What best I see in thee, Is not that where thou mov'st down history's great highways, Ever undimm'd by time shoots warlike victory's dazzle, Or that thou sat'st where Washington sat, ruling the land in peace, Or thou the man whom feudal Europe feted, venerable Asia swarm'd upon, Who walk'd with kings with even pace the round world's promenade: But that in foreign lands, in all thy walks with kings, Those prairie sovereigns of the West, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio's, Indiana's millions, comrades, farmers, soldiers, all to the front, Invisibly with thee walking with kings with even pace the round world's promenade, Were all so justified. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GRASSHOPPER; TO MY NOBLE FRIEND MR. CHARLES COTTON by RICHARD LOVELACE HORATIUS [AT THE BRIDGE], FR. LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY SCUM O' THE EARTH' by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER SAINT BRIDE'S LULLABY by WILLIAM SHARP THE WIDOW; SAPPHICS by ROBERT SOUTHEY THE LETTER by MUHAMMAD AL-MU'TAMID II A PICTURE AT NEWSTEAD by MATTHEW ARNOLD |