You stand at length where you longed to stand;
By civil war you would heal a land,
And by wrong you would better a wrong.
Power and Strength and Empire,
These are full mighty words.
One thing, men’s Freedom, is higher than all.
And better a hut though it totter and fall,
A broken temple, a ruined wall,
Than a land subdued by your swords!
We have walked for a time together.