We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. . . A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.
Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.