The linking of field to field?
Hath he not noted the boundary
That lies ’twixt “mine and thine”?
Hath he not said, “’Twere better for thee
If thine henceforth be mine”?
And so doth the Empire Builder,
From out of the ends of the earth,
Thro’ travail of war and of carnage
Bring strange, new realms to birth—
Realms builded on broken hearthstones,