within us. The nation exists for its men, never the men for the nation. "The only government that I recognize,' said Thoreau, "and it matters not how few are at the head of it or how small its army, is the power that established justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice." And the will of free men to be just one toward another, is our best guarantee that “ government of the people, for the people, and by the people, shall not perish from the earth." God of our fathers, known of old Lord of our far-flung battle line- The tumult and the shouting dies The captains and the kings depart- An humble and a contrite heart. Far-called our navies melt away On dune and headland sinks the fire Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! |