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.
More verses by Henry Van Dyke
- Inscriptions For A Friend's House
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- To Julia Marlowe
- Edmund Clarence Stedman
- Katrina's Sun-Dial