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Show "Among the Powers of the Earth" / page 3 Older than Egypt or Israel Older than Greece or Rome Older than England The great entablature The RIGHTS of all those born on earth Covenants and compacts among men. Wind at the window Rain at the door And a document on the table. A woman passing in the street Drew her shawl about her and paused at the massive steps, Asking, as a "signer" hurried from the hushed building, "What kind of Government do we have now?" And the "signer" paused on the stone steps Looking to the western greenery of hills and eastward to the sea, Not knowing the empires of the future, the vast geography. What kind of Government? "A REPUBLIC," he said, "a REPUBLIC, if we can keep it." Leaves falling on the Delaware Yellow trees along the Schuylkill Eastward an ocean waiting winter ... Westward the Continent - the other ocean A reaching Nation - union and diversity Liberty and Law. |