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 "What lost eclipse of history, What bivouac of the marching stars,

Has given the sign for you to see ^Millenniums and last great wars?

"^^^lat unrecorded overthrow Of all the world has ever known.

Or even been, has made itself So plain to you, and j'ou alone?

"Your Dollar, Dove and Eagle make

A Trinity that even you Rate higher than you rate yourselves ;

It pays, it flatters, and it's new.

" And though your very flesh and blood Be what your Eagle eats and drinks.

You'll praise him for the best of birds. Not knowing what the Eagle thinks.

" The power is yours, but not the sight ;

You see not upon what you tread ; You have the ages for your guide,

But not the wisdom to be led.

"Think you to tread forcNcr down

The merciless old verities? And are you never to have eyes

To see the world for what it is ?

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