America and England in Danger of War - Part 4
Then the West answered: " Is the sword's keen edge
Like to the mind for sharpness? Doth the flame
Devour like thought? Many with chariots came,
Squadron and phalanx, legion, square, and wedge;
They mounted up; they wound from ledge to ledge
Of battle-glory dark with battle-shame;
But God hath hurled them from the heights of fame
Who from the soul took no eternal pledge.
Because above her people and her throne
She hath erected reason's sovereignty;
Because wherever human speech is known
The touch of English breath doth make thought free;
Therefore forever is her glory blown
About the hills, and flashed beneath the sea."
Like to the mind for sharpness? Doth the flame
Devour like thought? Many with chariots came,
Squadron and phalanx, legion, square, and wedge;
They mounted up; they wound from ledge to ledge
Of battle-glory dark with battle-shame;
But God hath hurled them from the heights of fame
Who from the soul took no eternal pledge.
Because above her people and her throne
She hath erected reason's sovereignty;
Because wherever human speech is known
The touch of English breath doth make thought free;
Therefore forever is her glory blown
About the hills, and flashed beneath the sea."
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