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WASHINGTON	A
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WHEN dreaming kings at odds with swift paced time	B
Would strike that banner down	C
A nobler knight than ever writ or rhyme	B
With fame s bright wreath did crown	C
Through armed hosts bore it till it floated high	D
Beyond the clouds a light that cannot die	D
Ah hero of our younger race	E
Great builder of a temple new	F
Ruler who sought no lordly place	E
Warrior who sheathed the sword he drew	F
Lover of men who saw afar	G
A world unmarred by want or war	H
Who knew the path and yet forbore	H
To tread till all men should implore	H
Who saw the light and led the way	I
Where the gray would might greet the day	I
Father and leader prophet sure	H
Whose will in vast works shall endure	H
How shall we praise him on this day of days	J
Great son of fame who has no need of praise	J
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How shall we praise him Open wide the doors	K
Of the fair temple whose broad base he laid	L
Through its white halls a shadowy cavalcade	L
Of heroes moves o er unresounding floors	K
Men whose brawned arms upraised these columns high	D
And reared the towers that vanish in the sky	D
The strong who having wrought can never die	D
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LINCOLN	A
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AND lo leading a blessed host comes one	A
Who held a warring nation in his heart	M
Who knew love s agony but had no part	M
In love s delight whose mightly task was done	A
Through blood and tears that we might walk in joy	N
And this day s rapture own no sad alloy	N
Around him heirs of bliss whose bright brows wear	H
Palm leaves amid their laurels ever fair	H
Gaily they come as though the drum	O
Beat out the call their glad hearts knew so well	P
Brothers once more dear as of yore	H
Who in a noble conflict nobly fell	P
Their blood washed pure you banner in the sky	D
And quenched the brands laid neath these arches high	D
The brave who having fought can never die	D
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Then surging through the vastness rise once more	H
The aureoled heirs of light who onward bore	H
Through darksome times and trackless realms of ruth	Q
The flag of beauty and the torch of truth	Q
They tore the mask from the foul face of wrong	R
Even to God s mysteries they dared aspire	H
High in the choir they built yon altar fire	H
And filled these aisles with color and with song	R
The ever young the unfallen wreathing for time	B
Fresh garlands of the seeming vanished years	S
Faces long luminous remote sublime	B
And shining brows still dewy with our tears	T
Back with the old glad smile comes one we knew	F
We bade him rear our house of joy today	I
But Beauty opened wide her starry way	I
And he passed on Bright champions of the true	F
Soldiers of peace seers singers ever blest	U
From the wide ether of a loftier quest	U
Their winged souls throng our rites to glorify	D
The wise who having known can never die	D
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DEMOCRACY	V
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FOR lo the living God doth bare his arm	W
No more he makes his house of clouds and gloom	X
Lightly the shuttles move within his loom	X
Unveiled his thunder leaps to meet the storm	Y
From God s right hand man takes the powers that sway	I
A universe of stars	Z
He bows them down he bids them go or stay	I
He tames them for his wars	K
He scans the burning paces of the sun	A
And names the invisible orbs whose courses run	A
Through the dim deeps of space	E
He sees in dew upon a rose impearled	I
The swarming legions of a monad world	I
Begin life s upward race	E
Voices of hope he hears	A2
Long dumb to his despair	H
And dreams of golden years	S
Meet for a world so fair	H
For now Democracy doth wake and rise	B2
From the sweet sloth of youth	Q
By storms made strong by many dreams made wise	B2
He clasps the hand of Truth	Q
Through the armed nations lies his path of peace	C2
The open book of knowledge in his hand	I
Food to the starving to the oppressed release	C2
And love to all he bears from land to land	I
Before his march the barriers fall	D2
The laws grow gentle at his call	D2
His glowing breath blows far away	I
The fogs that veil the coming day	I
That wondrous day	I
When earth shall sing as through the blue she rolls	E2
Laden with joy for all her thronging souls	E2
Then shall want s call to sin resound no more	H
Across her teeming fields And pain shall sleep	F2
Soothed by brave science with her magic lore	H
And war no more shall bid the nations weep	F2
Then the worn chains shall slip from man s desire	H
And ever higher and higher	H
His swift foot shall aspire	H
Still deeper and more deep	F2
His soul its watch shall keep	F2
Till love shall make the world a holy place	E
Where knowledge dare unveil God s very face	E
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Not yet the angels hear life s last sweet song	R
Music unutterably pure and strong	R
From earth shall rise to haunt the peopled skies	B2
When the long march of time	B
Patient in birth and death in growth and blight	I
Shall lead man up through happy realms of light	I
Unto his goal sublime	B

Harriet Monroe

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