We are America. We are expressing our joy in the world, our faith in God, and our love of the sun and the wind in the hearts of our people.
In America the free air breathes about us, and daily the great sun climbs our hillsides, swings daily past our work. There are ninety million men with this sun and this wind woven into their bodies, into their souls. They stand with us.
The skyscrapers stand with us.
All singing stands with us.
Ah, I have waked in the dawn and in the sun and the wind have I seen them!
That sun and that wind, I say before God, are America! They are the American temperament.
I will have laws for free men, laws with the sun and the wind in them!
I have waked in the dawn and my heart has been glad with the iron and poetry in the skyscrapers.
I will have laws for men and for American men, laws with iron and poetry in them!
The way for a government to get the poetry in is to say "Yes" to somebody.