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Excerpt from The Pilgrims of Hope and Chants for Socialists The Pilgrims of Hope appeared in The Commonweal between March 1885 and July 1886, its title being decided on with the publication of the second part. Sections I, IV, and VIII were included in Poems by the Way after the author had abandoned his intention of revising it as a whole. To be concluded stands at the bottom of the last instalment. Chants for Socialists, consisting of songs and poems written for various occasions and collected into a penny pamphlet published by the Socialist League in 1885, is here printed entire (with the exception of The Message of the March Wind, pp. 3 although The Day is Coming, The Voice of Toil, and All for the Cause, were included in Poems by the Way. A Death Song, which also appears there, was written for the funeral of Alfred Linnell, who died from injuries received at a Demonstration in Trafalgar Square on November 20, 1887. It first appeared in pamphlet form, with a musical setting by Malcolm Lawson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.