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THE SILENT WARRIORS, by                    
First Line: The sun shone in at the window
Last Line: Whose mandates the world shall obey
Subject(s): Justice;truth;war


THE sun shone in at the window,
On the printer's case and type,
And the heaps of mystic letters
Were bathed in its golden light;
And I thought of the truths there hidden,
Of the mighty power there laid,
In those piles of dusky metal,
When in marshaled ranks arrayed.

For by them our souls find voices
For truths the ages have taught;
In volumes the dead have treasured,
In words in immortal thought;
And they have tongues for our sorrows,
And songs for our joys or woe,
And in them life's records are written,
Of all that we mortals know.

As the knights who, clad in their armor,
Went forth in the olden days
To war 'mid the downtrod nations,
With wrongs that stood in their ways;
Thus our thoughts in this dusky metal
Are clad in their coats of mail,
To conquer the wrongs that oppress us,
Or evils our follies entail.

The sun in its golden glory,
Went down 'neath the rim of night,
And each leaden shape was gleaming
In flames of its dying light;
Then stars in their hosts came marching,
As their silver lances fell
And flashed on the dull, cold metal,
Where truths we know not dwell.

A child in his feeble wisdom,
Might place them with tiny hand,
But a king with his steel-armed legions
In vain would their force withstand;
For they are the silent warriors,
Whose tents are folded away,
Whose footprints go down through the ages,
Whose mandates the world shall obey.





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