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. Undine
2. Jeanne d’Arc Returns
3. Jesus, Thou Divine Companion
4. To Julia Marlowe
5. Twilight in the Alps

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