Machine-Room Chants (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Machine-Room ChantsWhom the Gods love die young, and thus are they insured of everlasting youth. The idea is full of beauty were it not that this weary old world so much needs those on whom the Gods have bestowed their choicest gifts that life by their music and mirth may be made endurable. The verses to which these lines are a foreword are not mirth provoking. They are full as words can be crammed of the tragic pathos of the life of the factory and the workroom. Had Tom Maguire never penned a line save What is here given he could have proved his title to take high rank not only as a poet, but as a deep sighted student of humanity. He sees things as they are, and, avoiding alike a superficial optimism or morbid pessimism, reveals with the touch of a master, the inner workings of the mind of the average working girl, and makes plain much which to the casual observer remains obscure. The Socialist movement, none too rich in men who combine a clear wisdom, unerring judgment, and a large sympathetic heart, could but ill afford to yield back to the gods one gifted young comrade, and yet who had the power to keep him? It is in contemplation to issue a complete collection of his writings, and it is in the belief that what is here given will whet the appetite for more that, in accordance with his original plan, we give to the world his Machine Room Chants. The profits on the sale will go to his mother, - as they would in any case have done had her son been alive.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.