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