Poem by Henry Van Dyke

Might and Right

If Might made Right, life were a wild-beasts’ cage;
If Right made Might, this were the golden age;
But now, until we win the long campaign, 
Right must gain Might to conquer and to reign.

1. The Gentle Traveller
2. Hesper
3. Storm-Music
4. Stars and the Soul
5. Patria

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