#title At our Best
#author Freedom Press
#date April 1892
#source Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Socialism, Vol. 6, No. 65, online source [[https://files.libcom.org/files/2022-10/Freedom%20vol%206.%20no%2065%20(April%201892).pdf][Libcom]], retrieved on 22 May 2026.
#lang en
#pubdate 2026-05-25T19:23:00.680Z
#topics poetry, Freedom Press UK


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We tell thee, poor toiler, how hard we had striven,

To better thy lot, and to sweeten thy life ;

How much of our health and our brains we had given,

Engaged for thy sake, for thy weal in long strife.


And thou, ever-grateful to those few who love thee,

Wouldst listen, and never remind us of this : —

That but for thy toil, there would none be above thee,

Not even to work in thy cause, for thy bliss.


<strong>M. W.</strong>
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