<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">America Once More</h1><p class="line">THIS, this is the America that we knew!</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%"> Not she whose armour against Hell was reams</p><p class="line">Of ratiocination ; who in streams</p><p class="line">Of most invincible ink was lost to view ;</p><p class="line">But she that once her golden clarion blew</p><p class="line">At Gettysburg; she on whose forehead gleams</p><p class="line">The unvanquished Morn; the America of our dreams--</p><p class="line">Of those immortal dreams that yet are true.</p><p class="line">O change not back to marble, mighty brow!</p><p class="line">This human wrath is more majestic far,</p><p class="line">Man needs thee, and our cause, being Man's, is thine.</p><p class="line">Thy place is with the great who know not how</p><p class="line">To falter, though their night be without star,</p><p class="line">And their vast agony without anodyne.</p></body></html> · Great War