While war shall linger in this world to threaten
Such Sanctities as these—even by my dying:
In all this I believe. Amen. Amen.
THE ULTIMATE VICTORY
As men that labor in a mountain war—
Scaling sheer cliffs, hewing out stairs of stone,
Trenching the ice, quenching the torrent’s roar
With rolling thunders in the gorges lone—
Having seized a height, might stand with dazzled stare,
Seeing, beyond, a highest heavenly peak