TO ARTURO GIOVANNITTI
Arturo Giovannitti, fellow workerIn song and in revolt, sing on! sing on!The battling warriors in the war of classesHave need of your inspired, inspiring voice,You are the rebel, leader, poet, prophet,You have already worn the martyr’s crown.If there be in me just one spark of envy,It is that I was not like you in gaol.I envied you that most supreme distinctionOf living in the shadow of the crossWith all the sacred shades of martyred rebels,A fellow worker of departed Christs.
Arturo Giovannitti, fellow workerIn song and in revolt, sing on! sing on!The battling warriors in the war of classesHave need of your inspired, inspiring voice,You are the rebel, leader, poet, prophet,You have already worn the martyr’s crown.If there be in me just one spark of envy,It is that I was not like you in gaol.I envied you that most supreme distinctionOf living in the shadow of the crossWith all the sacred shades of martyred rebels,A fellow worker of departed Christs.
Arturo Giovannitti, fellow workerIn song and in revolt, sing on! sing on!The battling warriors in the war of classesHave need of your inspired, inspiring voice,You are the rebel, leader, poet, prophet,You have already worn the martyr’s crown.
Arturo Giovannitti, fellow worker
In song and in revolt, sing on! sing on!
The battling warriors in the war of classes
Have need of your inspired, inspiring voice,
You are the rebel, leader, poet, prophet,
You have already worn the martyr’s crown.
If there be in me just one spark of envy,It is that I was not like you in gaol.I envied you that most supreme distinctionOf living in the shadow of the crossWith all the sacred shades of martyred rebels,A fellow worker of departed Christs.
If there be in me just one spark of envy,
It is that I was not like you in gaol.
I envied you that most supreme distinction
Of living in the shadow of the cross
With all the sacred shades of martyred rebels,
A fellow worker of departed Christs.