patriot, ruler, leader great,
Master of labor, builder of state,
Man of the mart, and king of commerce,
His lips have spoken—why longer wait?
One brotherhood, one family,
And love its great economy!
The law of might is rule of evil—-
The ethic lives in man's spirit free.
No borrowed laws of clay, nor brute,
Can e'er the freeman's spirit suit!
He gave him choice!—Hark! how he thunders!
Through human strife—nor is deaf nor mute!
he sword and spear and savage knife,
Wherewith the world is dowered of strife,
Are but as flotsam on the current
Of purpose vast of the Lord of Life.
His rising winds and swelling surge,
And underflowing tidal-urge,
Shall grind to dust these lethal spirits
And chant in triumph their sounding dirge.
Break way, break way, Fell Evil, cease!
O soldiers of the King's increase!
O happy homes! O happy peoples!