Who fell not for the plaudits of to-day:
Those who are reckoned rebels in their day
Are always makers of to-morrow’s laws.
Our present skeptics voice to-morrow’s faith;
To-day’s disturbers bring to-morrow’s peace:
’Tis they who dare to die who win release
For all their fellows from the fear of death.
SERENADE
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Stars of the summer night!