Accept your victory from that unsought,    That heavenly paradox.

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