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 Wind of Sorrow
2. Portrait and Reality
3. Dulcis Memoria
4. Jeanne d’Arc Returns
5. Reliance

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