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...WINTER WITH THE GULF STREAM by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS SONNET TO ALISA ROCK by JOHN KEATS THE BALLAD OF THE FOXHUNTER by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS TO HIS HEART, BIDDING IT HAVE NO FEAR by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS NEWS OF THE WORLD: 2 by GEORGE BARKER THE SECOND BROTHER; ACT 1, SCENE 2 by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE NINTH by WILLIAM BLAKE |