Swords and Plowshares/The Proposed Dewey Arch
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BUILD up your arch. Lay snowy stone on stone
To herald to the world your glittering pride
In foreign conquest. Lightly fling aside
That irksome creed of Liberty outgrown.
Let your new toys, your ships and guns, atone
For broken faith and precedent defied.
Proclaim your marble goddess far and wide
Freedom no more, but Might, and Might alone!
To herald to the world your glittering pride
In foreign conquest. Lightly fling aside
That irksome creed of Liberty outgrown.
Let your new toys, your ships and guns, atone
For broken faith and precedent defied.
Proclaim your marble goddess far and wide
Freedom no more, but Might, and Might alone!
Nay, 'tis a whited sepulcher you raise,
Whereon shall this stern epitaph be read:
"Here at the silent parting of the ways
Fell Liberty, betrayed, beguiled, misled.
Pray for her, stranger, that in happier days
She may be raised immortal from the dead."
Whereon shall this stern epitaph be read:
"Here at the silent parting of the ways
Fell Liberty, betrayed, beguiled, misled.
Pray for her, stranger, that in happier days
She may be raised immortal from the dead."